Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 11 of 2019

See all the details on the 54 manuscripts added this week over at Macro Typography. This week we have a number of manuscripts in Greek, including a 13th C Evangelary, Gregory-Aland L-134, Barb.gr.416


Barb.gr.300, Psaltiki (15th-16th C)

notated music, See Pinakes Entry,



Barb.gr.471, Evangelion (10th-11th C)

notated music, See Pinakes Entry,


Barb.gr.565.pt.1, Evangelistarion

Gregory-Aland ℓ 134 of the 13th century



Barb.gr.579, Evangelion (11th-12th C)

notated music, See Pinakes Entry,



Incipit: Incipit lib[er] statii archileydos


Ross.87, Breviary (1450-1475)
Incipit: Ianuarius h[abea]t dies .xxxi. Luna vero h[abea]t dies .xxx.

Augustinian use, from Novara see Iter liturgicum italicum


Ross.237, Thomas Aquinas Contra Gentiles
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t capitula p[ri]mi lib[ri] [con]trage[n]tiles

Incipit: (F.VIr) Primo libro dell' amore Spirituale da insetersi nel serenissimo fetto del prencipe d'vrbino Federico II

Incipit: Compendiaria differtatio, seu breuis Tractatus de omnibus


Incipit: (f.IIr) A. Alberti. Ananrago

Incipit: Historie volgari di lingea Romana anticha

Incipit: Index eorum qvae in hoc primo tomo continetur. An de anima

Urb.lat.1464.pt.1, Federico Pendasi Lectiones in I et II physicorum Aristotelis Patavii habitae 1566 (1566)
Incipit: Frederic Pendasii lectiones in p[rimum] 2[m], et 3[m] Physicorum



Incipit: (f.3v) In hoc codice con-tinentvr epis-tole sidonii viri docti-ssimi


Urb.lat.1535, Paganino Gaudenzi Annotata in s. Scripturam (17th C)

Autograph copy


Urb.lat.1537, Paganino Gaudenzi De somniis et coniectura ex ipsis facienda (17th C)

Autography copy



Urb.lat.1651, (1652)
Incipit: Giornale di PP Alessandro VII[o]. Anno D 1652

Urb.lat.1654, (1689)

Dated in engraving on f.1r


Urb.lat.1658, Giovanni Francesco Morosini Relazione fatta e recitata in Senato dall'ecc.mo Sig. Morosini nella sua ambasciaria fatta in Francia in racconto delli Stati ereditarii della medesima delle militie de' Borghi, Terre, Castello, Vescovati, Governo alto e basso (1671)

Vat.estr.or.57, 島原実録 (Shimabara jitsuroku) (1787)

Vat.lat.2485, Dino del Garbo Expositio super 3-4 fen IV Canonis Avicennae et super V tract. 3 (14th C)
Incipit: Dini Florentini Opera, quae sequunt

Vat.lat.2490, Tommaso del Garbo and Gentile da Foligno Several medical works (1386)
Incipit: [Q]uoniam deus sub-limis om[niu]m na[ta]lium et sp[irit]ualum e[st]

Vat.lat.3364, (1513-1521)
Incipit: Petri Bembi Epistolarvm Leonis x[mi] Pont. Max. Monine [Scrir]tarvm lib. primus

A book of draft letters of Pope Leo X written by papal scribe Pietro Bembo


Vat.lat.4046, Angelo Colocci Indicis historici prima pars ab F usque ad O inclusive, in quo conduntur Livius Caesar et Salustius (1501-1549)
Incipit: Faber. fabrum esse quenq[ue] fortunae sal.

Part 2 of 3, see Vat.lat.4045 and Vat.lat.4047. 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.4186, Petrus de Monte, Antonius de Cannario Gesta concilii Basiliensis, Tractatus de potestate papae supra concilium generale (15th C)
Incipit: (f.IXv) Incipit liber continens ge-sta concilii ba-silien[ses] et primo de iesivs conci-lii origine ac fvnd-amento

Owned by Marcus Barbo (arms f.IXv). Copied from Vat.lat.4184, of a set with Vat.lat.4192


Vat.lat.4192 (Upgraded to HQ), ps-Boniface VIII, et al. Professio fidei cum apparatu, etc. (1450-1500)
Incipit: Incipit tabula sequentis operis. Professio quam fecit

Owned by Marcus Barbo (arms f.IXv), of a set with Vat.lat.4186


Incipit: Pivs PP IIII Ad Perpetuam Rei memoriam. Ad ecclesiae regimen licit tanto oneri impares

Vat.lat.4472 (Upgraded to HQ), Angelo d'Arezzo and Anonymous Medical works (14th C)

Vat.lat.4591, Burleus,Gulielmus Gualterius de Anglia Gulielmi Gualterii de Anglia sive Burlei sup. lib. Phisicorum Arist.
Incipit: Aristotiles determina turus de rebus nat[ur]alib[us] in p[ri]mo

Vat.lat.4592, Ioannes Blanchinus Ferrarionsis Canones super tabulis quas ipse composuit, et ipsae Tabulae,Canones super tabulis quas ipse composuit, et ipsae tabulae
Incipit: Exrellatissimi viri Joh[ann]is Blanchini fer-rariensis Canones sup[er]

Incipit: Lectio [prima] die[s] 28[a] Julii. Declarata est

Dated July 28, but no year given


Vat.lat.4648 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Racemationes quedam e uariis deprompse interpretibus et proprio senniolo in porphyrianam isagogen


Incipit: Prothemata di-versa qvae possvnt ad diversos sermo-nes et varias mate-rias applicari extrac-ta ex diversis avcto-rebvs incipivnt

Incipit: De los danos e inconuenientos del gouierns de la compania

Incipit: De Controuersiis inter Patres question ex ord. Predicator

Incipit: Ristretto delli inconuenienti

Incipit: De orbis primatv ex qvaestionibvs qvinqve Auctore Valerio Martorello

Incipit: Per stagnar[ri] il sangue

Incipit: Auspice deo opt. msximo q[ue] Collecta sub

Incipit: Marci Ant. Zenoa Aristotelis Aesculapii de anima specula-

Incipit: Doctissimo ac Ri[mo] Patri domino Johanni varadiensium

Vat.lat.13488.pt.2, Charters (mid-14th C)

Collection of charters


Vat.lat.14740, Collection of Fragments (9th-15th C)

29 FragmentsSee JONAS