[RVF with index]

There are a few brief notes (the most extensive ones at fols. 3r and 11r) and a few maniculae. On the verso of the second front endpaper, there is a full-page illumination representing Petrarch composing while seated at a writing desk. At the top of fol. 1r is a rectangular-box illumination vertically split into two squares: the left-hand one represents Petrarch being honoured by Laura and a group of others women who offer him a laurel branch; that on the right shows a helmet and a shield on which is represented a black lion, likely the Ricasoli’s family coat of arms. At fol. 105r a rectangular-box illumination represents Petrarch contemplating a skeleton in the sight of God. On the recto of the last endpaper is a full-page portrait of Madonna Laura, which appears to belong to a later period. It follows a similar portrait in the ms. Plut. 41.1 housed at the Biblioteca Laurenziana (Florence) as attested to by the caption at the bottom of the page: ‘Ritratto di Madonna Laura del codice Laurenziano’ (see Nicolini 2010). This endpaper replaces the missing final part of the index.