[RVF and Triumphi with Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s life of Petrarch and index]

197x122 mm; I + 164+ I fols.

parchment; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one architectural frame and decorated initials.

<inc> Memorabilia queda[m] de Laura manu propria Francisci Petrarce

fol. 1r-1v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Memorabilia queda[m] de Laura manu propria Francisci Petrarce’, <inc> Laura propriis uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fols. 1v-2r: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragmentum epistole Francisci Petrarce ad dominu[m] Iacobu[m] de Columna Lomborien[sem] Episcopum’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi spetiosum laure nomen; <exp> Tibi pallor: tibi labor meus notus est);
 
fol. 2r: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (<inc> Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus inorbe);
 
fols. 2v-6v: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (‘Vita Francis[ci] Pe[trarcae]’, <inc> Petracho figluolo [sic] di Parenzo citadino fiorenti[n]o disceso dantica & honesta fameglia; <exp> in uersi et prosa, cosi latini come uulgari et in questo hebe [the sentence goes up to the end of the fol., but the text does not continue on the following one]);
 
fols. 7r-135v: RVF;
 
fol. 136r-136v: blank;
 
fols. 137r-163r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II.1-151 + Pudicitie.19-193, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II.1-25 + Fame II.110-163, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 163r: colophon: Finis; below which are eight lines by a different hand (<inc> Io ho cantata canto e uo cantare; <exp> che dete canto e non gia dica nulla);
 
fols. 163v-164r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems beginning with A and B [the table is left unfinished and written by a later hand] (under both letters of the alphabet, poems are organized in two sub-sections [sonnets and canzoni], in each of which, they are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tavola de sonetti, e canzoni’);
 
fol. 164v: blank.