[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

205x130 mm; VI + 118 + V fols.

paper (except parchment for fol. VI); cursive humanistic script (two hands: hand A wrote fols. 5r-62r; hand B [Daniello di Piero Betti] fols. 1v-4r and 62r-118v); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

<inc> Amor seuuoi chitornj algiogho anticho (fol. 1v)

fols. Ir-IIIv: blank;
 
fol. IVr: bibliographical note by a later hand;
 
fol. IVv: blank;
 
fol. Vr: title of the ms. by a later hand (‘Rime del Petrarca’);
 
fol. Vv: blank;
 
fol. VIr: title of a section of the ms. by a different sixteenth-century hand (‘Trionfi del Petrarca’), followed by some scattered words by an earlier hand;
 
fol. VIv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: scattered words by a different hand followed by a sonnet (<inc> Supercio [sic] egrandamor scoprir mifa);
 
fol. 1v-4r: incomplete alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance [the first poem – beginning with the letter ‘A’ – that is mentioned in the index is RVF 270, copied at fol. 60]);
 
fol. 4r: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance (‘Capitula triumphi F[rancisci] P[etrarcae]’);
 
fol. 4r: colophon: Explicit tabula;
 
fol. 4v: Petrarch’s note on Laura by a different late-fifteenth-century hand (‘Francisci Petrarcha Epi[stul]a’, <inc> Laura proprijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longu[m] celebrata carminib[u]s; <exp> i[n]expectatos exitus acriter ac viriliter cogitantj);
 
fols. 5r-50r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarchae poetae flor[entini] triumphus amoris’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II.1-127 and 178-187, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis) with fol. 15 blank;
 
fol. 50r: colophon: Amen. Deogratias;
 
fol. 50r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch by a different hand (‘Epithaphiu[m]’, <inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fol. 50v: blank;
 
fols. 51r-118v: 147 RVF poems (hand A wrote nine RVF poems: the first one is RVF 129, the last one RVF 366 (fol. 62r) [followed by a colophon (fol. 62r): finis amen (erased)]; hand B wrote 138 RVF poems: the first one is RVF 36, the last one is RVF 310) with fol. 114 blank;
 
fol. 118v: colophon: finitas. Finis laus deo. ogi q[uest]o dj 28 die sestu feb[r]arj perme danjello d[i]piero betti edetto libro e didetto danjiello.