While the Vatican continues scanning manuscripts, with eleven added this week, I'm continuinig the look back at 2020 with code updates. First a list of the major feature updates Created a set of Next/Previous links at the bottom of each page using a seperate weekly_notes_previous table. Later work optimized the design by removing the weekly_notes_prev...

With only three working days before the Christmas break, the Vatican still managed to add twenty-eight manuscripts this week. These include another Vietnamese volume in Borg.tonch, many more Urg.gr volumes and an assortment of Vat.lat codices. To the right is f.3r from Vat.lat.12017, the fourth of a four-volume set from circa 1576 related to the Archbis...

Fifty-five manuscripts were digitized this week from the Vatican. They are continuing to focus on the Urb.gr fond, with ninteen added this week. Those are very well catalogued, in the 1895 printed volume Codices urbinates graeci Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside Alfonso cardinali Capecelatro (digitized at the usual places), and searchable via Pi...

Only one manuscript has been digized this week. Over on the Visual Materials side, it appears more drawings of the Moede Jansen Collection have been brought online, a total of 258 so far

A total of eighty manuscripts were added this week. Trends that continue from previous weeks include, more Greek texts in the Urb.gr fond, more 18th C texts, including two more meteorological almanacs in Vat.lat.8398 and Vat.lat.8403, and more palimpsests imaged in multiple wavelengths. Of the Greek works, two are of particular interest, Urb.gr.4 is a ...

There were forty manuscripts added to the online repository this week. It includes several more 18th C meterological almanacs, a fifth volume of Giovanni de Giorgi and pals' Le moderne maniere in piante geometriche dell' architettura militare per la fortificatione &c. &c. and five more Vietnamese works from the Borg.tonch collection. Ross.72 is an...

A total of seventy-six manuscripts were added to the online repository this week. The manuscripts cover a wide range, from Indian palm-leaf texts through 10th Century Greek up to late 18th Century astronomical observations. The library also brought eight palimpsest manuscripts online, with UV and visable light photography to enable reading of the under t...

A total of sixty-one manuscripts were added to the repository this week. A large number seem to be 18th texts, though the Pierluigi Galletti flood has trickled down to just one more volume this week. Another copy of Durand's Speculum Judiciale, Vat.lat.2629 was added this week, bringing the total count of those manuscripts digitized to five. In the real...

The Vatican continues to divide their manuscript scanning time with the incunabulum section this week. Perhaps for that reason, perhaps due to increasing COVID cases, there were only 21 manuscripts added to the online repository. An interesting milestone, the exact number of manuscripts in the repository is not always easy to judge, as some have gotten re...

The Vatican added 43 manuscripts this week to their online repository. Some of the digitzation team seems to have been back in the Visual Materials side, digitizing drawings from the Moede Jansen collection, donated to the Vatican in 2011. Some items of interest include Reg.gr.91, a text of Homer and Homerica including a personal favorite, the Batracho...

Only eighteen manuscripts were added to the digital archives this week. The pace may be slower than other weeks due to some work in the Incunabula collection, specifically Stamp.Ross. For the firdst week in months, there appear to be no manuscripts by Pierluigi Galletti, but the work continues digitizing the Borg.tonch collection of Vietnamese manuscrip...

Fourty-seven manuscripts added this week to the online Vatican repositories. Recent trends in content continue, with eleven more Vietnamese texts from the Borg.tonch collection and six more Pierluigi Galletti volumes, though the pace of the latter is slowing. With 286 volumes digitized so far, we may finally be reaching the end of that collection. This...

Thirty manuscripts have been digitized this week. Progress was slower than usual, it seems, due to more additions to the Gismondi Collection (See Week 40 for more details). Of the manuscripts added, they seem to be inline with recent weeks, a focus on Pierluigi Galletti volumes and more Vietnamese books in the Borg.tonch fond. Outside that there are some...

Twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. It appears that the pace slowed this week due to the digitization of some drawings of the Gismondi Collection on the Visual Material side of the Vatican Libraries. This collection of the 20th C sculptor Tommaso Gismondi1 (1906-2003) includes woodblock plates, copper plates, book, ceramics and nearly 2,50...

Eighty-four manuscripts were added this week, including a record, I think, of 50 in a single day, the 24th. Several running projects are continuing, includinig a tranche of 42 new Galletti volumes. The work on Vietnamese manuscripts continues, with six more from the Borg.tonch fond. Those are uncatalogued in any source I can find, and have found some peo...

Twenty-three manuscripts were added to the online repository this week. As with recent weeks the majority were the works of 18th C antiquary Pierluigi Galletti. In addition were several latin works and a fragment of South Italian Euchologium, Greek analogue to a Pontificale, that was probably in roll form, Vat.gr.2649. A pair of Greek palimpsests also m...

This week only eleven manuscripts were added to the online archives. Of those, eight are more of Pierluigi Galletti's work on the history of Rome. Another Vietnamese manuscript, Borg.tonch.25 was added this week, only the third in color from that collection. This massive work, 611 folios, seems to contain about 5 seperate works, mostly block-printed. Ac...

A busy week with eighty-one manuscripts added to the online repository. As with recent weeks, the majority of these are works by the 18th historian Pierluigi Galletti, bringing to 208 the number of volumes of his work digitized so far. Another continuing trend is a number of manuscripts in Asian scripts, including Borg.tonch.18, a collection of devotional...

This was a quiet week, with only twenty-nine manuscripts added to the online archives this week. Along with more Galletti volumes on the history of Romans are two bibles of interest. The first is Vat.lat.4195, a 13th Century volume containing the Vulgate text and an index of names. Although this is a common combination in what are termed "Parisian Pocket ...

The Vatican continues on summer vacation this week, with no new manuscripts added into the system. I've taken the time to complete my work on adding in metadata for the Capponiani collection. This 2-part fond was catalogued and has enough information in the Vatican website that I was able to identify almost all of the nearly 300 digitized manuscripts. On...

No new manuscripts this week as the Vatican Library is taking an abbreviated August recess. In the quiet I have continued adding catalogue information to the Capponiani Collection. On the right is the f.17r from Cappon.56, a 16th C copy of Gregorio Dati's La Sfera. This page depicts the tower of Babel. This volume is mis-identified in Cazzo's 19th C cat...

Eighty-three manuscripts were added to the repository this week. This includes another sixty-three volumes of the work of Pierluigi Galletti, spread across the Necrologies and various inscription collections. Because the Library is such an old institution, manuscripts often have a history within the collection as well as their own independent history. ...

Despite the website being unavilable for Monday, there were eighty-one manuscripts added this week. Continuing from the last two weeks, there are a slew texts and inscriptions copied by Pierluigi Galletti in the 18th C, including more of the Register of Farfa, Roman Necrologies and texts related to specific classes of people in Rome. All of the Galletti m...

Forty-nine manuscripts added this week to the online repository. Last week we saw the first few drops of what has become a flood of works by Pierluigi Galletti digitized. Multiple copies of his Roman Necrology, even some of the index volumes, several manuscripts of epigraphic inscriptions in the city of Rome and six volumes of the Regesto di Farfa, plus t...

Forty-eight manuscripts added this week to the online repository. In addition to the manuscripts added this week, a new feature on this site has been rolled out, in Beta, Ad-Hoc Reports. These are pages generated by arbitrary SQL queries from the listings, able to collect manuscripts matching almost any criteria onto a single page. The two initial sample...

Despite the Vatican digitizing a number of Incunables this week in the fond Stamp.Ross, twenty-two manuscripts have also been added to the online repository. One of the interesting manuscripts added this week is Vat.lat.7824, a miniscule personal prayer book with some general prayers, eg. Office of the Cross, some less common prayers, such as the Salve ...

Twenty-eight manuscripts were added this week, completing the first half of the year with a total of 788 manuscripts. This is below the rate for 2018 and 2019, but considering the weeks of COVID closure, the pace seems to have increased a bit. The collection added this week continues trends from the last few with seven Indian manuscripts from Vat.ind and...

There were forty-three manuscripts added to the online repository this week. As with recent weeks, there has been a heavy focus on Asian-language collections, with parts of Vat.ind and Borg.ind added. Another ongoing digitization has been the index works of Angelo Colocci, with Vat.lat.4040 and Vat.lat.4048.pt.1 going online this week. This leaves only ...

Only six manuscripts were added to the repository this week, the majority in the Indian collections. The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the Borg.ind collection, and this week saw three more of those and Vat.ind.10, a Javanese/Arabic calendar in a tall/narrow format codex. To the right is f.2r, the "Calendarium Javanum", which is in Java...

A grand total of seventy-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. Included in this are five works from "India", part of the fond Borg.ind, including two works on the Tamil language, a codex on palm leaves of Christian Doctrine, written in "Lingua Nepallese" and more. In more common collections, several manuscripts from Angelo Colocci were digitized fr...

A quiet week this week, with only eight manuscripts added to the online repository. On the technical side, the listings from the Pinakes Project, under the auspices of the IRHT have been imported and are getting automatically linked. This is a massive boon for identifying the Greek manuscripts. So far 1,936 of the 4,689 manuscripts in their database hav...

Fifty-seven new manuscripts were added this week to the archives. Included are the usual mix of 17th C tracts supporting the authority of the pope, Vat.lat.3730, Church Fathers, Vat.lat.3932, and philosophy, Vat.lat.4542. One unusual text is Vat.lat.4016, an early 14th C work supporting the canonization of Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford. This p...

Twenty-nine manuscripts were digitized and uploaded this week this week. They include another copy of the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, this time in Spanish dialects from the Sire collection. In addition I've started using the IslamAnatolia database at the University of St. Andrews to identify manuscripts in the fond Vat.turc. Sadly I was not ab...

Despite the continued COVID shutdown, 16 manuscripts were digitized to the online repository this week. In most cases I trust the Vatican catalogue listings and use them to identify many of the manuscripts. This week, however, Vat.lat.13487 was digitized. According to the online catalogue it is a 14th C manuscript, however the hand is a Humanist Roman han...

Due to the continuing COVID shutdown, no new manuscripts were digitized this week. In the ongiong project of adding metadata to the backlog manuscripts, 2018 Week 46 and 2018 Week 45 have been updated. These include multiple Canon law manuscripts from the Pal.lat collection and some editions of Galen. Once of the manuscripts digitized, Vat.lat.3988 has ...

With the COVID shutdown still in progress, there are no new manuscripts being digitized by the Vatican this week. I took the opportunity to do some code cleanup on the site and backfill some of the 2018 entries that didn't even have pictures! For the code I added "Next" and "Previous" buttons to all the entries, this took adding a separate table and som...

This is the final week of the discussion of the origins of the various Vatican Library collections, concluding with the letter V. In previous weeks we have covered, A and B, C through N, O through R, S, and U. The last collections are the various Vaticani Fonds, organized by language. This is the catch-all open collection that simply accumulates manusc...

Continuing through the alphabet of collections we come to U. For the previous collections see A and B, C through N, O through R, and S. Urb - Urbinati - Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482), illigitimate son of Guidantonio da Montefeltro, was a Condottiero and Lord, later Duke, of Urbino and one of the most prolific book collecotors of the 15th Century. ...

The Vatican was back up and digitizing this week with 56 new manuscripts added. One of the less common collections, Carte Stefani, added three manuscripts this week, bringing the total online to nine. Several new medical manuscripts were added, including an illustrated Herbarium, Vat.lat.4476. On f.70v is the classic Herbarium illusrtration of an anthrop...

Despite the Vatican Libraries' COVID-closing, two manuscripts were added to the online repository. In addition this post continues the discussion of the meanings of the Vatican Library collection names. Collections starting with A and B are covered in Week 12 and collections C through N are in Week 13. This week we are covering O, P and R (sadly no col...

The Vatican continues its Corona Virus closure, so I'll continue a brief introduction to the numerous collections of manuscripts, this week we are covering those starting C through N. For Fonds starting with A and B, please see Week 12. Capp.Giulia - Cappella Giulia. The library of the Cappella Giulia, officially called Reverend Musical Chapel Julia of...

The Vatican is shut this week due to COVID-19, so there are no new digitizations. Instead, I will be going through the origins of some of the more cryptic Fond names, in alphabetical order: Arch.Cap.S.Pietro - Archivio del Capitolo di San Pietro The archives of the chapter of St. Peters, which trace their origins to a privilege granted in 1053 by Pope ...

Thirty-eight manuscripts have been added to the Vatican digital archives this week, probably the last for some time due to the COVID-19 quarantine. Of these, one of the more unusual is Borg.cin.520, a letter in Japanese to the Christians of Japan by the superior of the Fransiscans in the country. There is a late 19th C translation into French appended ...

There were 45 manuscripts added to the online Vatican archives this week. Good news for lovers of European dialects and 19th century neo-Gothic caligraphy, four more from the Sire collection have been added, covering Romanche Sire.H.1, Castillian Sire.O.1, Sardinian Sire.O.4, and Brazilian Portuguese Sire.R.2. A brief histore of the Fonds Sire Marie-...

There were 51 new manuscripts digitized this week from the Vatican. They include two volumes of the letters of Pope Innocent III, copied in the 17th C, Vat.lat.7214 and Vat.lat.7217. There is also Vat.lat.7172, a c. 1000 hymnal which, according to Bonifacio Baroffio has notated music, but I could not find it. To the right is the elaborate title page of...

There were 38 manuscripts added added to the online repository of the Vatican Libraries this week. A rare Fond made an appearence this week with the addition of Sire.Q.1, a copy, in Portuguese, of the proclemation of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary from the 1860s. Ott.lat.3132 is another early 14th C Digests of Justinian with commenta...

A slightly slow week at the Vatican with only 33 manuscripts digitized, though they have also been busy digitizing early printed books. Though those are outside my scope, you can see some of the new ones in Fond Stampati Rossiano. The bottom border is from an unidentified Greek MS, Reg.gr.37 f.4r

A respectable 46 manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. In addition to another copy of Vegetius' De re militari, Vat.lat.7227 and a 9th century copy of some of Alcuin's works, Vat.lat.3850. we have a pair of Missals. Vat.lat.3808 is probably of Dutch origin, and perhaps dates from the early 15th C. It begins with a calendar complete with ...

After a massive 45 manuscripts added on Monday alone, the BAV slowed down and added a total of 55 this week. One interesting manuscript digitized is Vat.lat.7139, a 17th C. compilation of several catalogues of other Vatican manuscripts, specifically some in Greek and Hebrew. The Hebrew section is interesting because it claims to be in the hand, or at le...

There were 33 manuscripts digitized and added to the Vatican repository this week. One of them is the only surviving copy of Bartolomeo Cipolla's Libellus de Dolore Tolerando, Vat.lat.3574. Cipolla, originally from Verona, was a law professor in Padua and wrote this short treatise to try and convince Cardinal Juan de Carvajal to support him and help retu...

The Vatican added 56 manuscripts to their online collections this week. There are some slightly confusing manuscripts in the Vatican collections from the 20th Century and Vat.lat.14166 is a fine example. Per the title page (f.1r to the right), it was presented to Pope Pius XII on the occasion of the dedication of the funeral monument for Cardinal Van ...

Despite Monday being Epiphany, the scanners were cranking this week, with 65 manuscripts added to the online archives. Rolandinus de Passageriis was a 13th C Bolognese Doctor of Law and author of the Summa Artis Notariae, a ten-chapter work on all sorts of legal documents, Wills, contracts, and other Judicial Acts. Vat.lat.6746 was clearly a well-loved ...

Only one scanning day this week, and a small batch at that with only five new manuscripts added to the archives. Bindings often make strange bedfellows, and Vat.lat.6749 is no different. Of it's 322 folios of text, the first 315 are the writings of Peter Damian which make for a somewhat incongruous pairing with the music in the Pontificale that closes ...