Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 39 of 2019

The most obvious update this week isn't from the BAV, but on this website. I've reworked the individual week pages to include a better, hopefully better, organization of the descriptive text and a thumbnail image for each MS. As part of this work, all parts of the site should work better on mobile browsers. These new designed page cover the 48 manuscripts the Vatican added this past week.

One of the MS digitized this week documents Pope Sixtus V's work on restoring the port of Ancona, Vat.lat.5463. This includes several monuments, such as the triumphal arch seen to the right (f.14r).

The bottom border is from Vat.lat.2617, f.1r

Vat.lat.2617_0015_fa_0001r-closeup.jpg
Barb.lat.9717, Bastiano Casini

Capp.Giulia.XV.75, Claudio Monteverde Il Quarto Libro de Madrigali a Cinque Voci (1611)
Incipit: (p. 1) Ah dolente partita. Ah fin de la mia vita. Ah fin de la mia vita.

Printed with musican notes


Ross.217, Thomas of Ireland Manipulos florum
Incipit: Incipit tabula libror[um] orig... Qui ... manipulos flor[um]

Ross.232, Liber Pontificalis (1551-1575)
Incipit: (f.1r) Liber Pontificalis Ordinis habens tres partes in se et primo incipit prima pars de crismandis in fronte pve-ris rvbrica

32 blank folios at start. See Iter liturgicum Italicum


Ross.236, William Perault On Virtues and Vices
Incipit: Incip[it] t[ra]ctat[us] de ciciis. Dicturi de uiciis, in cipiem[us] aui-cio

Ross.245, John Chrysostom Ad Stagirium Monachorum (15th C)
Incipit: Sunt quidem plurima que in te laudari merito possint princeps

Ross.253 (Upgraded to HQ), Bartholomew of Pisa Summa de casibus (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit summa de casib[us] fratris bertholomei de pysis um magist[re]ctii de ordine predicatorum in dei

Ross.269 (Upgraded to HQ), Thomas Aquinas Dialectica
Incipit: Antiqui philoso-phi tractauer[an]t q[ui] Diale-tica e[st]

Ross.474, John Duns Scotus Ordinatio
Incipit: Circa secundu[m] libru[m] in quo ut dictu[m] est i[n] lectio[n]e trac-tat

Vat.gr.299 (Upgraded to HQ), Scientia > Medica (1301 - 1400 )

Incipit: Le Poste di qua 'a' Terracina sono le sequenli

Dated June 16, 1592 on f.1r


Vat.lat.2617, Bartholomew of Saliceto Commentaria in Codicem (15th C)
Incipit: Cum ego bartholo-meus de

Vat.lat.2623, Floriano Sampieri Commentaria in Digestum, Books 9-22 (1422)

Dated on f. 124r


Vat.lat.2631, William Durand Speculum iudiciale, Books 1-4 (14th C)
Incipit: (f.4r) In nomine & glo[rio]se u[ir[gine matus eius specu-lum a magistro GWillemo durandi

Vat.lat.2637, Raynerius de Forlivio, et al. Tractatus de substitutionibus, etc. (1390-1394)
Incipit: In [christi] no[m]i[n]e et eius matris i[n] temerate u[ir]gi[ni]s tocius q[ue] cellestis curie amen.

Scribes: Johannes Stanga, Adam


Vat.lat.2655, Fredericus de Senis Consilia et quaestiones redacta per Lapum Tactum (15th C)
Incipit: Ad ep[iscipu]m et cap[itu]l[u]m pertinet

Vat.lat.5226.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Baldesar Castiglione
Incipit: (f.1v) Ecco la bella grate, e l'dolce nodo, gli

Starts on f.719r


Vat.lat.5357, De componendis Cifris libellus
Incipit: [T]u que[m] psallente[m] thalamis que[m] matre camena

Vat.lat.5384, Nicholas Clamengius Contra Simoniacos
Incipit: Contra Simoniacos. Nicolaus Clamengius de praesulibus simoniacis. Mulla mihi in prasulibus

Vat.lat.5391, Armorial

Vat.lat.5394 (Upgraded to HQ), B. Ioannes Apostolus,Hercules Sechadinarius Bononiensis,Julius Frontinus,Marcus Junius Nipsus De prospectiva pingendi,Fragmenta de vi, et potestate numerorum,Liber de Fluminibus,Libri Agri mensurae,Vita per Mellitum Episcopum Laudociae
Incipit: (f.1r) Respondit Aristodemus, un ueniam postulemus; et quicquid

Vat.lat.5398, (16th C)
Incipit: Ad Apologeticum aduersus Gentis. Cum Simonem Magum statua, et inscriptione

Owned by Fulvio Orsini



Vat.lat.5411, Hagiographica (1126-1150)
Incipit: Se inde possit excutere blandis sertorum

Vat.lat.5436.pt.1, Liber Pontificalis
Incipit: Marcellus natione Ro[mane] sedit An[no]. V. men[sis] .vi. die .xxi. et cessauit

Vat.lat.5436.pt.2, Liber Pontificalis
Incipit: Decreta Gelasii pp. Gelasius

Vat.lat.5437, Thomas Aquinas Summa Trinitate
Incipit: [I]ncipit Tractat[us] fidei Contra diu[er]sos e[r]rores sup[er]

Vat.lat.5447, Dell'Arte del Combattere specialmente contra Turchi. Book 5
Incipit: Vna delle cause et la piu principale per la quali[tio] contra il Turcho

Vat.lat.5459, (1606)
Incipit: Discorso con Molti raggioni, atti et scritturi dati alla santita di no[mino]

Vat.lat.5463, (1585-1600)
Incipit: A. Xisto .V. Pont, Max, La Ristvrati-one del Porto de Ancona capo di Marca new Mar adriatic[o]

Vat.lat.5467, (17th C)
Incipit: Apologiam Gennadii Scolarii Patriarchae Constiantinopolitani aduersus literas Circulares Marci Metropolitae Ephesini Schismatici

Incipit: (f.2r) Nota di quello che si contiene nel presente Libro. Offitii che' conceded

Dated Feb. 1, 1590 on f.2r


Incipit: Prouisioni, che si pagauano in tempo della

Vat.lat.5477, Maronite Missal (1594)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ordinarivm Missae iuxta consuetudinem Ecclesiae Maronitarvm

Latin/Syriac ("Chaldean") Missal. ff. 1-33 are manuscript in Latin, printed book starts on f.34 with brief intro in Latin. Main text reads right to left, starts on f.181v


Vat.lat.5492, Breviary (15th C)
Incipit: A[n]nus h[abea]t me[n]ses xii[or]. septi[m]anias lii et die[m] unu[m].

From Taranto, per Iter liturgicum italicum


Vat.lat.5504, Guilio Caravaggio Brevissimus Sacramentorum tractatus (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) De Animae im[m]or-talitate. Cum omnes nostre operationes, ad ul-timum perfectissimumq[ue]

Vat.lat.5579, Pedro Galatino De Septem ecclesiae, and De Cognoscendis pestilentiis (16th C)
Incipit: Petri Galatini minorite d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ie[he]su christi serui inutilis de septem eccl[esa]ie tum temporibus

Vat.lat.5598, Acts of the Council of Constance

Incipit: (f.1r) Di Castello. Sequentur Rubrice seu Capitula duodecim collectionu[m]

Incipit: Ioanni de Carvaiali. Sacros[te] Ro[manae] Ecclesie S[anc]ti Angeli Diacono Car[dinali] doctiss[imo] sanctoq[ue]

Incipit: Ioa[n]nis Cardinalis S[an]c[t]i angeli: Legati ap[osto]lici ap[u]d hu[n]garos pro fide

Vat.lat.5655, (1539)
Incipit: Decimae. Decimarum incapaus erant Laici ad proscuptione illam

Dated on f.1r


Incipit: (f.2r) De legatis Designandis. Omnis illi uidentur mihi multu' laudandi qui in occurren-tibus

Vat.lat.5670, Jerome Serra Lutheranorum Serra in servium arbitium
Incipit: Pio iiii diuina prouidentia Pontifici max. Jo. Bapt[ist]a sra, nouocomensis Franciscane religionis alumnus, ac eius minim[us] obedientie filius. Felicitatem. Sitanta est uirsusis uis et commendatio sanctiss[eme]

This book appears on the Index


Incipit: Espolitione nel Salmo Lxxv. Notus in iudea deus, anno iubilei

Incipit: Hispania. Persone nominate pro Idoneis

Manuscript has tabs on the outer edge to the start of chapters


Flyleaf is a 13th C bible leaf