Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2018

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 de Medici

The bottom border is part of f.5r from Vat.lat.3748_0017, the "Pontificale of Charles VIII"

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Patetta.839, G. Giacosa, P. D. Berry (tr) A Game of Chess, in one act
Incipit: (f.2r) The Game of Chess. Characters. Rivaldo. Oliver (Count Trombone)

Ross.14, De Laudibus Virginis Marie (1351-1400)
Incipit: Deuotus tractatus de lau-dib[us] virginis marie cap[itu]l[u]m primum.

Ross.27, Guarinus Veronensis Vita Platonis (15th C)
Incipit: Platonis vita ad philippu[m] phy-sicum a Guarino veronensi compilata. Mvltvm diuq[ue] animo uerti phi-lippe

Ross.29, ps-Bernard Libro sopra le septe ore (1325-1375)
Incipit: In cominciasi lo libro di me-sere sancto bernardo soprale septe ora le quali lecclesia i canta tra lo di et lanocte

Ross.31, Ymago Vite, Glorioso et devoto pianto et lamento de la gloriosa et dolent madre del nostro Signore (1401-1425)
Incipit: In co[m]me[n]casi il libro el q[ua]]ke e i[n]titulato ymago uite. p[ro]logo. Io humilio le mie zenochie al padre del n[ost]ro signore

Ross.36 (Upgraded to HQ), Francisci Uberti Epigramaton (c. 1500)
Incipit: Ad Ill[ustrissi]mu[m] ac Excell[entissimo] D. Duce[m] valen[tinum] D. Cæ-sare[m] Borgia de Francia D. N. ac S. R. E. Confaloneriu[m]. Francisci Vberti Cæsenatis Epigra[m]maton Libellus. Licet Profecto gratulari

Vat.lat.2624, Recollectae super Codice Iustiniani in studio Neapolitano. Book I-IX (15th C)
Incipit: Codicis d[omi]ni Justinia[n]i Sacratissimi p[ri]ncipis. In-cipit liber primus. De su[m]ma t[ri]nitate & fi[dei] catho[lica]r[um]

Vat.lat.3147, Johanne Baptista Modio Libellus de Podagra
Incipit: Johannes Baptista Modius seuerinus Rodulfo Pio Cardinali Amplissimo. Alexander Coruinus amicus meus

Vat.lat.3151 (Upgraded to HQ), Leon Baptista Alberti Apologia, Elementa picturae, De pictura
Incipit: Leo baptista albertus fra[n]cisco marascalco. S. P. D. Siquis tibi dono dedevit poma

Vat.lat.3439, Pirro Ligorio Codex Ursinianus (16th C)

Album of sketches, including the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, see summary.


Vat.lat.3742 (Upgraded to HQ), Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte, Antonius Allius De vitis et gestis sanctorum (1530)
Incipit: (f.4v) A. Portuen[] Car[dinalis] de Monte S[anctissimo] S. D. Clementi Vii. Pont. Max[imo] felicitatem perpetuam. Lustranti mihi Pontificam Bibliothecam

Starts with a dedication letter to Pope Clement VII


Vat.lat.3748, Benedictionale (15th C)
Incipit: Incipiunt b[e]n[e]dictiones episcopales p[er] anni circulum. In p[ri]mis i[n] Vig[ilia] nat. d. Omnipotens deus qui in-carnatione

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 637. Notated music. From Rouen or Tours. Called The Pontificale of Charles VIII


Vat.lat.3779, Book of Hours, Use of Rome (15th C)
Incipit: (f.9r) pria uenit et sui eum non de-ceperunt.

ff. 3r-8v is calendar. At least one miniature is missing, between f.8 and 9See JONAS


Vat.lat.3849, Annales qui dicuntur Einhardi (16th C)
Incipit: DCCXLIIII Carlomanus et Pipinus muctis copiis contra Odilonom

Vat.lat.3854, Ioannes Saresberiensis Polycratius
Incipit: Inter omnia que sole[n]t uiri[us] obe[ss]e p[ri]ncipib[us]

Vat.lat.3855, Theodoret of Cyrus, Abel Portius Parisiensis (tr) De Providentia Orationes (16th C)
Incipit: Theodoreti episcopi cyrensis de providentia orationes .X. Abele portio parisiensi interprete. Prima Oratio e cœlo, sole, luna et rekli-quis stellis prouidentiam demonstrat

Vat.lat.3856, Valven Præeminentiarum (1576, 1621)
Incipit: Tenor Literarum Ill[ustrissimi] et R[evernetissimi] Domini Philippi Bonco[m]pagni Car-dinalis S[ancti] Sixti directarum R. P. D. Episcopo Valuen[sis] Sulmonen[sis] extractus a suo originali sequitur et est talis videlicet

Title taken from the cover


Vat.lat.3882, Statuta Leodiensi A

Vat.lat.3902, Ghisbertus, Johannes de Sacrobosco Collecta quaedam ex tertio libro Ghisberti de Arith.,Consilium quoddam Anonymum de regimine sanitatis,Eiusdem Algorismus , seu Arithmetica minutiarum,Eiusdem Regula mercatorum cum utilitatibus ex arithmetica arte procedentibus,In principio quaedam de morbi (16th C)

Vat.lat.3906 (Upgraded to HQ), Angelus Colotius,Gellius,Isidorus,Michael Cordella,Plinius,Pomp. Mela,Varro,Varro Ante diem quid sibi velit annotationes,De calendis, et nonis,De numeris eorumque ratione et origine,Epistola ad Angelum Colotium, eum laudans de diligentia quam adhibuit in veritate investiganda circa scientiam numerorum ponderum et mensurarum,Epistola ad

Vat.lat.3914, Varia ad Conciliu[m] spectanta, Book 1 (16th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Conuocatio g[e]n[er]alis concilii ex parte Cardinalium


Vat.lat.3927, Hieronymi Aleandri (1522)
Incipit: M.D.XXII Die IX. Octobr. Romae Adriano VI Pont. Max. et in me deficentiss cœpi observare locos ex autorib[us] priscis contraistos qvis nunc ecclesiam die vexant ut sit mihi liber

Incipit: (f.2r) De diversis formis. Venerabili f[rat]ri ep[iscop]o

f.1r is a Table of Contents


Vat.lat.3957, (16th C)
Incipit: Superius .1. Joannis Chrysost. cont. Judeos. lib. 2. Catena in Job

Vat.lat.3995 (Upgraded to HQ), Johannes Conradus, et al. Formulary for the Imperial Curia of Charles IV, Letter to Jodocus of Moravia, etc.
Incipit: Illustrissimo et gloriossimo p[ri]ncipi d[omi]no Jodoc[us] marchi[]m

Vat.lat.4055, Angelo Colocci Index of Servius (1501-1549)
Incipit: Ex seruii Mauri Co[m]mentariis in Virgiliu[m] annotationu[m] tabula.

See Boutroue, M.-E. (2008). De L’Index au Lexique: Recherches sur Quelques Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Vaticane. (Vat.lat. 4040-4062). In Esculape et Dionysos: Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean Céard (pp. 287–311). Droz.


Vat.lat.4085 (Upgraded to HQ), Andalo di Negro, Pseudo-Ptolemy De infusione spermatis, De imaginibus super facies signorum
Incipit: Amphorismi Zaelig de uiztutibus & dignitatib[us] plar[um]

See PAL for siglum C.3.8.1, See PAL for siglum B.5


Vat.lat.4088, Albumasar,Isidorus De electionibus et aspectibus Lunae,De forma mundi seu Mappa mundi,De impressionibus Metheorologicis,Varia eiusdem generis
Incipit: (f.1r) De Impressionib[us] Metheorologui[s]. Sicut dicit aristotlies i[n] p[ri]ncipio metaphisice