[Colocci’s annotations on RVF and Triumphi and Orlandi’s canzone on Triumphi]

211x135 mm; II + 194 + II fols.

paper; two scripts: mercantesca for the texts and sixteenth-century cursive hand for the annotations; Petrarch’s poems set in a central block, with annotations distributed in single column on right and more rarely on left.

‘F[RANCISCI] PETRARCE POETE FLORENTINI CLARISSIMI OPVS FELICITER INCIPIT’

fols. 1r-139v: RVF with Colocci’s annotations;
 
fol. 139v: colophon: finito Libro Reddam[us] grat[iam] ch[rist]o’;
 
fols. 142r-178r: Triumphi with Colocci’s annotations (‘F[RANCISCI] PETRARCE POETE CLARISSIMI TRIVMFORVM LIBER FELICITER INCIPIT’; 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. 178v: blank;
 
fols. 179r-181r: Alberto Orlandi’s canzone on Triumphi (‘Cantilena alberti orlandy \ Alberti orlandi \ in opera francisci petrarca’; <inc> Beato el prego to cortese et almo; <exp> per obbedire et non per far comento);
 
fol. 181r: colophon: finis;
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 140r: Antonio da Ferrara’s sonnet ‘Elgiouane che uuole trouare honore’;
 
fol. 140r-140v: two sonnets by anonymous author ‘De passa tempo nel mondo fallare’, ‘Quandol fanciullo da picholi si folleggia’;
 
fol. 141r-141v: blank;
 
fol. 181v: sonnet attributed to ‘Jo. S.’ (‘De mirate per dio quel sarco [sic] uiso’), ottava attributed to ‘N. E.’ (‘Falze lamore, et falzo chi glie crede’);
 
fol. 182r: sonnet by anonymous author on ‘A[ntonio] De f[errara]’ (‘Se ciel fosse pietoso di miei da[m]pni’), sonnet attributed to ‘Jo. S.’ (‘Se lito uersi \ che \ cantando chiama’);
 
fol. 182v: ottava attributed to ‘N. Co. E.’, which – (according to Vattasso 1909, 52) presumably corresponds to ‘N[icolai] Co[lotii] E[sinen.]’ – (‘Oimè quilli ochij da chi sto Lontano’), ottava by anonymous author (‘Vno homo fo che nacque nanti el padre’);
 
fol. 183r: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Questa orsa generosa ch[e] tanti anni’), sonnet attributed to ‘F. C.’ (‘Defortuna crudel ben hai tu facto’);
 
fols. 183v-188v: blank;
 
fol. 189r: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Mi mescontrai i[n] uia i[n] un babbione’);
 
fols. 189v-191v: blank;
 
fol. 192r-192v: brief Latin paragraphs on the members of the Colocci family;
 
fols. 193r-194v: four sonnets by anonymous author (the first, third, and fourth are caudate) (‘Cing[u]lo cinto egle como resona’, ‘Eprocregia Jniqua et maledecta’, ‘Nota lectore de que elmio cor se lagna’, ‘Non me ce cogli piu berta [sic] morita’).