Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2020

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 hand, with some slight Gothic influences that I'd date to c. 1500. It was likely in the collection of the Monastery of St. Justina in Padua, #582, see f.159r to the right)


Sire.A.4, Translation into Balearic, Doctrine of Immaculate Conception (1866)
Incipit: (f.1r) Lletres Apostolicas de Nostre S. P. per la Divina Providencia Pio IX Papa de la Dogmatica definicio de la Inmaculada concepcio de la Verge mare de deu en Llenco Mallorquina

Translated by José de Rocaberti de Dameto, written by P. Inglada and decorated by Melcher Humbert.


Vat.lat.3948 (Upgraded to HQ), Zenobio Acciaiuoli Index seu inventarium bibliothecae Vaticanae divi Leonis pontificis (1518-9)
Incipit: In primo bancho ad sinistram ingredientibus. 1. Liber genesis cum glosa ordinaria

Vat.lat.3981, Clementines (14th C)
Incipit: Iohannes ep[iscopu]s seruus s[er]uor[um] dei dilectis filiis. Doctorib[us] & scolarib[us]

Vat.lat.7090, Registro delle tasse che si pagavano alla Rev. Camera Apostolica per la collazione dei vescovati e delle abbazie (16th C)
Incipit: Roman Ecclesia sub se continet Abbates infrascipto[ro]s, ut ideo in hoc opusculo

Vat.lat.7316, Iohannes Leonis De synodis et ecclesiastica potestate, Acta et gesta Concilii Ferrariensis Florentini. (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ad sanctissimu[m] atq[ue] b[ea]tissimu[m] p[at]rem d[o]m[inu]m fugenmu[m] papa[m] Quartum fr[atr]i[bu]sIohannis leonis Romani ordinis predicator[um]

Arms of Domenico Capranica on f.1r


Incipit: Sess. 24. c. 15 de reformat. In eccle[se]ria Barthinonen sunt

Vat.lat.7485, Giovanni Delfino Relatione del Sig. G. Dolfino [...] tornato dalla sua ambasciata di Roma l'anno 1598, Conclave of 1598, etc (17th C)
Incipit: Relatione del Dolfino procu-ratore, et

Vat.lat.7511, Vita di Bartolomeo Canosi detto il Pazzo di Giesu Christo (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Al Nome di dio Amen. Brandano naeque in Petroio Catsello del' dominio di siena

Vat.lat.7514, Papal Conclave for Clement XII (1730)

Vat.lat.13487 (Upgraded to HQ), Pope Leo I, Jerome Liber sermonum, De perpetua uirginitate beatae Mariae [aduersus Heluidium] (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit. Liber. Sermonv[m]. Beati Leonis Pape Sermo primus in coronatione sua. Lavdem domini loqua-tus os meum et nomen san-ctum eius

Vat.lat.13520, Giovanni Battista Clarici Carta del Ducato di Urbino (c. 1564)

Includes an article by Angela Codazzi from 1930 after the map


Vat.mus.456, Oratio Passionis Secund Joannem

Dedicated to Pius X


Vat.mus.459 (Upgraded to HQ), Giovane Eugenio Andriselli Il Cantico di Debora (c. 1907)
Incipit: (f.1r) Composizioni del Maestro Eugenio Andriselli di Torino approvate

Vat.sir.36 (Upgraded to HQ), Porphyry, et al. Missal (Jacobite Rite), Isagoge, etc (1597)

See Syri.ac


Vat.sir.424.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Catechism and Doctrine of the Syriac Jacobites (c. 1600)

Written in Garshuni. See Syri.ac


Vat.sir.424.pt.2 (Upgraded to HQ), Catechism and Doctrine of the Syriac Jacobites (c. 1600)

Starts on f.169, Syri.ac.