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 some clever VIEW constructs in SQL, but it is working. There's a little to do to improve the VIEW, but that's just optimizations, not features. While I was there I reworked the page footers to be easier to read and look nicer, thanks to some assistance from a friend with the skills. The pages use a framework called Foundation to handle layout, but I don't use it enough to be really good at it. For those interested, all the code is on GitHub.

To the right is the title page (f.1r) of a Tironian Note Commentary from c. 1000, Vat.lat.3799 which was digitized in 2018. These works were very popular, relatively, in the Carolingian/Ottonian period and then completely fell out of favor. The large, knotworked stroke is actually part of the text, it is a note for ab, which along with the signs for de, di, dis, ex, ad, and con were the most commonly used signs and so populate the first page

The bottom border is from the inner frame of the start of the Seven Penitential Psalms in a Flemish Book of Hours, Ross.62 f.114r, that was also digitized back in 2018.