[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations and index]

262x170 mm; II + 190 fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; six rectangular-box illuminations, six architectural frames, and decorated initials.

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fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr-IIv: some numbers and scattered words in Latin by various different hands;
 
fols. 1r-8r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 8v: blank;
 
fol. 9r: a rectangular-box illumination (with Laura and Petrarch sitting in a garden with Cupid standing between them and throwing an arrow towards Laura), below which is the title (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae flore[entini] rhithmi vulgares’) and RVF 1;
 
fols. 9v-148v: RVF 2-366 with annotations;
 
fols. 149r-189r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); each triumph (except Triumphus Eternitatis) is preceded by a rectangular-box illumination: Amoris I (149r); Pudicitie (162r), Mortis I (166r), Fame I (176r), Temporis (184r);
 
fol. 189r: colophon: Manu Matthaei olim eximii equitis & doctoris domini herculani de confugiis de vvlterris;
 
fol. 189v: blank.