Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 37 of 2019

In a graduale, such as Ross.231, one of the 33 manuscripts added this week, the two pages that are always decorated, at least a little bit more than the rest are the first page, starting Ad te levavi the Indroit for the first Sunday in Advent, and the page with Resurrexi Et Adhuc, the indroit for Easter Sunday. For this one the decorative "A" on f.1r was never completed but there's a lovely red Romanesque R on f.77r (see right) to start the Easter Introit.

Below the text is a fragment of music from a musical setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah written in 1586, Vat.lat.5466, f.19r.

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Ross.213, John Chrysostom
Incipit: (f.1v) Johannes crisostomus eup[er] ep[istu]la pauli ad titu[m] omelia

Ross.231, Graduale (12th C)
Incipit: Ad te leuaui animam meam deus meus in te confido

From Venice, as per Iter liturgicum italicum


Incipit: Spiritu magno uidit ultima & [con]solat[us] est

Ross.472, (1434)
Incipit: Incipit dyalogus qui serutimuu[m] d[eu]s scripturar[um]

Dated on f.1r


Vat.gr.1056 (Upgraded to HQ), Scientia > Astrologica (Arithmetica )

Incipit: Diuersorum Epistole et Carmina Gre-cae, ad

Letters from the Patriarch of Constantinople to Gregory XIII, See Pinakes Entry,


Vat.lat.2607, Bartolus de Saxoferrato Commentaria in Digestum (1430)

dated on f.341r


Vat.lat.2619, Bartolomeo da Saliceto Commentaria in Codicem, lib. VI (15th C)
Incipit: In [christi] saluatoru[m] nomi[n]e amen. p[ri]mo

Vat.lat.2632, William Durand Repertorium seu Breviarium aureum (14th C)
Incipit: Alpha & O[mega] ie[s]u [christe] incipit rep[er]toru[m] mag[ist]ri glihelmi durantis. [R]euendo i[n] [christo] pat[ri]


Incipit: (f.328r) Ruggier, qual sempre fun

Incipit: Historia Familae Man-Fredorvm. Familiarvm que in Italia ab ipso

Incipit: Spartiani de vita a hadriani imperatoris ad dioclitianvm avgvstvm

Incipit: Scala et Ordine [] Historia di Oruieto. Authori antichi [] Sanno mentione de oruieto

Vat.lat.5351, Giovanni Battista Agucchi, et al Della legatione del card. Pietro Aldobrandini...., etc (1676-1725)
Incipit: All'illvstre signore Gioachin Caualiere s[enor] Di passano

Vat.lat.5373, Assorted Medical Texts (1472-1475)
Incipit: (f.6r) De medicinis noti laboriose Johe[n]tib[us]

Vat.lat.5374, Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī Liber servitoris, sive liber XXVIII Bulchasim Benaberacerin and Index (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit liber seruitoris liber XXVIII. Bulchasi Benaberamerin tra[n]s-latis a Simone Ianuensi interpreete Habraa[m] iudeo tortuosie[n]si

Translated by Simon Genuensis and Abraham Iudaeus Tortuosiensis


Vat.lat.5385 (Upgraded to HQ), Ovid Metamorphoses
Incipit: [C]haos ut heliodus indicat i[n] uolumi[n]e quod

Incipit: (f.1v) Carmina magistri bartholomei de regno edita ad honorem d[omi]ni ladislai regis apulie

Collection of heraldry images, no text apart from captions


Vat.lat.5395, Angelus Colotio Collecta ab Angelo Colotio de ponderibus, et mensuris

Vat.lat.5401, Giacomo dal Pozzo Decisiones Rom. Rotae (1565)

dated on f.1r


Vat.lat.5405, Documents on the Council of Chalcedon (1476-1525)
Incipit: (f.2r) Exemplar imperialium litterarum que Nicee misse sunt

Vat.lat.5414 (Upgraded to HQ), Necrologium
Incipit: Ie[u]s [christus] filius d[e]i in bethleem iude nascitur.

Later obits in the margins


Incipit: Queste sonno alcune cosse denotissime de la passione del nostro segnior messer y[e]h[s]u [Christo]

Incipit: Cetiri superiorum temporum Pontifices in quibus omnibus maxime elucet

Incipit: (f.255r) Cornelii Mvssi Episcopi Botvntini Divinae Historiae Liber Tertivs.

Incipit: Summo a Sacrosancto Pontifici Clementi eius nom .iix.

Vat.lat.5466, (1586)
Incipit: (f.1r) Cantvs Ecclesiasticus Lamentationvm Hieremiae prophetae

Notated music. See Iter liturgicum italicum. Arms of Pope Sixtus V on the title page, , See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 839[ Title: Lamentationes, Folio: passim, Century: 1586, Provinance: Roma, Notation: misurata]


Vat.lat.5469, (1583)
Incipit: Livoniae commen-tarivs. S[ermo] D[omi[no N[ost]ra d[omi]no Gregorio XIII Ponti[fici] Max[imo]

Dated March 30, 1583 on f.9v


Incipit: Allegationes ivris pro ecclesia lateranensi

Incipit: Entrata et vscita debiti et crediti della provincia della marca conforme alle

Liturgical fragment, contains text of John, 14:28