[Triumphi and RVF – with annotations and index]

255x170 mm; III + 126 (numbered 1-124; 126-127) + III fols.

parchment (except modern flyleaves in paper); semi-gothic hands; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with marginal annotations distributed in single column either on right or on left and prose text; historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petra[r]ce

initial pastedown: brief note by a sixteenth-century hand on the consulate of the Accademia Fiorentina in 1544;
 
fols. Ir-IIIv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: scattered Latin words and proverbs (‘Sapiens dominabitur astris’) accompanied by Antonio Beccadelli’s epitaph for St. Catherine of Siena (‘formosissime k[a]tarine Sene[n]sis ep[itaphium]’; <inc> Hoc Iacet Jngenue forme Catherina Sepulchro) and by a three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (<inc> frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petra[r]ce);
 
fols. 1v-95v: RVF (‘1400. Incipiu[n]t lamentationes petrarce deamore Laure’);
 
fol. 95v: colophon: finiunt lamentationes p[⎯]r[⎯]e de amore et morte Laure. Sequitur de sex triumphis eiusdem;
 
fols. 96r-119v: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22+first half of Fame Ia.23+second half of Fame I.23+Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III.1-120, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 119v: colophon: finis sex triumphor[um] Petrarce;
 
fols. 120r-123v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems with metre specified (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 123v: two sonnets by anonymous author (one of Petrarch’s disperse: sonnet ‘Ay lingua ay penna mia che intante carte’, followed by a sonnet seldom attributed to Petrarch: ‘Ben puoi le ladre luci aterra sparte’);
 
fol. 124r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laurea proprijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiril[ite]r cogitantj);
 
fols. 124r-126v: blank;
 
fol. 126v: two-line note on the death of Landoccio Piccolomini;
 
fol. 127r: blank;
 
fol. 127v: scattered words fully crossed out by pen and followed by a date (‘A di xiiii di septembre mccccxxxiiiJ’) and by a crossed-out note of possession (‘Signore fab[††]tio dalgledessa’).