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.


No manuscripts were digitized in the first week of 2026 due to the holidays, so this week there will be a look back at the digitization work of 2025 in numbers. To start, some summary numbers covering the entire year: Total Manuscripts Digitized1: 1632 Manuscripts with at least one point of Metadata2: 1618 Fonds Represented: 28 Largest Fond: Barb.la...

Despite Christmas coming in the middle of the week, the Vatican got in two digitizing days and added seventeen manuscripts this week. It was an unusual distribution with eight, the largest fraction, coming from Ge'ez volumes out of Comb. The rest were small contributions, with three from Capp.Sist, two each from Ott.lat and Sbath, and a single volume fro...
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A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, perhaps the last working week of 2025. This week's distribution was all over the place, Capp.Sist contributed the most with eleven. Following on was Barb.lat with nine, Ott.lat with seven and Comb with six. Smaller contributions came from Vat.lat with three, Ross with two, and one each fr...
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In total twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. The breakdown across the collections is Ott.lat, Capp.Sist, and Comb, with eight, seven, and six contributions, respectively. The last two came from the Barb.lat collection. To the right is f.1v from Capp.Sist.667. This is a volume towards the very end of the collection, after the well-sorted...
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Only nine manuscripts for the first week of December. They came solely from Ott.lat, with seven, and Barb.lat, with the remaining two. To the right is f.6r from Ott.lat.1903, an autograph copy of Antonio da Rho's Three Dialogues against Lactantius. This is not the presentation copy made for Pope Eugenius IV, found in Vat.lat.227, but a slightly earlier ...
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A total of twenty-three manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually Capp.Sist contributed the most, with eight manuscripts digitized. Following that were the expected fonds, Ott.lat with six, Comb with five and Barb.lat with two. The week concluded with a single volume each from Chig and S.Maria.Magg To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat.1908, a...
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