[Selection of RVF sonnets with index]

290x210 mm; III + 164 + I fols.

paper; semi-gothic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.

<inc> a pie dacholi ouelabela uesta

fol. IIr: title page written by an eighteenth-century hand: Sonetti | del Petrarca | e d’altri Autori. | e una Novella d’Incerto, followed by a note by a cursive hand who identifies the author of the novella ‘È del Boccaccio n. IX g. 2, con delle variazioni in più luoghi’;
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fol. IIIr: index of contents written by the same eighteenth-century hand;
 
fol. IIIv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-8r: alphabetical index of the first lines of poems attributed to Petrarch (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) distributed in two columns;
 
fols. 8v-9r: blank;
 
fol. 9v: sketched drawing;
 
fol. 10r: blank;
 
fol. 10v: full-page drawing of an academic impresa with motto ‘Jn po tans passa legran pluie’;
 
fols. 11r-102v: 302 poems attributed to Petrarch: 297 sonnets, three ballads, one madrigal, and one stanza of a canzone (among this series of sonnets, sixty-six poems by other authors, including Giovanni Boccaccio, Antonio da Ferrara, Benuccio Salimbeni, Guido Guinizzelli, and Antonio Pucci; for a full list of first lines and authors, see Ms. Ricc, 113-115);
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 103r-152v: 190 sonnets by thirteenth-, fourteenth-, and fifteenth-century authors, often anonymous or mistakenly attributed (for a full list of first lines and authors, see Ms. Ricc, 115-120);
 
fols. 153r-158v: Antonio Pucci’s twenty-one sonnets;
 
fols. 158v-159r: two sonnets attributed to Burchiello (‘Diqia adi alle sacre amezo’, ‘Perchagion dello imperio no[n]passasse’);
 
fols. 159v: two sonnets by anonymous author (‘O lasso am[or]e diuita senp[r]e alfoco’, ‘Chi no[n] puo qjelchiuuol qjelch[e]puo uoglia’);
 
fols. 160r-164r: anonymous different version of Boccaccio’s Decameron II.9 later published by Lami in Novelle letterarie di Firenze, 17 (1756), 674-776 (<inc> Avna festa i[n]parigi si trouo una sera avna cena molto buona giente dipiù paesi; <exp> etornorosi agienova chongrande alagreza echomolto tesoro Iddio nedia anoj seglie d[i]suo piaciere. Amenne);
 
fol. 164v: one canzone by anonymous author (‘Frasospiri dolci ilcor souente spira’).