[RVF and Triumphi – with Polenton’s life of Petrarch]

153x105 mm; II + I¹ + 186 + II fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; five architectural frames and decorated initials.

‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISSIMI CARMEN RITHIMONOS ELEGICVM IN LAVRAM FELICITER INCIPIT’

fols. I¹r-95v: RVF 1-263 (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISSIMI CARMEN RITHIMONOS ELEGICVM IN LAVRAM FELICITER INCIPIT’);
 
fols. 96r-137r: RVF 264-366 (‘Que sequuntur post mortem domine Lauree scripta sunt. Ita [e]n[im] proprio codice domini Francisci annotatum est. & carte quatuor pretermisse vacue’);
 
fol. 137r: colophon: Deo gratias;
 
fol. 137r-137v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Scriptum manu propria d[omi]ni F[rancisci] P[etrarce] in quodam eius virgilio uisum est’; <inc> LAura proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis lungum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inspectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 137v: colophon: Finis;
 
fols. 138r-175r: Triumphi (‘PRIMVS TRIVMPHVS DE AMORE’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 175r: colophon: Finis. Sit laus Christo omnipotenti deo;
 
fols. 175v-184r: [Sicco Polenton’s] life of Petrarch (‘D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarce] poete clarissimi uita feliciter incipit’; <inc> FRANCISCVS Petrarcha [_] fuit exul nanque patria [_] petrus petrarcon. Ma[_]; <exp> id tamen est suo i[n]genio ac diligentia assecutus quod istis instudijs absui & superioris temporis omnes ad multos annos quouis dicendi ingenere superauit);
 
fol. 184r: colophon: FRAGMENTA VULGARIA VERSVS Q3 TRIVMPHALES ET VITA QVOQVE CLARISSIMI LAVREATI POETAE D[OMINI] FRANCISCI PETRARCE EXPLICIVNT;
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 184v-186v: [Dante’s] Inferno V.