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 16

So far only five manucripts have been digitized

2023 Week 15

After a few days off at the beginning of the week for Easter, thirty-two manuscripts were uploaded to the archives. The small total number makes it difficult to establish if the distribution signals a new working pattern, but the plurality of manuscripts this week, ten, came from Barb.lat. With seven from Reg.gr, five from Vat.ar, four from Pal.gr, and ...

2023 Week 14

Despite it being Holy Week, the Library managed to upload sixty-five new manuscripts this week, all on Monday. Work continues agressively on the Reginensis collections with seven from Reg.gr and sixteen from Reg.lat, pushing the collection to a total of 2,046 digitized, or 95.5% of the 2,113 manuscripts remaining in the Fond. Reg.lat tied with Var.ar for...

2023 Week 13

This week had another forty-four manuscripts uploaded into the Vatican repositories. Following the pattern of last week, as much as there was a pattern, the top contributors are Ott.lar and Reg.lat, with eleven each. Below that is a wide spread of collections, six from Vat.ar, five from Barb.lat, four from Pal.gr, three from Reg.gr and two from Borg.ar. ...

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 ...