Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2020

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 another pair of Angelo Colocci's concordances, including one in Greek, Vat.gr.1389.

Looking at the list of manuscripts for this week, one stands out for its heavy decorations, a fleck of color in a sea of mostly undecorated texts. Vat.lat.7628 is a late 15th C copy of Dominicus De Dominicis' De Potestate Papae. F.1r, to the right, has a presentation scene and elaborate borders by an illuminator known as the Master of the Della Rovere Missals, named for his work on a monumental four-volume Missal made for Cardinal Domenico della Rovere.

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Vat.gr.1065, Constantinus Porphyrogenitus VII, Iohannes Laurentius Lydus, Hippocrate De Thematibus, Opera, Epistle (1050-1100)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1389, Andrea Colocci List of words from Euripides, Apollonius of Rhodes, et al. (1501-1549)

Pinakes Entry, author's autograph copy

Vat.ind.22

Vat.ind.76, Anubhutisvarupàcàrya Sarasvatavyàkarana (20th C)

A treatise on Sanskrit grammar

Vat.ind.78

Vat.ind.79

Formerly Vat.lat.3778

Vat.ind.80

Vat.ind.81

Vat.ind.82

Vat.lat.4043, Angelo Colocci Concordantia Ouidia, E-N (1501-1549)

Incipit: Ecce. Pro. Ecce iacis

See Boutroue, M.-E. (2008). "De L’Index au Lexique: Recherches sur Quelques Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Vaticane." (Vat.lat. 4040-4062). In Esculape et Dionysos: Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean Céard (pp. 287–311). Droz.

Vat.lat.5498, Girolamo Manfredi Tractatus contra Ugonotus pars tertia. (1585-1590)

Incipit: Tractatus contra Vgonotos, pars tertia in qua recentium hereticorum pugnantes opi-niones et di-vorum patrum concordes in om-nibus Sanctae

Vat.lat.5500, Bartolomeo Caligari De aequinotiis et aurei numeri erroribus. Patavii, 24 aug. 1548 (1548)

Incipit: R[everendissimo] in Chr[isto] p[at]ri et DD. Cornelio Placentino, e[pisco]po Bituntino dig[nissimo].

Written in Padua, 24 aug. 1548

Vat.lat.6049

Incipit: In finem intelligentia ipsi Davidi quando

Vat.lat.7493, (17th C)

Incipit: Leopoldvs Diuina sauente Clementia electus Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus

Vat.lat.7521, Discorso del Marchese di Belmonte del Supremo Conseglio d'Italia e Regente la Cancelleria...

Incipit: (f.1r) Alli Prencipi Cristiani. Non ha Iddio cosa, che pui gli tra grata che

Vat.lat.7525, Discorso Istorico de' Fatti piu memorabili occorsi tra

Vat.lat.7628, Dominicus De Dominicis De Potestate Papae (1450-1500)

Incipit: Rex ille sapiens qui ut no[m]i[n]e ira et sap[ienti]ae

Decorations by the Master of the Della Rovere Missal

Vat.lat.7647, Maffeo Vegio (15th C)

Incipit: Mafei Vegii Lavdensis de Edvcatione Li-berorvm et eorvm clarissimoribvs

Vat.lat.7658 (Upgraded to HQ), Liber Capitulii (14th C)

Incipit: (f.4r) D[e] offitio lefe[n]di de K[a]la[nda]rio & luna & martirologio & aliis & hiis. Annexis. Dum dicit[ur] p[salmu]s laudate.

See Iter liturgicum italicum. ff.1-3 are calendar, 2 months per page. From Santa Sabina, Rome. Dominican Use. Also contains the Rule of St. Augustine

Vat.lat.7659, Ordinal (1391-1400)

Incipit: (f.1r) In nomine domini. Incipit ordo breuiarii s[an]cti sp[irit]us

See Iter liturgicum italicum. ff. I-V are calendar. From Santa Spirito in Sassia.

Vat.lat.7663, Postilla on Isaiah

Vat.lat.7665

Incipit: Incipit tractatus de [xpiana] religio[n]e p[ro]totam

Vat.lat.7702, Jacobo de Marchia Contra Haeretricos, negantes autoritatem Summi Pontificis Joannis uigesimi secundi et succedentium

Incipit: Uidde asceii dere del mare mia bestia che haueria setti

Vat.lat.7720 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Incipit tractatus de Marchiis compositus p[er] ven[enerandum] fratr[es] Orpheu[m] de Bolonia

Vat.lat.7731.pt.1, Missal (1350-1450)

Incipit: (f.7r) p[re]teribit generacop hec. donec om[n]ia fiant.

Perhaps from Cologne. ff. 1r-6v is calendar

Vat.lat.7757

Incipit: Expositio fratris hieronymi politiensis siculi generalis ordinis fratr[um] minoru[m] capvccinor[um]

Vat.lat.11571, Cicero Epistles

Incipit: [C]icero Bruto sal[utem] Lucius Clodius