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 Twitter, 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 13

So far forty-four manuscripts have been digitized

2023 Week 12

For this week, forty-six manuscripts were added to the online repository, all on Monday. In a flashback to the pattern of a year ago, the largest section of the weeks manuscripts came from Reg.lat, with twenty-two. After that Ott.lat and Vat.lat each contributed eight, Barb.lat six, and Vat.ar three. The rest was split among Vat.turc and Ross with two ea...

2023 Week 11

A total of forty-five manuscripts were added this week, mostly uploaded on Friday. This week saw an interesting distribution across the Vatican fonds, although the extent remains inline with recent weeks, the top contributor was Ott.lat, with 21 manuscripts, followed by Barb.lat with eight. The rest were small contributors, Reg.lat with six, Pal.gr and V...

2023 Week 10

A total of fifty-one manuscripts were digitized this week. One pattern that has re-emerged is the weekly cycle, with the mass of manuscripts getting uploaded on Monday, with only a few getting added during the rest of the week. The distribution of manuscripts, however, did not follow any recent pattern. The largest number of manuscripts came from Reg.lat ...

2023 Week 9

The first full week of Lent yielded fifty-seven manuscripts added to the Vatican website. In what is starting to settle into a new pattern, Vat.lat and Barb.lat contributed the most, with 21 and 18 respectively. Both Ott.lat and Reg.lat contributed five and the rest came from Capp.sist with three, Vat.ar and Vat.turc with two and a single volume from Ros...

2023 Week 8

A total of fifty manuscripts were digitized this week, probably slowed down by Ash Wednesday. We seem to be approaching a new pattern, with Vat.lat and Barb.lat contributing the bulk of the manuscripts, twenty-one and eighteen respectively. Vat.turc continues to contribute at a slower pace, with only seven this week, and the rest came from small lots: Ot...

2023 Week 7

A total of seventy-nine manuscripts were digitized this past week. This week continues reducing the number of Turkish and Arabic manuscripts digitized, with only one each in Vat.ar and Vat.turc. The most popular fond this week was Vat.lat, with twenty-nine, followed with Barb.lat at twenty. A new addition is Pal.gr, contributing 10 manuscripts for the f...