Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 50 of 2023

So far fifty-four manuscripts have been digitized


Barb.gr.8, Lucas Holstenius Adversaria autographa, pugillares scilicet lucubrationum ad rem praesertim geographicam antiquorum nec non ad antiquos auctores pertinentium, Lutetiae Parisiorum a. (1625)

Barb.gr.272 (Upgraded to HQ), Johannes Rhyndacenus Lascaris, Galen, Hippocrates, et al Epigrams, In Hippocratis Aphorismos commentarii VII, Prorrhetica, etc (1476 - 1500 )

Barb.gr.314, Josephi Melodi Canonum paracleticorum liber compunctorii, staurosimi in Apostolos, Martyres, Monachos, confessores et mortuos


Barb.gr.451, Liturgy for Sts. Basil the Great and John Chrysostom

Barb.lat.959, Stephanus de Bubalis (17th C)
Incipit: De Deo Ad Uniuersam Theologicam S. Doctoris Proemiv[m] . In quo primo totius Theologici operis


Barb.lat.1132, Intimatio facta a supremis inquisitoribus haereticae pravita in regno castellae circa doctrinam de auxiliis divina gratiae, Congregationes aliquot habitae coram Cardinali marutio a fratribus ordinis praedicatorum et societatis jesu in materia de Auxiliis.. (17th C)
Incipit: Este mandato si inuio

In Spanish


Barb.lat.1137, Confutationes aliquot errorum in Gabrielis Philadeplhiae Archiepiscopi opusculis contentorum (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Gabrielis Pronunciatum Primum. Panis Spiritus Sancti, et preum uirtuti in Christi corpus transmutatur

Barb.lat.1141, Victorio Philippino Tractatus contra detractores et murmuratores praelatorum ecclesiasticorum (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Tractatvs contra detractores Prælatorum Ecclesiasticorum Ad Aiil[ustrissimum] et R[everentissimum] D. D. Evangelistam Pallottbm Archiep[isco]pvm Cosentivm S. R. E. Cardinalem Ampliss[imum]

Barb.lat.1152, P. Simmero De Contractibus in Particulari Breuis Tractatus (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Questiones disputate De contractibus in Particu-lari. De contractibus in genere egit anno superiori Prædecessor meus de contra-ctibus

Barb.lat.1200, Celestino Sfondrato Dispunctio quadraginta Notarum ab ano-nymo scripton inustaum Volumini inscripto, Nodue Pre-destinationis, quantum homini sicet dissolutus (17th C)
Incipit: Beatissimo Patri Innocento XII Summo Pontifici Author Verbis S. Bernardi Abbatis ad Innocentium II Romanum Episcopu[s] con-scriptis felicitatem ominatar

Barb.lat.1201 (Upgraded to HQ), Dominici Veneti Summi Pontificis in Urbe Vicarii Generalis ac Referendarii (16th C)
Incipit: Incipit tractatus de reformaco[n]ibus Romane Curie ad S. D.

Barb.lat.1202, Dominici Veneti Summa Pontificus n Urbe Generals Vicari Liber de contemplatone Dei (15th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) platonis supra actionem & q[uod] est noblissima operato[n] in homine in qua hc consistit nostra elicitas &tande[m] in patria perfecta et perpetua beatitudo

Ff.1r-2v is a table of contents


Barb.lat.1210, Johannes Baptista Catumsyritus Italograecus Rhegynus Contra Anatolos graecos pro Italogracus (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) S[anctissimo] D[omi]no N[ost]ro D[omi]no Pape Vrbano Octauo, Græcolatino Pontif[ix] Op[tim]e Max[imo]. Consensum omnem


Barb.lat.1221, Antonii Caucii De Graecorum Recentiorum Haeresibus ad Gregorium XIII (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) De Græcorvm Recentiorvm Hæresibvs ad Gregorium XIII Pont. Maxim. Antonii Cauci Latytii Veneti et Archiepiscopi Corciiræ Liber

List of Heresies on f.IIIr


Barb.lat.1235, Michaelis Lonigi Formae Citationis canonicae, rescripti Excommunicationis, eletionis canonicae, appellationis et inquisitionis (17th C)
Incipit: Forma Citationis can[onice]. Alex[ander[ Terrentius iur

Barb.lat.1236, Michaelis Lonigi Libello duo compendiua Regularum Juris (17th C)
Incipit: A. Summanum maiorum regular[um] iur[is] ciu[ili] et can[onici]. Afflictio ad debet dari afflicto

Autograph copy


Barb.lat.1237, Sacrosanctae Catholicae Romanaeque Ecclesiae ad Summi Sacerdotii Pontificatusque Romani genus, origo, atque fundamentum (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sacrosanctæ Catholicæ Romanæq[ue] Eccle-siæ, ac Summi Sacerdotii, Pontificatusq[us] Roma-ni genus origo, atq[ue] fundamentum, nec non sacri-vitus, mores consuetudines, leges, et Canones Extrauagantesq[ue] omnis

Table of contents at start, weirdly foliated


Barb.lat.1241, Joanne Francisco Angelino Opus Praxis Guberniorum totius Status Ecclesiastici (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Epitomes Diuisionis Operis. Cogitana mihi (Beat[issime] Pater, ac Emin[tissime] card[inalis] Francisce) de libelli

Ff.VIr-VIIIv are a table of contents


Barb.lat.1249, Michaelis Lonigi Compendium autographum legis falicidiae (17th C)
Incipit: Lex Falicidia prohibet testatorib[us] ne legare pouint ultra

Autograph Copy


Barb.lat.1250, Michaelis Lonigi Compendium Regularum Juris (17th C)
Incipit: Absolutio. Utrum absems posst absolui

Autograph Copy


Barb.lat.1251, Frederici Boromaei De Prudentia in creando Pontifice Maximo Liber unus (17th C)
Incipit: De Prvdentia In creando Pontifice Maximo Liber Vnvs. Aggredienti mihi scriberi de ci-uili Prudentia uarissque

Barb.lat.1254, Marc Tartesis Disputatio de Summo Pontifice Bipartita (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Disputatio fratrs Marci Tartesii Cremonensis Ordinis Predicatorum De Summo Pontifice Bipartita, in quarum altera deprimatu In altera uero parte. De auctoritate Summi Pontficis Disputatio Prima Pars. Ecce ego ponam in fundamentis Syon lapidem

Barb.lat.1256, Apologia pro iuris Curiae Episcopalis Umbriaticensis defensione, et inanium contra Episcopum a Comite Melissae (17th C)
Incipit: Ad Libellum præceptio. Onimium felix, o terque quaterque beate Qui vrbani sacros is, liber, ante pedes


Barb.lat.4201, Marcantonio Pasqualini, Luigi Rossi Raccolta di arie e cantate da camera (17th C)
Incipit: Deh non piu mi ferite de chi seue

One work is spurious


Ott.lat.602, Collection on Theological Tracts
Incipit: (f.3r) De Purgatorio sunt 4[or] Quesita. P[rimum] an purgatoriu[m] esse

Ott.lat.609, St. Augustine, St. Methodius, et al De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae III, Liber de principio et fine saecula
Incipit: Incipit prologus beati augustini episcopi de miriabilib[us] ueteris et noui testamenti

Ott.lat.621, John Chrysostom Homilia in Psalmum Quinquagesmum (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit Omelia Joha[n]nis Grisostomi desup[er] []riptione Psalmi Quinquagesimi. [V]ictores imitantur

Ott.lat.622, Thomas Aquinas Libero 1 Explicatio Magistri Sententiarum
Incipit: Effudi Ego sapi[ent]ia flumi-na



See Biblissima, In Greek


In Arabic


Pal.gr.181, Homer, ps-Homer Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia (15th C)

Pal.gr.182, Diogenes Laertius, Gregory of Nazianzenus De vita et moribus philosophorum, In Gorgoniam (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης


Pal.gr.183, Philo Works (1301-1350)

Pal.gr.184 (Upgraded to HQ), Xenophon Oeconomicus, Hiero, Cyropaedia (15th C)

Pal.gr.185, Thucydides Histories (1425-1475)

Patetta.1422 (Upgraded to HQ), Necrology, etc (12th C)
Incipit: d. ciuitate massilia, natalis

See Iter liturgicum italicum, Localized to Breme-Novalese per Schmid and Wollasch


Reg.gr.182 (Upgraded to HQ), Elias, Basil of Caesarea, Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, Hippocrates, et al Prologomena Philosophiae, Definitiones, Xynaxaria in Trodium et Pentecostarium, etc (15th C)

Reg.gr.185, John Climacus Scala paradisi, Liber ad pastorem (13th C)

Vat.lat.5978, Peter Lombard Sentences, glossed. Book IV
Incipit: Cvpientes ali-quid depenuri-a

Vat.lat.6070, Missale (14th C)
Incipit: custodiat corda u[est]ra & i[n]telligentias u[est]ras

See Iter liturgicum italicum possibly from San Galgano., See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 943[14th musical signs throughout]


Vat.lat.6122, Guilielmi Eisengrein Harmonia Ecclesiae Historica
Incipit: (f.2r) Sanctissimo Atqve Bea-tissimo Patri ac domino, do-mino Gregorio XIII pontifici Romano

Vat.lat.6142, Gulielmi Sirleti Annotationum in Acta Apostolorum a capitulo XIII usque ad finem Pars altera, Annotationes in Epistolam Jacobi,
Incipit: barnabas autem et saulus reuersi sunt ab

Vat.lat.6469, Romualdus Salernitanus Mirabilia Romae, Annales (17th C)
Incipit: (f.Ir) Beatus Petrus sedit annos XXV, menses VI dies VIII

Vat.lat.6487, De Beneficiis et de rebus Ecclesiarum et Ministrorum et de Contractibus (16th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) In hoc libro aliqua sunt

Vat.lat.10587.pt.A, Henry Stevenson Schedae de antiquitatibus et historia Latii (19th C)
Incipit: Ferentino, Veroli,

Vat.lat.10592, Caroli Fea Schedae epigraphicae (19th C)

Starts f.201r, second half of Vat.lat.10591


Vat.lat.10594, Inscriptiones et notitiae ecclesiarum urbis (1801-1825)
Incipit: (f.1r) Chiese Riverse, Iscrizioni Vol. I[o]

Part 1 of 2, second volume in Vat.lat.10595


Vat.lat.10648, St. Ambrose, Peter Damian Expositionis in Evangelium secundum Lucam, Books I-X, Sermo in nativitate beatissimae Virginis Mariae, Expositio in Canticum canticorum, Sermo in resurrectione Domini (11th-12th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Ambrosi[us] fr[atris] luca[m] & ca[n]ticu[m] ca[n]ticor[um]. Scriptvri in evangelii libro que[m] lucas

Vat.lat.10650, Thomas Aquinas Catena aurea in evangelium S. Marci (1275-1300)
Incipit: Reuerendo in chr[ist]o p[at]ri d[omi]no ambaldo basili-ce .xii. ap[osto]lor[um] uene-rabili

Vat.lat.10658, Aristotle Phisicorum Book VIII, De anima, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologicorum, De caelo et mundo, De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, etc (14th C)
Incipit: Qvoniam aut int[e]lligo et sci-re contingit circa om[ni]s

All texts are heavily glossed


Vat.lat.11228, Mss. Bibliothecae Vaticanae Reginae Suecorum, Book II

Title page describes as page 427-900



Vat.turc.25, Mahmud b. 'Utman b. 'Ali, called Lama'i Calebi Futüh al-mušahidïn li tarvïh al-mugâhidïn (17th C)

Turkish translation of the Persian original. Biography of Gami


Vat.turc.138, Husain Va'iz-i Kašifi, Fuzuli di Bagdad (tr) Hadiqat us-su'ada (1618)

Dated Ramadan 5, 1027 AH (August 26 1618). Turkish translation of a Persian original


Vat.turc.196, Ahmedi Divan (1447-1448)

Dated 851 AH