[RVF and Triumphi with Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s life of Petrarch]

283x160 mm; IV + 192 fols.

paper (except fols. I, 1, 141, and 190 in parchment); humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; decorated initials.

OPERA DE SONETTI | CANZONE | E | TRIONPHI VVLGARI | DEL LEGIADRO ME | SER FRANCESCO PETRAR | CHA

fol. Ir: a short note by a later hand;
 
fols. Iv-IVv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-140r: RVF (‘Opera de sonetti canzone e trionphi vulgari del legiadro meser Francesco Petrarcha’);
 
fol. 140v: blank;
 
fols. 141r-178r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fols. 178v-181v: blank;
 
fol. 182r-182v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Memorabilia quedam de Laura manu propria Francisci Petrarce scripta in quodam codice Virgilij in Papiensi Biblioteca reperta’, <inc> Laura propriis uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatus exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fols. 182v-183r: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragmentum cuiusdam epistole eiusdem Francisci Petrarce ad Iacopum de Columna Lomboriensem episcopum’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi speciosu[m] Laure, <exp> tibi pallor: tibi labor meus notus est);
 
fol. 183r: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe’);
 
fols. 183r-189r: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Petrarcho figliolo di Parenzo cittadino fiorentino disceso dassai antica et honesta famiglia; <exp> Uno di sonetti & canzoni & laltro trionphi: Tre libri i[n] uersi cioe. Boccolica: & delle Epistole ad Barbatum: & laffrica: & septe psalmi penitentiali: Deo gratias);
 
fols. 189v-192v: blank.