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

228x145 mm; II + 256 + II fols.

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

<inc> Tabula

fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tabula’);
 
fols. 8r-10v: blank;
 
fol. 11r: title (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi sonectorum liber foeliciter incipit’), followed by RVF 1;
 
fols. 11v-150v: RVF 2-366;
 
fol. 150v: colophon: Τελωσ;
 
fols. 151r-187r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissi[mi] deamore triumphus primus incipit’, 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. 187v-190v: blank;
 
fols. 191r-196v: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Incipit vita Francisci Pe[trarcae] po[etae] clar[issimi] edita per Leonardum Arretinum virum cl[arissimum], <inc> Francesco petrarca huomo digrande ingegno & non diminor uirtu; <exp> maxime perche la uirtu è certa & lacorona taluolta perlieue giudicio cosi achi non lamerita come achi lamerita dare sipuote);
 
fols. 196v-197r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘[L]ainfrascripta ep[isto]la fu trouata aRoma incasa della habitatione di Messere Francesco Petrarca inun certo studiolo scripta disua mano’, <inc> Laura proprijs uirtutibus inlustris & meis longum celebrate carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 197r-197v: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Iluulgare della decta epistola’, <inc> [L]aura di proprie uirtu illustre & lungo tempo nemiei versi confama honorata; <exp> leuane speranze & gliincerti & uarij fini dellecose ripensando);
 
fols. 198r-199v: blank;