Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2019

For all the details on the 36 manuscripts digitized this week see Macro Typography. The image to the right is from the title page of a copy of Cicero's De Officiis from 1440, Vat.lat.4609 f.1r. It's interesting that the large drop cap was either meant to be decorated as a white-vine and left incomplete or was only ever supposed to be tinted with wash


Incipit: Cum proximis diebus Franciscus Belinus Roma domum rediens ad me de uia Patauium

Incipit: Lacerat. Profuncit. Proiicit. Abiicit

Ross.103, Book of Hours (1450-1475)
Incipit: (f.2r) Januarius h[abea]t dies xxxi. Luna uero xxx

Florentine. See CoKL DB


Incipit: Iste prosper fint equin[]amciis uir

Ross.180, Missal (14th C)
Incipit: (f.7r) In nomine d[omi]ni n[ost]ri [yhu] [xpi] am[en]. Incipit missale

Roman use


Ross.260, St. Augustine City of God
Incipit: Incipit p[ro]logus inlibru[m] de ciuitate dei bea-ti augustini contra paganos


Incipit: Ego exore altissini p[ro]dii p[ri]oge[n]ita

Incipit: Quam immaculatam Conceptionem scribe, ipsa illuminet spiritum meum

Urb.lat.853.pt.2, (mid 16th C)
Incipit: Copia della ratificione di'l S[] Duca di Pallians. 1557-1558

Incipit: Discorsi Politici fatti novamente sopra le piu importanti materie di Stato

Urb.lat.974, Istruzione politica sopra li conclavi (1576-1600)
Incipit: Alcune cose piu notabili del Frattato.

Incipit: 1554. Di Milano di .2. di Gennaro, s'intende, che doppo la resa

Covers the range 1547-1558 as per f.2r


Urb.lat.1126, Augustini Buccii Taurinensis
Incipit: (f.2r) Avgvstini Bvccii Tavrinensis. Car. Em. Sab. Dvcis Oratoris Philosophiae

Incipit: (f.38r) Lavrentii Dvccii Exercitationum Literarar[um]

First 37 folios are blank


Incipit: Come se sa l'Aequa e corpo semplice

Incipit: Federici Bonauenture Urbinatis de Octomestris Partus natura

Urb.lat.1397 (Upgraded to HQ), Anonymous Sienese Artist

Drawings of fantasy military machines


Urb.lat.1424, (1573)
Incipit: Tractatvs in Libros Aristote[lis] de coelo et mvndo. Per R. P. Laurentium Tascam Romanura Doctorem societatis Jesu

Dated on title page


Urb.lat.1438, (1612)
Incipit: De Astrologia con-templarice

Dated on title page


Incipit: Disputatio de Monstris. Dicture de Monstris que

Incipit: Lectiones. Super Librum Posteriorum Aristotelis cum ceteris

In Latin on f.1r "De Matrimonio ineundo cum uxore fratris demortci Tractatus Kabaliscicus


Vat.lat.2484 (Upgraded to HQ), Dino Del Garbo Super 4 fen Avicennae Canonis praeclarissima commentaria, quae dilucidatorium totius practicae generalis nuncupatur (15th C)
Incipit: []icemus c[or]p[o]r[i]s sup[er]i[us]

Vat.lat.2486 (Upgraded to HQ), Marsilio Santa Sofia Expositio super libris Artis parvae seu Tegni Galeni (15th C)
Incipit: Res sunt omnes do-ctrine que ordine habentur et cetera

Vat.lat.3217 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.3976 (Upgraded to HQ)

Vat.lat.4459 (Upgraded to HQ), Gentile da Foligno Expositio super Canone Avicennae. (14th C)
Incipit: Scriptum Gentilis sup[er] p[ri]ma fen

Vat.lat.4486 (Upgraded to HQ), Tacuinum Sanitatis

Incipit: Francisci Patricii Senensis Pontificis Caietani De Regno liber primus incipit.

Vat.lat.4608, Cicero Orations (15th C)
Incipit: Marci tulii ciceronis oratio pro M. Marcello incip[it]. Divturni silentii p.c. quo eram iis temporibus

Vat.lat.4609, Cicero De officiis. (1440)
Incipit: M. T. C. Ad Marcvm filiv[m] officioum Liber primv[s] incpipt feliciter

Scribe is Francesco Aleardi


Incipit: Acronis Grammatici Explanatio in libros carminvm .q. oratii flac-ci incipit vita oratii

Incipit: Incipit su[m]ma i[n] foro pui[n]ali extracta desu[m]ma magri[]

Incipit: Cornelii mvssi episcopi botv-tini. In Omnes de divina histo-ria libros argvme[n]-tvm