[Selection of RVF poems with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

216x147 mm, III + 432 (numbered 1-442) fols.

paper; various scripts (for sections related to Petrarch: humanistic script for Petrarch’s poems and sixteenth-century hand for minor marginal devotional notes and colophons); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts.

‘Vita petrarce’ (fol. 341r)

fols. 341r-345r: [Leonardo Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (Vita petrarce’; <inc> FRancesco petrarcha homo di grande ingegnio E non di men uertu; <exp> morto ilpetrarcha lemuse sue ritent [sic] equasi deredita fusucesione [sic] Rimase adunq[ue] albochacio e in lui ui risedete la fama di poetici studi e fu sucesione anchora nel tenpo pero che quando elpetrarcha mori era Uocacio [sic] di minor eta di luj de anni ix ecosi per sucesione Andarono lemuse. finis);
 
fol. 345r: colophon: Finis Vite Francisci petrarcie [sic];
 
fol. 346r-346v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura proprijs Virtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inespectatos exitus . acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 346v: colophon: DEO GRATIAS AMEN TΕLOS;
 
fols. 346v-441r: RVF 1, 137-142.13, 144.6-161, 158, 162-242, 121, 243-263, 265-335, 337-339, 342, 340, 351-354, 359, 341, 343, 356, 344-349, 357-358, 360-366;
 
fol. 441r: colophon: FINIS DEO GRA[TIA]S AMEN, followed by scattered words;
 
Other contents:
 
fol. IIr: title page penned by a later hand: ‘VARIORVM AVCTORVM OPERA Quorum Indicem exhibet sequens Pagina’;
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fol. IIIr: index of contents of the ms. penned by a later hand;
 
fols. IIIv-1r: blank;
 
fols. 1v-41v: Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli’s Iudicium Dei supremu[m] de vivis & mortuis: Opus Sulpitianum (Rome: Silber, 1506);
 
fols. 42r-109r: [Pietro Curialti’s] book of medicine followed by index of contents at fols. 108v-109r (<inc> Depilatoriu[m] nob[i]le mu[n]dinj disolue mastic[ation]e; <exp> et cere q[ua]m suffi[ci]t fiat ung[uen]t[u]m);
 
fol. 109v: blank;
 
fols. 110r-116v: Latin prose text on fever (‘Incipit de febribus’; <inc> Ebritudo acuta e[s]t phy. uobit q[uia] tria regint [sic]; <exp> i[n] loco cal[id]o sudorem prouocat);
 
fols. 117r-129r: [Avicenna’s] ‘De lebra’ (<inc> Lebra e[st] i[n]firmitas mala p[re]cie[†††]; <exp> u[e]l ulce[re] sordido [††] no[n] sordido);
 
fols. 129r-143r: Latin medical treatise followed by subject index at fol. 144v (‘De percussio[ne] capi[ti]s cum fract[ur]a cranei’; <inc> Cvm q[ui]s p[er]cutit[ur] i[n] capi[t]e cu[m] lapi[d]e u[e]l aliq[u]o alio; <exp> bis in die ponatur ut dicendum est);
 
fols. 145r-150r: [Pietro Curialti’s] treatise on plague (‘Co[n]siliu[m] de feb[re] pestilentiali’; <inc> Ait Gal[enus] p[rimo] de inge[n]io [e]ss[e] fine[m]; <exp> et tot[us] tractat[us] ordinatus);
 
fols. 150r-157v: series of short vernacular and Latin writings (for a detailed list see Manus);
 
fols. 158r-288v: Sextus Propertius’s Elegies (‘LEPIDISSIMI PROPERTIJ SPOLETANJ ELEGIAR[UM] LIBER PRIMVS FOELICITER JNCIPIT’);
 
fols. 289r-293r: Lodrisio Crivelli’s Latin poem (‘LEODRISVS CRIBELLVS AD POLIMNIA[M] MVSAM IN LAVDEM PIENTIE JN CIVITATIS’; <inc> Vsa [sic] tuus nobis memora decus ordine lume[n]; <exp of poem – followed by the date> C[†]oge & hinc magnos forsitan ire lacus);
 
fols. 293v-295v: series of brief Latin writings (for a detailed list see Manus);
 
fols. 296r-340v: Albius Tibullus’s Elegies (<inc> DIVITIAS ALIUS FULVO SIBI COGERAT AVRO; <exp> hoc solle[m]ne sacru[m] multos h[aec] sum[m]et i[n] an[n]os);
 
fols. 345r-346r: two sonnets by anonymous autor (‘Si dentro del mio cor depinto porto’, ‘O felice auctore seconda fama’);
 
fols. 441v-442v: alphabetical list of words with similar endings.