[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

240x153 mm; I + 185 + I fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one full-page illumination (portrait), decorated initials, and two separate titles within two architectural frames.

FRANCISCUS PETRAR | CAE | POETAE CLARISSI[MI] | VVLGARIA | FELICITER INCIPIVNT | DD

fol. 1r: blank;
 
fol. 1v: title (‘FRANCISCUS PETRAR | CAE | POETAE CLARISSI[MI] | VVLGARIA | FELICITER INCIPIVNT | DD’) within an illuminated architectural frame with a plant on its left;
 
fol. 2r: title (‘SONETTI, & CANZO | NI | DI | M[ESSE]R FRANCESCHO PE | TRARCHA | DD’) within an illuminated architectural frame with a swan on the right;
 
fol. 2v: full-page portrait of Petrarch’s head;
 
fols. 2r-98v: RVF 1-263 with dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’;
 
fol. 99r-99v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Haec reperta sunt in Papiensi bibliotheca in q[ue]dam Virgilio Domini Francisci petrarcae scripta manu propria eiusdem Domini francisci petrarcae’, <inc> Laurea propriis virtvtibvs illvstris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti’);
 
fol. 99v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Hec etiam sunt uerba sua in epistola quadam scripta ad Iacobum de Columna Lomberiensem Ep[iscop]um’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi spetiosum laureae nomen; <exp> Tibi pallor: tibi labor meus notus est & c[e]t[era]);
 
fol. 99v: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe’);
 
fol. 100r: blank;
 
fols. 100v-140v: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 141r-141v: blank;
 
fols. 142r-178r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarcae laureate poetae triumphi incipiunt’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178r: colophon: τελωσ;
 
fol. 178v: blank;
 
fols. 179r-185v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance).