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

218x130 mm; II + II + 198 + II + II fols.

paper; cursive humanistic scripts by two hands: main hand for fols. 1r-197r; another hand for fols. 197v-198r; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; decorated initials.

<inc> APIE DECOLLI

fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 7v-8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-106v: RVF 1-263 (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE POETAE CLARISSIMI SONECTORVM ET CANTILENARVM LIBER FOELICITER INCIPIT’);
 
fols. 106v-148r: RVF 264-366 with additional dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nella mente’ copied in the left margin of fol. 131v (‘INCIPIT VITA NOVA EIV[S]DE[M] PETRARCE’);
 
fol. 148r: colophon: τελωζ fol. 148v: blank;
 
fols. 149r-185r: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE POETAE CLA[RISSIMI] DE AMORE TRV[M]PHVS [sic] PRIMVS INCIPIT FOELICITER’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fols. 185v-188v: blank;
 
fols. 189r-196r: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘INCIPIT VITA FRANCISCI PE[TRARCAE] POE[TAE] CLA[RISSIMI] EDITA PER LEONARDVM ARRETINVM VIRVM CLA[RISSIMVM]’; <inc> FRANCESCO PETRARCA HVOMO digrande ingegno & non diminor uirtu; <exp> Lesser ilpetrarca insignito dicorona poeticha & non dante niente importa ad questa comparatione perche molto e’ piu dastimare elmeritare corona che hauerla riceuuta maxime perche lauirtu e’ certa & lacorona taluolta per lieue giudicio cosi achi non lamerita come achi lamerita dare sipuote);
 
fol. 196r-196v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Lanfrascripta epistola fu trouata aRoma in casa della habitatione di Messer Francesco Petrarca in uno certo studiolo scripta si sua mano’; <inc> LAVRA proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fols. 196v-197r: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Ilu[ul]gare della detta epistola’; <inc> AVRA [sic] diproprie uirtu illustre & lungo tempo nemei uersi con fama honorata primamente agliocchi miei apparse; <exp> leuane sperançe e glincerti & uarij fini delle cose ripensando);
 
fols. 197v-198r: RVF 2, 61, 44.1-4;
 
fol. 198v: blank.