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

203x120 mm; 199 fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; seven rectangular-box illuminations, nine architectural frames, and decorated initials.

<inc> A pie decolli oue labella uesta

fol. 1r: title by a sixteenth-century hand (‘Francisci Petrar[cae] Cantile[ne] & triu[m]phi’), followed by the word ‘Prose’ by a different hand and the ms. shelfmark by a later hand;
 
fols.1v-2v: blank;
 
fols. 3r-9v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 10r: blank;
 
fol. 10v: a note by a later hand (‘Innomine iesu omne genu fletatur’);
 
fol. 11r: rectangular-box illumination with Apollo running towards Daphne who is about to be transformed into a laurel tree; above is a title (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi sonector[um] & cantilenarum liber I incipit’); below the illumination is RVF 1;
 
fols. 11v-109r: RVF 2-263;
 
fols. 109v-150v: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 150v: colophon: Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi triumphorum et cantilenarum liber foeliciter explicit;
 
fols. 151r-190r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); each triumph is preceded by a rectangular-box illumination: Triumphus Amoris I (151r), Pudicitie (163v), Mortis I (167v), Fame I (177r), Temporis (184v), Eternitatis (187v);
 
fol. 190r: colophon: Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi Eternitatis triumphus sextus et ultimus explicit. Antonius Francisci sinibaldi filius q[uam] pulcrioribus potuit literis has c[h]artas exarauit;
 
fol. 190v: blank;
 
fols. 191r-197r: Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Comincia la vita dimesser Francescho Petrarcha composta per Messer Lionardo’, <inc> Francescho petrarca huomo di grande ingegnio & non diminore uirtu; <exp> maxime perche lauirtu è certa \ & \ lacorona taluolta per lieue giudicio chosi come achi non merita dare sipuote);
 
fol. 197r: colophon: Finisce de lauita dimesser francescho petrarcha composta permessere lionardi darezzo;
 
fol. 197r-197v: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Lainfrascripta epistola fu trouata aroma inchasa dellabitatione dimesser francescho petrarcha inunsuo studiolo scripta disua propria mano’, <inc> Laura dipropria uirtu illustre & lungo tempo inlimei uersi confama honorata primamente alli ochi miei apparse nel primo tempo della mia adolescentia; <exp> lagratia didio sara facile ame agramente & uirilmente pensare lesuperflue cure delpresente tempo: & leuane speranza & linon aspettati fini);
 
fol. 197v: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Ildetto poeta è seppellito adarquate inlongbardia. Elsuo epitaphio e questo scripto’, <inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce).