Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 47 of 2018

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.

In the Latin section, several volumes of the works of Panormitanus, mostly legal commentaries, from the Palatine Library were added to the repository. These had been previously available through the University of Heidelberg. At the bottom is part of the border from one of these, Pal.lat.665 f.1r

Pal.lat.656, Bernard Dorna, Justinian, Innocent, et al. Summa libellorum, Apparatus in Decretales (14th C)

Incipit: Incipit p[ro]eminu[m] ad su[m]mam d[e] libb[elorum]

Codices Palatini Entry

Pal.lat.657, Antonio da Butrio Commentaria super Secunda Parte Secundi Libri Decretalium (15th C)

Incipit: Viso de conturnatia quia p[ro]o[a]ter eam sit inis-sio ideo [ic] Repetitur in vi[o] [libro] de Butpri]o doc.

Codices Palatini Entry

Pal.lat.660, Nicolaus de Tudeschis Lectura super primo decretalium (15th C)

Incipit: Hec R[esponca] potest ad

Codices Palatini Entry, owned by Nicolai Siculi

Pal.lat.662, Nicolaus de Tudeschis Lectura super Decretales Gregorio IX (15th C)

Incipit: Rede[m]ptoris postulato

Codices Palatini Entry, owned by Nicolai Siculi

Pal.lat.663, Panormitanus Tractatus in secundum librum decretalium: Lectura de prima parte secundi libri decretalium (15th C)

Incipit: [Q]uoniam hic volumi[ni]s principiu[m] non extitit in p[ro]henno

Codices Palatini Entry, owned by Nicolai Siculi

Pal.lat.664, Panormitanus Tractatus in secundum librum decretalium: scriptus anno 1461 (1461)

Incipit: [H]ec rubrica. satis contonu-ata fuit sup[er]

Codices Palatini Entry, owned by Nicolai Siculi

Pal.lat.665, Nicolaus de Tudeschis Famosissimi et monarchae iuris canonici doctoris lectura super quinto decretalium (15th C)

Incipit: HEC Rubrica continuari potest duobus mo-dis Primo ad preredemia

Codices Palatini Entry, owned by Nicolai Siculi

Pal.lat.666, Nicolaus de Tudeschis, Johannis Andreae, Nicolai Siculi, et al. panormitani recollectae quarti libri decretalium, determinacio (breuissima) quarti libri decretalium, etc. (15th C)

Incipit: Supra visum est in

Codices Palatini Entry, owned by Nicolai Siculi

Urb.ebr.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible (13th C)

Incipit: Beginning of B'resheet

Volterra Bible

Vat.gr.1646 (Upgraded to HQ), Theologica > Maximus Confessor (1118 )

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, See Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.1113 (Upgraded to HQ), Anfredus Gonteri Commentarius in Librum Sententiarum, a fratre minore auditore ed defensore Iohannis Duns Scoti (14th C)

Incipit: Quonia[m] ut ait b[eatu]s A[m]bro[sius] s[upe]r ep[i]s[tol]as Pauli i[n] p[ri]n[cipio] rer[um] p[ri][ncipi]u[m]

Vat.lat.1479 (Upgraded to HQ), Aelius Donatus, Philippus Gualterus de Castellione, et al. Ars Minor, Commentarium in Gualteri de Castellione Alexandreidem., etc. (14th C)

Incipit: Hic incipit lib[ri] donati. Partes or[ati]onis quot

See JONAS

Vat.lat.2385, Galen, Constantinus Africanus(tr) Multiple works (14th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit lib[ro] p[ri]m[us] [con] d[ist]in[c]tiorib[us]

Vat.lat.3045, Radulphus Strode Consequentiae

Incipit: Consequentia[m] dicit[ur] illatio [conseque]ntis ex ant[ecedent]e

Vat.lat.3169, Antonio de Beatis Travel Diary (16th C)

Incipit: Dono Antonio de Beate clerico Melficta no alli boni Amici et s[enori] suoi salute[m] et perpetua felicita[s]. Essendose Mons[ignor]

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 487[, Folio: striscia, Century: 13, Source: italiano (centrale e nord), Notation: linea o rigo (punti legati)]

Vat.lat.3318 (Upgraded to HQ), Aelius Donatus Ars Grammatica (10th C)

Incipit: Prima decla.... q[ue] lingus

glossed

Vat.lat.3350, Plutarch, Theodore of Gaza (tr) (15th C)

Incipit: Theodori graeci ad Reuendissimo ... And epi-scopium baleriensem Praefatio

Water damage on f.1

Vat.lat.3362, Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (14th C)

Incipit: (f.VIIr) Carmina q[ue] [con]dam studio flore-nte peregi

several notes by Bernardo Bembo

Vat.lat.3422, ps-Isocratis, Lapus Castelliunculus(tr) A Nicocle, etc. (1434-6)

Incipit: Ad Doctissimvm et el[o]qventis-simvm virvm d[o]m[i]n[u]m antoni-vm pan[h]ormitam poetam cla-rissimv[m] Lapi casteli...

see Regini, Irene. “La Traduzione Delle Orazioni A Nicocle Di Isocrate Di Lapo Da Castiglionchio Il Giovane. Edizione Critica e Introduzione.” Accessed May 7, 2020. link

Vat.lat.3423 (Upgraded to HQ), Lampi Biragi Strategies against the Turks

Incipit: Ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum Lampi Biragi strategicon aduersum Turcos

Vat.lat.4054, Angelo Colocci Index of Antique Epitaphs (1501-1549)

Incipit: August[us] Diui Julii .F. fo. i

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.4057, Angelo Colocci (1501-1549)

Vat.lat.4148 (Upgraded to HQ), Tractatis brevis super celebratione provincialis concilii (c. 1433)

Made in Germany

Vat.lat.4154 (Upgraded to HQ), Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo Contra tres propositiones concilii Basiliensis super reductione scismatis (15th C)

Incipit: [B]eatissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo p[er] & d[omi]no .d. nicholao q[ui]nto

Vat.lat.4201, Song of Songs, glossed

Incipit: Osculetur me osculo oris sui.

f.I flyleaf contanes notated music for the Office of the dead, Circumdederunt me starts in the middle of f.Ir. 11th C. cf. Vat.lat.4197

Vat.lat.4240 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible

Incipit: [F]rater ambrosi[um] ep[isto]la

Vat.lat.4241, Guillelmus Brito Guillelmus Brito (14th C)

Incipit: Expo[siti]ones uoca-bulo ru[brica] bib-lie. Difficiles studeo

Vat.lat.4243, Honorius Augustodunensis Liber de cognitione verae vitae

Incipit: Libellus Aurelii augustini de cognitio[n]e vere vite. [S]apie[n]tia dei q[uae] os

Vat.lat.4246, John Chrysostom De Compunctione Cordis (15th C)

Incipit: Iohannis Crisostimi Q[ue] Ne moleditvr nisiase ip[s]o liverunis. Scio q[uod] crassioribus qui buseunq[ue]

Vat.lat.4257, Bernard of Clairvaux Meditationes

Incipit: Multi multa sciunt et sciunt ipsos nesciunt alios in-spiciunt et si-

Vat.lat.4259, John Climacus Sermo ad pastorem

Incipit: In inferiori quidem libro extremum ego te omnium o uene-rande

Vat.lat.4298, (14th C)

Incipit: Veru[m] sit lex eterna

Vat.lat.4306, Franciscus Mayronis Sermones de Sanctis

Incipit: Audiuit archana uerba que non licet homini lo-qui &c. Ad. Cor[inthianos] xii[o] t[o]. Quia reuelata facie glo-riam

Vat.lat.4326, Girolamo Donati De Processione Spiritus Sancti Contra Graecum Schisma (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Ad Diuum Leonem Decimum Pont. Max. Philippi Donati in libru[m] Hieronymi Donati De processione Spiritus Sancti. Prefatio.

Vat.lat.4333

Incipit: Incipit secunda pars libri de uita [ihu] [xpi] in euuange-lio tradita. Et continet ipso-riam euuangelicam. dei gestis deomini in anno eius tricesimo secundo

Vat.lat.4340

Incipit: Beatus uir [] non habuit in consilio

See Iter liturgicum italicum last three folios are a fragment of a 14th C Breviary, , See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 424[ Title: Diurnale, Folio: 11v, Century: 13x, Source: italiano (transizione), Provinance: Narni, Terni o Rieti, Sabina, Umbria, Notation: linea o rigo]