[RVF with index]

283x210 mm; II + 115 + II fols.

paper; numerous scripts: at least three main scripts in the Petrarch section: humanistic script that pens main text with the exception of fols. 50r-59v penned by another (semi-gothic) hand; a later, presumably sixteenth-century, cursive hand that pens the alphabetical index of the poems; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with the exception of RVF 105 written as a text in prose with lines divided by /; decorated initials.

<inc> Appiei decolli oue la bellauesta

fol. IIr: title of the ms. penned by a later hand with indication of previous shelfmark (‘Cod. 375. Rime di Francesco Petrarca, ms. di carte 118’);
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: four small ink portraits accompanied by some Latin lines (probably an epitaph of a member of the Borgia family) and by scattered words;
 
fol. 1v: blank;
 
fols. 2r-4r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 4v-5v: blank;
 
fols. 6r-90r: RVF 1.1-59.9, 63.13-66, 68-71.40, 79, 81-82, 80, 83-119, 122, 120, 123-133, 135-143, 145, 147, 149-159, 162-165, 303, 166-239, 121, 240-246.8, 251.2-270.43, 271.3-277 with the addition of poems unrelated to RVF (fol. 58r-59v: [Jacopo Cecchi’s] canzone (‘Lasso chio sono ad mezzo della ualle’), sonnet by anonymous author (‘Q[u]el Septembre mese q[ui]nta luce aurora’) and [Antonio da Ferrara’s] sonnet (‘Jo benedico el di che dio ti cinse’);
 
fol. 90v: two sonnets by anonymous author (‘Chiamar si puote omai lieta et contenta’, ‘Non so qual stella iniqua o fier pianeto’);
 
fols. 97v-115v: RVF 313-331, 361-365, 332-339, 342, 340, 351, 341, 343, 356, 344-349, 357-358, 360, 366;
 
fol. 115v: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (<inc> Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 91r-96r: blank;
 
fol. 96v: brief excerpt from a prose text;
 
fol. 97r: blank.