Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2019

Among the 38 manuscripts digitized is a deluxe late-Gothic copy of St. Augustine's On the City of God against the Pagans, which nobody ever calls by its full name. Ross.261 opens with a table of contents and then begins the main text on f.1v with a collection of marginal decorations and the fantastic enhabited initial seen to the right. This letter "G" to start Gloriosissimam is almost unrecognizable containing within itself a grumpy, crowned dragon, clutching a human head in its talon who is breathing out an entire walled gothic city, complete with towers in red and blue and purple. Further out there's a Bishop piercing the dragon with a lance and several soldiers....soldiering.

The bottom border is from Vat.lat.5675, f.4r. This is part of the border of an elaborate title page of a work defending the veneration of Corpus Christi, complete with a very side-eyed horse carrying the Host.

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Barb.gr.343, Macarii Chrysocephali Orationes

Barb.lat.4651, (17th C)
Incipit: Copia Del'diario facto da Mi Bassiano Casini.

In Italian


Ott.lat.509, Bernard of Clairvaux De consideratione
Incipit: Incip[it] lib[er] p[ri]m[us] b[eat]i B[er]nardi ad Eugeniu[m] p[a]p[e]. Subit a[n]imu[m] dictare aliquid

Incipit: Reu[er]entissimo atq[ue] sc[ant]issimo fr[atr]i leandre-co ep[iscop]o Gorgonius seruus seruor[um] dei. Dudum te frat[rum] beatis-sime

Ross.261 (Upgraded to HQ), St Augustine The City of God
Incipit: Incipiunt Capitula primi libri Au-relii Augustini de ciuitate dei

Ross.263 (Upgraded to HQ), St. Augustine Sermons (15th C)
Incipit: Aurelii Augustini ypomensis ep[iscop]i sermonu[m] liber incpipt de co[n]tine[n]tia et sustine[n]tia s[er]mo p[ri]mus

Ross.264 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Intencio n[ost]ra i[n]

Ross.265, Thomas Aquinus Summa Contra Gentiles
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit su[m]ma [contra] Gentiles s[an]c[t]i Thome d[e] Aquino or-dis fr[atru]m p[rae]dicator[um]

Ross.458, Constantine Viaticus Medical texts
Incipit: Quoniam q[uo]d ut in reth[or]icis

S.Maria.Magg.11, Psalter (1710)
Incipit: Psalterium chorale Secundum consuetudinem sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Dominica ad matutinum

Notated music. Printed in red and black


Sbath.244, Nectarius قضاء الحق ونقل للصدق Qaḍā' al-Ḥaqq wa-Naql aṣ-Ṣidq (1740)

Nectarius was the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the 17th C. He wrote this in 1674 as an argument against the Latin Rite, who were sending missionaries to Palestine. It was translated from Greek and Latin into Arabic in 1733 by Sophronius


Vat.lat.2612, Angeli de Perusio (1431)
Incipit: (f.1r) []uecu[m] que diuiditur in multas partes usq[ue]

The last page is Bartolus de Saxoferrato


Vat.lat.2636, John Andreae Additiones ad Speculum Judiciale (14th C)
Incipit: A scias q[ue] fere tota[m] hanc sciam p[er]te[m] p[re]ter ca que

Vat.lat.2638, Various Assorted Legal Texts (1376-1425)
Incipit: Quoniam & abin testato successi

Vat.lat.2640, Various Assorted Legal Texts (15th C)
Incipit: [S]uper r[everendissi]mi d[omi]ne cum exer-centi

Vat.lat.2656, Various Assorted Legal Texts (15th C)
Incipit: Quoniam post [con]pleto[r]em ordinam

Vat.lat.2658 (Upgraded to HQ), Andrea Barbazza Tractatus de praestantia cardinalium, etc (1450-1500)
Incipit: [M]aiores n[ost]ri pater Reue[n]dissime quo sanctor et justior

Vat.lat.5154, Petrarch, et al. I Trionfi, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: Ineominicia la tavola ... canzone

I Trionfi starts on f.148r


Vat.lat.5312, (16th C)
Incipit: De historicorum ordine et collectione secundum tempora q[ue]bus floruerunt

Possibly dated 1519 on f.1r


Vat.lat.5404 (Upgraded to HQ), Peter of Blois
Incipit: (f.2r) Ex fine huius tractatus constat has esse ep[isto]las mag[es]tri petri de bles Bath. Archd[iaco]ni

Vat.lat.5413, Necrology/Martyrology
Incipit: Festiuitas sanctor[um] apostolor[um] seu martir antiqui patres

flyleaf f.1r has notated music, heightened but not staffed (11th C?), , See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 299[, Folio: 1v, Century: 11/12, Provinance: Apt, Avignone (OClun), S. Lorenzo, Notation: Aquitani]


Vat.lat.5423, (15th C)
Incipit: Sanctissimo ... .iiii. pont... -lod carbo salute. Reputanti mihi saepe numero et cum animo

Incipit: (f.III) Del Quinto trattato dell' arte del com-battere special-mente contra turchi. lib. III.

Incipit: Del Qvinto trattato dell' arte del com-battere specialmen contra turchi

Incipit: Dell' arte del combattere specialmente contra turchi. Trattati Cinque

Vat.lat.5578, Pedro Galatino De Angelico pastore opusculum and De republica Christiana (16th C)
Incipit: Petri Galatini Minoritae serui inutilis JESV Christi, de Angelico pastore opusculum, ex sacra ueterie et noui-testamenti scriptura excerptum

Vat.lat.5581, Pedro Galatino, et al In Vaticinium Romanum Commentariolum, etc. (1525)
Incipit: Reuerendo d[omi]no Alexandro spagnolo Mantua-no, apostolico Referendario Petrus Galatinus Minorita, salutem plurimum dicit.

Incipit: Dubia proposita et allegata in sacro Concilio anti Pisano

Incipit: (f.2r) Ep[istu]la Nicolai tertii pp. Nicolaus epus

Vat.lat.5631, Papal Ceremoniale (17th C)
Incipit: Dominica prima aduentus ij[o] decembris

Vat.lat.5647, Pascal Egnatio Danti Anemographia (1550-1586)
Incipit: Anemographia F. Egnatii Dantis O.S.D. In Anemoscopium Vaticanum Hori-zontale, ac Verticale instrume[n]tum ostensorem Ventorum

Dedicated to Pope Gregory XIII


Incipit: (f.1r) Papa. Papa si com[m]endat ex nunc prout ex tunc facta erectione

Vat.lat.5668, Pope Sixtus V et al. De Bibliis Graecis Interpretum LXXII
Incipit: Gracam sacrorum Bibliorum editionem


Vat.lat.5675, Augustinus Fiuiza
Incipit: De consvetvdine cavsis et ritv sanctissimi corporis christi deferendi ante rom pontifice[m] iter agentem

Dedicated to Gregory XIII


Incipit: (f.2r) Circha prologu[m] in quo comunite[m] querunt doctores

Vat.lat.5751, Paenitentiale (891-900)

From St. Colombano in Bobbio, See Iter liturgicum italicum


Incipit: Questo sie uno tractato de la co-gnitione di peccati & co[m]pilato da magistro