Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2018

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 plethora of white vine borders


Ross.13, Passion of St. Margarite, Virgin (1301-1350)
Incipit: (f.1v) Chomendo d[omi]ne animam meam In manus po-tencietue ut custodias me

Attributed to John Chrysostom on f.1r


Vat.lat.2344, Gilles de Bellemère Consiliorum, Part 1 (1401-1425)
Incipit: Consilium. Sequ[n]utur Consilia domini Egidii de bellemera utruisq[ue] juris doctor[um]. Supposita resignatione

Vat.lat.2363, Johannes Andreae, Bartolus de Saxoferrato Canon Law Texts (14th C)

Vat.lat.2364, Repertorium iuxta titulos decretalium (15th C)
Incipit: Ubi verba legis non adaptant[ur] non habet locum dispo[s]it[i]o legis ut in

Vat.lat.3054, Liber Praedicamentorum

Fragment


Vat.lat.3073, Leonardo Bruni Georgias (tr)
Incipit: Gorgia leontino qui p[ri]mus profiteri ausus est

Vat.lat.3180, Pietro D'Abano De Sacerdotio Christi (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: [F]Ratra et li veneni fati per maistro piero da abano. In prima

Vat.lat.3533, Pliny the Elder Natural History (15th C)
Incipit: Libros Naturalis historiae nouitium camenis quiritum tu-orum opus natum apud me proxima foetura licentiote epis-tola

Vat.lat.3541, Sicco Polentonus De vita Illustrium Scriptorum lingua latina, in 18 Books (1466)
Incipit: (f.1r) Siconis polentani patavini rer[um] memorabiliu[m] liber primvs incipit. Ad polydor[us] filo

dated on f.Iv


Vat.lat.3564, Pope Pius II Two Orations
Incipit: Pii secundi Oratio. De Regno Siciliæ cuius proprie-tas ad nos et Romanam ecclesia[m] pertinet

Vat.lat.3674, Hervé de Bourgdieu Expositio de Cena St. Cypriani.
Incipit: Incipit exposito magistri heruei de cena beati cipriani cartaginensis ep[iscop]i Prolog[us] incipit. Opusculum de quo tra-ctare rogatus sum sic

Vat.lat.3681, Hippocrates, Andreas Brentius (tr) De Insomniis, tr (1479)
Incipit: (f.2r) Xysto Pont Max Andreas Brentivs Patavinvs. Sæpe atque multu[m] Xyste Pont Max inter philosophos

Bound and rubricated by Bartolomeo Sanvito


Vat.lat.3698 (Upgraded to HQ), Antonius Allius Panegyricus in D. Franciscum (15th C)
Incipit: Sixto Pape iiii Antonius Allius Sp[iscop]us Vulterranus felicitatem dicit. Cvm Bea[tissime] pater aliquid

Vat.lat.3720, Missal (1523-1534)
Incipit: Pona[m] in deserto abiete[m] ulmu[m] et buxu[m] simul vt vi-deant et scia[n]t et recogite[n]t et i[n]telliga[n]t

Vat.lat.3722, Bonino Mombrizio De vita divi Hieronymi (1472)
Incipit: Ad sanctiss patrem et dominvm sixtvm IIII pont. max. bonni-ni mombritii mediolanensis de vita divi hieronymi pres-byteri liber incipit. Qvo mihi narretur strido-nius ore sacerdos

Authors autograph copy, see colophon on f.34v for attribution and date


Vat.lat.3734, Antonius Hieronymi Lunarius De reformatione Ecclesiæ
Incipit: Ad. S. D. N. D. Pavlvm Divina clement-tiae PP III. Antonii Hierohnymi lvnarii de recaneto de reformatione ec-cl[esi]æ. Discvr-svs

Vat.lat.3787 (Upgraded to HQ), Papal Epistles
Incipit: (f.1r) Contin[et] hic codex

Vat.lat.3898 (Upgraded to HQ), Horus Apollon, Franciscus Justulus, et al. Hieroglyphics, Epistola ad Gengam de erroribus Homeri in Iliade (17th C)
Incipit: Hori apollinis neloq[ue] Hieroglyphica que ipse aegyptiaca lingua voce aechdit, Philippus autem In Grecu[m] Idioma Transtulit

Vat.lat.3901 (Upgraded to HQ), Epistula Hierosolymitani patriarchae et aliorum episcoporum ad occidentales, tr
Incipit: Incipit hystoria Jerosolimitana. Herosolimitanus pat[ri]archa et ep[iscop]i tam greci qua[m] latini

Vat.lat.3923 (Upgraded to HQ), Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, et al. De studiis et litteris, In Laudem Legum, Nuptiae Ducum Mediolanensium, De Magistratibus Medionanen, etc (c. 1487-1489)
Incipit: Illustri dominæ Baptistie de malatestis. Leonardus Arretinus. Compulsus crebro rumore admirabilium uirtutum tuar[um]

ff. 42r-65r, 74r-113v are signed and dated by the scribe Tristani Chalei


Vat.lat.3952 (Upgraded to HQ), Demetrio Guazzelli Catalogue of the Vatican library under Sixtus IV (c. 1481)
Incipit: (f.4r) In p[ri]ma tabula biblioteco Vltimo pontifice. Flauius Iosephus de Antiquitate et bello Judayeo ex memb[ranus] In rubeo