[Selection of RVF poems and Triumphi]

214x153 mm; 14 fols.

paper; cursive sixteenth-century script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text.

Jo[hannes] Romens de Xeulphis ad lectore

fol. 1r: blank;
 
fol. 1v: Xeulphis’s address to readers (‘Jo[hannes] Romens de Xeulphis ad lectore’, <inc> Discurrendo alchuna volta le opera del preclaro poeta d[omino] Francesco Petrarcha le quale ellegante in lingua Toscana i[n] rima compose Ben che lintellecto mio piu assai se delecti i[n] legere libri latini azio che prendendo qualche recreatione ne cauasse anchor alchuna utilitate ho nottato alchuni Xosi [sic] piu morali; <exp> fu questo finito a Laude di dio nela[n]no 1525 al di penultimo de Augusto);
 
fols. 2r-7r: list of excerpts from RVF 1-259, listed according to the poems’ order (‘Excerptu[m] a sonnet[is] et cantilenis d[omini] Francisci Petrarche i[n] vita d[ominae] Laurae’);
 
fol. 7r: colophon: Sequu[n]tur excerpta a sonetis et ca[n]tilenis eiusdem d[omini] franc[isci] Petrar[cae] i[n] morte d[omi]ne Laure;
 
fols. 7v-9v: list of excerpts from RVF 264-365, listed according to the poems’ order;
 
fols. 9v-13r: list of excerpts from the Triumphi (‘Ex Triumphis’);
 
fol. 13r: colophon: Laus deo. finitu[m] die penul[tim]^a aug[ust]ⁱ 1525. Jo. Ro. De Xeulphis.