[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

175x115 mm; V+ I¹ + 196 (fols. are numbered with a running number [from 1 to 392] at the bottom of both recto and verso of each fol.) + V fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

LE COSE VOLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

fol. I¹r: title (‘LE COSE VOLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA’);
 
fol. I¹v: blank;
 
fols. 1r-140r[=1-279]: RVF;
 
fol. 140v[=280]: title (‘TRIOMPHI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO | PETRARCHA’);
 
fols. 141r-177v[=281-354]: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris II, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); followed by a blank unnumbered fol.;
 
fols. 178r-184v[=355-368]: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 184v[=368]: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
fols. 185r-191v[=369-382]: Triumphus Fame Ia and Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel, c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’, sonnets ‘Anima doue sei, ch’ad hora ad hora’, ‘Ingegno usato a le question profonde’, ‘Stato foss’io, quando la uidi prima’, ‘In ira a i cieli, al mondo, et a la gente’, ‘Se sotto legge Amor uiuesse quella’, ‘Lasso, com’io fui mal proueduto’, and ‘Quella, che ’l giouenil mio cor auinse’);
 
fols. 191v-193r[=382-385]: poems addressed to Petrarch by Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco, chi d’amor sospira’), Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io non so ben s’io uedo quel, ch’i ueggio’), Sennuccio del Bene (‘Oltra l’usato modo si raggira’), and Giacomo Colonna (‘Se le parti del corpo mio destrutte’), each poem followed by the first line of Petrarch’s reply;
 
fols. 193r-196v[=385-392]: three canzoni by Guido Cavalcanti (‘Donna mi prega, perch’io uoglio dire’), Dante Alighieri (‘Cosi nel mio parlar uoglio esser aspro’), and Cino da Pistoia (‘La dolce vista, e ’l bel guardo soaue’).