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2015-12-16

St George

The Codex of St George is a missal made at Avignon, France in the early 14th century for Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi (c.1260 - 1341). Stefaneschi was a Roman poet and arts patron who also commissioned the Navicella (earlier post) in Old St. Peters for 2,200 florins from Giotto. Here is an image from the missal that evidently shows Stefaneschi himself, probably in about 1325 or so.

The miniature and initials are by an anonymous painter who is known only as the Master of the St George Codex and is famed for the fine expression and composition of his figures. Here is St George battling the dragon, according to the legend, and the onlookers watching fearfully (folio 85r):

The codex is one of the 44 new manuscripts uploaded Dec 14 on Digita Vaticana, taking the posted total to 3,420. The full list follows, whereby I will not comment on the Pal. lat. series which was made publicly available a couple of years ago in Heidelberg, Germany.
  1. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.C.129, Codex of St George (above).
  2. Borg.lat.898, a copy of the Itineris ad septentrionales fructus by Johannes van Heeck, a Dutchman who was a co-founder of the Accademia dei Lincei.
  3. Cappon.114,
  4. Ott.lat.319, a 7th-century uncial manuscript of Augustine on Psalms. Notes at St. Louis.
  5. Pal.lat.931,
  6. Pal.lat.942,
  7. Pal.lat.996,
  8. Pal.lat.997,
  9. Pal.lat.1002,
  10. Pal.lat.1007,
  11. Pal.lat.1009,
  12. Pal.lat.1011,
  13. Pal.lat.1012,
  14. Pal.lat.1013,
  15. Pal.lat.1016,
  16. Pal.lat.1021,
  17. Pal.lat.1025,
  18. Pal.lat.1027,
  19. Pal.lat.1029,
  20. Pal.lat.1031,
  21. Pal.lat.1048,
  22. Pal.lat.1065,
  23. Pal.lat.1073,
  24. Pal.lat.1076,
  25. Pal.lat.1077,
  26. Pal.lat.1079,
  27. Pal.lat.1088,
  28. Reg.lat.1492, Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la Rose, his French translation of Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy, and other works. Bourges, 1470. Description at St. Louis. With fine miniatures such as this woman with a bow:
    This is Venus firing a flaming arrow at the castle, which sets vast parts of the building on fire at the climax of the story. The text reads: "Comme Venus (tirait?) au chastel un brandon de feu pour embraser ...  " and this is obviously a lot racier than older versions like Princeton Garrett MS. 126.
  29. Ross.1069,
  30. Urb.lat.7, 14th-century Bible with Jerome prologues and fine initials. Here is David fighting Goliath at folio 185r
  31. Urb.lat.21, Nicholas of Lyra, Postillae morales
  32. Urb.lat.24, Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle
  33. Urb.lat.159, finely illuminated law text by Bernardo Bottoni on Gregory's Decretals, with a 14th-century arbor consanguinatis where the tree is held in a planter by the law-giver (discussed by Hermann Schadt, Arbores, at p 259 ff.)
  34. Urb.lat.218, Gasparino Barzizza, c. 1360-1431, Commentum super epistulas Senecae Cordubensis ad Lucillum.
  35. Urb.lat.254, 1614, begun by Francesco Maria II della Rovere, duke of Urbino, 1548-1631, mostly blank
  36. Urb.lat.262, geomancy and astrology
  37. Urb.lat.270, 16th century on carriage equippage
  38. Urb.lat.285, Narciso Aurispa on fortifications
  39. Urb.lat.298, Robert Kilwardby
  40. Urb.lat.330, Petrarch
  41. Urb.lat.358, Punic Wars
  42. Vat.gr.327,
  43. Vat.gr.903,
  44. Vat.gr.1820,

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2015-12-01

Jesus in a Nutshell

One of the peculiarities of 15th-century tree diagrams is that the humans are often shown as half-figures emerging from a kind of nutshell. Possibly this is a stylized nest. These show up in manuscripts and then appear in early printed books where the art continues in the same fashion.

There is a remarkable instance of this in Urb.lat.300 which is the among the manuscripts uploaded Dec 1 to Digita Vaticana. This is a manuscript of the Fons memorabilium universali of Domenico Bandini d'Arezzo (c. 1335-1418), for which the catalog gives the additional title De viris claris Lexicon. It was likely copied thus during the author's lifetime.

This has a most unusual table of contents at the front which shows Christ growing out of a hexagonal fountain, with the book's topics listed in roundels at the end of branches. It is discussed in Hermann Schadt's Arbores, p 335, the reference for which you will find in a previous blog post.

This short of thing is familiar from the Hartmann Schedel Liber Chronicarum of 1493, as in this hand-coloured copy in Munich showing Mizraim, his wife and their son Ludim:

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (L'Ombre, p 297) terms this object a corolla. These motifs in fact have a medieval past. For example, the Dialogus de laudibus sanctae crucis at Munich (BSB, clm 14159) contains a similar treatment of Isaac as a bust in a graphic that is a kind of at-a-glance diagram of how the Old Testament is organized and its themes:


The December 1 uploads bring the posted total on Digita Vaticana to 3,361. Here is the full list, and once again I will not describe the Pal.lat. releases here, as it is likely most of them have been online before today in Heidelberg, since Rome and the German library have partnered to digitize them.
  1. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.D.197, Nicholas of Lyra, Postillae
  2. Barb.lat.3935, a 14th/15th century Dante
  3. Barb.lat.3954, Petrarch
  4. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIV.fasc.44,
  5. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIV.fasc.45,
  6. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIV.fasc.47,
  7. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIV.fasc.48,
  8. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIV.fasc.49,
  9. Borg.copt.109.cass.XV.fasc.50,
  10. Borg.copt.109.cass.XV.fasc.51,
  11. Borg.copt.109.cass.XV.fasc.52,
  12. Borg.copt.109.cass.XV.fasc.54,
  13. Borg.copt.109.cass.XV.fasc.55,
  14. Borgh.183, Book of Hours with this hair-raising visitation of death wielding a club:
  15. Cappon.199,
  16. Cappon.252.pt.B,
  17. Cappon.318,
  18. Pal.lat.537,
  19. Pal.lat.771,
  20. Pal.lat.818,
  21. Pal.lat.835,
  22. Pal.lat.884,
  23. Pal.lat.896,
  24. Pal.lat.904,
  25. Pal.lat.908,
  26. Pal.lat.911,
  27. Pal.lat.914,
  28. Pal.lat.916,
  29. Pal.lat.922,
  30. Pal.lat.924,
  31. Pal.lat.925,
  32. Pal.lat.934,
  33. Pal.lat.935,
  34. Pal.lat.936,
  35. Pal.lat.937,
  36. Pal.lat.938,
  37. Pal.lat.950,
  38. Pal.lat.951,
  39. Pal.lat.1015,
  40. Patetta.685,
  41. Urb.lat.11, Gefroi de Pinkegni, commentarii in Evangelia etc. In French. Important supplementary source of Occitan version of bible. See Samuel Berger. This codex is celebrated for its copious miniatures by Neri da Rimini (c.1270 - c.1330), including this Three Kings with the Infant Jesus on 13v:
  42. Urb.lat.16, Nicholas of Lyra, Postillae on Psalms, Job, Minor Prophets
  43. Urb.lat.17, Nicholas of Lyra, Postillae
  44. Urb.lat.27, Thomas Aquinas on Gospel of Matthew
  45. Urb.lat.56,
  46. Urb.lat.76,
  47. Urb.lat.85,
  48. Urb.lat.101, Bede and Anselm
  49. Urb.lat.123, Alexander of Ales OFM
  50. Urb.lat.161,
  51. Urb.lat.165,
  52. Urb.lat.180, Burkhard of Worms, legal
  53. Urb.lat.182, Aristotle's Historia animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium, all penned in Florence in about 1470. Anthony Grafton's Rome Reborn catalogue noted of this codex: Pope Nicholas V was a patron of the translation of ancient scientific works from Greek into Latin. New translations of Aristotle's books on animals, which describe over five hundred different species and are the principal ancient works on the subject, played an important part in this pope's intellectual program. George Trebizond's translation was commissioned by Nicholas V. Its details are listed in the St Louis catalog. Later noticed by @LatinAristotle.
  54. Urb.lat.251,
  55. Urb.lat.253,
  56. Urb.lat.277,
  57. Urb.lat.282,
  58. Urb.lat.291,
  59. Urb.lat.299,
  60. Urb.lat.300, manuscript of the Fons memorabilium universali of Domenico Bandini d'Arezzo (above).
  61. Urb.lat.307, Nonius Marcellus, Paul the Deacon
  62. Urb.lat.309, Aulius Gelius, Attic Nights, 15th-century copy
  63. Urb.lat.313, Cicero, Epistolarum ad familiares
  64. Urb.lat.314, panegyrics by Pliny and others
  65. Urb.lat.317, Asconius on Cicero
  66. Urb.lat.323, Cicero, 15th century
  67. Urb.lat.329, Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, 15th-century copy including this fine drawing at fol. 139v and figural miniatures:
  68. Urb.lat.336, Libanius, letters etc, 15th-century copy
  69. Urb.lat.374,
  70. Vat.ar.13,
  71. Vat.gr.802,
  72. Vat.gr.1135,
  73. Vat.lat.127, commentary on Mark and Luke
  74. Vat.lat.239, Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 15th century copy
  75. Vat.lat.275, Ambrose on Psalms
  76. Vat.lat.298, Basil the Great and Cyril of Alexandria
  77. Vat.lat.354, a collection of 123 of Jerome's letters, 11th century
  78. Vat.lat.355, volume 1 of a 9th or 10th century manuscript in Beneventan script of the above. Important in the history of collecting the correspondence of Jerome of Stridon. The second volume, Vat.lat.356, is not yet online. Though there are about 7,000 manuscripts with Jerome letters, Andrew Cain says it took till the 9th century to assemble them all, so this codex dates back to that compilation period.
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2015-11-24

Seneca the Stoic

Among the 213 manuscripts uploaded November 23 by Digita Vaticana is a copy of Seneca's Epistulae ad Lucilium. I read that Seneca manuscripts are not rare: there are about 400 of them in various states of incompleteness. This one, Vat.lat.366, is termed "v" in the stemma codicum and is consulted for variants.

Seneca's "we've all got to die sometime" stoicism is a good antidote to the current nervousness. Here is the bit of Letter 49 where he tells Lucilius: "You are mistaken if you think death is at a nearer remove while you're on a sea voyage ... It is always near at hand" (adapted from Gummere). Quite.
Full text of this passage at Perseus.

The uploads, which take the tally to 3,281 (one more item, Ott.gr.61, was added Nov 24), are to the greatest extent in Greek this time round. I will leave it to Greek experts to pick out what is of importance. There are also a great many Pal. lat. items where it is likely that these have already been online for some time at Heidelberg, so it is out of time to claim them as new.

The Vatican Library is always a great repository of doodles. Here's a bit of cruel Roman caricature which doubtless amused someone amid an otherwise wasted day in the papal bureaucracy:

The full list:
  1. Barb.gr.18,
  2. Barb.gr.36,
  3. Barb.gr.46,
  4. Barb.gr.56,
  5. Barb.gr.98,
  6. Barb.gr.99,
  7. Barb.gr.101,
  8. Barb.gr.104,
  9. Barb.gr.110,
  10. Barb.gr.112,
  11. Barb.gr.121,
  12. Barb.gr.122,
  13. Barb.gr.131,
  14. Barb.gr.132,
  15. Barb.gr.137,
  16. Barb.gr.146,
  17. Barb.gr.147,
  18. Barb.gr.166,
  19. Barb.gr.167,
  20. Barb.gr.169,
  21. Barb.gr.173,
  22. Barb.gr.174,
  23. Barb.gr.175,
  24. Barb.gr.183,
  25. Barb.gr.185,
  26. Barb.gr.186,
  27. Barb.gr.190,
  28. Barb.gr.196,
  29. Barb.gr.198,
  30. Barb.gr.202,
  31. Barb.gr.203,
  32. Barb.gr.207,
  33. Barb.gr.208,
  34. Barb.gr.209,
  35. Barb.gr.211,
  36. Barb.gr.213,
  37. Barb.gr.214,
  38. Barb.gr.216,
  39. Barb.gr.217,
  40. Barb.gr.221,
  41. Barb.gr.236,
  42. Barb.gr.242,
  43. Barb.gr.279,
  44. Chig.I.VII.252,
  45. Chig.P.VI.4, caricatures in a notebook (sample above), more than half of which is empty
  46. Ott.gr.3,
  47. Ott.gr.5.pt.1,
  48. Ott.gr.5.pt.2,
  49. Ott.gr.9,
  50. Ott.gr.18,
  51. Ott.gr.20,
  52. Ott.gr.22,
  53. Ott.gr.27,
  54. Ott.gr.30,
  55. Ott.gr.32,
  56. Ott.gr.33,
  57. Ott.gr.34,
  58. Ott.gr.37.pt.1,
  59. Ott.gr.37.pt.2,
  60. Ott.gr.43,
  61. Ott.gr.46,
  62. Ott.gr.47,
  63. Ott.gr.49,
  64. Ott.gr.50,
  65. Ott.gr.51,
  66. Ott.gr.54,
  67. Ott.gr.55,
  68. Ott.gr.56,
  69. Ott.gr.57,
  70. Ott.gr.60
  71. Ott.gr.61,
  72. Ott.gr.63,
  73. Ott.gr.72,
  74. Ott.gr.75,
  75. Ott.gr.77
  76. Ott.gr.78,
  77. Ott.gr.79,
  78. Ott.gr.80,
  79. Ott.gr.81,
  80. Ott.gr.82,
  81. Ott.gr.83,
  82. Ott.gr.86,
  83. Ott.gr.87,
  84. Ott.gr.96,
  85. Ott.gr.101,
  86. Ott.gr.103,
  87. Ott.gr.104,
  88. Ott.gr.113,
  89. Ott.gr.116,
  90. Ott.gr.117,
  91. Ott.gr.119,
  92. Ott.gr.120,
  93. Ott.gr.122,
  94. Ott.gr.126,
  95. Ott.gr.129,
  96. Ott.gr.130,
  97. Ott.gr.131,
  98. Ott.gr.132,
  99. Ott.gr.135,
  100. Ott.gr.136,
  101. Ott.gr.141,
  102. Ott.gr.144,
  103. Ott.gr.145,
  104. Ott.gr.151,
  105. Ott.gr.152,
  106. Ott.gr.155,
  107. Ott.gr.157.pt.A,
  108. Ott.gr.162,
  109. Ott.gr.168,
  110. Ott.gr.169,
  111. Ott.gr.171,
  112. Ott.gr.187,
  113. Ott.gr.190,
  114. Ott.gr.196,
  115. Ott.gr.202,
  116. Ott.gr.203,
  117. Ott.gr.204.pt.1,
  118. Ott.gr.204.pt.2,
  119. Ott.gr.220,
  120. Ott.gr.222,
  121. Ott.gr.224,
  122. Ott.gr.226,
  123. Ott.gr.227,
  124. Ott.gr.229,
  125. Ott.gr.230,
  126. Ott.gr.234,
  127. Ott.gr.235,
  128. Ott.gr.236,
  129. Ott.gr.238,
  130. Ott.gr.240
  131. Ott.gr.241,
  132. Ott.gr.253,
  133. Ott.gr.254,
  134. Ott.gr.263,
  135. Ott.gr.264,
  136. Ott.gr.265,
  137. Ott.gr.290,
  138. Ott.gr.294,
  139. Ott.gr.297,
  140. Ott.gr.298,
  141. Ott.gr.309,
  142. Ott.gr.310,
  143. Ott.gr.312,
  144. Ott.gr.313,
  145. Ott.gr.316,
  146. Ott.gr.321,
  147. Ott.gr.322,
  148. Ott.gr.323,
  149. Ott.gr.324,
  150. Ott.gr.326,
  151. Ott.gr.336,
  152. Ott.gr.340,
  153. Ott.gr.356,
  154. Ott.gr.359,
  155. Ott.gr.362,
  156. Ott.gr.363,
  157. Ott.gr.370,
  158. Ott.gr.371,
  159. Ott.gr.372,
  160. Ott.gr.374,
  161. Ott.gr.375,
  162. Ott.gr.377,
  163. Ott.gr.378,
  164. Ott.gr.381,
  165. Ott.gr.382,
  166. Ott.lat.2988,
  167. Pal.lat.270,
  168. Pal.lat.274,
  169. Pal.lat.282,
  170. Pal.lat.289,
  171. Pal.lat.309,
  172. Pal.lat.311,
  173. Pal.lat.323,
  174. Pal.lat.324,
  175. Pal.lat.330,
  176. Pal.lat.361,
  177. Pal.lat.362,
  178. Pal.lat.411, a richly decorated textbook of law completed 1417 by Winandus de Stega at Heidelberg University dealing with four arbores. Here are a couple of furiously fighting heirs (fol 7v) under an arbor hereditatis (discussed by Hermann Schadt at page 309-313 of Arbores: see the previous post).
  179. Pal.lat.412,
  180. Pal.lat.413,
  181. Pal.lat.502, the Palatine Lectionary, also online at Heidelberg.
  182. Pal.lat.597,
  183. Pal.lat.598,
  184. Pal.lat.610,
  185. Pal.lat.617,
  186. Pal.lat.622, a 13th-century Decretum Gratiani text, with the sculptural figure below (fol. 240v) at the head of a Schadt Type 5A Roman-style arbor consanguinitatis. There has always been some disagreement about who the wise old figure holding the tray of prohibited marriages represents, because there are no contemporary explanations. Is he a personification of tradition? Or God the Father as judge? Or someone too old to marry? The most general position is that he is a jurist, the wise guardian of the law, and thus Gratian himself (as I noted in a blog post two weeks ago). The version by Nicolò features an old man in rich robes of authority. We know effectively nothing about Gratian, barring his evident status as a law professor of 12th-century Bologna, so even a century afterwards, artists could make of him what they liked.
  187. Pal.lat.659,
  188. Pal.lat.709,
  189. Pal.lat.710,
  190. Pal.lat.739,
  191. Pal.lat.742,
  192. Pal.lat.773,
  193. Pal.lat.792,
  194. Pal.lat.816,
  195. Pal.lat.862,
  196. Pal.lat.871,
  197. Pal.lat.891,
  198. Pal.lat.1620,
  199. Urb.lat.680, Rambaldi commentary on Dante, Divine Comedy
  200. Urb.lat.687, Dante poems
  201. Vat.ebr.66,
  202. Vat.ebr.201,
  203. Vat.ebr.205,
  204. Vat.estr.or.43,
  205. Vat.gr.2627,
  206. Vat.lat.253,
  207. Vat.lat.281, Ambrose of Milan, various
  208. Vat.lat.349,
  209. Vat.lat.366, Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
  210. Vat.lat.400, John Chrysostom
  211. Vat.lat.405, John Chrysostom
  212. Vat.lat.491, Augustine of Hippo
  213. Vat.lat.782, 13th century theological commentary
  214. Vat.lat.2001, with Emperor Frederick smiling a crooked smirk (below)

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2015-11-14

Arbor and Incest

Medieval canon law built up elaborate rules prohibiting marriage within kin groups. The principles of this were taught with a diagram known as the arbor juris, the first forms of which are classical in origin. The 64 uploads to Digita Vaticana on November 11, 2015 include Urb.lat.160, a mid-14th-century manuscript of decretals or codified canon law preceded by a particularly colourful arbor juris.

This class of diagrams was very comprehensively studied 1973-1982 by Hermann Schadt, who ordered the main group known as the arbores consanguinatis into seven main types. Urb.lat.160 contains the seventh of these types and was designed in the Decretum Gratiani (pars II, causa 35, qu. 5), a collection of canon law compiled in the 12th century by a jurist who is known as Gratian. At first it condemned a very wide range of potential marriages (some of the 14th degree by the classical Roman method of counting), but its scope was reduced in 1215.

I have compiled a "missing manual" to Schadt's  magisterial but not very reader-friendly book, and from it comes the following schematic. It shows the post-1215 form of Typ 7. Each roundel describes a relationship which was an impediment to marriage. The pink roundels in this matrix mark the kin relationships counted as third degree by the classical method:
The newly digitized manuscript contains miniatures which are probably genuine work of Nicolò da Bologna (see Italian biography). As Schadt explains, the Typ 7 diagrams developed an interesting iconography: an elderly man, perhaps representing the jurist, held the matrix in front of him as if it were a wooden placard. Tree branches grew to his left and his right, in his grasp. The Nicolò versions of these generally have six busts on the margin, male on the left, female on the right, apparently representing three generations of persons reacting with disappointment to the news that their love object is out of bounds.

The manuscript's arbor consanguinatis is followed by an arbor affinitatis, a large invariant type, which lists the in-laws that a person was also forbidden to wed. Schadt discusses this arbor on p. 276 of his book comparing it to other manuscripts. He notes the miniature's finely drawn depiction of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and then being expelled from Paradise by an angel:

Here is the full list of the new uploads:
  1. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.B.79, liturgical music. Aaron Macks (comment below) points out it is one of the few manuscripts of "Old Roman" chant. More details at Waterloo.
  2. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.D.194, Postillae on Old Testament, Nicholas of Lyra
  3. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.E.26, mould ravaged Rufinus, Historia Monachorum
  4. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.E.28, Plutarch Lives, in Latin translation by Jacobus Angelus
  5. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.E.30, Justinus, Universal History
  6. Barb.lat.3912, poetry of Luigi Pulci
  7. Borg.ar.95, Four Gospels in Arabic, 8th century?
  8. Borg.cin.507, a beautiful map in Italian of the Qinqhai region of China
  9. Borg.copt.109.cass.XII.fasc.41, three folios in Coptic from Matthew 16-18 with marginal illuminations
  10. Borg.pers.19, Gospels in Persian, 14th century
  11. Cappon.103,
  12. Cappon.140,
  13. Cappon.239,
  14. Cappon.281.pt.2,
  15. Cappon.291.pt.2,
  16. Urb.lat.14, Postillae of Nicholas of Lyra on Genesis, etc. with a technical discussion of angels guarding the ark of the covenant. Compare this to William Norton's 1403 bid to classify ark styles, based on Nicholas's work. Here is one of the Urb.lat.14 images:
  17. Urb.lat.18, Peter Lombard
  18. Urb.lat.39, Ambrose of Milan, William of Canterbury, Prosper of Aquitaine
  19. Urb.lat.57, Jerome on Ezekiel
  20. Urb.lat.102, Venerable Bede,  Leo the Great,
  21. Urb.lat.103, Richard of St Victor, Hugh of St Victor including his heavenly hierarchy
  22. Urb.lat.136, Thomas Aquinas
  23. Urb.lat.140, Thomas Aquinas
  24. Urb.lat.157, Innocent IV, decretals
  25. Urb.lat.158, Azo of Bologna, decretals
  26. Urb.lat.160, Johannes Andreae, Boniface VIII, decretals dealing with marriage and other legal issues (see above)
  27. Urb.lat.198,
  28. Urb.lat.202,
  29. Urb.lat.205, Aristotle, 16th century
  30. Urb.lat.206, Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle
  31. Urb.lat.213, Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle
  32. Urb.lat.214, Thomas Aquinas and Robert Kilwardby (?)
  33. Urb.lat.215, Thomas Aquinas and Pseudo-Augustine
  34. Urb.lat.225, Pontanus Jovianus
  35. Urb.lat.229, Leon Battista Alberti
  36. Urb.lat.230, Egidius de Columna, Thomas Aquinas
  37. Urb.lat.231, Fabius Albergatus on the republic
  38. Urb.lat.246, health (urine), astrology, some by Abu-Bakr Razi
  39. Urb.lat.250, De plantis, De causis plantarum: a mid-15th-century manuscript of the works of Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus, originally owned by Pope Nicholas V (1397-1455) to whom the manuscript is dedicated on fol. 2r.: see the SLU catalog and the Rome Reborn catalog note, where Grafton points out these were both an important source of information and a stimulus to further contributions to knowledge, but notes that "despite its handsome title page, this volume contains no illustrations intended to help understandings of its scientific content."
  40. Urb.lat.256,
  41. Urb.lat.258,
  42. Urb.lat.259,
  43. Urb.lat.263,
  44. Urb.lat.268,
  45. Urb.lat.269,
  46. Urb.lat.271,
  47. Urb.lat.279,
  48. Urb.lat.292, Fibonacci, geometry, with lots of marginal figures
  49. Urb.lat.297, various; grammar, Plutarch
  50. Urb.lat.595,
  51. Urb.lat.1418,
  52. Vat.ar.71, translations of Greek Christian works into Arabic, dated 885 CE
  53. Vat.ebr.125,
  54. Vat.ebr.263,
  55. Vat.lat.97, Peter Lombard, Commentary on Psalms
  56. Vat.lat.128, 12th-century, commentary on Mark
  57. Vat.lat.152, 13th-century commentary on Catholic Epistles
  58. Vat.lat.167, Nicholas of Lyra on Four Gospels, dated 1482
  59. Vat.lat.184, Lilius Tifernas
  60. Vat.lat.198, Cyprian of Carthage, 15th century
  61. Vat.lat.199, ditto
  62. Vat.lat.200, ditto
  63. Vat.lat.294, Ambrose of Milan, De officiis ministrorum libri I-III.
  64. Vat.lat.297,Ambrose, De excessu fratris sui Satyri
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