Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2018

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, during the Revolution.

The border at the bottom is from Vat.lat.3219

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Incipit: Incipit p[re]fatio aup[er] unu[m] eua[n]g[a]l[ium] ex. iiii[or] co[m]-positum a fr[atr]e philippo lectore flore[n]tino

Ross.60, Book of Hours (c. 1510)
Incipit: (f.9r) Pater de celis deus miserere nobis. Domine deus om[ni]p[oten]s pater qui

See Morello, Giovanni. Libri d’ore della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Zürich: Belser Verlag, 1988. p. 89. Use of the Monastery of S. Laumer de Blois


Ross.67 (Upgraded to HQ), Book of Hours (15th C)
Incipit: (f.11r) Secundum Iohannem. In proncipio erat uerbum

from Paris, see Morello, Giovanni. Libri d’ore della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Zürich: Belser Verlag, 1988. p. 102 See JONAS


Ross.71, Book of Hours (15th C)
Incipit: (f.13r) sabb[itu]m s[an]c[tu]m loco dicitur. Alla[luyah] Laus tibi do0mine rex eterne

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Northern Italy


Incipit: Primo dierum om-nium quo mundu[s]

Incipit: Incipit p[ro]p[hit]um s[an]c[t]oru[m] in sa[n]c[t]i Saturnini marti[ri]s

Ross.102 (Upgraded to HQ), Book of Hours (1458)
Incipit: Woie urgill von allen gelaubign

In German. See Morello, Giovanni. Libri d’ore della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Zürich: Belser Verlag, 1988. pp. 52-3


Ross.104, Book of Hours
Incipit: (f.13r) Incipit offitium beate marie uirginis secundu[m] co[n]suetudine[m] Romane curie

calendar, on ff. 1-12


Ross.132 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: [r]omani svnt qui ex iudaeis gentilibusq[ue] crediderunt. hiisu-perba

Ross.134, Evangelary, glossed
Incipit: M[arcus] dei et pet[ri] in baptis-mate filius. atq[ue]

Ross.139 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: In nomine b[ea]tissime in-nitatis patris et filii et sp[irit]us s[an]c[t]i ame[n]

Ross.148 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Incipit quodelam breue inductiuu[m] ad confes-sionem per exempla et sacerdotem

Ross.166, Isidore of Seville
Incipit: Brevem serium temporum per ge-nerationes & regna primus ex nostris

Ross.169, Theologica > Iohannes Chrysostomus (961 )

Incipit: tuu[m] da nob[is]. Audia[m] q[uo]d loquat[ur] i[n] me d[eu]s q[ua]m

Ross.205 (Upgraded to HQ), chant book with added polyphony (late 11th or early 12th century )

See DIAMM


Incipit: (f.3r) Al nome sia di Dio e della san-ctissima

Ross.229 (Upgraded to HQ)

Ross.233, Pontificale
Incipit: (f.Iv) Misereatur uestri om[ni]p[oten]s deus & di-missis

Ross.250 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Incipit ep[isto]la ad Donatum prima. Bene admones Donate

Incipit: Jerr[um]. Iungat ep[isto]la quos uingit

Ross.267, Thomas Aquinas
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t cap[itu]la de partis secu[n]di libri su[m]me edite afre[m] thoma de aquino

Ross.270 (Upgraded to HQ), Bernard of Clairvaux
Incipit: Epistola sancti Bernardi abbatis clareualis ad robertum nepote[m] suum qui de ordine cisterciensi

Ross.271 (Upgraded to HQ), Gregory the Great Moralia on Job
Incipit: Rubriche dellibro xviiii[o] de-lle morali di s[an]c[t]o gregorio p[a]p[a] sopra illibro delbeate Job




Vat.lat.2408, Avicenna Canon (1301-1330)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (1974). Saint Thomas and Saint Bonaventure in the Vatican Library: Exhibit on their seventh centenary (1274-1974) : catalogue. --. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.






Vat.lat.2465, Jacobus de Forlivio Commentarium, cum suis questionibus super Hippocratis Aphorismis liber VII


Vat.lat.3219 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Tanto crudel fu la prima feruta, Si fero et si uehemente il primo strale


Incipit: (f.1r) Avgvstvs lo-cus sanctus ab auium-gustu idest quia ab auibus




Vat.lat.4083, Albumasar,Geraldus de Sabloneta Cremonensis,Tebit Astrolabium. Anon.,Canones in motibus caelestium corporum anon. imperfectum,Experimentorum liber,Questiones de indiciis Nativitatum et annorum mundi revolutionibus,Tabula elevationum signorum. anon.,Theorica Planetarum anon. imperfecta,Tractatus de motu oc

Vat.lat.4098 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.4112.pt.2, Laurentius de Aretio Liber de potestate ecclesiastica, books 2, part 2 (15th C)

ff. 322-684. Possible authors autograph copy




Vat.lat.4347 (Upgraded to HQ)




Vat.lat.4389 (Upgraded to HQ)










Vat.lat.4434, Iacobus de Forlivio de intentione et remissione formarum




Vat.lat.4451 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.4454 (Upgraded to HQ), De ponderibus et mensuris secundum artem medicam

Vat.lat.4455 (Upgraded to HQ), Jordanus Aritmetica










Vat.lat.4475 (Upgraded to HQ)






Vat.lat.4490 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.4493 (Upgraded to HQ)




Vat.lat.4498 (Upgraded to HQ), Censorinus,Cornelius Tacitus,Frontinus,M. Junius Nypsus,Plinius Secundus,Rufus,Seneca,Suetonius Tranquillus Claudii somnium,De aquaeductibus lib. duo,De grammaticis, et rhetoribus libri duo,De mensuris,De ponderibus et mensuris,De provinciis,De vita et moribus Julii Agricolae,Eiusdem de origine et situ Germanorum,Eiusdem dialogus de oratoribus,Libellus de die na

Vat.lat.4502 (Upgraded to HQ)


Vat.lat.4504, Leonardo Bruni Epistularum familiarium Libri VIII (1443)
Incipit: Leonardi aretini poete i[n] morte dius laureati per magnificum populu[m] flore[n]tinu[m] epistole

dated on f.45r







Vat.lat.4514 (Upgraded to HQ)



Vat.lat.4522 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.4523, (1376-1425)
Incipit: Francisci petrarce laureati quoru[n]da[m] illustri-um viror[um] et clarissimor[um]

Vat.lat.4524, Benvenuto Rambaldi Liber Augustalis (14th C)
Incipit: Liber qui dicitur augustali[s] continens sub compendio breuem descriptio-nem omnium Augustorum





Vat.lat.4530, Iamblicus Chalcidaeus,Theon Smyrneus De Pythagorica secta,De mathematicis quibus eruditum oportet esse eum qui ad Platonicam lectionem accedit,De secta Pythagorica (15)



Vat.lat.4539, Adalboldus,Bernelinus Junior,Gerbertus Arithmeticae fragmentum quoddam,Columnares figurae assis et partium,Commensuralitas fistularum et Monochodi,De Abaco. lib. quatuor,De asse, et partibus,De coniecturis diligentibus appositis,De eisdem fragmentum cum suis notis,De mensura Astrolabii,De mensu (15,16)

See Jordanus #10201, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 952[, Folio: 85-93, Century: 15, Notation: Trattati di musica]


Vat.lat.5754.pt.A, Bookmark

Small parchment bookmark with indicator wheel for the column