New Latin and Romance Witnesses from the Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana of Faenza (with an Unpublished Fragment of Petrarch’s ‘Bucolicum carmen’)

Abstract

This essay presents an initial survey of some unpublished medieval fragments and manuscripts preserved at the Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana in Faenza. Alongside essential information about the collections that house them, a detailed preliminary description of some of these pieces is provided. Additionally, an edition of an inedited fragment of Petrarch’s Bucolicum carmen is presented, initiating a study aimed to enhance the value of the Faenza library’s literary heritage through future publications, in-depth research, and editions.

Keywords

• romance philology
• medieval literature
• fragments
• textual criticism
• biblioteca comunale manfrediana of faenza
• petrarch