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

171x116 mm; II + 185 + I fols.

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

<inc> Se lamentare ucelli

fol. Ir: blank;
 
fol. Iv: shelfmark of the ms.;
 
fol. IIr: last part of the alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet [S-Z], poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-98v: RVF 1-263 (‘Francisci Petrarce versus rithmi vulgares in elegiarum modu[m] incipiu[n]t’);
 
fols. 99r-140r: RVF 264-366 (‘hactenus de vita: nu[n]c v[er]o proseq[uun]t[u]r mortis fragm[en]ta’);
 
fol. 140r: colophon: finis. Laus deo viuo;
 
fol. 140v: a few scattered words by a later hand;
 
fols. 141r-179v: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce versus rithmi triumphales incipiunt’, 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. 75r: colophon: qui sonfiniti i trionfi dimessere franc[esc]o petrarcha deo gratias. amen;
 
fol. 75v: blank;
 
fol. 180r-180v: blank;
 
fols. 181r-183v: [Vergerio’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Franciscus petrarcha florentinus origine exantiqua familia honestisq[ue] parentibus fuit; <exp> et post hec om[n]ia psalmos dauid ap[er]tissimos reddidit);
 
fol. 184r-184v: a passage from an epistle (‘ex ep[istu]la quadam’, <inc> Vir hic diuinus in p[ri]mis diuitiar[um] contentor fuit: tenui victu & vulgari conuiuia & co[m]messatione [sic] perosus; <exp> In moralib[us] & poeticis penitus eruditus sacris l[ib]ris & hystorijs pl[urimu]m incu[m]bens semp[er] fuit);
 
fol. 184v: the lines sculpted on the base of Petrarch’s sarcophagus (‘sub sarcophago f[rancisci] p[etrarcae]’, <inc> Viro insigni F[rancisco] P[etrarcae] laureato Franciscolus de Brossano; <exp> propinquitate successione fama);
 
fol. 185r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis lungum [sic] celebrata carminibus; <exp> in exspectatos exitus acriter ac viriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 185v: a few scattered words by a different hand.