[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

146x80 mm; I + 188 + I fols.

parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; seven rectangular-box illuminations, seven architectural frames, and historiated initials.

[A] pie de colli

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: blank;
 
fol. 8v: title (‘F | RANCISCI | PETRARCE FLORE[N] | TINI VIRI CLARISSIMI | AC LAVREATI POETAE | SONECTOR[UM] ET CA[N]TILENA | R[UM] LIBER INCIPIT | FOELICIT[ER]’) inscribed within a laurel wreath with floral decorations;
 
fol. 9r: above RVF 1 a rectangular-box illumination representing a man running towards a woman who is about to be transformed into a laurel tree;
 
fols. 9v-148v: RVF 2-366;
 
fol. 148v: colophon: τελωσ;
 
fol. 149r: rectangular-box illumination with the Triumphus Amoris, followed by a title (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi triumph[us] amoris incipit foeliciter’) and the beginning of Triumphus Amoris I;
 
fols. 149v-188r: Triumphi (order: Triumphus Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame Ia, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis), each Triumphus is preceded by a rectangular-box illumination: Triumphus Pudicitie (161v), Mortis (165v), Fame (172r), Temporis (182v), Eternitatis (185v);
 
fol. 188r: colophon: τελωσ;
 
fol. 188v: blank.