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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Pal. 185
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

227x148 mm; I + 122 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; two hands: cursive humanistic script (fols. 1r-94v + 98v-122r) and round humanistic script (fols. 95r-98r); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

Poi [sic] che ascoltate in rime sparse ilsuono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-94v: RVF;
 
fol. 94v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 95r-117r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-21+Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22(and the first half of l. 23)+Fame I.23(second half)-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 117r: colophon: finis sex Triunfo[rum] petrarce;
 
fols. 117v-121v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 121v-122r: two sonnets (‘[A]y lingua ay penna mia che intante carte’ and ‘[B]en puoi le ladre luci aterra sparte’);
 
fol. 122r: two Latin translations in hexameters of RVF 134 and 132, respectively (1. <inc> [N]ec pacem inuenio nec adest adbella facultas; <exp> Inq[ue] statu tali pro uobis laurea dego; 2. <inc> [S]i fors non sit amor [i]g[itur] quid sentio? Uel si; <exp> Mensibus ybernis, mediq[ue] [sic] state [sic] tremisco);
 
fol. 122v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Pal. 185
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Scattered marginal annotations by the same hand provide variant readings, or correct mistakes in the text, or else add missing lines.
 
At fol. 42v, RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen, but are still legible.
 
Decorated initials for RVF 1, 2 (fol. 1r), and 264 (fol. 69r); coloured initials for all other RVF poems; decorated initials for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 95r is an architectural frame; a few maniculae.

Bibliography

Ms.Pal. 1, 194; Prev-Ms.Pal 1, 348
 
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Pulsoni 2007