The main features of the manuscript

Like in the Vat. Lat. 3195 the verses are disposed on two columns and they read across the columns except for the sestine. The codex maintains the division in two parts of the Rvf. Between the 2 parts there were originally five blank pages. The initial of the first poem of part two (poem 264) is not different from the other initials. MS Queriniano II 21 is written in gothic minuscule.

The actual punctuation signs used in Queriniano D II 21 are limited to punctus, punctus interrogativus, virgula = / and comma = !.

The initial of each poem are written in gothic majuscule and colored alternately in red and blu presumably by a single rubricator after the second scribe added the supplements. The initial of some poems are missing.

Binding is skin over boards with blind stamping on the covers and the spine where is printed in gold “PETRARCA / / MS.” A recent restoration resulted in the addition of paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end.

 

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