[RVF with index]

280x190 mm; I + I¹-VI¹ + 105 + I fols.

parchment; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts.

<inc> Voi chascoltate in rime sparse il suono

fols. I¹r-VI¹r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) starting with the letter ‘V’ and ending with the letter ‘U’;
 
fol. VI¹r: single stanza of a canzone by anonymous author in praise of Filippo Maria Visconti ‘Muouiti ormai o desiato sposo’;
 
fol. VI¹v: blank;
 
fol. 1r: three text units: 1. a later hand (presumably by a librarian) provides the title of the ms.: ‘Poesie di Francesco Petrarcha scritte l’anno 1429 da Giovanni de Parazo Milanese’, 2. Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘D[ominus] franciscus petrarcha’; <inc> LAurca [sic] proprys Virtutib[u]s illustris, et meis longum celebrata carminib[u]s; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac Viriliter cogitanti), 3. excerpt from Petrarch’s Epystole III.24 (‘Idem. d[ominus] f[ranciscus] p[etrarca] Cum primum uidit Italiam ex Auinione recedens’; <inc> Salue cara deo tellus sanctissima salue; <exp> Salue sancta parens, terrarum, Gloria salue);
 
fol. 1v: Latin note on RVF 232 (‘Vincitore Alexandro lira uinse’; <inc> Apud plutarcum scriptum est, hunc Appellem, fuisse primum, qui Alexandrum pinxit; <exp> Ip[s]e orbem subigo. sidera linquo tibi’) followed by three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epitaphium d[omini] f[rancisci] p[etrarce]’; <inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fols. 2r-105r: RVF;
 
fol. 105r: colophon: COmpleta sunt fragmenta petrarce per me Johannem de Parazo civem Mediolani ac coadiutorem officij bulletar[um] ciuitatis predicte anno domini nostri Yh[es]u Xr[isti] millesimoquadrigentesimouigesimonono. die sabati uigesimosecundo mensis octobris hora decima septima cum dim[m]edia [sic] octaua indictione;
 
fol. 105v: three text units: 1. title ‘Cantillene francisci petrarce’ with some space left below; 2. extract from a prayer recited by Petrarch (‘Amico fideli nihil est Celandum’; <inc> franciscus petrarcha medicente; <exp> in seculum super timentes eum); 3. erased illegible poem (likely a sonnet).