[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

211x145 mm; IX + 172 + II¹ fols.

paper (except fol. I in parchment); cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text.

<inc> A pie de colli oue la bella uesta

fol. I: a note by a different hand (‘venit post multos una serena dies’);
 
fol. Iv: four quotations from Latin authors by a different cursive humanistic hand (i.e. Ovid, Met. XV.234-36; Persius, Satura V.153; Seneca, Hercules furens, 178-79; and Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.65 and 62);
 
fols. II-VIIIr: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. VIIIv: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
fol. IXr-IXv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-136v: RVF 1-366 (the last poem is RVF 268);
 
fols. 137r-172v: 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. 172r: colophon: Finis deo laus;
 
fol. 172v: statement on the death of Petrarch attributed to Lombardo Della Seta by the same hand as that of fol. Iv (<inc> [Anno] mileximo trece[n]tesimo setuagiesimo quarto, die martis, decimo octavo Julij hora qui[n]ta notis arquade inter mo[n]tes euganeos; <exp> ilam suam beatisima[m] [sic] anima[m] i[n] os meu[m] ultimo aflauit anelitu michi memorabile et eternu[m] flebile munus);
 
fol. I¹r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (by the same cursive hand that wrote fol. Iv and the note at fol. 172v) (‘Scriptu[m] manu p[ro]pria e. f. petrarche i[n] quodam eius Virgilio uisum est’, <inc> Laura propriis uirtutibus illustris et meis longu[m] celebrata carminibus; <exp> inspectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogita[n]ti);
 
fols. I¹v-II¹v: blank.