[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

230x140 mm; 6¹ (unnumbered) + I + 186 + I fols.

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

SONETTI & CANZONE DI MESSER FRANCESCHO

fols. 1¹r-1¹v: blank;
 
fol. 2¹r: title page: (‘VII. PETRARCA Canzoniere Cod. 5’);
 
fol. 2¹v: blank;
 
fol. 3¹r: few lines indicating the original provenance of the ms. from the ‘Fursureorum’ academy and its later entry into the library of Rosso Antonio Martini, member of the Accademia della Crusca;
 
fol. 3¹v: blank;
 
fol. 4¹r: few lines indicating its original shelfmark in the Magliabechiana library: ‘Magl. VII 1367’;
 
fol. 4¹v: blank;
 
fol. 5¹r -5¹v: brief description of the ms., its content, and its possessors: Francesco di Tommaso di Niccolò di Ciampolo dei Cavalcanti and an unknown member of the Pitti family;
 
fol. 6¹r-6¹v: blank;
 
fol. Ir: few lines of poetry composed by Cavalcanti, the owner of the ms., in mercantesca;
 
fol. Iv: at the top of the fol. ‘Pitti’, the other owner of the ms.;
 
fols. 1r-140r: RVF (‘SONETTI & CANZONE DI MESSER FRANCESCHO’);
 
fol. 140r: colophon: FINITI I SONETTI ET LE CANZONI DEL LAVREATO MESSER FRANCESCHO PETRARCA POETA FIORENTINO DIE XX AVQVSTI MCCCCLVIIII;
 
fols. 140v-177v: Triumphi (‘Triomphi dello illustrissimo Poeta fiorentino messer Francescho Petrarcha Poeta eximio’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 177v: colophon: FINIS; followed by: ‘Timete deum, o uos omnes qui iudicatis terram’;
 
fols. 178v-180v: blanks;
 
fols. 181r-186r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 186v: blank.