[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

209x150 mm, IV + 201 + I fols.

parchment (except flyleaves I-II, and I in paper); semi-gothic hand except for cursive humanistic script at fols. 178v-187v; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one rectangular-box illumination; three penned drawings; two architectural frames; historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> Uoi chascoltate inrime sparse il suono

fol. IIIv: pencil drawing of Vaucluse’s church;
 
fol. IVr: title of the ms. penned by an eighteenth-century hand: ‘Rime del Petrarca’;
 
fol. IVv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-95r: RVF 1-263;
 
fols. 95v-137r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 137r: colophon: AMEN;
 
fol. 138r-138v: [Petrarch’s] letter to Pope Clement VI (Fam. V.19) (<inc> Febris tue nuncius: beatissime pat[—], tremorem membris meis; <exp> si te: si nos om[n]es: si te cu[m] agrota[n]tem ecclesiam saluam cupis);
 
fol. 139r: blank;
 
fol. 139v: pencil drawing of a naked Petrarch on a red background (‘D[OMINUS] PETRARCHA’);
 
fol. 140r: pencil drawing of naked Laura on a red background (‘D[OMINA] LAVRA’);
 
fol. 140v: a short summary of the Triumphi in Latin: ‘AMOR uincit mu[n]dum. PVDICICIA Amorem . . . AETERNITATIS OMNIA VINCIT’;
 
fols. 141r-177v: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE FLORENTINI POETAE LAVREATI TRIVMPHORVM LIBER FELICITER INCIPIT’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame Ia, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178v: colophon: Deogratias. Gentilis poeta sc[ripsit] 1444. deme[n]se dece[m]bris;
 
fols. 191r-198r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance), fol. 198r: colophon: Deo gratias amen;
 
fols. 198v-200v: blank;
 
fol. 201r: RVF 16 copied by a later hand;
 
fol. 201v: blank.
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 137r: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Ay lengua ay penna mia che in tante carte’);
 
fol. 137v: blank;
 
fols. 178v-190v: thirty-two poems by anonymous authors (sonnets ‘Maledico quella ingorda lupa’, ‘Oho [sic] prouato per diuersi ingegni’, ‘Iuto: [sic] aiuto, aiuto oime p[er]dio’, ‘lamelle [sic] altiere chel cor ferito hauete’, ‘Vina [sic] me costei cheio tanto amo’, ‘Vlla [sic] salute al mio graue dolore’, ‘Cor disasso distemp[er]ati unpoco’, ‘Onposso [sic] piu soffrire il dolcie stento’, ‘Ardente foco chelmio core auampa’, ‘On [sic] esi bello ilciel quando risplende’, ‘E [sic] mille uolte il dimirrasse diuiso’, ‘Ela [sic] preghiera mia non ue molesta’, ‘O [sic] me tirendo [sic] ecofesso [sic] esser uinto’, ‘Onpiangete [sic] ochi mei piuluostro male’, ‘Ianti [sic] esospiri massalirano hormai’, ‘Ve [sic] andarai misero e dolente’, ‘Vesta [sic] patria che tanto mi graua’, ‘Artito [sic] ison sanza uederte amore’, ‘Oi [sic] non ui uidi q. anima mia bella’, ‘Itorna [sic] tempo lieto almo sereno’, ‘Alta [sic] sp[er]anza in cui son diuorata’, canzone ‘Elmegio [sic] delonferno honesta altera’, sonnets ‘Iho [sic] seruito amore e fidelmente’, ‘Dolce [sic] ritornata quanto fusti’, ‘Ersahai [sic] lachiaue erotta e la chatena’, ‘Empo [sic] e ogimai chio tilassi amore’, ‘Car [sic] conforto: o dolce uita mia’, ‘io [sic] fui uilano alacortese offerta’, ‘A [sic] poi chelafortuna inuidiosa’, ‘O croce sancta: o reuerenda insegna’, ‘Ben uegio che deltutto espenta: emorta’, canzone ‘O maligna tiranna o crudel serpe’).