Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
Fols. 66-75 had been wrongly bound before fols. 56-65 (to which fol. 76 follows). This error must have occurred after the numbering was written, since the fols. with RVF are sequentially numerated in the correct order.
Historiated initials in gold for Triumphus Amoris I showing Petrarch sleeping on a lawn (fol. 11r), Amoris III showing Petrarch’s half-bust portrait (fol. 14r), Amoris IV showing Petrarch’s portrait (fol. 17r), Amoris II showing two men wearing black mantels, standing close to each other (fol. 20r), Pudicitie showing a young woman holding a branch in her hand (fol. 25r), Mortis Ia showing a bird about to fly (fol. 28v), Mortis I showing two flying figures walking on water (fol. 30r), Mortis II showing a picture of the sky (fol. 33r), Fame Ia showing a skull (fol. 36r), Fame I showing a cupid’s face in the act of blowing (fol. 40r), Fame II showing a knight riding a horse (fol. 42r), Fame III showing a half-bust portrait of a man wearing a red garment (fol. 45r), Temporis showing the Taurus constellation and the sun (fol. 48r), Eternitatis showing the representation of the earth surrounded by heavens (fol. 52r), RVF 1 showing Petrarch standing in a garden (fol. 56r), Dante’s poem ‘A ciascuna alma presa & gentil core’ showing a man (Dante ? writing in his studio (fol. 202r), and Bruni’s life of Dante showing a man holding a book (fol. 238r); decorated initials in gold for the first line of the alphabetical index (fol. 2r), all the other RVF poems, Bruni’s life of Petrarch (fol. 194r), and all the other poems by Dante; at fols. 1v, 11r, and 56r is an architectural frame on four sides, at fols. 48r and 52r one on three sides (top, right and bottom ones), at fols. 2r, 25r, 30r, and 40r one on two sides (top and right one), while at fols. 14r, 17r, 20r, 28v, 33r, 36r, 42r, 45r, and 202r one on the right side.