[RVF]

215x133 mm; I + 181 fols.

parchment; cursive humanistic script (three different hands: hand 1 wrote fols. 1-140; hand 2 fols. 142-157; and hand 3 fols. 161-179); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.

Francisci Petrarcae poetae clarissimi carmen rithimonos [sic] et elegicum in Lauram feliciter incipit

fol. Ir: table of contents of the ms. by a nineteenth-century hand;
 
fol. Iv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: title (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae clarissimi carmen rithimonos [sic] et elegicum in Lauram feliciter incipit’);
 
fols. 1r-139v: RVF;
 
fol. 139v: colophon: Deo gratias;
 
fol. 140r-140v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Scriptum manu propria domini f[rancisci] p[etrarcae] in quodam eius Virgilio uisum est’, <inc> Laura propriis uirtutibus illustris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> in spectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 140v: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 141r-141v: blank;
 
 

Other contents:
 
fols. 142r-157r: [Leon Battista Alberti’s Ecatonfilea] (<inc> Parme officio di pieta & di humanita oue io in una & unaltra di voi bellissime fanciulle uegho piu segni danimo oppresso da grauissime cure amatorie; <exp> deponete esospecti, sdegni & ghare. Et cossi uiuerete amando felicissime & chontentissime);
 
fol. 157r: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 157v-160v: blank;
 
fols. 161r-179v: treatise on sparrowhawks in Italian by anonymous author (‘Qui comincia el tracta de sp[—] nature e generatione ele cog[—] pin perfeti e migliori al modo de ge[—] li noticia delle sue infermita egli rimedij aqueli eprima’, <inc> Sono certi sparuieri de uinte milia che demora un sollo; <exp> auolar molto piu ardime[n]to e chussi de pigliar: &c.);
 
fols. 180r-181v: blank.