Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2019

Thirty-nine manuscripts were added this week, see some details at Macro Typography.

On the last folio, f.73v to the right, of Vat.lat.2516, a copy of Bartholomew of Brescia's Casus Decretorum and Historiae decretorum, we find this strange drawing of the Rota Fortuna, Fortune's wheel. Usually this is depicted with the king at the top and a pauper at the bottom and those rising and loosing status on the sides. Here, however, we find Fauvel, the famous literary horse in the position of success



Reg.lat.2121, Abdication Document of Queen Christiana (1654)

dated June 1, 165


Ross.50 (Upgraded to HQ), Basil the Great, etc Sermo de legendis libris gentilium, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Leonardi Aretim prefacio in libro ba-silii magni greci Incipit feliciter. Ego tibi hunc librum.

Translated by Leonardo Bruni


Ross.107 (Upgraded to HQ), Book of Hours (c. 1500)
Incipit: (f.13r) Initiu[m] s[an]c[t]i euua[n]gelisti s[e]c[un]d[u]m Joh[ann]em

See JONAS


Incipit: & ignorat cui [con]gragrabit ea. Et nu[n]c q[ue] e[st]

Ross.117, Breviary (13th V)
Incipit: (f.5r) Beatus uir qui n[on] abiit in

Ross.131, Gospel of St. Mark, with gloss
Incipit: (f.1v) Marcus euang[e]lista di electus & pet[ri] in baptismate

Incipit: Incipit liber exortationis beati aug[ustini] ad quendam comitrm carissi-mum

Incipit: Incip[it] su[m]ma fr[atr]is thome d' aq[ui]no d[e] s[an]c[t]ia theolo-gir. Qua catholice ui[n]-tatis

Sbath.243, Pierre Moghila, Christodulos bishop of Ramala and Gaza (tr) اعتراف الراي المستقيم iʿtirāf ar-ra'y al-mustaqīm (1691)

Urb.lat.1622, (1644)
Incipit: De colognali 20 di Marzo, 1644. Gli tre giorni e arriuato appresso il

Printed


Vat.estr.or.41.pt.A, Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, 大般若波羅蜜多經 (Da bore boluomiduo jing) (9th-12th C)

Includes several other fragmentary Sutras. f.2r dedication to Pope Pius XI dated 1933



Vat.lat.2514, Justinian Infortiatum (14th C)
Incipit: Soluto m[at]rimonio q[uem] ad mod[um] dos petat[ur]

Arms of Eugene I on f.1r


Vat.lat.2516, Bartholomew of Brescia Casus Decretorum and Historiae decretorum (13th C)
Incipit: Quonia[m] suffirigantib[us] antiq[uo]r[um]

Vat.lat.2519, Bernardus de Botone Parmensis and Johannes Andreae Casus longi Decretalium and Summa de sponsalibus et de matrimonio (14th-15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Liber prim[us] de su[m]ma trinitate & fide catholica. Rex pacificus p[re]missa

Vat.lat.2521, Henricus Bohic Distinctiones (14th C)
Incipit: Incipiunt distincto[n]es mag[ist]ri henrici bohic super primo libro decretalium

Companion to Vat.lat.2522


Vat.lat.2530, Johannes de Imola Commentaria in Decretales (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit p[ro]logus no[mi]ne [com]pilatio[n]is g[re]g[orii] ix. lib[er] p[ri]mus

Vat.lat.2531, Johannes de Imola Commentaria in Constitutiones Clementinas (15th C)
Incipit: Abbaties Gl[orios]o lu[m]inat et diuidit

Incipit: Precatio Socratis apud Platonem in extremo dialogo Phaedro


Incipit: Expositio D[omi]ni Ludouici, ab, ore gerreo in primo libro De Generatione et Corruptione

Incipit: Lectiones secundi de A[n]i[m]a. Cum autem quae a prioribus

Incipit: Marci Ant. Zenoa Aristotelis Aesculapii de a[n]i[m]a

Incipit: [con]fessionem accipiu[n]t me[m]-tium ulcera saluti restiti-unt

starts on f.318


Vat.lat.4789 (Upgraded to HQ), Jean d'Ibelin, Le livre des assises de Jérusalem and Lignages d'Outremer (14th C)
Incipit: Cli comence[n]t les rebrices dou Laure des assises et des bons

See Arlima for details on the text, See Pinakes Entry, See JONAS


Incipit: Incipit p[ro]logus libri Florite. En regie nobilitatis et

Vat.lat.4828, Quaderno di Merchante,Ragioni di abaco,Tariffa,Tariffa (1453)

Incipit: (f.1v) Incipit p[re]fatio in subiectu[m] Opuscul[or]um.

Incipit: Incip[it] enarratio leoniu ep[iscop]i neapoleos et pror[um]

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 334[, Folio: 49r, Century: 13, Source: italiano (centrale e settentrion, Provinance: OSB, Notation: Punti legati]


Vat.lat.4864, ps-Albertus Magnus, et al. Liber experimentorum seu secreta compilata a magistro Paulo de Lumogys, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: Sicut dicit philosophus in multis locis o[m]nis

Incipit: Epistolae Praeceptorum Sancti Clementis Papae Missa Iaco-bo Frat]ri

Incipit: Hoc libro continentur. XX Concilia Hispanien-sia, ex vetustis codicibus descripta nondum typis mandata

Incipit: Imp. pyss. Aug. Constantino Imperatore Anno .xxvi. post consie-latum eius anno .v. mense

Vat.lat.13489.pt.1, Greek Charters

Vat.lat.13489.pt.2, Greek Charters

Vat.lat.14402.pt.A, Charters

Vat.lat.15344, Ulrich Richenthal Concilium Constantiense 1414-1418

Labled drawing of the Great mosque of Mecca