[RVF with index]

273x196 mm; II + 4¹ + 80 + II fols.

parchment; semi-gothic hand; most poems with two verses per line; some poems with one verse per line (but arranged in two columns); two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> Apie de colli

fol. 1¹r: title by a later hand (‘Indice delle Rime dell’immortale Petrarca’);
 
fols. 1¹r-3¹r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance);
 
fol. 3¹v: blank;
 
fol. 4¹r: title by the same hand as that of fol. 1¹r (‘Canzoniere di Messer Francesco Petrarca’);
 
fol. 4⁴v: title by the same hand as that of fols. 1¹r and 4¹r (‘Manoscritto Delle Rime dell’immortale Petrarca’);
 
fols. 1r-56v: RVF 1-261 with dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’;
 
fol. 56v: a note by the same hand as that of fols. 1¹r and 4¹r (‘Qui manca il Sonetto CCXXV “Arbor vittoriosa e trionfale” che è scritto in fin del volume, insieme coll’altro “Cara la vita e dopo lei mi pare”’);
 
fols. 57r-72r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 72v: a note in Latin by a later hand (‘Tempus no[n] rem[†]at tacitis quod preterit horis | Post damnu[m] pentire [††]let mihi crede nientu[m] [sic]’);
 
fol. 73r: RVF 262 and 263 (previously not copied), and below a short note in Latin by a different hand (‘ante peregrinus [††]t | Su[m] pius eneas libicis ereptus ab ondis [sic] | Italia[m] quere[n]s Amen laus deo sit semper’);
 
fols. 73v-77r: blank;
 
fol. 77v: some scattered words in Italian by a later hand;
 
fol. 78r: some scattered lines in Italian by the same hand as that of fol. 77v;
 
fol. 78v: five lines in Italian by the same hand as that of fols. 77v and 78r;
 
fol. 79r: other 5 lines in Italian by the same hand as that of fols. 77v and 78r-78v;
 
fol. 79v: a sonnet by a different hand (‘Sconsolato alborselo [sic] ancor se viuo’);
 
fol. 80r: a few scattered words by a different hand;
 
fols. 80v: a few other scattered words by a different hand.