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.

2025 Week 46

So far _thirty-nine _ manuscripts have been digitized this week

2025 Week 45

A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full fourteen manuscripts, nearly 5% of the total collection, from Comb were added, restarting work that commenced back at the beginning of the year. The week con...

2025 Week 44

Eleven total manuscripts were digitized in the past week. These consisted of six from Barb.lat, four from Ott.lat, and a single volume, a 17th C catalogue of printed books, from Vat.lat. To the right is f.1r of Barb.lat.2750, a 15th C collection of papal decrees. The page here starts a text to the people of Venice from Pope Clement, though which of the ...

2025 Week 43

Another extremely quiet week with only five manuscripts digitized. Four of them were from Ott.lat, and the remaining one was another Bussula, a type of election record, from Barb.lat. To the right is f.15r from Ott.lat.1822, a volume of Virgil containing both the Bucolics, and the Georgics, from which this page is taken. The manuscript is heavily ann...

2025 Week 42

In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The rest consisted of five from Comb, two from S.Maria.Magg, and a single Vat.lat volume. To thee right is f.32r from S.Maria.Magg.4 part of a monumental 12th C Bi...

2025 Week 41

A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized during the past week. In a statistical anomaly, two fonds, Barb.lat and Ott.lat, brought in the same number of manuscripts, twenty-six for each. The remaining manuscripts came in small quantities, three from Ross and one from Comb. To the right is a page of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memora...

2025 Week 40

An extremely quiet week, with only five manuscripts digitized. Of these four are from the Ott.lat collection, and the final one is from Comb. To the right is f.3r from Ott.lat.1713, a 14th C manuscript of some of Seneca's tragedies, glossed, together with several pieces about Seneca. This page is one of the later, a text about reading Seneca, _Accessu...