Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 37 of 2020

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. According to the title on the spine, they are books on Christian dogma and a universal history. The first work is titled Sinners Mirror and the title page, f.1r, is to the right.

The bottom border is from the start of Vat.lat.4229, f.1. It's a copy of Augustinus Steuchus' commentary on the Psalms, this one dated to 1543 on the colophon, f.411v. Steuchus, also known as Eugubinus, was a Counter-Reformation polemicist.

Borg.tonch.25, De []bus ad Deum, Historiam universalem, religionis dogmata, animaeque salutem pertinentibus (c. 1802)

Incipit: 罪人鑑

According to Sven Osterkamp:

A collection of rare works by Spanish Dominicans, writing in Vietnamese, at the turn of the 19th C. I think there are 4 different texts in total, but the first two (entirely in print) are rather long and divided into several chapters. Sometimes the chapters were not even published at the same time.

a) 1r-189v = 罪人鑑 Sinner's Mirror, dated 1802; consists of three books, starting on 3r (?罪卷), 79r (悔罪卷) and 149r (所?卷)
b) 192r-521v = 玄妙花林 Mysterious Garden (?), dated 1804-1807; likewise consists of three books, starting on 194r (dated 1804 on 192v and 193v), 299r (no separate date, probably printed together with the preceding one) and 404r (this one is dated 1807 on 405v). Like a) this might be a Vietnamese adaptation of some pre-existing work, apparently on the Rosary, Virgin Maria etc.
c) 524r-663v + (in ms.:) 664r-668v; this one has no title page , but starts with the preface right away; haven't found a date yet and haven't really figured out what the full title is to be honest (most of it seems to be a Vietnamese transcription of some Latin/Spanish/... words).
d) 670r-677r is in ms. only, very short, no date apparently, but there is a title.

Vat.lat.4229, Augustinus Steuchus In Psalmos (1543)

Incipit: Enarrationvm in psalmos pars prima qvi est primvs psalmorvm liber ivxta divisionem hebraeor[um] avtor[] avgvstino stevcho igvino sedis apostolice bi-bliothecario

dated on f.411v

Vat.lat.4230, Thoma Revstreud Lectura super Proverbia (14th C)

Incipit: Lec[t]ura p[er] optima sup[er] p[ro]v[er]bia sa-lomonis &

Index with Arabic numbers on ff. 50r-v

Vat.lat.8016.pt.1, Pierluigi Galletti Family Notices, Index, C-G (18th C)

Incipit: Cabalari C. V. 13

Vat.lat.8016.pt.2, Pierluigi Galletti Family Notices, Index, G-M (18th C)

Incipit: Giacomelli G.II.72. G.III.25

Vat.lat.8020.pt.1, Pierluigi Galletti Cognomen Index, A-B, pt. 1 (18th C)

Incipit: A. germanus Cardinalii Hostiensii sub Honorio III

Vat.lat.8048.pt.1, Pierluigi Galletti Charters of Ss. Cyriacus et Nicholas in Via Lata, 921-1099. Book 1, Part 1 (1774)

Incipit: (f.2r) In nomine domini dei saluatorii nostri Ihu Xpi Imperante domino nostra

Autograph, dated on f.1r

Vat.lat.8048.pt.2, Pierluigi Galletti Charters of Ss. Cyriacus et Nicholas in Via Lata, 921-1099. Book 1, Part 2 (18th C)

Incipit: In nomine domini dei Saluatoris nostri Ihu Xpi. An-no deo propitio pontificatus domini

Vat.lat.8049.pt.1, Pierluigi Galletti Charters of Ss. Cyriacus et Nicholas in Via Lata, 1107-1250. Book 2, Part 1 (1774)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ex Archivo S. Maria in Via lata. Perg A. In nomine domini Anno octavo pontificatus domini Paschalii secundi pape

Vat.lat.8049.pt.2, Pierluigi Galletti Charters of Ss. Cyriacus et Nicholas in Via Lata, 1107-1250. Book 2, Part 2 (1774)

Incipit: In nomine domini Anno dominice Incarn[atio]nis millesimo duo centesimo IIII. anno vero VII. pontificatus domini Innocentii III.

autograph

Vat.lat.8058, Pierluigi Galletti (18th c)

Incipit: Cauallicen.

Date of April 5, 1756 given on f.1r