[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

231x145 mm; IV + 184 + II fols.

parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; three full-page illuminations; six rectangular-box illuminations; seven architectural frames; decorated letters.

‘RIME DI FRANCESCO PETRARCHA. POETA FIORETINO’

fol. IIr: title page: title is inscribed in a gold-decorated tondo with two cupids holding a crown;
 
fol. IIv: scattered words with previous shelfmarks written in pencil;
 
fols. IIIr-IVr: blank;
 
fol. IVv: full-page illumination of a classical funerary monument with two registers, the lower one containing the title of RVF (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISSIMI RHYTMI VVLGARES’) and the upper one showing the portraits of Petrarch and Laura facing each other;
 
fols. 1r-96v: RVF 1-263 with additional dispersa ‘Donna mi uen[n]e spesso ne la mente’ at fols. 49v-50r;
 
fol. 96v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI DE VITA LAVREAE PVDICISS[IMAE] RHYTHMI EXPLICIVNT;
 
fols. 97r: full-page illumination of a classical monument with two registers, the upper one containing the title of second part of RVF (‘EIVSDEM FRANCISCI PETRARCAE DE MORTE DE D[OMINAE] LAVREAE RHYTMI’) and the lower one with RVF 264.1-2;
 
fols. 97v-137v: RVF 264.3-366.137;
 
fol. 137v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISS[IMI] RHYTMI EXPLICIVNT;
 
fol. 138r: blank;
 
fol. 138v: sonnet by anonymous author penned by a later hand ‘Quando dal proprio nido, oue nutrita’;
 
fol. 139r: blank;
 
fol. 139v: full-page illumination of Triumphus Amoris containing the title of the Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHI’);
 
fols. 140r-176v: 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);
 
fol. 176v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHI EXPLICIVNT;
 
fol. 177r-177v: blank;
 
fols. 178r-184r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 184v: blank.