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MS. Canon. Ital. 70

Summary Catalogue no.: 20122

1. (fols. 3r-142v)

Petrarch, Il Canzoniere

Incipit: Voi chascoltate in rime sparso el svono

For full details see Mann, 1975, p. 396.

Language(s): Italian

(fol. 143rr)

Petrarch, Nota di Laura

Language(s): Italian

2. (fols. 144r-181v)

Petrarch, Trionfi

Incipit: Nel tempo che rinova i mei sospiri

Explicit: Or che fia adoncha a rivederla in cielo

For full details see Mann, 1975, p. 397

Language(s): Italian

3. (fols. 182r-188r)

Sicco Polentone, Life of Petrarch

Rubric: D. F. P. (Domini Francisci Petrarcae) poetae clarissimi Vita feliciter incipit

Incipit: Franciscus Petrarcha florentinus fuit exul nanque patria natus est

Explicit: id tamen est suo ingenio ac deligentia assecutus quod istis in studiis et sui et superioris temporis omnes ad multos annos quouis dicendi ingenere superauit.

Language(s): Latin

4. (fols. 188v-190r)

Petrarch, Canzoniere 1

With commentary of Ps.-Antonio da Tempo

Incipit: (commentary) Questo sonecto de tutti gli altri seguenti e prohemio como apertamente si uede

Explicit: (commentary) per contemplatione de quelle celeste che cum lo intelecto dello animo se contemplano.

Language(s): Italian

5. (fol. 190v-191r)

Names of muses, nymphs, etc. &c

Language(s): Latin

6. (fol. 191r)

Dante (?), Rime 79 (dubbie 29)

Rubric: Dantes quid sit amor

Incipit: Molti uolendo dir chi fusse Amore

Language(s): Italian

7. (fols. 191v-192v)

Anonymous verses on illustrious Romans

Incipit: Sola facit virtus hominem generosa beatum. Octauiano sonio chimperaua in terra Quando Dio nacque et placai ogni guerra

Explicit: Purgai lindia fina inoriente Magnanimo fui cortese et valente.

Language(s): Italian

8. (fols. 193r-199v)

Table of first lines

Language(s): Italian

9. (fols. 199v-200r)

Petrarch, Africa (extract: VI. 885-918, the death of Mago)

Incipit: Hic postoquam medio iuuenis stetit aequore poenus

Explicit: Fraternosque suos simul patrieque dolores.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 198 leaves

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. Related manuscripts probably by the same scribe ("..FR..ME..FA..PE..De Bond."), some dated 1463, are listed Mann, 1975, p. 507 n. 1.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 407, pl. XXXIX:

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Ferrara

Provenance and Acquisition

Emblem of a padlocked book, fol. 1r (for the same emblem in Vatican Regin. lat. 1110 see Mann, 1975, p. 507 n. 1).

Bernardo Trevisan: his list of contents, with number '368', stuck to the final flyleaf.

Jacopo Soranzo

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2025) from the following sources with additional reference to published literature as cited:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 407

A. Mortara, Catalogo dei manoscritti italiani che sotto la denominazione di Codici Canoniciani Italici si conservano nella Biblioteca Bodleiana a Oxford, Quarto Catalogues XI, 1864 [using an older foliation]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 88

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 89–90

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 413