[Selection of RVF poems with index]

297x220 mm; II + 97 + I fols.

paper; mercantesca; poems set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks with two verses per line or, more rarely, in prose with single lines separated by a double //.

Qui appie J scriuero latauola di tutte canzoni e sonetti e ballate etognaltra chosa chessono

fol. IIr: title page written by an eighteenth-century hand: Canzoniere del Petrarca | e | Rime di Diversi. | Colla tavola in principio del libro;
 
fol. IIv: index of the content penned by the same eighteenth-century hand;
 
fol. 1r: address to readers (<inc> Tuche chon questo libro ti trapulli [sic]);
 
fol. 1v: blank;
 
fols. 2r-3r: index of the first lines of Petrarch’s poems listed in order of appearance with metre specified above each series of metrically equivalent poems (‘Qui appie J scriuero latauola di tutte canzoni e sonetti e ballate etognaltra chosa chessono Jn su questo libro Jmp[ri]ma cominciando amesse[r] francescho petrarcha poeta fiorentino. di messer francesco petrarca’);
 
fols. 3r-5r: indexes of the first lines of other authors’ poems listed in order of appearance and with metre specified;
 
fols. 5v-11v: blank;
 
fols. 12r-36r: extensive selection of 183 poems from RVF and additional disperse, including some correspondence poems by other authors (within this series the following poems are mistakenly attributed to Petrarch: ‘J lampegiar degl’occhi alteri egraui’ by Matteo degli Albizzi at fol. 13v, ‘Neltempo chessinfiora etchuopre derba’ by Fazio degli Uberti at fol. 23v);
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 36v-93v: several poems by Lancillotto Anguissola, Bruzio Visconti, Dante, Sennuccio Del Bene, Giovanni Boccaccio, Riccardo degli Albizi, Franceschino degli Albizi, Matteo degli Albizi, Jacopo Cecchi, Niccolò Soldanieri, Fazio degli Uberti, Antonio da Ferrara, Tommaso de’ Bardi, Ricciardo da Battifolle, Guido Cavalcanti, Menghino Mezzani, Pietro Alighieri, Paolo dell’Abbaco, Francesco di Tura, Durante da San Miniato, Gregorio Calonista, Jacopo Ghini, Franco Sacchetti, Gano da Colle, Niccolò Beccari, Pandolfo Malatesti, Gregorio d’Arezzo, Fazio degli Uberti, Bindo Bonichi, Leonardo Giustinian, Antonio Pucci, Matteo Correggiaio (for a full list of first lines, see Ms.Ricc, 105-111 and mirabileweb);
 
fols. 93v-94v: Boccaccio’s letter to Franceschino de’ Bardi composed of a foreword and a letter in Neapolitan dialect (‘Questa presente lettera mando messer giouanni boccacci danapoli aJacopo uillani esendo nella corte dellonperadore Jnpresenza diacopo delle botte efratelli’; <inc of foreword> Concio sia chosa che lle forze degli huo[min]i; <exp of foreword> p[er]diporto dinoi medesimi ti scriuiamo; <inc of Neapolitan letter> facimote adunque caro frat\i\ello assapire challo primo Jorno; <exp of Neapolitan letter> Jnapule lo juorno de santaniello dalli toi).