Francisci Petrarcae Vergilianvs codex
Subtitle: ad Pvblii Vergilii Maronis diem natalem bis millesimvm celebrandvm qvam simillime expressvs atqve in lvcem editvs
By: ivvantibvs Bibliotheca Ambrosiana et Regia in Insvbribvs academia stvdiis doctrinae litterisqve provehendis; praefatvs est Iohannes Galbiati...ascita etiam Achillis Ratti (nvnc Pii XI pont. max.) de hoc codice commentatione.
Contributors: Statius, P. Papinius ; Horace; Servius, 4th cent.; Donatus, Aelius.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Martini, Simone, 1283-1344.; Galbiati, Giovanni, 1881-; Biblioteca ambrosiana
Publisher: in aedibvs Hoeplianis
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Mediolani
Language: lat
Number of pages: 269
Notes: The above title, in red and black, the preface of Galbiati, and an Index rervm qvae in ... volvmine insvnt, printed on 3 sheets (6 leaves) stitched together, without cover, accompanying the facsimile, which is bound in beveled wooden boards, brown leather back, blind tooled and lettered : Vergilivs Petrarcae. On a white vellum strip mounted inside back cover: Hoc est exemplar n. CLXXXIX. Impensis Vlrichi Hoepli, bibliopolae mediolanensis, Pezzini et socii phototypice expresservnt, Torriani et socii corio avxervnt.
Contents of codex (facsimile) : First prelim. leaf, Notes, and notice of Laura; fol. 1 [Second prelim. leaf] verso, full page miniature by Simone Martini, da Siena.--fol.2-16. Bucolica.--fol. 16 verso-52. Georgica.--fol. 52 verso-233. Aeneis.--fol. 233 verso-248 verso. Statius. Achilleis.--fol.249-250 verso, Horatius. Carmen II, 3; II, 10; II, 16; IV, 7.--fol. 251-269 verso. Commentary on Donatus (the marginal commentary ends unfinished in the middle of a sentence.
Manuscript of the early 14th century; text in single column in semigothic character, commentary of Servius in smaller character enclosing the text. Marginal notes in different hands.
For detailed analytical description see A. Ratti, Ancora del celebre cod. ms. delle opere di Virgilio già di F. Petrarca (in Miscellanea di studi ... raccolta per cura della Società storica lombarda : F. Petrarca e la Lombardia, 1904, p. [217]-242)