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 40

2025 Week 39

Only sixteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually the largest number, fully half, came from the Comb collection This collection of primarily Ethiopic liturgical manuscripts came from the personal collection of Daniele Comboni, founder of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. Of the remaining manuscripts, seven came from Ott.lat a...

2025 Week 38

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts, a full thirty-three volumes, came from Ott.lat. A further six came from Barb.lat, four from Vat.lat, and two from Ross. One manuscript each was added fro...

2025 Week 37

Concluding the end of almost the quietest possible week where anything happened, three manuscripts, all part of the Vat.lat collection, are newly online. To the right is f.329r of Vat.lat.10843, which is one of a series of Miscellanies in this section of the Vat.lat collection. This manuscript was written on paper, with an acidic ink which has eroded t...

2025 Week 36

Another week done, another thirty-three manuscripts digitized. As is becoming the current pattern, the majority of these, twenty-one, came from the Ott.lat collection. An interesting detail is that in the last few weeks, the slow work on this fond has progressed past shelfmark Ott.lat.1676, which moves to the second volume of the inventory. The second v...

2025 Week 35

A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, to conclude summer. Following recent patterns, the largest contributor was Ott.lat, with thirteen, followed by Comb and S.Maria.Magg, each with seven. The remaining volumes came from Barb.lat, three, Vat.lat, two, and Barb.gr, a single manuscipt. To the right is f.135r from S.Maria.Magg.92, a...

2025 Week 34

No manuscripts were digitized last week and only twelve this week, due to the summer holidays. The overwhelming majority of them, nine or 75%, are from Ott.lat. The rest are one each from Barb.lat, Comb, and S.Maria.Magg. To the right is f.174v of S.Maria.Magg.43, a copy of Gregory the Great's Regula Pastorale dated to about 861. There is significant p...