Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, ff. 1r-7v: Headings in red. Number of scribes, ff. 1r-7v: 1. Script, ff. 1r-7v: Humanistic semi-cursive. Layout, ff. 1r-7v: 29 long lines; fragment from parts of 2 quires. Watermarks, ff. 1r-7v: Winged biped similar to Briquet 2664, Verona 1425-1433.
Bibliography: D. Dutschke, "Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States: Supplement I," in Petrarca, Verona e l'Europa: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Verona, 19-23 sett. 1991)ed. G. Billanovich and G. Frasso (Padua: Antenore 1997) 461-463. f. 1r blank; ff. 1v-7r: Polenton's Vita Petrarceis the last entry (in Book 18) of his Epithoma in vitas scriptorum illustrium latinae linguae. Explicit, f. 1r blank; ff. 1v-7r: Franciscus Petrarcha florentinus fuit exul nanque patria natus est cuius pater Petrus Petracon mater Leta appellati sunt. f. 6v: Solerti, Le vitep. 326, here as a quotation set off in red ink internally to the text of Sicco Polenton. Explicit, f. 6v: Frigida Francisci hic tegit ossa Petrarce. f. 7v: This sonnet added, s. XVI; followed by note in another contemporary hand, "Copiato il presente sonetto per l'ordene di M <?>." Explicit, f. 7v: Qui riposa quei caste et felice ossa.
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