Recently Digitized Manuscripts from the BAV: Annual Index 2018
Here are all the manuscripts added to the Vatican online repository in 2018, with one slight caveat: I started tracking updated Vatican manuscripts in January of 2018, so the entry for week 3 has roughly 15,000 entries -- capturing every manuscript added to that point. For the remainder of the year the weekly addition pages are accurate, but without any metadata. @jbpiggin was annotating them on his blog, please see those pages for more details
An incredably busy week, with 112 manuscripts digitized by the Vatican. See all the details at MacroTypography. To the right is the start of the main prayers in a Book of Hours made for the Use of the Monastery of S. Laumer de Blois, Ross.60, f.9r. Elements of this monastery still survive due to having been converted into a Hôtel Dieu, that is hospital, ...
Sixty-one manuscripts added to the reposity this week, see MacroTypography for all the details.
Despite having 37 folios, Ross.124 only has two with content, the rest are modern guard-leaves. The two are fragments of a 12th C Graduale, probably Italian per Iter Liturgicum Italicum. They appear to contain liturgy for the middle of June, rubrics refer to ...
Another seventy-one manuscripts digitized this week, see MacroTypography for all the details. This week multiple Persian manuscripts were added from the Fond
Cerulli, I wrote a brief history of that collection.
One of the Latin manuscripts that was added is Vat.lat.4322, a copy of Atto of Vercelli's Compilation written in the 10th C. This is not an a...
Forty manuscripts added this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. One of the manuscripts digitized this week was one of the Giant Italian Bibles made during the 11th-12th C, Vat.lat.4217. These are often called Atlantic Bibles, not in reference to the ocean, but as an early 20th C scholarly term, first used by Pietro Toesca. To the right is the...
Forty-one manuscripts added this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. The headline entry is Vat.ebr.1, the Volterra Bible, a Bible with Targum and Rashi commentary, and the largest single volume in the Vatican collection, at 330 mm thick and a mass of 45.7 kilograms. You can see the title page for Vayikra(Leviticus) on f.112r to the right.
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A full seventy manuscripts were digitized into the online repository this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. As in recent weeks, a chunk of these are from tyhe Pal.lat collection, and more details on those are available on the Heidelberg website, now linked to the individual entries. A significant chunk of those added this week are legal texts,...
Only twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. See all the details at MacroTypography. From the Palatine manuscripts comes a three-volume Concordance to the Bible, Pal.lat.613-615. In addition several more copies of Gratian's Decretals were added including Pal.lat.625, a copy of Gratian's Concordia discordantium canonum (which is just the forma...
Twenty-two manuscripts were added to the online Vatican archives this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. It includes Vat.lat.3810, part one of a two-part Geography of Ptolemy. This manuscript is incomplete and gives some fascinating insignt into the scribes work, f.1r is fully dcorated, including gilding and a large initial 'N', but there is n...
Seventy-five manuscripts were added this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. In addition to more of the Pal.lat volumes, previously available on the Heidelberg site, several volumes from the fond Rossiani were added. These include a 13th C Graduale, a Book of Hours from Germany, and a funeral oration for Francisci Foscari, who died in 1457.
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A total of thirty-nine manuscripts were added to the digital archives this week, all the details are available at MacroTypography. To the right is the miniature of the Triumph of Death, from 15th C a copy of Petrarch's I Trionfi, Vat.lat.3157, f.17r.
A total of forty-seven manuscripts were added this week, see MacroTypography for all the details
A total of twenty-nine manuscripts were added this week. See MacroTypography for all the details. Of note is Vat.lat.3742, a lovely early 16th C copy of Antonius Allius' De Vitis et Gestis Sanctorum, prefaced with a dedication to Pope Clement VII. The actual text begins on f.1r, to the right, note the Medici arms at the bottom, for Clement, born Giulio...
Only twelve manuscripts were digitized this week. See all the details at MacroTypography. With the exception of Ross,2, a Confessions of Bernardino of Sienna, all the manuscripts are part of the Vat.lat fond. The clear standout is a elaborate Peter of Poitiers Compendium roll, Vat.lat.3783. This covers the history of the world from creation through th...
Twenty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, see more details at MacroTypography. The image to the right is the World from a sumptiously decorated copy of Pliny's Natural History, Vat.lat.3533, f.19r. The manuscript contains some enhabited initials and borders to start the sections and large illuminated initials for the seperate books, along with a ...
We're back in a big way this week with 71 new manuscripts digitized. See MacroTypography for all the details
No manuscripts this week, they are still busy with non-manuscript digitizations, specifically the Printed Materials (Incunabula), Coins and Medals, and Visual Materials (a bit of a mish-mash of small-scale sculpture, drawing, photographs and other things that don't fit elsewhere in the catalogue).
As you know 3 new collections have been added on DVL (P...
No manuscripts this week, they are still busy with non-manuscript digitizations, specifically the Printed Materials (Incunabula), Coins and Medals, and Visual Materials (a bit of a mish-mash of small-scale sculpture, drawing, photographs and other things that don't fit elsewhere in the catalogue).
As you know 3 new collections have been added on DVL (P...
Forty-Eight new manuscripts were put online this week, see all the fun details a MacroTypography. The border at the bottom is from f.1r of Vat.lat.2188, a copy of Bernardini de Sicilia Quaestiones de Cognitione animae conjunctae corpori
Although not representitve of the genre, Vat.lat.2260 is one of the many legal texts digitized, see the overpopulated ...
This week thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized, see all the details at MacroTypography.
Another week with twenty-three manuscripts and more commenraties on the Decretals. See all the details at MacroTypography.
Twenty-three manuscripts put online this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. Included is another highly-illustrated copy of the Apparatus in Sextum Bonifatii VIII of Iohannes Andreae, Vat.lat.2233 (see f.1r to the right)
For those of a more horological bent, Ott.lat.548 is one of the many lovely Flemish Books of Hours made for the English marke...
A busy week with 68 manuscripts added to the Vatican website. See all the details at MacroTypography. One of the manuscripts added was Urb.lat.1251 has a lovely title page with this crazy chicken-raven (f.1v)
Only three manuscripts added this week, two greek works of Aristotle with commentary and a Use of Rome Book of Hours from Bruges. See the details at MacroTypography. In addition to the usual interior miniatures and borders, the Hours, Ross.94 has an elaborate cover with multiple cast and chased bronze inlays, see the front cover to the right
A bulky fifty-three manuscripts were added this week, see all the details at MacroTypography. To the right is the Humanist title page of Vat.lat.2094, f.1r. Although in the Style of Bartolomeo Sanvito, it is not his work, rather that of an unknown artist. The manuscript contains a translation of Aristotle by Theodore of Gaza, his Historia Animalium and...
There were twenty manuscripts added this week. Among them is a Latin translation, by a Jewish translator, of an arabic work by Razi on medicine, Vat.lat.2398. On f.1 (see to the right), there is a dual presentation scene, with the book being presented to both Christian and Muslim princes. See MacroTypography for all the details
Forty-one manuscripts were added this, with a focus on medicine. See details at MacroTypography.
Unlike the other entries on this site, this is not quite a real listing of manuscripts digitized in the past week. This was the initial load of manuscripts from the Vatican website, so includes all 13,014 manuscripts available on the site as of January 21, 2018.