[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

200x120 mm; I, 185, I-III fols.

parchment; regular humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; three full-page illuminations, two architectural frames, and decorated initials.

<inc> A Pie de colli; oue la bella vesta. Charte 3.

fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 7r-7v: alphabetical index of the capitoli of the Triumphi;
 
fols. 8r-10r: blank;
 
fol. 10v: full-page illumination within an architectural frame (at the bottom of which there is a coat of arms, surrounded by two cupids) with Apollo playing the lira da braccio and Petrarch writing a poem, both are sitting and facing each other, and separated by Daphne, already transformed into a tree;
 
fols. 11r-106v: RVF 1-263 and dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’;
 
fol. 107r: blank;
 
fol. 107v: full-page illumination [of RVF 323] with the body and the grave of Laura in front of a palace (Petrarch is represented leaning out of one window) flanked by a shipwreck and a forest with a fallen tree respectively;
 
fols. 108r-148r: RVF 264-366 (‘Post mortem Laurae’);
 
fols. 148v-150r: blank;
 
fol. 150v: full-page illumination with Triumphus Amoris;
 
fols. 151r-184v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris II, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fols. 185r-185v: blank.