[Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

212x131 mm; II + I¹ + 63 + I² + II fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; decorated initials.

<inc> Inchomincja etrionffi [sic] dimesser francescho petrarcha

fol. Ir: blank;
 
fol. Iv: a note on Bruni’s life of Petrarch (dated 1672);
 
fol. IIr-IIv: blank;
 
fol. I¹r: a note of possession (‘Questo libro e dj Lorenzo di luca ubertinj et chiamasj e trionfi di messere francescho petrarcha nobiliximo poeta’) and some scattered words by different hands;
 
fol. I¹v: blank;
 
fols. 1r-41r: Triumphi (‘Inchomincja etrionffi [sic] dimesser francescho petrarcha [—] chechomq[uest]o libro [††] trastullj ghuardalo dalla lucen[n]a eda fanciullj’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 41r: colophon: Finis; below which are a few scattered words by a later hand that have been washed;
 
fol. 41v-42v: blank;
 
fols. 82v-92v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francescho Petrarcha huomo digrande ingegno eno[n] diminore uirtu; <exp> maxime p[er]che lauirtu ece[r]ta elacorona taluolta p[er] leve iudicio cosi acchi merita come acchi non merita dare sipuo);
 
fol. 62r: colophon: Finis;
 
fols. 62v-63r: a few washed scattered words by a different hand;
 
fol. 63v: blank;
 
fol. I²r: a few washed scattered letters and words by a different hand;
 
fol. I²v: blank;
 
 

Other contents:
 
fol. 43r-43v: [Bruni’s] preface to his life of Dante (<inc> Avendo inquesti giorni auna opera assai lungha dato p[er]fectione; <exp> adunque alfacto di Dante);
 
fols. 43v-54v: [Bruni’s] life of Dante (<inc> Limaggiori di Dante furono di molta anticha stirpe; <exp> gli habitatori con uolgere disuo ruote);
 
fol. 54v: colophon: Finis Finis Fi [sic];
 
fols. 55r-56v: blank;