Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2019

First some sad news - It is with a heavy heart that we learned this week of the passing of Jean-Baptiste Piggin (@jbpiggin), whose MacroTyprography started this work and continued it for more than 4 years. He and his dedication will be missed.

One of the manuscripts digitized this week is Ross.156, a glossed Gospel of Matthew with prolog. It was clearly part of a complete glossed Gospel book, as the last folio is the start of John (f.104 to the right. This image is in UV, showing the partially erased later owners mark at the bottom.



Incipit: Flecto genua me[a] ad patre[m] do[min]i n[ost]ri I[es]u [Christi] ex quo

Ross.156, Glossed Gospel
Incipit: Matheus ex Iudea sic[ut] in ordine

f.1 is a fragment of Thomas Aquinus, In Three Sentences.
f.5r starts a commentary on Apocalypse


Ross.201, Liber Capituli (14th C)
Incipit: Martius h[abe]t dies .XXXI., Luna v[er]o .XXX.

Type and date as per Baroffio - Iter Liturgicum Italicum. Calendar missing Jan and Feb


Ross.202, Calendar and Martyrology (14th C)
Incipit: Ann[us] h[abea]m me[n]ses .12.

Ross.403, Bible
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t

Vat.lat.2547, Iohannes Andreae, et al. Liber IV Decretalium Gregorii IX cum glossulis, et al. (14th C)
Incipit: De francia etc mulier e[st] lege saxonum ducta

Vat.lat.2561, Domenico da San Gemignano Commentaria in Sextum decretalium, partes III-V (15th C)
Incipit: Dedica et Honestate Clericorum Rubrica

Incipit: Ludovico de Torres Montisregalis S.R.E. Card. Amplissimo. Vetusta Maiorum meorum


Incipit: In p[er]o che nel merchato dela


Incipit: Incipit breuiloquium pilcerimu[m] &



Vat.lat.5084, Jacob Voragine Assorted Hagiography (14th C)
Incipit: Lege[n]da de S[an]c[t]a Maria Egyptiaca.

Vat.lat.5085, Antonio della Rocca Vita of Catherine of Sienna, et al. (15th C, middle)
Incipit: De triplici significatione hui[us] nominis katherina

Vat.lat.5088, Thomas Aquinus On Kingship
Incipit: Incipit liber fratris thomaxii ad henricum regem cypri

Vat.lat.5091, Jacob Voragine Golden Legend
Incipit: Incipit Vita Beatissimi Heronymi Hardinalis, Doctoris Magnifici et Primo de Nomine eius

Incipit: Beatissimo Eugenio Pape .IIII[o]. Ioha[n]nes Arretinus Clericus


Vat.lat.5120, Cicero Philippics
Incipit: Ante quam de republica patres conscripti

Vat.lat.5134 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.5144 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Exmultorum co[m]mentatiio diferentie et proprietates


Incipit: Incipit Aureus et singularis tractus de bello iusto et iniusto. editus per Alphoneum Guerrerium

Vat.lat.5207 (Upgraded to HQ), Macrobius Saturnalia
Incipit: Multas varias que res in hac vita nobis eustathi fili

Other classical works at the end, starting f.47r


Vat.lat.5215 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis Ro. Gymnasii Professoris Praelectiones in Catullum