Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF 136 and 138 have been crossed out by pen but are still legible.
In the alphabetical index, the poems after RVF 264 are preceded by a manicula and followed by the indication ‘Vita noua’.
In the eighteenth century, the ms. underwent a major renovation, which in some cases makes it difficult to distinguish what elements belong to the original ms. According to the renovator, this ms. was copied by Antonio Sinibaldi in 1406; in the ms. there are no elements to validate this attribution and this date of composition.
Fol. 1r has a title page and an architectural frame penned by the renovator mimicking a humanist white vine-stem decoration. Fol. 8r has a white vine-stem architectural frame with animals and cupids and a coat of arms of the Menabuoni family that covers the original one. In the right border is a small coloured portrait of a female figure (presumably Laura). Fol. 147r has a three-border architectural frame that replicates the same decorative pattern of fol. 8r. Historiated initials for RVF 1 (fol. 8r) and Triumphus Mortis II (fol. 147r), showing a laurel crowned Petrarch and a skeleton respectively; some maniculae.
According to Garzelli (1985, I, 56), the author of the original decoration is Ricciardo Nanni.