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

163x93 mm; I + 194 + I fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one rectangular-box illumination; two architectural frames; historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> A PIE DECOLLI

fol. Ir: title page by a later hand: Petrarca Rime Codice del secolo XVI;
 
fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-107r: RVF 1-263 (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE SONECTORVM ET CANTILENAR[UM] LIBER INCIPIT’) with dispersa ‘DONNA miuiene spesso nella mente’ at fol. 132r;
 
fols. 107r-148v: RVF 264-366 (‘INCIPIT VITA NOVA EIVSDEM PETRARCE’);
 
fol. 148v: colophon: τελωζ;
 
fols. 149r-185v: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE POE[T]AE CLARISSIMI TRIVMPHORVM VI. LIBER FOELICITER INCIPIT. TRIVMPHVS . I . DE AMORE’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame Ia, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 185v: colophon: τελωζ;
 
fols. 186r-192r: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Incipit uita Francisci Petrarce edita per Leonardum Arretinum uirum clarissimum’; <inc> FRANCESCO PETRARCA HUOmo digrande ingiegno & non di minor uirtu; <exp> Lessere ilpetrarca insignito dicorona poetica & nondante niente importa aquesta comperatione. imperoche molto é piu dastimare elmeritare corona che hauerla riceuuta. maxime p[er]che lauirtu é certa & lacorona tal uolta per lieue giudicio cosi achi non lamerita come achi lamerita dare sipuote);
 
fol. 192r: colophon: τελωζ;
 
fols. 192v-193r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Infrascripta epistola inuenta fuit Rome in habitatione Francisci petrarce &in quodam suo studiolo propria manu scripta’; <inc> LAVRA proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos rerum exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti)’;
 
fol. 193r-193v: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Eluulgare della detta epistola’; <inc> LAVRA diproprie uirtu illustre & lungo tempo ne miei uersi confama honorata primamente agliocchi miei apparse; <exp> leuane sperançe & glincerti & uarij fini delle cose ripensando);
 
fol. 193v: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epitaphium Francisci petrarce’; <inc> FRigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fol. 193v: colophon: τελωζ.