[Patrizi’s commentary on RVF and index]

219x166 mm; I + 287 (numbered 1-288) + I fols.

paper; sixteenth-century cursive hand by two hands: fols. 1-268, 269-281 respectively; first line of Petrarch’s poems set on left in purple (1-51) or red ink (52-261), with commentary distributed across the page beneath it; commented single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems are underlined within the commentary.

Dechiaratione Sopra Li Sonecti | Del Petrarcha | Col Testamento del medesimo. infine. | All’Inclita Celsitudine del Re di Francia | Dedicata, et composta da non obscura | ma molto ben cognosciuta Persona

fol. 1r: title page;
 
fol. 1v: blank;
 
fol. 2r-2v: introductory paragraph to [Francesco Patrizi’s] commentary (<inc ex abrupto> poeti, oratorj et philosophi intanto d[—]ti stoici grauissimi di tucti li sapienti affermano [—] uero philosopho; <exp> Jo recitando opinonj daltrj scrivero sempliceme[n]te lo intellecto mio: Remictendomi semp[re] al jnditio [sic] et eme[n]datione di V[ostra] S[ignori]a);
 
fols. 2v-260v: RVF 1-365 with [Patrizi’s] commentary (last commented sonnet in the order of the ms. is RVF 353; <inc> Sonetto primo. ‘Voi ch[e] ascoltate inRime sparse ilsuono’ Q\u\esto sonecto como uniuersalme[n]te tucti consta di duj quaternarij et di duj ternarij o ueramente consta di uno octonario et di uno senario; <exp> esso pia[n]ge la more [sic] di quella ch[e] e morta, ma pure bene la stagione dinuerno sia manco grata ch[e] quella della estate pureelo [sic] inuita ad piangere seco della mo[r]te di quella quale la uita le fo ta[n]to suave);
 
fol. 260v: colophon: Finis LAus Deo;
 
fols. 261r-268v: Petrarch’s will (‘Francisci petrarce Poete Laureati Testame[n]tum’; <inc> epe [sic] de eo mecu[m] cogitans de quo nimis pauci satis cogita[n]t de nouissimis scilicet; <exp> Ego franciscus petrarcha scripsi qui testamentu[m] aliud fecissem si esse[m] diues ut uulgus insanu[m] putat);
 
fol. 268v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 269r-281r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Incipit tabula fra[n]ciscj petrarcha’);
 
fols. 281v-284r: blank;
 
fol. 284v: words in two-column style transcribed by a third humanistic hand: at the top of the fol.: ‘dominare in medio inimicorum’, ‘ferdinandus franciscus da Daualos de Aquino marchio piscarie’ (left and right columns respectively); at a lower level ‘Dominus uobiscum’, ‘Ioannes de aragona’ (left and right columns respectively);
 
fols. 285r-288v: blank.