[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

357x228 mm; I + 191 fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; four rectangular-box illuminations; three architectural frames; historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> ‘A’ A pie de colli oue la bella uesta

fol. Ir: dedication to a Spanish envoy by a later hand, repeated at fol. 190r, followed by barely legible words and the date 1570;
 
fol. Iv: three sixteenth-century notes of possession;
 
fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance and accompanied by the specification ‘post mortem’);
 
fol. 7v: blank;
 
fols. 8r-10r: scattered letters;
 
fol. 10v: decorated coloured tondo inscribed in a double laurel frame containing the title of the ms.: ‘IN QUESTO ORNATISSIMO LIBRO SE CONTENGANO LI SONETTI CANZONE ET TRIVMPHI DEL PRESTANTISSIMO POETA MESSER FRANCESCO PETRARCA’;
 
fols. 11r-108r: RVF 1-263 with the additional dispersa ‘Donna mi uiene spesso ne la mente’ at fol. 35v (‘INCOMINCIANO LI SONETTI ET CANZONE DE LO ELEGANTISSIMO POETA MES[SER] FRANCESCO PETRARCA’);
 
fols. 108r-149v: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 150r-150v: scattered letters;
 
fols. 151r-187r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III.1-99, Temporis 7-126, Eternitatis 7-145);
 
fol. 187r: inscription with the name of the copyist: ‘MANV MATTHÀEI DOMINI HERCVULANI DE VVLTERRIS’;
 
fol. 187v: blank;
 
fol. 188r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> LAurea [sic] proprijs uirtutibus illustris, & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
followed by an extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (<inc> QVID ergo ais finxisse me mihi speciosum Laur[a]e nomen; <exp> Tibi pallor; tibi labor meus notue est. VALE);
 
fols. 188v-189v: blank;
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 190r: one sonnet by anonymous author (‘Jlustri legato hispano comes bertholomeus chalipius congratulat[ur] de uictoria hispanioru[m] contra gallos’; <inc> hispanus ferus hinc, illinc quoque gallicus hostis).