[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

210x143 mm; II + II¹ + 253 + II fols.

paper (except initial flyleaves I¹-II¹ in parchment); mercantesca (for fols. 1r-252v) and cursive humanistic script (for fols. 252v-253v); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; decorated initials.

‘Chomincia illibro desonetti echanzone dimess[er] franciescho petrarcha epjmio [sic] poeta fiorentino’

fols. 1r-193v: RVF (‘Chomincia illibro desonetti echanzone dimess[er] franciescho petrarcha epjmio [sic] poeta fiorentino’);
 
fol. 193v: colophon: LAVS DEO;
 
fols. 194r-245v: Triumphi (‘Chomincia ilprimo chapitolo del trionfo damore dimess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha poeta fiorentino’; 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);
 
fol. 245v: colophon: finiti itrionfi deldetto mess[er] franc[esc]o LAVS.DEO.PAX.VIVIS.ET.GLA.DEFVNCTIS; followed by three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epitaffio dimess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha sotterrato nelchastello darqa i[n]lombardia’; <inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarcie) and a brief note: Morj adi xvij dimarzo 1374/1374;
 
fols. 246r-252v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 252v: note on the number of sonnets and canzoni contained in the ms.;
 
followed by eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (<inc> Valle locus clausa toto m[ihi] nullus inorbe);
 
fol. 253r-253v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragm[e]ntum cuiusdam ep[isto]le eiusdem francisci petrarce ad Jacobum de colunna lomboriensem [sic] epi[scop]um’; <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi speciosu[m] laure nome[n]);
 
fol. 253v: colophon: Scripti f[rancisci] p[etrarcae] inquodam codice.