[Triumphi and selection of RVF poems with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

283x215 mm; IV + 123 + III fols.

paper; various scripts (semi-gothic hand for fols. 89r-108v); poems in two columns, in each column is one verse per line; prose text in two columns.

<inc> Itrionfi dimess[er] f[rancesco] p[etrarca] (fol. 89r)

fols. 89r-101r: Triumphi (‘Itrionfi dimess[er] f[rancesco] p[etrarca]’ followed by the words ‘della Morte C[apitolo] 2°’ [by a later hand], order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV.1-12+19-21+13-18+22-165, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fols. 106v-108v: Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Comincia lauita dimess[er] Francescho petracha [sic]’, <inc> Francescho petrarcha huomo digrande ingiegnio enon dimjnor uirtu; <exp> maxime p[er]che lauirtu ecierta et lacorona taluota [sic] p[er] lieue giudicio cosi acchi no[n]merita come acchi merita dar sipuote);
 
fols. 108v-122v: various poems in Italian (mainly sonnets and canzoni) by different authors (including Dante, Simone da Siena, Antonio da Ferrara, and Cino da Pistoia), among which are RVF 90 (fol. 112r) and RVF 35 (fol. 114v) and one sonnet attributed to Petrarch (‘Socchorri osignor mio socor[r]i ils[er]uo’, at fol. 112r) (for a detailed list of the poems of this section, see Bandini It, 458-59);
 
fol. 123r-123v: blank;
 
 

Other contents:
 
fol. 1r: scattered words followed by a few scattered lines by a different hand;
 
fol. 1v: blank;
 
fols. 2r-88v: various poems in Italian, including: Brunetto Latini’s Tesoretto; Jacopo da Montepulciano’s terza rima poem ‘[M]ossa dal tuo p[er]fetto et dolce amare; terza rima poem entitled ‘Pataffio’ by anonymous author (<inc> [S]quasimodeo i[n]troque e afusone); Antonio Pucci’s canzone ‘[M]ille treciento sessantatre corendo’; Bindo Bonichi da Siena’s sonnets; and some cantos from the Inferno of Dante’s Commedia. Also a few prose texts, including: a text on animals’ nature by anonymous author (<inc> Bellj signorj tute le chose che gliuomini delmondo san[n]o; <exp> et coluj. Chesi rendera saluo anostro Gesu) (for a detailed list, see Bandini It, 455-57);
 
fols. 101r-102r: Leonardo Bruni’s canzone (‘Chançona morale dimess[er] lionardo bruni’, <inc> Longha quistion fu gia tra uechi saggi);
 
fols. 102r-106r: Bruni’s life of Dante (‘Chomincia illibro della uita estudii &chostumj didante e di mess[er] francescho petrarcha poeti clarissimi conposta nouissimamente damess[er] lionardo chancieliere fiorentino’, <inc> Auendo inquesti giorni posto fine auna o[pe]ra assai lungha; <exp> gli abitatori conuolger disue rote);
 
fol. 106r: colophon: Explicit;