[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations, Bruni’s life of Petrarch, and index]

190x125 mm; V + 215 + I fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with annotations distributed in single column on right and prose texts; one architectural frame; decorated initials.

‘Comincia lauita dimess[er] francescho petrarcha composta pemess[er] Lionardo Dareçço’

fols. 1r-7v: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Comincia lauita dimess[er] francescho petrarcha composta pemess[er] Lionardo Dareçço’; <inc> FRancescho petrarcha huomo digrande ingegnio et nondiminore uirtu; <exp> Et essere ilpetrarcha insignito dichorona poetica et non Dante Niente importa aquesta comparatione pero che molto e piu dastimare piu elmeritar corona che auerla riceuuta Maxime p[er]che la uirtu ecierta et lacorona taluolta p[er]lieue giudicio chosi chome achi non merita chome achi merita dare sipuote);
 
fols. 7v-8r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Lainfrascripta pistola fu trouata aroma inchasa dellabitatione dimess[er] franc[esco] petrarcha insuo studiolo scripta disua propria mano’; <inc> Aura [sic] p[ro]prijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac ur uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 8r-8v: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Lasoprascripta epistola ouero com[m]emoratione traducta inuolgare’; <inc> Aura [sic] dipropria uirtu illustre et lungo tempo in limiei uersi confama honorata; <exp> leuane sperançe et linon aspectati fini) followed by a three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Eldecto poeta é seppellito adarquate i[n] lo[m]bardia el suo epitaphio e questo scripto’; <inc> Frigida franciscj lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fols. 9r-16r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 16v-18v: blank;
 
fols. 19r-170r: RVF with annotations (‘Cominciano e sonetti et cançone dimesse[r] francesco petrarca poeta’);
 
fol. 170r: colophon: Amen. Finis;
 
fol. 170r: dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nella mente’;
 
fols. 170v-172v: blank;
 
fols. 173r-213r: Triumphi with annotations (‘INCOMINCIANO ITRIVMPHI DEL CL[ARISSIMO] P[OETA] LAVREATO FRANCESCO PETRARCHA TRIVMPHO DAMORE CAP[ITOL]O PRIMO’; 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. 213r: colophon: Finiti itriumphi dimess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha adi . 18 . digiugno: 1463;
 
fols. 213v-215v: blank.