[RVF with index]

265x200 mm; I + 70 fols.

parchment; two main scripts: gothic hand for main text; mercantesca for index of first lines; Petrarch’s poems set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks with two verses per line; decorated initials.

‘Francisci Petrarce laureati Poete Vulgarium carmen incipit’

Initial pastedown: an erased note of possession followed by a second note of possession: ‘Questo libro etdi [—]nc[esco] charcheregli chelachattod[i] Lorenzo egli sta n[e]l garbo allato alchonte chartolaio siche rendetelo’;
 
fol. Ir: ms. shelfmark indicated by a later hand;
 
fol. Iv: note of possession: ‘Questo libro di franc[esco] digiouanni batista charcheregli chesta n[e]lgarbo e[†]lachattod[i] lorenda’;
 
fols. 1r-49r: RVF 1-263 with additional dispersa ‘Donna miuene spesso ne lamente’ at fol. 25v (‘Francisci Petrarce laureati Poete Vulgarium carmen incipit’);
 
fol. 49r: colophon: Francisci Petrarce Laureati Poete De dilecta sua uita qua[m] p[er] .xxi. [—]nn[os] adamauit Vulgaricum carmen explicit;
 
fols. 49r-69r: RVF 264-366 (‘Incipit de morte eiusdem qua[m] post obitum an[n]is .x. deplorauit ut seq[ui]t[ur]’);
 
fol. 69r: colophon: Amen;
 
fols. 69v-70r: incomplete (from A to I) alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 70r: medical recipes;
 
fol. 70v: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Senpre sidise chun Fadanno açento’) followed by RVF 366.1-3 penned in humanistic script.