[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations, life, and index]

292x213 mm; III¹ + X + 107 fols.

paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides, and prose texts.

<inc> Appie d[e] colli oue labella vesta (fol. Ir)

fol. I¹r: a note on the content of the ms. by an eighteenth-century hand;
 
fol. I¹v: blank;
 
fol. II¹r: title by a sixteenth-century hand (‘Sonetti e rime del Poeta laureato fran[es]^co Petrarca scritti a penna’); below are scattered words by various hands;
 
fol. II¹v: blank;
 
fol. III¹r: title by a different sixteenth-century hand (‘Sonetti e rime del Poeta laureato fran[es]^co Petrarca scritti a penna’); followed by an ex libris note (‘Ex libris de [⎯] Panz.’);
 
fol. III¹v: blank;
 
fols. Ir-Vv: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. VIr-VIIv: blank;
 
fol. VIIIr: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘[⎯] manu p[ropri]a francisci petrarche scripta [†††] hac [†]rim[††]’, <inc> Laurea p[ro]prijs v[ir]tutib[us] illustris & meis longum celebrata carminib[us]; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac viriliter cogitant[i]);
 
fol VIIIr: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘hec et [sic] su[n]t v[er]ba i[n] epistola q[u]^adam sc[ri]pta ad Jacobu[m] d[e] colu[m]na Bomboriensem ep[isco]pum’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi spetiosus Laure; <exp> tibi pallor: tibi labor meus notus est. Vale);
 
fols. VIIIr-Xv: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (‘Incipit vita francisci petarche poeta laureat[i], <inc> Petrarcho figliuolo di Parenzo cictadino [sic] firentino [sic] disceso dassae antica et honesta famiglia; <exp> uno de sonecti et canzionj et laltro de triumphi: Tre libri in versi cioe Bucolica et le pistole ad Barbatum et laffrica: et septi salmi penitentionali);
 
fols. 1r-61r: RVF 1-263 with annotations;
 
fols. 61r-86r: RVF 264-366 (‘Secu[n]da pars de obitu’) with annotations;
 
fols. 86r: colophon: Expliciu[n]t fragmenta rer[um] uulgariu[m] francisci petrarce poete laureati;
 
fol. 86v: some Latin lines attributed to Saint Bernardinus (‘versi d[i] petrarca Sa[n]to b[er]na[r]dino’, <inc> Si tibi clara domus si sblendida [sic] mensa q[ui]d inde?; <exp> Si paciens fueris semper laudaberis inde);
 
fols. 87r-107v: Triumphi with annotations (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III.1.8+105-120, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 107v: colophon: deo gratias.