[RVF and Triumphi – with Sicco’s life of Petrarch and index]

225x142 mm; I + 190 fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; decorated initials.

<inc> Decesette anni ha gia

fols. 1r-5v: incomplete (D to Z) alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 5v: colophon: finis;
 
followed by an excerpt from Africa (VI.885-896) preceded by a rubric (<inc of rubric> Oratio hec in africa D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarce] fuit magonis frateis Han[n]ibalis; <exp of rubric> in fine . vi . libre Africe’; <inc> Hic postq[uam] medio iuuenis stetit equore poenus; <exp> Dedita perpetuo, semperq[u]e heu certa nec umq[uam]);
 
fols. 6r-103v: RVF 1-263 (‘FRANCISCI. PETRARCAE. POETAE. CLARISSIMI. CARMEN. RITHIMONOS. ELEGICVM. IN LAVRAM. FELICITER. INCIPIT’);
 
fols. 104r-139v: RVF 264-366 (‘Que sequitur post mortem domine Lauree scripta sunt. Ita. e[N]im proprio Codice domini francisci annotatum est & carte quatuor. prettemisse [sic] uacue’);
 
fol. 139v: Finis;
 
fols. 140r-183r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 183r: colophon: Finis. Sit laus christo omnipotenti deo;
 
fols. 183v-190v: [Sicco Polenton’s] life of Petrarch (‘D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarce] poete clarissimi uita feliciter incipit’; <inc> FRANCISCVS Petrarcha florentinus fuit Exul nanque patria natus est cuius pater petrus petrarco[n]. Mater leta appellati su[n]t; <exp> id tam[en] est suo ingenio ac diligentia assecutus quod istis instudijs & sui et superioris temporis om[n]es ad multos annos quouis dicendi ingenere superauit);
 
fol. 190v: colophon: Finis. FR. ME. PE. DE. B. ff. 1452. 1452;
 
followed by another date: ‘1462’.