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

198x124 mm; I + 194 fols.

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

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fol. Ir-Iv: a note by Antonio Marsand (dated 7 Feb. 1818) (<inc> All’occasione de’ miei studi sul Canzoniere di f[rancesco] Petrarca esaminai anche attentamente questo codice; <exp> sarebbe desiderabile, che taluno si occupasse in cercare il nome dell’amanuense nascosto in quelle iniziali sul fine dei trionfi);
 
fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 7v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 7v-8r: an excerpt from Petrarch’s Africa [VI.885-918] (‘Oratio hec in africa D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarcae] & fuit magonis fratris Ha[n]nibalis qui tempore belli punici secundi, dum inliguribus bellum gereret fuit apud genuam ulteratus [sic] & in Africa rediens dum esset apud sardiniam uicinis morti sic loquutus est. In fine .VI. libie Africe’);
 
fol. 8r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-106v: RVF 1-263 (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae clarissimi ca\r\men rithimonos [sic] elegicum in Lauram feliciter incipit’);
 
fols. 107r-148r: RVF 264-366 (‘Que sequuntur post mortem domine lauree scripta sunt. Ita [e]n[im] proprio codice domini francisci annotatum est & carte quatuor pretermisse uacue’);
 
fol. 148r: colophon: Deo gratias;
 
fol. 148r-148v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Scriptum manu propria d[omi]ni F[rancisci] P[etrarcae] in quodam eius Virgilio uisum est’, <inc> Laura proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis lungum [sic] celebrata carminib[u]s; <exp> i[n] spectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 148v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 149r-186r: 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. 186r: colophon: Finis. Fr. Me. Fa. Pe. D Bond. s[ub]s[cripsi] 14[†]3 [presumably 1463];
 
fols. 186v-193v: [Sicco’s] life of Petrarch (‘D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarcae] poete clarissimi uita feliciter i[n]cipit’, <inc> Franciscus petrarcha florentinus fuit exul nanque patria natus est cui[us] p[at]e[r] petrus petrarco[n]. Mater leta appellati su[n]t; <exp> id tamen est suo i[n]genio ac diligentia assecutus q[uo]d istis instudijs & sui & superioris temporis om[n]es ad multos an[n]os quouis dice[n]di ingenere superauit);
 
fol. 193v: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 194r: blank; note of possession by an eighteenth-century hand (‘anno Domini 1717 ego Alphonsus de aluarottis habui hunc librum Patauj’).