[RVF]

245x180 mm; I + 151 + II fols.

parchment; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one rectangular-box illumination, one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> Uoi chascoltate in rime sparse il suono

fol. 1r: rectangular-box illumination (with RVF 1 below) with Laura standing and holding a laurel wreath and Petrarch standing at an altar on which is laid an open book, behind them seven ladies with garlands in their hair;
 
fols. 1v-148v: RVF including additional disperse;
 
fol. 148v: colophon: D[eo] G[ratias] A[men] Amen;
 
fol. 149r: blank;
 
fols. 149v-150r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laurea proprijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longu[m] celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti), followed by the caption ‘Epistola francisci Petrarce reperta papie in uirgilio quodam veteri in folijs circa finem. Scripta manu p[ro]pria ip[s]i[us] petrarce ad rei tante memoriam. Vt premittitur Mccclxxviiij die xviiij Jullij’;
 
fol. 150r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (<inc> Frigida fra[n]cisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fols. 150v-151r: blank;
 
fol. 151v: some Latin couplets by a later hand.