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[Selection of RVF poems and Triumphi – with annotations]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ricc. 1939
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi (except Amoris II, Mortis II) + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

292x217 mm; VI + 145 + V fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with annotations distributed in single column on right or in interlinear position.

Title Page

‘Sonetti fatti p[er] mess[er] francescho petrarcha poeta fiorentino’ (fol. 101r)

Internal Description

fols. 101r-102v: selection of disperse and RVF poems (‘Sonetti fatti p[er] mess[er] francescho petrarcha poeta fiorentino’; sonnets [actually by Matteo degli Albizzi] ‘Ellampeggiar degliochi alteri egraui’, ‘Antonio cosa afatto latua terra’, RVF 132, 134, sonnets [actually by Marchionne Torregiani] ‘Solo soletto ma no[n] dipensierj’, ‘S’io potessi cantar dolce e soaue’, ‘Inira alcielo almo[n]do e allagente’, RVF 35, sonnets ‘Equanto [sic] talora imiei pensieri nascosti’, [actually by Giacomo Colonna] ‘Selle parti delcorpo mio distrutte’, ‘Jo no[n] uidi maj di mezza notte’, RVF 120, ‘Glantichi ebei pensierj co[n]uien chiolassi’, RVF 2, 112, 150, ‘Beato iluelo chelle tue treççe cuopre’, ‘Dal [†††] elle candide spoglie’, ‘Crauidi [sic] boschi collaebrutta [sic] lagnia’, ‘None piaggia dis[er]ta oselua offter[r]a [sic]’, ‘Piegare lecime autussimi [sic] colli’, ‘Perlidi eselue p[er] campagnie ecolli’);
 
fols. 119r-129v: Triumphi with annotations (‘Trionfi fatti p[er] messer francescho pretarcha [sic] poeta fiorentino’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Castitatis, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 129v: colophon: finiti itriunfi dimess[er] francescho petrarcha poeta fiorentino deo gra[tia]s;
 
fol. 139r: incomplete index of contents of the ms. (starting from fol. 103);
 
Other contents:
 
The ms. includes a series of mostly humanistic and religious prose and poetic writings, beginning with a large excerpt from the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 1r-14r), followed by the Letter of Lentulus (fols. 14r-14v), and other writings on the historical figure of Christ. A substantive section is devoted to papal biographies (fols. 28r-46v: ‘Qui comincia La scriptura di tutti ipapi che sono stati da sal p[a]olo insino allanno mccccxliii e quello che uissono etutto quello an[n]o fatto alloro tempo da farne mençione et ciaschedunodip. [†] et prima’). There are also several Franciscan-related religious works (fol. 47r-47v: ‘Copia duna uisione ebbe frate antonio religioso del nostro ordine’; fols. 72r-76v: ‘Profetia fatta p[er]frate Tomasino dagualdo dellan[n]o 1362 ad pitiçione dimess[er] bartolomeo di p[e]ristiardo [sic] da p[e]rugia’), as well as writings by leading humanistic figures, such as Leonardo Bruni’s reply to King of Aragon’s ambassadors (fols. 21r-25r: ‘Risposta fatta p[er]llo egregio huomo Messe[r] Lionardo dareçço cancellieri delco[mun]e di firença agliambassadorj del Re daraona p[er]parte e com[m]issione della signioria di firençe nel generale c[on]siglio del detto co[mun]e, nel quale vi fu gran moltitudine dicittadinj fiorentini e andoui chiuolle’), Bruni’s letter to the Marquess of Mantua (fols. 58v-63v: ‘Pistola mandata p[er]llo egregio huomo Messe[r] Lionardo dareçço cittadino fioentino allo generosissimo signiore marchese dimantoua Laquale tratta della naçione dei toschanj e come i detti toschanj posono mantoua e molte altre [†††] bellissime come Jnessa sicontiene laquale pistola escritta quj dirimpetto’), Coluccio Salutati’s letter to Giovanni da San Miniato (fols. 49r-58v: ‘Pistola mandata p[er]llo egregio huomo Messe[r] Coluccio de salutati poeta fioentino allo religioso huomo frate giouannj da sa [sic] migniato Risposta. aduna lettera ched[et]to frate giouannj aueua mandata a Agniolo corbinelli uolendolo [†††] dallo studio di poesia Ridotta dilatino i[n] uolgare’). Poetic writings included mostly deal with ethical topics, such as friendship (fols. 79r-81r: ‘Trionfo damiciçia fatto p[er]lo egregio dottore dilegge mess[er] benedetto di mess[er] michele dapontenano auocato fiorentino’; fols. 83v-85r: ‘Capitolo sopra amiciçia co[m]pilato p[er] mess[er] Antonio degliagli cittadino fiore[n]tino’) and love (fols. 76v-77v: ‘Cançona morale fatta p[er] messe[r] benedetto dimess[er] michele dapontenano auocato fiorentino tratta damore’).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ricc. 1939
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

The annotations by the same hand that transcribed the text offer variant readings of many passages in the Triumphi: the original reading is normally erased by pen and the variant reading is written either next to the corresponding line or in interlinear position (e.g. for Triumphus Castitatis 96 the original reading ‘mille victoriose e chiare salme’ is erased and replaced by ‘ellegargli p[er]forçça ambo lepalme’: fol. 122v). It seems that the copyist copied the Triumphi and later modified it according to another copy of Petrarch’s work that he/she assumed to be more correct.

Bibliography

Iter I, 214b-215a