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[RVF with Bruni’s life of Petrarch and index]

Overview

Current Location

Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
United States

Shelfmark
W.409
Date
1480
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

190x119 mm; II + 155 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; decorated initial.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Com[⎯]cia lauita del petrarcha poeta excellentissimo fiorentino composta per messer lionardo darezo

Internal Description

fols. 1r-7v: Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Com[⎯]cia lauita del petrarcha poeta excellentissimo fiorentino composta per messer lionardo darezo’, <inc> Francesco petraccha huomo di grande ingegnio & non diminore uirtu; <exp> perche lauirtu e certa & lacorona tal uolta perlieue giudicio cosi come achi non merita come achi merita dare si puote’;
 
fol. 7v: colophon: Qui finisce lauita dimesser francesco petrarcha & incomincia una epistola laquale fu trouata in casa dellhabitatione di messer francesco petrarcha inuno suo studiolo scripta disua proptia mano;
 
fols. 7v-8r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura propriis uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminib[us]; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fols. 8r-9r: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘La soprascripta epistola o uero commemoratione tradocta in uolgare’, <inc> Laura di propria uirtu ellustre [sic] & lungo tempo in limiei uersi con fama honorata; <exp> agramente & uirilmente pensate lesuperflue cure del presente tempo et leuane speranze & li non aspectati fini);
 
fol. 9r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch by the same hand (‘decto poeta e sepellito adarquate in lobardia [sic] elsuo epitaphio e questo scripto’, <inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fols. 9r-15v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Incomincia latauola delle canzone & sonecti dimessere francesco petrarcha’);
 
fol. 16r: title (‘LE | CANZONE | E | SONECTI’) written in capital letters within a decorated circle;
 
fols. 16r-155v: RVF;
 
fol. 155v: colophon: Qui finisce lecanzone & sonecti del petrarcha poeta excellentissimo.

Material Copy

Location

Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
United States

Shelfmark
W.409
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Decorated initial in gold for Bruni’s life of Petrarch (fol. 1r); and decorated title of RVF (fol. 16r).
 
Before every RVF poem is a running number written in red.

Bibliography

Dutschke 1986, 38-40 (n. 4); Iter, V, 213a; Ullman 1964, 445 (n. 3)