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Marginal annotations by various fifteenth-century hands, including the one that wrote the ms., include: addition of some missing lines to the RVF poems; variant readings; references to names mentioned; references to Latin sources; addition of specific year, when something notable is mentioned in the poems; short Latin notes on rhetorical aspects of the texts, and historical and context-related explanations in Latin. Some proper names mentioned in the poems are written within a scroll close to the text. In the margins there are also some pen drawings inspired by the content of the poem (e.g., at fol. 125r, close to RVF 190, ‘Una candida cerva sopra l’erba’, is the drawing of a deer under a tree).
At fol. 44r-44v, RVF 136-138 have been fully crossed out by pen and close to the first sonnet is written a note (‘Reprobat[ur] no[n] lege[n]da’).
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 93r); at the bottom of both decorated fols. is the same coat of arms (a rampant crowned lion) within a wreath. At fol. 1r is a note of possession (‘D’Eustachio Confidati’); some maniculae.
At the bottom of fol. 143r, the same hand that transcribed the passage from Lucretius at fol. 142v copied an excerpt from Pseudo-Francescuolo da Brossano’s Versus ad Petrarcam (‘Viro insigni f. p. Laureato Franciscolus de Brossano gener mediolan[en]sis individua co[n]uersatio[n]e, successione, p[ro]pinquitate, fama’).
Fols. 124-131 have been wrongly bound in the ms.