[RVF with index]

238x165 mm; II (parchment) + 158 (paper)

paper and parchment; humanistic cursive script (fols. 1r-144v) and other humanistic hands (A: fols I-II; B: 145r-149r; and C: fols. 150r-158r); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

<inc> Apie di colli oue la bella vista [sic]

fol. Ir-IIv: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance), set in two columns and written by hand A;
 
fols. 1r-145r: RVF [the last 9 ll. of RVF 366 – at fol. 145r – are written by hand B];
 
fol. 145r: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 145r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch, written by hand B (<inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fol. 145v: blank;
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 146r-149r: [Jacopo Sanguinacci’s] capitolo ‘Felice chi misura ogni suo passo’ and [Leonardo Giustinian’s] canzonetta ‘O misera mia vita o cor afflicto’;
 
fol. 149v: blank;
 
fols. 150r-154r: [Antonio Pucci’s] capitolo ‘Io prego la divina maestate’;
 
fol. 154v: Pseudo-Dante’s Credo.183-210 (‘Questi sonno isepti [sic] peccata mortale desposti [sic] per dante in rima’, <inc> Prima e superbia de onni mal radice);
 
fols. 155r-157r: anonymous lauda entitled ‘Contrasto del morto e del vivo’ (<inc> Quando te alegre o homo de grande altura; <exp> in anzi che da dio voi siate guidicate);
 
fols. 157v-158r: an anonymous ballad (<inc> O fior de primavera; <exp> Dulce mia guerera);
 
fol. 158v: anonymous capitolo (<inc> O uolto fatto dal tonnante (?) iddio; <exp> uoi gouernate e ne gre[††] sua [†††]’) by a different hand.