[RVF and Triumphi – with Pseudo-da Tempo’s life and index]

195x123 mm; I + 198 + I fols.

parchment; sixteenth-century cursive hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts.

<inc> VOI CHASCOLTATE IN RIME SPARSE IL SONO

fol. Ir: title page written with barely visible ink: ‘Rime Petrarca’;
 
fol. Iv: scattered words cancelled with stroke of pen;
 
fols. 1r-136v: RVF;
 
fols. 137r-173r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I.2-160, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie 2-193, Mortis Ia, Mortis I.2-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.2-163, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 173v: blank;
 
fols. 174r-180v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 181r-181v: blank;
 
fol. 182r-182v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘qua[e]dam de laura manu propria Francisci Petrarca[e] scripta in quodam codice Virgilij in papiensi biblyotheca recepta’; <inc> proprijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos rer[um] exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 182v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragmentum cuiusdam epistola eiusdem Francisci Petrarca[e] ad iacobum de colu[n]na Lomboriensem ep[isco]pum’; <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi speciosum Laura[e] nome[n] ut esset; <exp> tibi pallor: tibi Labor meis notus est);
 
fols. 182v-183r: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (<inc> Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe; <exp> Et clausa cupio te duce valle mori);
 
fols. 183-197v: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Petracho figliuolo di parenzo citadino fiore[n]tino disceso dassai anticha et honesta famiglia; <exp> Uno di sonetti & canzoni & laltro trio[n]phi: Tre libri in uersi cioe. Boccolica: & delle epistole ad Barbatum: & laffrica: & septe psalmi penitentiali);
 
fol. 197v: colophon: ANDREA BACCIVS. MDXXCIX. MENSIS IVNII. .FINIS.;
 
fol. 198r-198v: blank.