Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II, Varia, Varia 3

Fol. 1r has initial in gold for RVF 1 and a decorated architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom and a rectangular-box illumination in the top half of the fol. It represents Laura before a group of five women holding a bay tree from whose foliage cupid is about to shoot an arrow towards Petrarch. Fol. 141r has a historiated initial representing a woman (presumably Laura) and an elegant architectural frame decorated with floral decorations, small animals, and two cupids holding a blank coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.
 
Blank space at the beginning of the second part of RVF at the top of fol. 95v, probably to be decorated with a rectangular-box illumination. The order of RVF poems does not correspond to that of Vat. Lat. 3195 and has a lacuna for poems 9-17 (except for RVF 11); the order of RVF poems is provided in the ‘Descrizione del codice’ of the CD-Rom Due manoscritti petrarcheschi: Varia 3: F. Petrarca, Rime; Vitt. Em. 1632: Cicerone, Tusculanae disputationes, con postille autografe di Petrarca, saggi di Antonio Maria Adorisio, Domenico Ciampoli, Silvia Rizzo (Rome: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, [2004]). At fols. 43r and 58v-59r RVF 114, 136-138 have been erased; few maniculae.
 
Although the name of the copyist (‘Gentilis poeta’) does not give precise identification, he is the same copyist of ms. Clarke 24 of the Bodleian Library of Oxford (Manus).