Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 48 of 2018

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 first page of text, the Letter to Paulinus. This epistle of Jerome, which starts so many copies of the Vulgate, begins "Frater Ambrosius", f.1v.


Barb.lat.4310, Recipes for making colored and enamelled glass of all kinds (1536)
Incipit: Ricette per fare ventri Colorati et smaltati dogni sorte hauuta in Murano

From Murano, starts on f.223r


Barb.or.164, Bible (1295-7)
Incipit: וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַשֹּׁפְטִ֔ים וַיְהִ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּאָ֑רֶץ

Part of a 4-volume Hebrew Bible(Barb.or.161-164),


Ross.34 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.gr.1032 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Rimario. Abbia. Arrabbia

Vat.lat.3292, Persius, Ovid Saturae, Epistulae ex Ponto (13th C)
Incipit: Nec fonte labra p[ro]lui caballino

Glossed


Incipit: Joannes Tritthemius abbas in Catalogo Scriptore Eccliasticor[um]

Incipit: In nomine d[eu]m amen. Infrascripte Rubrice exami[n]ato[n]es et recol-lecto[n]es

Vat.lat.4059, Angelo Colocci Index in quoddam Hieronymi Vidae opus, In Vitruvium, In Macrobium (1501-1549)
Incipit: Andreas. Antiochen. Apocalypsis

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.4077, Al-Qabisi, John of Saxony(gloss), John of Seville (tr) Commentarius in Alchabitii tractatum de coniunctionibus planetarum in duodecim signis (15th C)

Vat.lat.4078, Albubather, Salionis de Padua(tr) De nativitatibus (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit liber Abubetri de natiuitatibus.

Vat.lat.4080, John of Seville, George Anselm Isagoge in Astrologiam, De Iudicis astrologicis, Astronomia (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) [I]ncipiunt Isagoge Johannis hyspalensis & iuditiis ast[ro]nomie.

Vat.lat.4086, Rogerius Bacho,Seneca Causae universales in septem partes distinctae,De clementia ad Neronem,Eiusdem Epistola Dedicatoria ad Clementem VII

Vat.lat.4094, Ibn Sirin, Leo Tuscus (tr) Liber de significationis et previdentionis somniorum - Interpretatio Latina ex Graeco sermone Leonis Tusci (1407)
Incipit: (f.1r) In [xpi] no[m]i[n]e amen. Hic est liber signifi-cationis et p[r]euidentionis sompniorum p[er] cap[itu]la i[n]frapoita diftinetum p[er] cusispecto[n]em ap[er]ette noctio. Laborans laboraui ad inveniendum donatori meo

Vat.lat.4133, Aegidius Carlerii De conciliis, Tractatus contra negantes beatam Mariam virginem esse matrem Dei (15th C)
Incipit: De ethimologia huius uocabuli Concilium et quod modis accipiatur Paralimphus

Vat.lat.4151, Alfonsus Garsias Propositio in concilio Basiliensi de altercatione inter ambassiatores regum Castellae et Angliae, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Proposicio facta per Reueren-dum patrem dominu[m] alfon-sum Ep[iscopu]m Buriten

Vat.lat.4168, Council of Nicea II Acta (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit Prologus in Septimam Eynodum. Domino Coangelico Johanni Ponrifici Su[m]mo & Vniversais Papae

Incipit: Parabole salomonis filii dauit regis isr[ahe]l ad dandam scientiam.

Vat.lat.4214, Peter Abalard Expositio in Hexameron
Incipit: Exameron. Tria sunt in ueteri testamento loca que ad intelligendu[m] dis-siciliora esse sacresc[ri]pture

Vat.lat.4217 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible (12th C)
Incipit: Incipit epistola S[an]c[t]i Heronimi P[res]b[ite]ri ad Paulinu[m] p[res]b[ite]r[u]m de om[n]ibvs divine

See Iter liturgicum italicum. So called "Atlantic Bible", probably made around Rome


Incipit: Introit[um] in XII p[ro]ph[it]as. Stabat mare sup[er] xii boues

Vat.lat.4242 (Upgraded to HQ), St. Ambrose Commentary on Luke (11th C)
Incipit: Incipit Liber S[an]c[t]i ambrosii sup[er] p[ro]p[hetam] Lvcam. Scriptur in euang[e]lu libru[m]

Vat.lat.4249 (Upgraded to HQ), Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, George of Trebizond(tr)
Incipit: Georgii Trapezuntii in traductione orationum quibus beatus athanasius et magnus Basilius a Gregorio Naza-zeno laudantum ad Beatissimum p[a]p[e] Nicolaum Quintum prefatio

Vat.lat.4254, Boethius Vita Boethii, Consolation of Philosophy
Incipit: Boetius ieste de familia sint mallii cortuati nobilissim '

De Consolatio is glossed


Incipit: Ad reu[er]endum p[at]rem fratrem Ludouicum Vicentinum ordinis mi[n]or[um] Benotor[um]

Vat.lat.4269 (Upgraded to HQ), Franciscus de Mayronis De usu terminorum
Incipit: [C]um difficultas u[er]bal[is] m[u]ltu[m] i[n]pedit

Vat.lat.4274 (Upgraded to HQ), Moses Maimonides Dux neutrorum siue Dux perplexorum
Incipit: optimas pro vistoria, et laude ex[er]cii hii uero usque ad Tenebras peregrina[n]do deueniu[i]t. Explicit Liber questionu[m] Philonis.

MS begins at the end of a work of Philo before starting Maimonides


Vat.lat.4281, Johannes Nider Johannes Nider
Incipit: Incipit Tractat[us] de reformacide status Cenobitici fr[atr]is ioha[n]nis Nyder sacre theo[re] professoris ordinis predicator[um] prologus. Rogatus sum a te

Incipit: [C]irca priuum lib[rum]

Incipit: Unde p[a]p[e] fidem p[re]scitam in iacob & no[n] in esau

Incipit: i[m]me[diatum] corporei[tatis] det[erm]i[n]ate. Iste cu[m] mo[d][us] d[ictan]di

Vat.lat.4296, Peter of Capua Summa rheologica
Incipit: Prima distinctio. Incipit summa theologie magistri petri capu-am I[n]cip[it] p[ro]logus.

Vat.lat.4304, Peter of Capua Sentences
Incipit: Uetustist[iss]ima ue[te]r[a]m comedetis & nouis sup[er]uenientib[us] uet[er]i habicietis. Vetustissima uet[era]m

Vat.lat.4313, John Wyclif De universalibus
Incipit: Libellus de u[niversa]li-bus co[n]tin[us] xv cap[itu]la. Cui[us] p[rimum]

Incipit: a.a. Jere. I. b.

Appears to be some sort of concordance to the Bible


Vat.lat.13320, Giovanni Battista De Rossi Discorso autografo letto per la festa del suo settantesimo nella cella tricora del Cimitero di Callisto il 25 apr. 1892 (c. 1892)

Autograph copy presented to Pope Pius XI by Orazio Marucchi in 1924


Vat.pers.10 (Upgraded to HQ), Christoforo Borri, Pietro della Valle (tr) De Tribus coelis (translated) (17th C)

Vat.sir.11, Psalms

Introduction is in Arabic



Vat.sir.560.pt.B (Upgraded to HQ), (20th C)

The modern section of the MS, which was donated to Pius XII in 1937 by the Metropolitan of Mosul. Part A is a single folio, f.27, from an 8th or 9th C Roman law work, Sententiae Syriacae.