Recently Digitized Manuscripts from the BAV

Welcome! This project is a continuation of the work started by Jean-Baptiste Piggin tracking new manuscripts added to the digitized manuscripts of the Vatican Libraries. Each week we add a new page with the manuscripts from the previous week, with title, author, date and incipt where possible. Announcements of the weekly update will be posted to Mastodon, anyone with additions, corrections or information about any manuscripts is invited to contact me there and I'll add it here.

Please note that this page only lists the most recent seven entries. For older entries, please look in the yearly archive files:

Manuscripts are browsable by Fond, the term for collection, in much the same way that they are on the official BAV website. The listing here provides all high-quality digitized manuscripts, that is those not from scanned microfilm, along with the same metadata one would find in the weekly listings and a thumbnail. For some of the collections, notably Latin collections, Vat.gr and Rossiani, this generates a very large page.

In addition to the weekly entries listed above, there are a series of custom pages where groups of manuscripts are pulled from the database using custom queries. These Ad Hoc query pages are available with brief descriptions of the contents and sometimes the reason for that specific query. Please contact the editor if you have an query you'd like generated as part of this collection.

2023 Week 50

So far fifty-four manuscripts have been digitized

2023 Week 49

A total of fifty-four manuscripts were digitized this week, the first full week of December for 2023. Like last week, there was influx of 17th C manuscripts from the Barb.lat collection, totaling nineteen volumes. Following on that was the continued work on Pal.gr, with the fifteen volumes added this week bringing the total to 356 of the 398 codices in th...

2023 Week 48

Another busy week at the Vatican with eighty-six manuscripts digitized. In an unusual twist, Barb.lat was the largest contributor, with 32 manuscripts, followed by the expected Pal.gr with 23. Following in the recent trend, Reg.gr added eleven and Ott.lat nine, Smaller contributions from Vat.lat with three and Vat.gr with two. Completing the week were l...

2023 Week 47

A total of ninety-eight manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repositories. The distribution of works is back to the most recent pattern, with a massive forty-two coming from Pal.gr. This brings the collection to 357 volumes uploaded into the Vatican repositories of the 400 that are available at Heidelberg, almost 90% coverage. Hopefull...

2023 Week 46

This week sixty-three manuscripts were incorporated into the Vatican repositories. This week there were a lot of smaller contributions, which means the pattern of recent weeks got slightly twisted. Although Ott.lat added the most manuscripts, with fifteen, both Pal.gr and Reg.gr added nine to keep up Greek progress. Following on Vat.ar added six, Barb.l...

2023 Week 45

This week a total of seventy-six digitized manuscripts were uploaded into the Vatican repositories. The emerging pattern of recent weeks continues, with the plurality of manuscripts, twenty-four, coming from Pal.lat. Unusually the second most popular collection was Ott.lat, with fifteen, followed by Reg.gr with twelve. A large number of smaller collecti...

2023 Week 44

A total of fifty-nine manuscripts were added this past week. Following recent patterns the vast majority of the manuscripts, thirty-six, came from the Pal.gr collection. The other collections added small numbers, six from Ott.lat, four from Vat.lat, three each from Barb.lat, Barb.gr, and Reg.gr.Pio.II, and two from Reg.gr. The week concludes with a si...