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

206x147 mm; I + 231 + I fols.

paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> Son fugito io per alongar la uita

fol. 1r: RVF 114.4-14 and RVF 115;
 
fol. 1v: [Antonio da Ferrara’s] sonnet ‘O nouela tarpea in cui sasconde’ and [Petrarch’s answer per le rime] ‘Lingnegno [sic] ussato ale question profonde’;
 
fols. 2r-10v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 11r-161v: RVF (including RVF 114 and 115 already copied at fol. 1r);
 
fols. 161v-163v: six poems in Italian and a Latin poem in elegiac couplets ([Petrarch’s dispersa] ballad ‘Donna mi uiene speso ne la mente’, [Giusto de’ Conti’s] sonnet ‘Quando laura i capei doro crespi e tersi’, [Giusto de’ Conti’s] sonnet ‘Deh se laura mi fosse si soaue’, [Giusto de’ Conti’s] sonnet ‘Ben che laura souente me sospinga’, ‘Non uirtus non pompa decens non unica forma’, [Giusto de’ Conti’s] sonnet ‘Secco è il bel lauro a noi e spenta sua foglia’, and [Giusto de’ Conti’s] sonnet ‘ Larbor sacro e gientil in cui molti anni’);
 
fols. 163v-165r: six poems in Italian by a later cursive hand (‘[S]el no[n] fusso [sic] che fermam[en]te cregio’, ‘Og[ni]un dice mi mato, eso ch[e] no’, ‘Se p[er] portar elchapo umel e basso’, ‘So[n] pouero ch[e] uado alauentura’, ‘Ecce piu fede; no speranza persa’, and ‘Unora senza te me par unano’);
 
fol. 165r: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 165v-171v: blank;
 
fols. 172r-210v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Mortis Ia, Amoris II, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 210v: colophon: Eternae Trinitati laus. Finis die 7° octobris. YCHARA [sic];
 
fols. 211r-213v: blank;
 
fols. 214r-223r: Domenico da Montichiello’s poem in terza rima (<inc> Le uaghe rime el dolce die damore; <exp> Poi che tanti magior ne sono al pegio);
 
fol. 213r: colophon: D[omi]ni dominici de montechielo legum. Doctoris celeberimj [sic];
 
fol. 213v: blank;
 
fols. 224r-229v: Vergerio’s Latin life of Petrarch (<inc> Franciscus petrarcha florentinus origine ex antiqua familia honestis q[ue] parentibus fuit; <exp> et quicquid de inferiore ibi dictus est: hic ad sup[er]iore[m] mira nouitate traduxit);
 
fol. 229v: colophon: Finit petrarce uita a petro Paulo uergerio de Justinopoli edita;
 
fols. 230r-231r: blank;
 
fol. 231v: a small rectangular piece of parchment with a sonnet (‘Per litti [sic] selue e p[er]canpagne e colli’) has been pasted on the fol.