Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 13 of 2019

See all the details on the 40 manuscripts added this week at Macro Typography. Several of the manuscripts are copies of Gratian's Decretals, one of the foundational works of canon law. These are interesting for having a consistant, but unusual layout - two columns with an inner and an outer block of text on each side. To the right is the prettiest and most unusual of these, Vat.lat.2491, f.1r with both humans and monsters inhabiting the borders and the initials

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.99

codex with parallel texts in Greek and Arabic of propetical books

Ross.241, St. Augustine The 8 Questions

Incipit: Incipiunt lib[er] s[an]c[t]i augustini ap[iscop]i ad dulcitiu[m]. De octo questionib[us]. Liber que[m] pre notaui de octo dulciti questionib[us]

Ross.335, Albius Tibullus, et al. (15th C)

Incipit: Albii Tibvli poete illustris liber incipit & p[ri]mo prohemium

Ross.336, Lucian de Amicitia, translated into Latin (15th C)

Incipit: Aurispae viri clari ad leomellum ex ludouicum filios marchionam ferrariae & mantuae translatio

Urb.lat.775

Incipit: Comedia di tri Atti composta da Babrielle Santinelli da Urbino di suo capriccio

Urb.lat.929, (1591)

Incipit: Vrbino. Vi sono maschi. Fimine

Dated on f.Ir

Urb.lat.1029.pt.1

Incipit: (f.2r) Tavola di Varii discorsi del s[enor] Paolo Parreta

Urb.lat.1098.pt.2, (1628)

Incipit: (f.374r) Di Roma il 5 cli Iuglio 1628

starts on f.373

Urb.lat.1099.pt.1, (1629)

Incipit: Di Roma li 6. Gennaro 1629

Urb.lat.1129

Incipit: In Nomine dominiame[n]. Cum non sine ratione

Urb.lat.1131, (1626)

Incipit: (f.1r) Fonchia Notarius. Abbate S[ancti] Apollinaris Clauentium de Rauenna

Urb.lat.1133

Urb.lat.1161

Urb.lat.1188, (15th C)

Incipit: In Hoc co-dice contine-tur altividivs p-latonicvs de in m-ortalitate ani-morum

Urb.lat.1509.pt.1, (1591)

Incipit: Memoria et rise dell'orone della sera instituita

Urb.lat.1509.pt.2

Incipit: Discorso Primo. Insomma doppio hauere assai lungamente

Urb.lat.1667, Il governo di Roma dell'Ill.mo e Rev.mo Signor Don Carlo card. Carafa (17th C)

Incipit: Nascita di Pauolo Quarto

Urb.lat.1668

Incipit: Della Luevva fra. filippo n[omino] Re di Spagna et il Pontefice Paolo IV

Urb.lat.1669

Incipit: Compendio delle Cose piu notabili nel Racconto dell' operationi dell' ill[ustrissimi] Sig[nori] Carafi

Urb.lat.1670, Giannantonio Pandoni Ad divum Pium [II],pont.max., de rebus a se gestis et ab aliis suo tempore,lib.I-VIII (15th C)

Urb.lat.1672

Incipit: Sommario del processo fatto contro i Carrafi in tempo di Pio IV

Urb.lat.1673

Incipit: Instruttioni e lettere dell' Ill[mo].e Reu[mo] Sig[nor] Card. Carlo Caraffa

Urb.lat.1674

Urb.lat.1760

An album of marbeled paper

Vat.lat.2443, Nicolai Florentini De Dispositionibus Membrorum spiritua-lium, seu vitalium Sermo Quartus (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Expeditus a sermone te[r]tio gra[tia] saluato[r]is no[st]ri

Vat.lat.2491, Bartholomew of Bressia, Gratianus Casus in Decretum and Decretium with Glosses (14th C)

Incipit: Inuirtute dei. suppletio Bartholomei Edita sex a[n]nis datur hic in sc[ri]pta Joh[han]is. Quoniam nouis su-p[er]uenien-tib[us]

Vat.lat.2499, Boniface VIII Liber Sextum, glossed (14th C)

Incipit: Qwia preposterus cordo prius humana sub-sidia pecere ut

Vat.lat.2502, Gratian Decretals, with glosses (14th C)

Incipit: [B]onifacius ep[isci]p[u]s s[er]uius seror[um] dei

Front flyleaf is a fragment of Bartolus de Saxoferrato's Consilia

Vat.lat.4647

Vat.lat.4668, Christopher Guarinonio Concilia Medicinalia

Incipit: Ego vidi calculos in corporibus duor[um] genera[m]

Vat.lat.4697, Ludouici Buccaferre Liber de Celo et Mundo, book 4 (17th C)

Incipit: Incipit liber quartus de celo & mundo. De graui aut[em] et Leui, quidam ex

Commentary on Aristotle

Vat.lat.4706, Marci Antonii Zenoa (17th C)

Incipit: Principium Totius universi unicum esse xii. p[rima]

Vat.lat.4707

Incipit: Index questionum ac dubiur[um] notabilium q[ue] contineunt[ur] in lectionib[us] genus sup[er] 3[0] d[e] Anima

Vat.lat.4712 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Beati Gregorii Nazanzeni theologi Apolegeticus ob eius fugam in Pontum

Vat.lat.4714

Incipit: (f.38v) Abreciationes masoreth. hebrei dicut non est

Text in hebrew(vocalized) and latin. Foliated in from left to right, but the book is organized right to left

Vat.lat.4727, Ceremoniale (1415-1500)

Incipit: (f.1v) Sciend[um] q[ue] sifestum a[n]nu[n]ciato[r]is b[ea]te m[arie] virg[in]is

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Vat.lat.4729, Ordinal (1391-1410)

Incipit: Pontifer missam celebratorus hoa[] co[n]grua i[n] greditur

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Vat.lat.4733, Pontifical Ceremonial (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit tabula in subseq[uen]tem ordinato[r]em p[ro] ut sequitur

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Vat.lat.4735, Pontifical Ceremonial (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit Tabula capitulor[um] Cerimonialiu[m] d[omi]ni pape.

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Vat.lat.4747, Pontificale (1291-1300)

Incipit: (f.3r) Ordo septem eccliasticoru[m] graduum & in gradibus ordinandi

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Cagliari. Notated Music, , See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 675[ Title: Pontificale Romanum, Folio: passim, Century: 1336-1350, Provinance: Cagliari, Notation: quadrata]