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 Mastodon, 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.

2026 Week 27

2026 Week 26

This week completes the first half of the year, and the library digitized only twenty manuscripts. Returning to recent patterns, most of these, fourteen in total, came from the Ott.lat collection. The remainder consisted of five Barb.lat volumes and a single icon from the Comb collection. To the right is the verso of the front flyleaf from Barb.lat.216...

2026 Week 25

Twenty-five manuscripts were digitized the past week, unusually for the Vatican, the majority of these were uploaded on Sunday. Most of the manuscripts this week, twenty-two, came from Borg.Copt. The last three manuscripts came from. Barb.lat, giving two, and one volume only from Ott.lat. It is not clear if this is the start of a new pattern in digitiz...

2026 Week 24

A total of thirty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, most of them being uploaded on Friday. Of these the vast majority, twenty-three of them, were from the Ott.lat collection. The remainder consisted of two each from Barb.lat and Comb, one each from Ott.gr and Vat.gr. To the right is f.14r from Ott.lat.2813. This is the start of a work e...

2026 Week 23

Only eighteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As seems to be the current pattern, the vast majority of those, sixteen, were from the Ott.lat collection. The remaining two were from the Vat.gr collection. To the right is f.1r from Vat.gr.1264, a manuscript written between 1566 and 1567 by Ἰωάννης Μαυρομάτης. The contents are particularly i...

2026 Week 22

After a week with no manuscripts digitized, probably due to Pentecost, the library was back at full strength, digitizing ninety manuscripts. The vast majority, seventy-five, came from the Ott.lat collection, with a further eleven from Barb.lat. Of the remaining, three came from Vat.gr, and a single volume from Comb. The work on that fond seems to have ...

2026 Week 20

After two weeks of no digitizations, work recommenced with thirty-four manuscripts added this week. The vast majority of those, twenty-eight, were from the Ott.lat fond. The remainder were split, four from Comb and two from Vat.gr. To the right is title page f.6r from Ott.lat.2541, part of a multi-volume catalogue of the manuscript collection of Piet...