[RVF and Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch and index]

252x166 mm; 240 (but: VI + 232 + II) fols. [see Mann 1975, 459 and n. 3]

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one full-page illumination, one architectural frame, and decorated initials.

<inc> Francisci Petrarchae Florentini poetae vita incipit a Leonardo Arretino [sic] Composita (fol. 7r)

fol. 1r-1v(=Ir-Iv): blank;
 
fol. 2r(=IIr): a note on the contents of the ms. by a later hand;
 
fol. 2v(=IIv): blank;
 
fol. 3r(=IIIr): a further note on the contents of the ms. by a different later hand;
 
fol. 3v(=IIIv): blank;
 
fol. 4r(=IVr): a note of possession by a sixteenth-century hand (‘[—] est nunc [—] Francisci & filippi Joannisbapt[ist]ae [—]ri franc[isci] de saxettis cuius possessio p^m fuit);
 
fol. 4v(=IVv): a note of possession (‘Francisci Saxetti’); below which are some partially erased words by a later hand;
 
fol. 5r(=Vr): an illumination has been inserted in a cut in the middle of the fol. so that one can see the verso here (where are some words in Arabic);
 
fol. 5v(=Vv): the recto of the full-page illumination (with a man and a woman dressed according to Indian-Persian style, standing close to each other; the man has his right arm on the woman’s shoulder);
 
fol. 6r(=VIr)-6v(=VIv): blank;
 
fols. 7r(=1r)-11v: Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Francisci Petrarchae Florentini poetae vita incipit a Leonardo Arretino [sic] Composita’, <inc> Francesco Petrarcha huomo di grande ingegno et non dimen uirtu; <exp> quando il Petrarcha mori era il bochaccio diminore eta dilui danni noue: et cosi per successione andoron le muse);
 
fol. 12r-12v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘In papiensi bibliotheca quodam in codice uirgiliano reperta manu francisci petrarche descripta’, <inc> Laura p[ro]priis uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 12v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragmentu[m] cuiusdam epistole Fr[ancisci] petrarche ad Iacobu[m] de columna Lomboriensem ep[iscopu]m’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi speciosum Laure nomen; <exp> Tibi pallor: tibi labor meus notus est);
 
fol. 13r-13v: blank;
 
fols. 14r-136v: RVF 1-266 (‘Francisci Petrarchae poetae Florentini carminum liber incipit’);
 
fol. 136v: colophon: Quae hactenus scripta sunt vivente Laura cecinit. Quae sequuntur post illius obitum scripsit;
 
fol. 137r-137v: blank;
 
fols. 138r-184v: RVF 267-366;
 
fol. 184v: colophon: Reru[m] uulgariu[m] Fr[ancisci] petrarchae fragmenta finiunt Sumpta ex quodam exemplari descriptio manu leonardi iustiniani ueneti uiri doctissimi: quod ex eo libro descripserat: que[m] poeta ipse propria manu consripsit;
 
fols. 185r-188r: dispersa ‘Di ridere ho gran uoglia’ (‘Hanc oden quam frottolam uernacula lingua appellant in quodam peruetusto exemplari repperi post caeteras odas positam’);
 
fol. 188v: colophon: Finit;
 
fol. 189r-189v: blank;
 
fols. 190r-235r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarchae triumphorum liber incipit prima amoris pars’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-21+Mortis I.3-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 235v: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 235v: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (<inc> Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus inorbe);
 
fol. 235v: list of Petrarch’s works (drawn from Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s life of Petrarch) (<inc> Scripse il Petrarcha .XVIII. uolumi. Degli huomini illustri; <exp> uno di sonetti et cançone, et laltro triomphi. Tre libri in uersi latini cioe Bucolica: et delle epistole ad barbatum: et lafrica. et septe psalmi penitentiali);
 
fols. 236r-238r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems by a later hand (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance);
 
fol. 238v: note of possession by an eighteenth-century hand (‘Di proprietà del Marchese Giovanni Gerini’);
 
fols. 239r-240v: blank.