Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 49 of 2019

Despite it being the first week of Advent, forty-one new manuscripts went online this week. We are getting deeper into the fond Vat.lat with the bulk of the manuscripts in the 6000-7000 range. Of personal interest is the Milanese Book of Hours, Vat.lat.6259. To the right is the start Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, f.7r. Instead of the common depiction of the Annunciation at Matins, we see Mary holding the Christ child who is reaching for a rose. He is partially swaddled, probably as a prefiguration of his burial shroud

The bottom border is the side of the title page to Vat.lat.6239, a response given to the French living in Mantua, delivered in 1459, though this copy may be somewhat later.

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Incipit: Transitus beatissimi Hieronymi editus a beato Eusebie i[n]cipit foelicit[]

Incipit: A Laude de dio & de la beatisima uergene maria & del beato

Incipit: Inuentariu[m] subseque[n]tium libellorum. [C]vm hoc i[n] opusculo plurina tractent[us]

Incipit: De Libertate et multiplicibus gratiis, Confirmatio omnium priuilegiorum

Ross.388, Aristotle Ethics, Book 10-
Incipit: Omnis ars om[n]is q[ue] doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonu[m]

Incipit: Incipit su[m]ma artis p[rae]dicato-ris mag[ist]ri petri ma[] ducato[r]is. Vidit iacob scalam

Incipit: (f.1r) Ne plerumq[ue] p[er] caritat[is] actum.

Ross.418, Leonardo Bruni History of the Florentine People, book 7
Incipit: Leonardi arrentini historiarum florentini populi liber septimus incipi. Liberi iam populi tiuitatisq[ue]

Incipit: S[c]ire cup[ri]il lector quisede[]...petrus riga nocor

Ross.430, Life of St. Francis
Incipit: Incipit uita b[ea[ti francisci Et primo de conue[r]sione ipsuis.

Incipit: Ergo ne supremis potuit uox improba uerbis Tam dirum mandare nefas

Incipit: Turpi-inus dei gr[ati]a a[r]chiep[iscop]i re-mensis & ac sedulu[s] karoli magni inp[er]atoris

Vat.lat.2822, C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus Epistles (15th C)
Incipit: Plinius ad amitu[m] laudes di-cit M Valerii Martialis, eius mortem egre ferens

Vat.lat.3108, Hugo de Castello O. P. Comentarium in Jo. de Sacrobusto Sphaeram (14th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit sc[ri]ptu[m] libro de Spera a fratre Vgone de castello ordinis p[rae]dicator[um] editu[m]

Vat.lat.5984 (Upgraded to HQ), Pseudo-Ptolemy Centiloquium (tr. Giovanni Pontano)
Incipit: (f.1r) Joannis Jouiani pontani liber primus commentario-num in Centum sententiis ptolemaei

See PAL for siglum B.1.9


Incipit: Beatus cui succed[a]t o[mn]ia optata. Incip[it]

Vat.lat.6030, Sommario Overo Dichiaratione de gli Concetti Posti per Ornamento della citta di roma (1550-1600)
Incipit: (f.1r) Al Santissimo et Beatissimo padre signor nostro papa sisto qvinto. Tvtto l'mondo s'e rallegrato

Vat.lat.6031, Sommario overa di chiaratione de gli concetti figurati d'intorno alla citta di ginevra (1550-1600)
Incipit: (f.2r) Al santiss. et beatiss. Padre signor nostro papa sisto qvinto. La natura nostra Beatiss[imo] Padre

Vat.lat.6073 (Upgraded to HQ), Hagiography (1101-1150)
Incipit: loquitur inuobis. Paschasius con-sularis dixit.

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Ravenna


Vat.lat.6127, (1558-1600)

Table of the history of the world, counting from Creation. It begins in 927, though the first event is the death of Adam in 930, and ends at 7870/1562, though the last event recorded is the death of Charles V, 1558


Vat.lat.6131, Iamblicus, Nicolao Seutello Indentino de Mysteriis Egiptiorum, translated
Incipit: (f.2r) quippiam factirros fese mermina[m]


Vat.lat.6175, (1543-1600)
Incipit: (p.1) Ordo, et modus in celebratione sacri et generalis Concilii Tridentini

Documents on the Council of Trent


Vat.lat.6194.pt.2, Letters to Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto (1580-1585)

Starts of f.295


Vat.lat.6195.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Guglielmo Sirleto Letters (1576-1600)

Incipit: Aeternam tibi Sedem. Antoniae Clementinae

Incipit: (p.1) De rebus antiquis memoratu dignis basilicae .s. Petri in Vaticano liber Tertius

Vat.lat.6239, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II) Oratio responsiva ad oratores Gallos habita Mantuae (1459-1500)
Incipit: Responsio Pii. senensis .ii. Pont. Max. ad legator francorum. Responsuri uerbis uestris Insignes


Incipit: Ill. et R. D. D. Hierony-mo S.P.E. Cardinali Rusticucio Augustinus Cesareus

Vat.lat.6254, John Chrysostom, attr. Opus Imperfectum
Incipit: Crisostom[us] sup[er] m[atthie]. In xpi no[m]i[n]e incip[it] t[ra]ctat[us] b[e]ati Joh[ann]is Chrisostomi in eu[an]g[e]lio mathie

Vat.lat.6259, Book of Hours (15th C)
Incipit: (f.7r) Incipit officum beate marie uirginis secu[n]sum [con]suetudinem romane & curie

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Milan. Begins with calendar


Vat.lat.6264, Missal (1476-1500)
Incipit: Dominica dicitur Missa ad honorem s[anc]tissime trinitati[us] Benedicta sit sancta trinitas

Incipit: []Augdeo ac p[ro]ximu[m] letor in

Vat.lat.6290 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Incipit Formularium domini n[ost]ri pape. Adulteriorum absolutio

Vat.lat.6292 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Provinciale omnium Ecclesiarum Patriarchaliu[m] + Archiepiscopalium + et Episcopaliu[m]


Vat.lat.6327, Dionigi Atanagi Lettere a Felice de' Tiranni, vesc. di Urbino. (1553-1558)

Incipit: Infra scripti sunt omnes tractatus eor[um] de quib[us]

Vat.lat.6337 (Upgraded to HQ), Apicius Epimeles, Book 1