Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 22 of 2020

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 process had the unusual hurdle of being forced to prove that the aformentioned Thomas, candidate for canonization, was not under the ban of excommunication at the time of his death. This is not the only reason to find his sanctification surprising, "In life...Pursuing a life of luxury, he also distinguished himself by his prudery and misogyny, which were considered extreme, even by medieval standards"¹

The oldest manuscripts from this week is Vat.lat.5766, both the upper and lower text of this palimpsest probably made at Bobbio predate the year 800. The text is a late Uncial copy of Cassianus' Collationes, written over fragments of three different legal texts, one dating back to the 5th C. To the right you can clearly see the lower text, upside down, of the 5th C Ius Civile Anteiustinianum, beneath the 8th C text, f.17v. The web version of this MS contains both visible light and UV images, to aid in reading the texts.

The bottom border comes from a late Humanist copy of Poggio Bracciolini's De Veri Pastoris Munere Liber, Vat.lat.3732, written in the early 16th C for Pope Leo X.

Notes

¹Strickland, D. H. (2018). Edward I, Exodus, and England on the Hereford World Map. Speculum, 93(2), 420–469. https://doi.org/10.1086/696540

Ross.489, Leonardo Bruni Francisci Petrarcae Vita (15th C)

Incipit: Francisci P. Po. Clarissimi Vita Foeliciter Incipit. Francesco petrarca huomo di grande

Vat.gr.2512, Lectionary (15th C)

Pinakes Aland ℓ1936, there is a lower text in palimpsest

Vat.lat.3102 (Upgraded to HQ), Bachon,Bradvardus,Jordanus,Visalon Bachoni de speculis,Bradvardi Geometria,De Ponderibus,Fragmentum quodam perspective,Prospectiva. Anon.,Quadratura. Circuli,Rogerii Bachonis prospectiva,Visalonis Prospectiva (14th C)

Incipit: Hic incip[it] t[ra]ctat[us] p[er]spective

See Jordanus #10123

Vat.lat.3216, Aristotle, Brunetto Latini (tr) Ethics

Incipit: Libro primus hec h[is]tor[um] Aristo-tilis

Aristotle was also translated in Italian during the 13th c. MS of his Ethica now @DigitaVaticana. The translation is usually attributed to Brunetto Latini.
H/T @gundormr https://t.co/gdJJzyLeiY pic.twitter.com/n6hsJqyEzH
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) May 31, 2020

Vat.lat.3730, Dominic Pinelli Tractatus de Auctoritate et potestate Papae (17th C)

Incipit: Tractatu de authoritate, ac potistate Papa a Deo tibi data

Vat.lat.3732, Poggio Bracciolini De Veri Pastoris Munere Liber (1513-1521)

Incipit: (f.1r) Io poggii florentini ad Leone[m] X Pont. Max. de Veri pastoris Mvnere Liber. Plv-tar-chv-s. Cheroneus magnae apud Graecos

Dated from dedication to Pp[e Leo X

Vat.lat.3899 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristeae Epistula

Incipit: (f.1r) Paulo II Svmmo Pont. Mat-thias palmerivs felicit. Cum et antea semper Beatissime pontifex

Vat.lat.3926

Incipit: Ex libello .H. Aleandri. Apocalypsim, ut Joannes, agnoscit, et citat Hieronymus contra

Vat.lat.3932, Gregory the Great Aduersus Epirereos Magni Gregorii Theologi ex sermone qui est de Theologia

Incipit: Adue[r]sus Epirereos Magni Gregorii Theologi ex sermone qui [est] de Theologia

Vat.lat.3937 (Upgraded to HQ), Registrum processuum haereticae pravitatis contra Matthaeum Vicecomitem, ducem Mediolani, et filios eius (c. 1321)

Incipit: (f.Ir) In isto uolumine [con]tinen[erun]t duo libri primus liber [con]tinet

Register of the heresy processes commissioned by John XXII and conducted by the archbishop of Milan, 1321. See Sharon Dale (2001) A house divided: San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia and the politics of Pope John XXII, Journal of Medieval History, 27:1, 55-77, DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4181(00)00016-6

Vat.lat.3977 (Upgraded to HQ), Bernard of Naples Dictamina (14th C)

Incipit: [I]ncipiu[n]t dictamina magistri Bernardi de Neapoli

Vat.lat.4016 (Upgraded to HQ), Inquisitio de excommunicationis articulis quibus recolende memorie dominus Thomas de Cantilupo quondam episcopus Herefordensis dicebatur tempore obitus sui fuisse ligatus (1320-1350)

Incipit: Incipit p[ri]ma inq[ui]sico[n] de exco[n]nu[m] aecidis qpui]b[us] recole de memoire d[omi]n[u]s thomas de cantilupo

Harriett Webster (2015) Mediating memory: recalling and recording the miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe, Journal of Medieval History, 41:3, 292-308, DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2015.1048977

Vat.lat.4091 (Upgraded to HQ), Albertus Magnus,Rogerius Bacho De arte experimentali,De compositione et operatione lapidis Philosophorum,De lapide minerali lib.III,Eiusdem de magnete,Eiusdem de potestate artis et naturae,Eiusdem de retardanda senectute,Tractatus Alchimiae,Tractatus Alchimiae,Versus super eadem materia

See Jordanus #10186

Vat.lat.4362, Honorius of Autun Elucidarium

Incipit: (f.1r) In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni I[n]cipit p[ro]log[us] libpri] q[ue] elucida[r]iu[m] dicit[ur]. Sepius rogatus

Vat.lat.4533, Johannes Argyropulus, Cicero, Apuleius Ethica ad Nicomachum lib. I-X - Interpretatio latina, Brutus, Il Liber Peri ermaneias (16th C)

Incipit: Prefatio. [J]oannes argyropylus Byzantius clarissimo uiro Cosme medici salutem. Si ea mihi

The first work is a translation of ps-Aristotle.

Also new @DigitaVaticana and in @gundormr's list.
Copy of Apuleius' ΠΕΡΙ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΣ, a work on Aristotelian logic. Notice in the right top corner the separate folio numbering and the (mistaken) Greek text for the rubricator.https://t.co/slEa7LzXrx pic.twitter.com/WNVp3Uh6TS
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) May 31, 2020

Vat.lat.4542, William of Ockham Summa Logicae

Incipit: Dudum me frater amice li[m]me tuits l[itte]ris studebas i[n]duce[re] ut

Vat.lat.4552 (Upgraded to HQ), Averroes, Elia del Medigo(tr) Quaestiones in Priora Analytica Aristotelis, translated (1485)

Incipit: Quaestio auerois in libru[m] prior[um] traducta p[er] Helia[s] Hebreum die xv Julii 1485, Florentiae. Intentio in hoc s[er]mone e[st] muestigare

Dated on f.1r. Written for Pico de Mirandola, with his notes

Vat.lat.4613 (Upgraded to HQ), Bartholomaeus Facius De origine inter Gallos et Britannos belli historia

Incipit: Quod me rogasti inter multas

Vat.lat.4795, Giles of Rome, Henri de Gauchi (tr) De regimine principum, translated (1300-1325)

Incipit: Ason especial reign[ur] nez deligniee roial & sainte Monseig-neur phelippe

In French, added to the Papal library in the reign of Pius IXSee JONAS

Vat.lat.4796, Arnaut Daniel, Folquet de Marseille, Bartolomeo Casassagia(tr), Canzones, translated (16th C)

Incipit: Sim fos amors de ioi donar tan laria

See JONAS

Vat.lat.5314, Lorenzo Valla De falso credita et ementita donatione Constantini declamatio

Incipit: Plures a me libri; complures q[ue] emissi sunt in omni fere doctrinar[um] genere

Vat.lat.5487, Rocco Pompone La Miracolosa vita e morte del clogioso martire emidio primo vescuo (1573)

Incipit: (f.1r) Prima par-te. L'armee l'amor non canto isdegni o l'ire di grandi eroi n'elor

Dedicato al card. Felice Peretti Montalto, poi papa con il nome di Sisto V.

Vat.lat.5488, Guglielmo Centueri Tractatus de iure monarchiae (15th C)

Incipit: Tractat[us] de Jure Mona[r]chie. Veritatem et discipli[n]am medi-tatu[m] est guttur meu[m]

Vat.lat.5766, Cassianus Collationes (8th C)

Incipit: -tias animae uoluntas, in meditulleo quodam

Palimpsest, old part cointains: "Ius Civile Anteiustinianum.", known as the _ Fragmenta Vaticana._ 5th C CLA 1-45; "Codex Theodosianus" 7th C CLA1-46; and c. 700 "Lex Romana Burgundionum" CLA 1-47. Upper text CLA 1-44

Vat.lat.6379 (Upgraded to HQ), Carlo Borromeo Letters to Guglielmo Sirleto, one to Onofrio Panvinio (c. 1576)

Incipit: Fin che non so aperto questo sinodo Prouinciale

Autograph copy

Vat.lat.6919, Stjepan Gradić, et al. Catalogue of Manuscripts (17th C)

Incipit: Manuscript Bibliothecae St. Francis a Riti

At least partially in Stjepan Gradić's hand

Vat.lat.7032

Incipit: De rigni Anglie uide lib. Nicolai Car[dinalis] Aragoniae

Vat.lat.7292

Incipit: Dissertazioni e Letterea dell' Abb Ridolfino Senuti, e di altri a lui

Vat.lat.7361

Incipit: Libro Primo Proemio e Capitoli Primo. Due code sono principali, ex importanti

Vat.lat.7370

Vat.lat.7473, Vita of Giuseppe Maria Barracco (1771)

Incipit: Vita del Servo di Dio. ¶ Giuseppe Maria Barracco della Congregatione dell' Oratorio nella Citta del Mondovi nel Piemonte

Dated on f.1r

Vat.lat.7484, Giovanni Bona, et al. Relazione del discacciamento dei Padri Gesuiti dall'Isola di Malta dal Gran Maestro [Giovanni de Lascaris Castellar] seguita li 10 mar. 1639, etc. (17th C)

Incipit: Relatione del discacciamento de' Padri Gesuiti, dall' Isola di Malta, dal Gran Mastro dequita li 10 di Marzo 1639

Dated on f.1r to 1639 for that woek

Vat.lat.7501, Miscellanea Istorica, Book 10 (18th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Solenne Instrvmento di Pace Sottoscritto a Nome della Sacra Cesarea, e Cattol. Maesta

Some works are printed

Vat.lat.7522

Incipit: Libro P[rimo]. Proemio e Cap[itulo] P[rimo]. Hauendo ne i primi

Vat.lat.7524, Relatione del Concilio di Trento del Secretatio Mille donne del Clarissimo Signore Nicolo da Ponte

Incipit: (f.3r) Prefatione. Poi che non poiso mancar d'obedire

Vat.lat.7539, Sebastiano Querini L'Amoroso Sonno, Egloga Tragi Satiri Comica Pastorale del dic. Sebastiano Querini

Incipit: (f.1v) Interlocutori della Fauola. Fileno pastor giouini innamorato di Clori

Vat.lat.7543, Ferdinandi Tertii Romanorum Regis Epinicion

Incipit: (f.1r) Seren[issimo] Principi Mauritio Car[dinali] a Sabaudia Perpetuam Foelicitatem.

Vat.lat.7546, Lope de Vega Otro Demonio tenemos (17th C)

Incipit: Otro Demonio tenemos Com[edia] Nueba. Ludo bicogalan

See Barrientos, J. Á., Lorenzo, L. G., & Digitalia, I. (2009). En buena compañía: Estudios en honor de Luciano García Lorenzo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. https://books.google.com/books?id=pGBwz_W6aPUC

Vat.lat.7550, Hermanno Hugone Pia Desideria, Elegiis et Affectibus S. S. Patrum (1645)

Incipit: (f.4v) Cut modo caeruleis Apis emicat aurea campis

Vat.lat.7551, Historie de la Vie d'une Ame Religieuse incogneue doubs le titre de la diuine Amasone.

Incipit: (f.1r) Au :Ecteur. La cause de produiee ceste his-toire occuliant et cachant

Vat.lat.7554, Bartolommeo dotti Bresciano Satire Del K.

Incipit: (p.2)Il Cavnovale. Ecco guiuneo il Cavnovale

Vat.lat.7560, (1529)

Incipit: (p.1) In nomine d[omi]ni Incipit explicatio libru Judieu[m] a Magi[]

Dated on p.1

Vat.lat.7561, Joannis Neeukassel Monita Salutaria

Incipit: (f.1r) Vir Perillistris et Clasis[simi] D[omi]ne. Quia meum Indicium de libello, cui titulus Monita Saluataria

Vat.lat.7564, Giovanni Antonio Bianchi Elementa iuris civilis (1748)

Incipit: Elementa Juris Ciuilii, Liber Primus. Titulus primus de Jure et Justitia in Genere

Vat.lat.7576, Giovanni Bona Della Discretione a Discernimento de Spiriti Libro Uno (1741)

Incipit: Al Santissimo Padre e Dottore Mellifluo S. Bernardo Abbate

Dated on title page

Vat.lat.7577, Cicero Letters (15th C)

Incipit: M. T. C. Epistolarvm Ad P Lentvlvm Liber Incipit. Marcus Cicero Salutem dicit publio lentulo proconsuli.

Vat.lat.7578, Bernardus Guidonis Arbor genealogiae regum Francorum

Incipit: Franci ex sua p[ri]ma origine fuere troyani sunt ex gestis francoru[m]

Vat.lat.7585, Paulus Venetus Commentarius in Porphyrii Isagogen

Incipit: Maxima et forte in-credibili gloria vi-ror[um] illustriu[m]

Vat.lat.7595 (Upgraded to HQ), Alexander Bonini de Alexandria Expositio Evangelii s. Ioannis.

Incipit: Prologus fr[atrum] euan-g[e]lim s[an]c[t]i Joh[ann]is. Amicus sponsi q[ui] st[a]t & audit eum

Vat.lat.7599, Psalter/Hymnal (14th C)

Incipit: (f.7r) Psalmus dauid p[ri]m[us] deria secunda ad pri-mam Antiphona.

See Iter liturgicum italicum ff. 1r-6v contain Calendar. Notated music, from S. Bernardino dell'Osservanza, Siena, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 699[ Title: Hymnar, Folio: passim, Century: 14i, Provinance: OSBCam, Notation: quadrata]

Vat.lat.7606, Pelagius Diaconus Vitae Patrum seu Verba Seniorum

Incipit: Incipit ad hortationes s[an]c[t]orum ad profettum p[er]fettionis monachor[um].

Beneventan

Vat.lat.7615, St. Augustine In Ioannis Evangelium

Incipit: ad id q[uae] et non uultis uenire ad me ut uitam habetis

Vat.lat.7810 (Upgraded to HQ), Hagiographica (12th C, etc.)

Incipit: KL. iun. Nat[alus] S[an]c[t]or[um] Stpe[hanus], Ben[idictus] & socior[um] ei[us]. Incip[it] p[ro]log[us]. S[an]c[t]orum Mircaula scribere satis est laudabile

See Iter liturgicum italicum, Bannister ID: 352, Folio: 20v, 27v, 32v, Century: 11, Source: Beneventana, Provinance: Lucania, Notation: Punti legati,See Iter liturgicum italicum, fragments of several manuscripts, including at least one Beneventan(Bari-type) fragment, Bannister ID: 352, Folio: 20v, 27v, 32v, Century: 11, Source: Beneventana, Provinance: Lucania, Notation: Punti legati,See Iter liturgicum italicum, Bannister ID: 706, Title: Antiphonae, Folio: 14r, Century: 14, Notation: quadrata,See Iter liturgicum italicum, fragments of several manuscripts, includi