[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

217x145 mm; VI + I¹+ 276 + II fols.

paper (except original initial flyleaf in parchment); four different scripts, penning respectively: fols. 1-10 and 169-205 (semi-gothic), 11-166 (semi-gothic), 207-250 (humanistic), and 253-276 (semi-gothic); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

<inc> A pie di colli one [sic] labella uesta

fol. IVr: title page written by an eighteenth-century hand: Canzoniere e Trionfi | del Petrarca | Rime di Diversi. | e | Pistola del Boccaccio | a M[esser] Pino de’ Rossi.;
 
fol. IVv: blank;
 
fol. Vr-Vv: index of the contents of the ms. written by the same eighteenth-century hand;
 
fol. VIr-VIv: blank;
 
fol. I¹r: blank;
 
fol. I¹v: full-page coat of arms with motto ‘PRIMA MORIRE’;
 
fols. [1r-8v]: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. [9r-10r]: index of the first lines of other poems listed in order of appearance;
 
fol. 10v: floral decoration at the bottom;
 
fols. 11r-166r: RVF;
 
fol. 166r: colophon: Deo gratias;
 
fols. 166v-168v: blank;
 
fols. 207r-250r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 250r: colophon: DEO GRATIAS AMEN;
 
fols. 250v-253v: blank.
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 169r-205v: sixty poems by fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tuscan authors: Mariotto Davanzati, Niccolò Cieco, Michele Del Giogante, Pietro Alighieri, Niccolò Tinucci, Bonaccorso Pitti, Leonardo Bruni, Simone Serdini, Maestro Antonio di Guido, Feo Belcari, Maestro Agnolo, Antonio Calzaiuolo, Antonio Araldo (or Araldi), Betto Busini, Antonio di Matteo di Meglio, Iacopo di Niccolò, Francesco D’Altobianco Alberti, Giannozzo Manetti, Rossello Rosselli, Bernardo d’Alamanno de’ Medici (for a full list of first lines of the poems, see Ms. Ricc., 138-140);
 
fols. 254r: introductory paragraph to Giovanni Boccaccio’s letter to Pino de’ Rossi (<inc> Inchomincia qui una pistola fatta et compilata pelnobile huomo; <exp> quando efu charriato [sic] da firenze cheffu nel mcccLx);
 
fols. 254r-276v: Giovanni Boccaccio’s letter to Pino de’ Rossi (<inc> Io istimo messere pino chede [sic] non sia solamente utile; <exp> Essanza piu dire, priego laltissimo iddio che consoli uoi elloro. Amen);
 
fols. 276v: explicit paragraph to Giovanni Boccaccio’s letter to Pino de’ Rossi (<inc> finita qui lapistola; <exp> quando fu carria [sic] da firenza fu nel 1360. deo gratias amen amen)