Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2019

Another busy week with 92 manuscripts added to the online archives, though six of them, even though not tagged as "low quality" are microfilm scans. Several MS are continuations of works digitized earlier, such as Vat.lat.5585, the second volume of Nicholas Harpsfield's Historia Ecclesiastica Anglicanae.

One volume that's entirely new this week is Vat.lat.5961, a 15th C work on naval architecture by Conrad Gruter de Werdena, though the title of this specific work is unknown to me. It begins with several diagrams of boyancy and siphons before getting to pumps, water wheels, distillation and finally weapons systems around f. 50. F.56v, to the right, has a depiction of three ways to cross a river/moat, from the ever popular "stick your head in a bucket" to what looks like a elegant blown-glass snorkel/facemask combo.

Bartolus de Saxoferrato is an author I was unaware of before starting this project, but his works seem to be everywhere. It is, therefore, from one of his works a commentary on the Digests, Vat.lat.2595 f.1r, that I take the bottom divider.

Vat.lat.2595_0007_fa_0001r-border.jpg
Incipit: Per zelo che il fragmento della maestora erarissima

Barb.lat.4673, Documents on various conclaves (17th C)
Incipit: Sommario delle cose che S. Carlo Secondo

Incipit: Microfilm

Incipit: (f.2r) Rubrice libri primi Sententiarum ysidori.

Ross.262 (Upgraded to HQ), St. Augustine
Incipit: Avrelii Avgvstini sermones incipivnt & primo de cantico novo. O qui baptismum [xpi] desiderat

Incipit: Inter cetera incarnationis [x] inisteria que ysayas

Ross.291 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: (f.IIr) Adam & euam qualiter dues fecit simulli

Ross.313, Psalter (13th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Qui non abut in consilio impior

Calendar to start


Incipit: Lucii aunci florii co[n]tinentie librorum quatuor sa-ctorum memorabilium

Ross.345, Gregory the Great Homiliarum in Ezechielem (14th C)
Incipit: Explicit p[ro]log[us]. Incipit omelia S[an]c[t]i G[re]g[orio] p[a]p[e]. In expiositione ezechielis

Incipit: (f.1r) Tractatus Beati Bernardi Abbatie & docto[r]is Egnegii

Ross.365, Cicero Tusculanae disputationes. (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Tullii Ciceronis Tusculanarum que-stionum liber primus incipit

Incipit: Incipit prologus. Inlibro sintillar[um]. Lector quidq[ue] es libellum hu[n]c

Vat.ar.258 (Upgraded to HQ)

microfilm


Vat.lat.2595, Bartolus de Saxoferrato Commentaria in Digestum, books 12-24 (1446)
Incipit: Glosa co[n]-tinuat i[n] Rubrica[m] ad precedentia multum

Vat.lat.2608, Bartolus de Saxoferrato Commentaria in Codicem (15th C)
Incipit: Rubrica ista habetur diuersimode uera

Vat.lat.3063 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Principior[um] notitia[m] q[ue]m

Vat.lat.3100, Alfagranus Comentarium in Ptolomaei Almagestum Anon.,Introductio Astronomica (14th C)
Incipit: Q[uo]d p[er]pendiculans cadens ex extremitate

Vat.lat.3828 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: -gelistae quasuntra ar[]bul[]

first folio is damaged


Incipit: (f.1r) Annales rerum Sixti Quinti Pontificis Ma-ximi scribere hoc tempore aggredior

Vat.lat.5440, (1590)
Incipit: (f.Ir) Liber bonorvm hospitalis et eo-rvm qvae eccl[as]iae s. hieronymi illyricorv[m]

Vat.lat.5442, Dell'arte del combattere specialmente contra Turchi, book 5
Incipit: (f.4r) Alla santita di n.s. pp. Paolo .V.

Incipit: Pro descriptione iurium dedituum emolumentorum

Vat.lat.5580, Pedro Galatino De recta Sacrae Scripturae interpretatione and De mirandis Sacramenti Eucharistiae mysteriis compendium (16th C)
Incipit: []egimus Rex inuictissime Deum ec-clesie sue

Vat.lat.5585, Nicholas Harpsfield Historia Ecclesiastica Anglicanae, Book 2
Incipit: Vndecimum Saculum De Romanis Pontificibus Imperatoribus

Incipit: Facvltas. Facultas legato Bonomien olim concessa ad

Vat.lat.5662, Decisiones Romanae Rotae (16th C)
Incipit: Auditsies Cardinalium an possime prefigere terminum

Vat.lat.5677 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: (f.1r) Breuis expositio in primum lib. carminum Marci Pagani qui triumphus angelicus intitulatur

Incipit: (f.2r) Pio Lectori. Matthias flaccius Illyricus precipuus

Vat.lat.5696 (Upgraded to HQ), Bede, et al. Homilies (12th C)
Incipit: Legimus in ec-cl[asi]a-sticus historus quod s[an]c[tu]s

Incipit: Nomen [ihu] clamore[m] pec[cat]oris pla[n]ct[us]

Vat.lat.5771 (Upgraded to HQ), Hagiography (10th C)
Incipit: -nau exsecra biles extinsus

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from St. Columbans in Bobbio


Incipit: Incipit q[ui]nta p[ar]s de dicto[n]ib[us] s[e]c[un]d[u]m ordine[m] alphabeti

Incipit: Mediolanen[us] Canonizationis Beati Caroli Borromei Inuentarium Processus remissorialis

Incipit: Ad R. & Illu. D. D. Iuli S. Laur. in damaso p[res]b[it]rum Car[dinal] de Medicis S. R. Ec. vicecancel ac bononice

Incipit: (f.4r) Index Epistolarum quae in hoc Volumine continentur

Incipit: (f.1r) Sanctissimo in [xpo] pri. et d[omi]no

Incipit: Sanctiss[eme] Atq[ue] Ap[ostol]ico ac su[m]mo omniu[m] in Orbe Antistiti Pavlo Papae III

Incipit: Mirum fortasse uideri poterit

Vat.lat.5842 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t capitula libri iiii[ti] habe[n]tis capitula xiiii. Capitulu[m] p[ri]mu[m] de pontificatu sancti Marci


Incipit: Plinivs ad amicvm lavdes dicit .m. Valerii Martialis et Eivs mortem moleste ferre dicit

Vat.lat.5868, Paolo Giovio Historiae sui temporis liber 7
Incipit: Pauli Iovii Novocomensis Historiarum Sui temporis liber viii

Incipit: Cupio uos ferre fr[atre]s ri[] que sit lingua


Vat.lat.5888, (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit Lectura super psam[m]os Magistri Thome anflici. Beatus ui[r] q[ue] no[n]

Vat.lat.5890 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Qvantum Pater optime et integerrime Boni omnes

Vat.lat.5902, Raymond Llull Principles of Medicine
Incipit: Raymundi Lullii Medicina. []hac intentione compilata est

Vat.lat.5907, Aristotle De Animalibus, translated by George of Trabezond
Incipit: Ad sanctiss[imi] Patrem Papam Nicolaum Quintum Georgii Trapesuntii in traductione librorum Aristotelis De Animalibus. Praefatio

Incipit: Questo libro sichiama altesoro ma-giore

Vat.lat.5911 (Upgraded to HQ), Francesco Barbaro
Incipit: (f.1v) Barba-rvs e-loqve-ntiae pr-inceps. Efra[c]cisi barbari patricii veneti

Vat.lat.5913 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Reconcianatio dialecticae ac p[er]lnae proeminum secu[n]da libri

Vat.lat.5920 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Scipioni Cobellutio S. N. C. Card[inali] Bibliothecario Neopolio Perusiae

Vat.lat.5925, Baldo degli Ubaldi, et al. Lectura super Sexto Decretalium Bonifacii VIII, etc. (1444)
Incipit: Gratia p[er] paparri facta nondu[m] ec[ri]pta

Vat.lat.5929, Boniface VIII, Johannes Andreae Liber Sextum, Glossed (14th C)
Incipit: Sextus lib decretaliu[m] d[omu]m bonifacii p[a]pe .viii. Bonifatius episcopu[m]

Incipit: In nomine patris et filii et sp[irit]us sancti ame[n]. lxxiii.di. i[n] no[m]i[n]e patris, Incipit ta-bula distincta p[er] capitula & articlos

Incipit: Principia rerum requiren-da sunt prius ut earum noticia

Incipit: semp[er] stabit Oue igit[ur] & ubi


Vat.lat.5937, Psalter, glossed
Incipit: eius. Dominus dixit ad me filius me us es tu ego hodie geniute

Missing the beginning, starts part way into Ps. 2


Vat.lat.5941, Seneca
Incipit: Incipit liber senc[a]e cu[m] mu[n]dus p[ro]uidentia quare m[u]lta mala bonus uiris

Vat.lat.5943, Cato de Pavia Repetitiones super Infortiato (15th C)
Incipit: Soluto matrimonio qu-emadmodum [dos] petatur s[u]b famosissimo

Incipit: Ex libro in caerimoniarum D. Joannis Bricardi Magistri caerimoniarum. Dominica festo circumcisionis d nostri Jesu Christi prima mensis

Vat.lat.5946, Alessandro Archirota Decalogus Psalmorum ubi quinque misericordiarum psalmi (16th C)
Incipit: Incipit M[]ralis di' officiis editus a Sychardo Cremonensi Episcopo De institutioni Ecclesiae

Incipit: Decretum abbreuiatum Per alphabetum. A. De Abbate

Incipit: De constitutionibus

Vat.lat.5953 (Upgraded to HQ), Iamblichus Calcideus De Pythagorica secta libri 4^or (15th C)
Incipit: Iamblici Calcidei libri de Pyctagorica secta

Vat.lat.5957 (Upgraded to HQ), Flabius Vegetius Renatus de re Militari
Incipit: Flauii vegeti Renati viri illustris co[m]mis sacrum epithoma Rei militaris Libri quattuor

Vat.lat.5959 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: De symonia [com]missa p[er] Albtem et

Vat.lat.5961, Conrad Gruter de Werdena (15th C)
Incipit: Considerando quantu[m] et q[ua]mdui methanicis

Book on naval architecture


Incipit: Imbicillitas incuntis aetatis tua B[eatissime] Juli

Incipit: Innocentius tertius Papa ex patre Transmundo

Vat.lat.5977, Hymns and Sequences (1246-1255)
Incipit: Quadraginta due ina[n]sio[n]es fili-or[um] i[sra]h[e]l in heremo

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Monte Gargano



Incipit: atq[ue] optime maiorq[ue] profecto q[uem] illor[um]

Vat.lat.5985 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t cap[itu]la dicaminum magn[um] petri de vineis de gests frederici Imperatoris et primo de hiis que acta sunt in

Incipit: q[uo]d antiquis max[em] studiu[m] agriculture aut[em] & Liber xviii[us] de hortor[um] singulari

Vat.lat.6002, Poggio Bracciolini De infelicitate principum, De nobilitate (16th C)
Incipit: Ad Doctissimi & Clemenntissimum edr[um]. Tho-mmi

Incipit: Lucae de Botona Sermones Domin et Quadr[]. quedam de passione

Incipit: de hiis 4[or] .ii.v.ii. Excelsior celo e[st] aq[uo]d

Vat.lat.6026, Bible (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit ep[isto]la s[an]c[t]i Jeronimi p[res]b[ite]ri ad paulinum p[re]sbiterum

Begins with Jerome's letter "Fratrer Ambrosius...", Ends with Remigius of Autun's Interpretations of Hebrew Names in 2 columns


Vat.lat.6029 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: [B]ella Gothorvm Scripturus que-ter Italia dirissima

Vat.lat.6043 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Martis & arma feri & partu[m] uirtute t[ri]umphu[m]


Vat.lat.6067, Gasparino Barzizza Orthographia
Incipit: [Q]uoniam recta scriptura qua[m] greta appellatione orthographiam

Vat.lat.6084, Hilary of Poitiers Contra Arrianos, De Trinitate, etc.
Incipit: (f.2r) Cir-cu[m]-spi-ci-en-ti michi p[ro]pruum uite humane ac religio-sum

Vat.lat.7055 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: (f.2r) Hauendonii V M[ta] commandato alli mesi passati, che io uedessi il

Vat.lat.9015 (Upgraded to HQ)

Nautical charts of the Mediterranean


microfilm


Vat.lat.11172, (1520)
Incipit: In nomine domini Amen. Cum sit q[ue] al[ia]s de anno 1494

Dated at top of f.1r. Microfilm


microfilm


Vat.lat.12259, (1484)
Incipit: Cum ceremoniarum Clericum plurinum

microfilm