[RVF and Triumphi – with Bruni’s life of Petrarch and index]

145x245 mm; I + 195 + I fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one architectural frame; historiated and decorated initials.

‘Comincia lauita dimesser francesco petrarcha composta per mess[er] Lionardo dareçço’

fols. 1r-7r: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Comincia lauita dimesser francesco petrarcha composta per mess[er] Lionardo dareçço’; <inc> FRANCESCHO petrarcha huomo digrande ingegnio et nondiminore uirtu; <exp> Et essere ilpetrarcha insignito dicorona poeticha et no[n] dante niente importa adquesta co[m]paratione pero che \ molto \ piu e dastimare piu elmeritare corona che auerla riceuuta Maxime perche la uirtu e cierta et la corona taluolta p[er]lieue giudicio cosi come achi no[n] merita come acchi merita dare sipuote);
 
fols. 7v-8r: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Lainfrascripta epistola fu trouata aRoma in chasa dellabitatione dimess[er] francescho petrarcha insuo studio scripta disua mano inlatino ma dipoi estata uulghareçata’; <inc> LAVRA dip[ro]pria uirtu ellustre et lu[n]go te[m]po an[n]o limjei uersi co[n]fama honorata; <exp> leuane sperançe et linon aspectati finis);
 
fol. 8r: colophon: FINIS AMEN;
 
followed by three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Il decto poeta e seppellitto adarquate inlo[m]bardia. elsuo epitaphio e questo: scripto’; <inc> Frigida franciscj lapis hic tegit ossa petra[r]ce);
 
fols. 8v-9v: blank;
 
fols. 10r-16v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 16v: colophon: FINIS AMEN;
 
fols. 17r-155v: RVF 1-366 with additional dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nella mente’ at fol. 153r (‘Cominciano lecanzone et sonecti dim[esser] Franc[esc]o p[etrarca]’);
 
fol. 155v: colophon: AMEN FINIS;
 
fol. 156r-156v: blank;
 
fols. 157r-193r: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE POETE CLARISSIMI TRIV[M]PHORVM LIBER FELICITER INCIPIT TRIV[M]PHUS AMORIS’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Mortis Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 193r: colophon: CH[RISTU]S. EXPLICIT TRIVNPHVUS ECTERNITATIS. VLTIMVS FRANCISC [sic] PETRARCE . POETAE CLARISIMI – F[RANCISCI] P[ETRARCE] P[OETAE] F[LORENTINI] C[LARISSIMI]. FINIS;
 
fols. 193v-195v: blank.