Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2020

The Vatican continues to divide their manuscript scanning time with the incunabulum section this week. Perhaps for that reason, perhaps due to increasing COVID cases, there were only 21 manuscripts added to the online repository. An interesting milestone, the exact number of manuscripts in the repository is not always easy to judge, as some have gotten removed over time, but both the Vatican count and my count have now crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time. This is only counting the high-quality color scans, not the microfilms they scanned back in 2017, which is quite the achievement!

An iinteresting manuscript added this week, just in time for Halloween, is Vat.lat.8247, a Breviary from Transylvania dated to 1460 with an ownership mark on f.2v, "Iste liber est..." (see to the right).


Vat.lat.4330, Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica
Incipit: Incipit su[m]ma th[e]ologia edita a f[ra]-tre thoma de aquino ordinis fr[atrum] m[inorum] p[er] dicator[um] li-b[ris] p[ri]mus

One of the seven manuscript witnesses used to create the Leonine Aquinus edition


Vat.lat.4331, Aegidius Romanus Super Primo Sententiarum
Incipit: Candor e[st] e[n]i[m] lucis et[er]ne et speculu[m]

Vat.lat.4337, A. Persius Flaccus Satires (15th C)
Incipit: [A] Persevs Flaccus natus est pridie nonas dece[m]bres Fabio persico, Lutio vitellioq[ue] Consulibus.


Vat.lat.8214, Letters relating to the Court of Mantua, Frederico II Gonzaga (1500-1540)
Incipit: Ex Castris Anglieis xiii No[vem]bris 1523 ad Oratores Anglice in urbe. Dopoi la prehesa de An Re Corbia

Vat.lat.8216, Bernardo de Oliveira Dissertatio: De Jejunio Quadragesimali (1783)
Incipit: (f.1r) Dissertatio. aduersui Benardi Oliveira Theologi Conimbriunsis de jejunio

Printed text, ff.2r-25v


Vat.lat.8220, Bione Crateo Egloghe (1691)

Vat.lat.8237, Catalogue of Imperial Roman Medals at the Convent of S. Bartolomeo all'Isola (18th C)
Incipit: Nummi Ænei Antiqui Imperatorum Romanorum Mediocris Magnitudinis. Caput Rome geleatum, Supra caput quatuor

Vat.lat.8242, (18th C)
Incipit: Contenta in hoc columine. Reponses a deux questions aux quelles

in French


Vat.lat.8247, Breviary (1460)
Incipit: sacrame[n]tu[n] ut a[n]i[m]alia uideru[n]t do[minu]m natu[m]

From Transylvania (Waradinum/Várad/Oradea). ff.2r-7v have calendar


Vat.lat.8250.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Francesco Gualdi, Contantino Gigli Names and arms of Ambassadors at the Roman Court from the 16th through 17th C, Names and Arms of the noble families of Pistola, Camerino, Amelia, Forlimpopoli and Verona (17th C)
Incipit: Armi eo nomi d'Amb[assado]ri. Sigliolo del Duca d'Alua

Each page of arms is dated as to when the bearer arrived.


Incipit: De Succino eiusque ortu Accademica Disceptalio Habita Romæ ub Humonistoric Accademia

Vat.lat.8268, French Ecclesiatics who emigrated to Rome in 1793 (1793)
Incipit: Beatissimo Padre. Emisio a Vostra Santita il Catalogo degli Ecclesiastici Francesi Emigrati

Incipit: Ceremoniale. Antico e Moderno dei Nunzi Apostolici nella Cesarea Regia Corte di Vienna

Incipit: Dissertatio de Matrimonio Sinarum. Cum in Sinica[m] missione, ia fere aliis in omnibus

Vat.lat.8274, In Libellum Gevronii Jurisconsulti de Eccles Potestate, Errores, Quibus Præfatiunculæ seatent, probant Opus ineptum
Incipit: (f.2r) Joanni Rinuccino Præsuli Amplisimo Salutem. Opusculum ad Te mitto, quod antequam

Vat.lat.8279, Giovanni Antonio Moraldi Problemi diversi recitati dai Signori Accademici Infecondi di Roma in S. Carlo de' Catinari (c. 1670-1709)
Incipit: (p.1) Se sia megliore Io studio dell'Estate o quello del Verno Problema Recitato nel Giardino del Conuento de P.P. della Madonna d[e]l Popolo Introdvzione di Michele Brugueres

Vat.lat.8281, (1756)
Incipit: Obsignatio Qvaecrvce peragitvr Dissertatio Historia Polemica

Vat.lat.8288, Inscriptiones Consulares, Book 6
Incipit: (f.3r) Indicus Annorum ad quos spectanta Inscriptiones

Vat.lat.8298, De Conciliis Generalibus Dissertationes Historicæ et Theologicae, Book 1 (1744)
Incipit: (f.2r) De Conciliis Generalibus Dissertatio Historica et Cronologica I[a]

Incipit: Indice delle Scritture contenute nel p[rese]nte Libro concernenti la Badia di S. Filippo d'Argiro in Cerace