Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2019

Coming back from vacation with a slow start, only 6 manuscripts were added this week. See Macro Typography for more details.

The image at the bottom is part of the highly complex red/blue penwork borders done by Jacquet Maci on f.1 of Ross.259, a collection of the letters of St. Augustine

Ross.259, St. Augustine Letters

Incipit: Ep[istu]la aug[ustine] ad []. Domino illiutri et m[er]ito

Vat.lat.2476, Gentilis de Fulgineo Super Tertia Fen III.Can. Avicennae (15th C)

Incipit: [V]irtvs Visvv[t]h: &c. Precepta insequiens Johannis mesne in suo

Vat.lat.3246 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero Tusculanae disputationes, books 1-5 (9th C)

Incipit: M. Tullii. Ciceronis Tusculanarum Incipit Liber Primus. Cum defensionum Laboribus senatorusque

Binding appears to contain Beneventan fragments. See f.IXv at the end

Vat.lat.4116 (Upgraded to HQ), Adam de Estone Defensorium potestatis ecclesiasticae, preface and book 1 (1431-1432)

Scribe: Nardellus de Neapoli

Vat.lat.4354

Vat.lat.4517