[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations]

248x170 mm; II + 179 fols.

paper; two semi-gothic hands; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with annotations distributed either on left or right in single column or in interlinear position.

<inc> Quando io muouo i sospiria chiamar uoi (fol. 2r)

fol. IIr: title page penned by a late (presumably nineteenth-century) hand: Francesco Petrarcha. | Sonnetti, Canzoni e Trionfi.;
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-98v: RVF 1-263 followed by dispersa (sonnet ‘Uella [sic] ghirlanda che la bella fonte’) with annotations;
 
fols. 99r: colophon: Francisci petrarce Laureati poete de dillecte sue uita quam per xvj. annos adamauit vulgaricum carmen explicit;
 
fols. 99v-139v: RVF 264-366 (RVF 365 is the last poem in order of appearance) followed by disperse (sonnets ‘Oi [sic] chal fattor de luniuerso piacque’, ‘tato [sic] fossio quando la uidi i[n]prima’) with annotations (‘Jncipit de morte eiusdem quam post obitum annis x. deplorauit. ut sequitur’);
 
fol. 139v: colophon: τελωζ;
 
fols. 140r-167r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie 1-94 + six lines (Tore gli uidi la pharetra e larcho / E legargli per força ambe le palme / Drieto dal dosso ellui impedito e carcho / Non dellusata spoglia anzi di ferro / E dogni sua baldança igniudo et scarcho / Qual uider me parue sio non erro), Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III.1-120, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 167: colophon: finis;
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 167v-174v: [DOMENICO da Montecchiello’s] capitolo (‘E [sic] uaghe rime el dolcie dir damore’);
 
fol. 174v: long colophon revealing the name of copyist and providing details on the assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan: Mcccclxxvi. die xxsexto dece[m]bris hora decima et septima crudeliter et proditorie interfectus fuit Jllustriss[imus] et Excellentiss[imus] d[omi]n[u]s d[omi]n[u]s n[oste]r Galeaz[zus] Maria Sphortia dux M[ediola]ni. Quatordecem vulnerib[us] sibi illatis in Eclesia S[an]cti Stefani in alto per scelleratissimos et nefandos sacrilegos [††] infra notatos d[ominos] Johane[m] Andrea[m] de Lampugnano, Carolum vicecomite[m] et Yeronimu[m] de Olzano et in brevi de ipsis trib[us] f[a]cta fuit maxima et asp[err]ima vindicta. Et cu[m] merito. Ego Federico Ponzonus manu p[ro]pria’;
 
fols. 175r-179v: capitolo by anonymous author (‘dOnne piatose diuentate crude’);
 
fol. 179v: second long colophon revealing the name of copyist and providing details on the Ponzoni family: die xxiiij maij 1473 hora xv. Spect[abi]lis et g[rati]osa d[omi]na Catarina de Bre[m]bate ad sup[er]os migravit Bergomi – Federico Ponzoni – Mcccclxviiij nono Septe[m]bris hora viiij ortus e[x] michi Federico ponzono puer qui [†]otatur. Maffeus Benedict[us] Luchas in casteleto d[omi]nor[um] de ponzo[n]ibus cremone ex eius matre Orsola filia q[uo]d et pert.lis [sic] d[omi]ni Maff[ei]s de bre[m]bate doctoris de Bergomo.