Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 50 of 2019

A busy week with several banner Manuscripts among the 63 that were digizited this week. Vat.lat.5750 is a 6th C Sacramentay thought to be from Bobbio, created as a palimpsest over a series of even older manuscripts. The Vatican provided a series of notes at the beginning of the digitized copy explaining the collation as well as multi-spectral images to aid in reading the under-text

Also added was Vat.lat.10959, a single 5th C leaf of St. Cyprian in a lovely Uncial hand. It is bound in a small volume along with the early-20th C article describing its content and discovery

In Vat.lat.6082 we have a late 12th C missal that, if not from Montecassino, represents practice there. It includes some music in the particularly Beneventan mode, with diastimatic neumes on a partial staff, a red line represents C, a yellow line F, and the singers calculate what lies between them. For an example see the temporarily appropriate Mass for the First Sunday in Advent, starting with the indroit Ad Te Levavi on f.7r to the right

The bottom bar is from the title page of a volume of Cicero's Orations, thought to be written by Bernardo Bembo, father of the famous humanist scribe, poet, cardinal, etc. Pietro Bembo

Ross.369

Incipit: Pogivs Florentinvs deuaxutate .... Havd abre fvtvrvm.esse arbitco[m] si ab instievto

Ross.377 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Pierii Colurii salutati declaratio sup[er] moine

Ross.401, Seneca Consolations (15th C)

Incipit: Incomincia la consolatione de seneca ad martia di latino tradocta involgare fioren-tino

Ross.421 (Upgraded to HQ), Michael Scot Liber Particularis, etc. (14th C)

Incipit: Cum ars astronomie sit gra[n]dis s[er]monibus philosophor[um]

Ross.424

Incipit: Questa sie latouola datrouare tucte lelaude che scripte insu-questo libro

Ross.429

Incipit: Tullins de nat[ur]a deorum libro p[rimo]. Sanctitas e[st] scientia

Ross.439, Virgil Buccolica (15th C)

Incipit: Pvblii Virgilii Maronis Man-tvani Liber Bvcolicorvm Incipit.

Ross.448, Macrobius (15th C)

Incipit: Macrobii Theodosii viri illvst-rissimi satvrnalior[um] liber pri-mvs incipit prohoemivm. Mvltas variasque

Ross.451, (15th C)

Incipit: Tabula Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Allexandrini q[ue] apellatur Thesaurus aduersus hereticos Li-bri primi

Ross.452, St. Augustine De Trinitate (15th C)

Incipit: (f.IIr) Incipiunt Capitula Libri primi de trinitate. E triplici causa erroris falsa de deo opinancium

Ross.475

Incipit: Samaratanus iste pussinius spoliatu[m]

Sbath.26, Misc. Devotional Works (1543)

Vat.lat.3230, Cicero Orations (15th C)

Incipit: M. Tvllii ciceronis orationvm liber incipit felicissime oratio pro pompeio. Qvanqvam mihi semper fre-quens

Scribe: Bernardo Bembo

Vat.lat.5750, Sacramentary, etc (501-510)

Incipit: Liber s[an]cti columbani de bobio. Incipit ep[istu]la celestini pape urbis rome ad nestoriu[m] directa

See Iter liturgicum italicum, later note at the top attributes to St. Columbanus of Bobbio

Vat.lat.6075 (Upgraded to HQ), Hagiography (1601)

Incipit: Incipit passio sanctor[um] Iuliani et Basilissae suis aliorum multorum sanctorum idibus Januarii

See Iter liturgicum italicum, dated f.208v at St. Cecilia in Trastevere

Vat.lat.6080 (Upgraded to HQ), Sacramentary, Evangelary, Graduale (11th C)

Incipit: campestri et turba disci-pulor[um] eius et multitudo copiosa plebis.

See Iter liturgicum italicum, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 942[ Title: Passiones, Folio: sparsim, Century: 12, Provinance: Arezzo, Notation: segni musicali],See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 942[ Title: Passiones, Folio: sparsim, Century: 12, Provinance: Arezzo, Notation: segni musicali]

Vat.lat.6082 (Upgraded to HQ), Missal (1151-1200)

Incipit: (f.7r) Ad te leuaui animam meam deus meus

See Iter liturgicum italicum, Bannister ID: 369, Title: Missale, Folio: 251r, Century: 12x, Source: Beneventana, Provinance: Monte Cassino (OSB), Notation: linea o rigo,See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Montecassino, Beneventan hand and musical notation on red/yellow lines. Calendar ff.1-6, Bannister ID: 369, Title: Missale, Folio: 251r, Century: 12x, Source: Beneventana, Provinance: Monte Cassino (OSB), Notation: linea o rigo,See Iter liturgicum italicum, Bannister ID: 913, Title: Passiones, Folio: sparsim, Century: 12, Provinance: Monte Cassino (OSB), Notation: segni musicali,See [Iter liturgicum italicum](http

Vat.lat.6086, Cronica di Venetia (16th C)

Incipit: Cronica di Venetia Quali siano stadi i

Vat.lat.6100.pt.1

Incipit: -re, vsque ad partem sinistram altaris, & aedis, circum regem.

Printed

Vat.lat.6100.pt.2

Incipit: (f.296) -uius agit, vt fine[m] faciat disseminandi in vrbe Christi fidem.

starts f.296, printed

Vat.lat.6165

Incipit: Hec su[n]t ... date in Cancell[] p[er] d[omi]ni Johem p[a]pem xxii que sequi[n]tur

Vat.lat.6183.pt.1, Letters to Guglielmo Sirleto (1566-1569)

Vat.lat.6194.pt.1, Letters to Guglielmo Sirleto (1581-1582)

Incipit: Mastro Girardo Mandolfi dell' ordine di s[ancto] Agostins

Vat.lat.6244, Breviary (15th C)

Incipit: qu[i] ue[n]iam & apparebo an[te] faciem dei. Fueru[n]t m[ihi] lacrime

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from S. Fiorenzo, Perugia

Vat.lat.6249

Incipit: Illvstrissimo, et r[euendissimo] D. D. Hieronymo S. R. E. Car-dinali Rusticucis Augustinus Caesareus Romanus

Vat.lat.6250 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Ad Melinvm. Quid dominam assidius nexas

Vat.lat.6251

Incipit: Ex salustii Caillinniro

Vat.lat.6260

Incipit: Incipit prohemiu[m] in tractatu[m] de mori-bus condistionibus et nequitia Turcoru[m]

Vat.lat.6275 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.6276

Incipit: (f.2r) Fuit antem i[n] vrbe Costantinopoli Romanum imperium

Vat.lat.6281

Incipit: In Missam S[anc]ti Jacobi ad lictorem briuis ani-madueris

Vat.lat.6282

Incipit: Titulus pastoral[us] pasoe[n]s officia & [con]p[er]to[n]nes

Vat.lat.6285 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: (f.1v) purpurei Carafa decus splendorq[ue] senatus nobilitate potens, sed pietate magis

Vat.lat.6298, Excerpta anonymi ex Decreto (16th C)

Incipit: Omne quod hic emitet plus moeronib[us] afficitur, quam hononib[us] gaudest

Vat.lat.6299, Peter the Deacon Ortus et Vita Iustorum Cenobii Casienensis (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit Prologus Petri Diaconi in libro illustriu-uiror[um] archisherii Casinensis. Coactus assiduis tuis impiis Pandul-phe

This is a later, indirect, copy of Peter the Deacon's autograph copy held in the Montecassino library

Vat.lat.6300 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Di tre lessioni la prima sofra l'antro di platone

See NASSCAL

Vat.lat.6302 (Upgraded to HQ), Ouidius Métamorphosées moralizee (14th C)

Incipit: tabula. A.B.C. De atheone uenatoe[m] li[bro] 3[o]

Buonocore, Marco. “I CODICI DI OVIDIO PRESSO LA BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA.” Rivista Di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 37, no. 1 (1995): p. 45

Vat.lat.6315, (16th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Succinta et briue narrateone belle cose del Re di Spagna

Vat.lat.6316, Girolamo Cafaro Letters (1549)

Incipit: (f.1v) Notanda Qvaedam Epistola complectitur

Date on f.1r, November 11, 1549

Vat.lat.6320 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Angelis sup[re]ma deifictior[um] scia[m]

Vat.lat.6323, Lucan Bellum Civile

Incipit: (f.1r) Romane miscent acies bellu[m]q[ue] sine hoste est

Vat.lat.6325 (Upgraded to HQ), Egidio da Viterbo, Plato Sententiae ad mentem Platonis (16th C)

Incipit: Aegid. Vit S. R. E. Card. P[s] Sent Ad Mentem Plat[is] Proaemivm. Qvoniam Summu[m] hominis bonu[m] in alias uira est

Vat.lat.6326 (Upgraded to HQ), (17th C)

Incipit: Bvlla Indictionis Sacri Conc. Trid. Indictionis sacri; Vsus concilii

Vat.lat.6329, (17th C)

Incipit: Qua a summis Pontificibus, aut sacris Cnociliis decreta sunt circa vitam, ac mores

Documents on papal concleves and other texts relating to the election of the popes

Vat.lat.6335

Incipit: Intitulationes: Pro Nobili et Doctore Prohemium

Vat.lat.6340, (1604)

Vat.lat.6342

Incipit: De Dispensation de tertio In-compatibili etiam in regulare fuerit

Vat.lat.6347

Incipit: Peorogationes Voter[um]. Pro eo qui labet pauperes

Vat.lat.6368.pt.1, Liturgical Miscellany, Book 6 (1616)

Incipit: Collectio Duiersarum Litterarum & For-marum, ac Processuum

Copied from vat.lat.3976 according to title page

Vat.lat.6368.pt.2, Liturgical Miscellany, Book 6 (1616)

Incipit: solitum ueramentum, dremodo in absentia

Starts on f.129

Vat.lat.6368.pt.3, Liturgical Miscellany, Book 6 (1616)

Incipit: eonendem singulis uidelicet singulas concedendas

Starts on f.289

Vat.lat.6403

Incipit: et aleph i[n]trauer[un]t tiam p[ro]missi[n]oi[n]s de o[mn]ib[us]

Vat.lat.6415 (Upgraded to HQ)

Copied by Emmanuel Glynzounios,

Vat.lat.6442, Sermons

Incipit: De beato andre. Sequor si quo[nia]m

Vat.lat.6448

Vat.lat.6453, Hagiography (12th C)

Incipit: qui erant ierosolimis q[] ecepis set samaria uerbum

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Pisa

Vat.lat.6467, Michael Ghislerii Commentary on Jeremiah

Incipit: Commentarii Michaelis Ghislerii Romani Clerici Reg[ularis] in Jeremian Prophetam

Vat.lat.6473, St Athanasius Liber Contra Gentiles

Incipit: D. Athanasii Archiep[iscop]i alexandrini liber contra Gentiles ad Macarium Alexand. presbyt. Ioan. Becatia Verone[n]si

Vat.lat.6485

Incipit: Ant Avgvstini Archiepiscopi Turraconensis Iuris Pontificii ueteris epitomes pare secunda de rebus

Vat.lat.6491

Incipit: De Extrema Vnctione or[um] Testamentis et funeribus

Vat.lat.6548, Breviary (17th C)

Incipit: De Vita et obitu Sancti ste-phani Calatiensis Episcopi. Tempore Landulfi eximii principis Capuae

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Caiazzo. Calendar starts on f. 29r, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 690[ Title: Breviarium, Folio: passim, Century: 16, Provinance: Caiazzo?, Notation: quadrata]

Vat.lat.10420 (Upgraded to HQ), Several Popes, Emperors and Kings Relatione di Azioni et Avvenimenti Degni di Memoria, Book 1 (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Nota delle nattationi. Di Papa Clemente viii[o]

Vat.lat.10959 (Upgraded to HQ), Cyprianus Epistulae. (5th C)

Incipit: Cyprianus Maximo Pr[] ite[m] R urbano et sido-nio

Prefaced with a copy of Turner, C. (1902). ST. CYPRIAN, A NEWLY DISCOVERED LEAF OF A FIFTH-CENTURY MS OF. Journal of Theological Studies, 3, 576.