Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2020

Fifty-five manuscripts were digitized this week from the Vatican. They are continuing to focus on the Urb.gr fond, with ninteen added this week. Those are very well catalogued, in the 1895 printed volume Codices urbinates graeci Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside Alfonso cardinali Capecelatro (digitized at the usual places), and searchable via Pinakes/Πίνακες from the IRHT.

To the right is the first page, f.1r, from Ross.514, a copy of the organizing documents of the Olivetans from the VERY end of the 15th C. It is decorated in a almost Baroque collection of elements, including alla' antiqua masks at the bottom corners and the arms of the order in a roundel at the center bottom. In a scroll at the top is an invocatiion to St. Benedict, as the Olivetans are an off shoot of the Benedictines.

The bottom border is from Vat.lat.8485 f.2r, a 19th.C manuscript comparing the text of the Vulgate to that found in the Cava Bible, a 9th C bible of Spanish origin with some unusual variant texts.

Borg.ind.37, Kiratam Tullal

Catalogued in Joseph, G., Kerala Council for Historical Research, & Arts Humanities Research Board. (2009). Kerala mathematics : History and its possible transmission to Europe. Delhi: B.R. Pub. p. 309

Borg.ind.38, Bhagavatam kilippattu, partial

Title page "Ciandrodayam" or "The Birth of the Moon". Catalogued in Joseph, G., Kerala Council for Historical Research, & Arts Humanities Research Board. (2009). Kerala mathematics : History and its possible transmission to Europe. Delhi: B.R. Pub. p. 309

Borg.ind.71

Borg.tonch.24, Philiphê Bỉnh Biographies of Saint Anna and Joachim (1833)

Written in Lisbon by Binh and amended after his death.

Reg.gr.Pio.II.15 (Upgraded to HQ), Lectionary (13th C)

Pinakes Entry, partialy palimpsest over Etymologicum Gudianum

Ross.514, Constitutiones fratrum Congregationis Montis Oliveti (1495-1505)

Incipit: Sancte Pater Benedicte Ora P[ro] Nob[is]. Incipit prologus In Constitutionib[us] Fr[atr]um Congreg[ationis] Montis Oliueti. Ad laudem Sanctissime Trinitatis

Ross.520, Abbas Generalis Ord. Monte Oliveti Epistula (1451-1475)

Incipit: Incipiunt Recollectæ ad cultvm diuinum exhortantes p[er] modum ep[isto]læ misse fratrib[us] Montis oliueti ordinis.

Ross.522, Aegidius Romanus De regimine principum, Book III (1401-1433)

Incipit: De Reginine Principum ab Egidio de Vrbe Liber primus. Ex Regia ac a[an]c[t]issima prosapia

Ross.523, Aegidius Romanus De regimine principum

Incipit: Incip[it] lib[ro] d[e] regimi[n]e p[ri]ncipu[m]. Ex regia ac san-ctissima p[ro]sapia

Evidence of pecia copying, see "Opere diffuse per exemplar e pecia". (2005). In Opere diffuse per exemplar e pecia (Vol. 29, pp. 195–794). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00160 p. 213

Urb.gr.6, Eusebius of Caesarea Praeparatio euangelica (1401 - 1500 )

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, Scribe: George of Trebizond.

Urb.gr.40, Aristotle De partibus Animalium (c. 1613)

Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.44, Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, etc. (1469-1500)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Τζαγγαρόπουλος

Urb.gr.47, Aristotle, Demetrius Phalerius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, Rhetorica, Poetica, De elocutione, De compositione verborum epitome (1450-1500)

Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Μιχαὴλ Λύγιζος (ff.1r-34v), Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης (ff.37r-160v)

Urb.gr.55.pt.1, Porphyry, Amonious, Aristotle Isagoge, Commentary on the Isagoge, the Categories (14th C)

Urb.gr.55.pt.2, John Philoponus Vita Aristotelis, Commentary on the Categories of Aristotle (14th C)

Urb.gr.57 (Upgraded to HQ), Ammonius, Porphyry, Johannes Philponus, Aristotle, ps-Alexander the Great Philosophica (1450-1600)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.62, Porphyry, Plotinus Vita Plotini, Enneades (1460)

Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Δανιήλ ἱερομόναχος

Urb.gr.69 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen De usu partium, Books 1-17 (10th-11th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.71 (Upgraded to HQ), Proclus, Posidonius In primum Euclidis elementorum librum commentarii, Opera (16th C)

Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Ἰωάννης Μαυρομάτης

Urb.gr.75, Hero of Alexandria, Theodorus Metochites, et al Pneumatikon, In Ptolemaei compendium mathematicum, etc. (16th C)

Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Iohannes Honorius (ff.1r-33v) active 1535-1563

Urb.gr.90, Thucydides Histories (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, Scribes: Ἀνδρόνικος Ἀληθινός(ff.1r-37v), Ἀθανάσιος (30r-149v), Νικόδημος μοναχός (ff.149v-218r)

Urb.gr.91 (Upgraded to HQ), Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Marcellinus, et al. Vita anonyma Thucydidis, Histories, Anthologia Graeca, De Thucydidis idiomatibus, Vita Thucydidis (1461)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης

Urb.gr.93 (Upgraded to HQ), Xenophon Historiographica > Xenophon (1401 - 1500 )

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Ἀνδρέας Λεαντηνός

Urb.gr.95.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Xenophon, Diogenes Laerties, Aelianus Claudius, Plato, Theognis, Christophorus Mytilenaeus Oeconomicus, Symposium, Memorabilia, Hiero, Vitae philosophorum, De natura animalium, Phaedo, Gnomae, Calendarium versibus heroicis (1301-1350)

Pinakes Entry, ff.1-151

Urb.gr.100, Plutarch Moralia (1401)

Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Ἀνδρέας Λεαντηνός

Urb.gr.102 (Upgraded to HQ), Polybius Histories (11th C)

Pinakes Entry, ff. 1-3 are a 15th C replacement

Urb.gr.106, Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae (c. 1460)

Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.109, Diogenes Laerties Vitae Philosophorum (1451-1500)

Pinakes Entry, Scribe: Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος

Vat.ind.47

Donated to the library by St. Thomas College of Trichur in Keral, India.

Vat.ind.58

Vat.lat.633, Isidore of Seville Sentences, Books 1-3 (12th C)

Incipit: Isidorus de su[m]mo bono. Incipit lib[er] pprimus s[an]c[t]i ysidori. Quod d[eu]s su[m]m[us] & inco[m]mutabilis sp[iri]t[us]

Palimpsest

Vat.lat.2622, Guilelmus de Cunio Commentary on the Consitutions of the Council of Lyon, Commentaria super Codice Iustiniani (14th C)

Incipit: (f.2v) Incipiu[n]t [con]s[ti]tones &c. De summa trinitate et fidei kath[ollico]r[um]ca Greg[orii] x[us] g[e]n[er]ali [con]cil[ii] Lugd[unum]

Vat.lat.4334, De Vita Christi

Incipit: Incipit liber de passione d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ie[s]u chr[ist]i. Et primo de pascha et de diuersis hui[us] noninus accepcionibus. Item de Cena domini et su[n]t Quinq[ue] Capitula.

Vat.lat.4335

Incipit: Propheta magnus s[ur[rexit in nob[is] Luc. .vii.

Vat.lat.4351, Johannes de Sancto Geminiano Liber de exemplis et similtudinibus rerum (1447)

Incipit: (f.1r Incipit p[ri]m[us] p[ro]logus supl[er] liber q[ui] de ex[emplis] &

Some chapters are abridged. See Culturally mapping the Liber de exemplis.... Begins with table of examples, first ff.1-5, colophon at the end of that section f.5v. Scribe: Petrus Pinellia

Vat.lat.4352

Incipit: (f.3r) legenda & disc[e]n[d]a p[ro]ponimus, quis u[er]o huiuh op[er]is

Vat.lat.4358, (14th C)

Incipit: Incipiu[n]t fig[ur]e s[e]c[un]du[m] ordine[m] alphabeti

Vat.lat.4361, Anselm of Laon (?) Sententiae Magistri (1095-1117)

Incipit: De trinitate ....us. Ad ivstici-am credere debem[us] corde

See Haring, N. M. (1955). "The Sententiae Magistri A (Vat. Ms lat 4361) and the School of Laon". Mediaeval Studies, 17, 1–45. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.MS.2.306590

Vat.lat.4366, Sermons (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incip[it] se[r]mo d[e] adu[n]tu[m] d[omi]ni. Saluatir n[oste]r dilectissii fr[atre]s p[re]paratos nos

Vat.lat.5387, Bartholomaeus Brixiensis, Dinus de Mugello Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales, De regulis iuris (15th C)

Vat.lat.5536, Martinus Brionaeus Totius terrae sanctae urbiumque et quidquid in eis memoria dignum actum gestumque fuit secundum bibliacos libros ac divum Hieronymum elaborata descriptio. (1540)

Incipit: Totivs terræ sanctæ, vr-bivmqve, et qvidqvid in eis memoria dignvm actv[m] gestvmve fvit secvndvm bibliacos libros ac divvm hieronymvm. elaborata discriptio

Dated on f.3r

Vat.lat.5811 (Upgraded to HQ), Iohannes Argyropulus Opusculum de institutione eorum qui in dignitate constituti sunt. Praeit epistula nuncupatoria Iacobi auctoris filii ad Iulium de Medicis cardinalem (1501-1525)

Incipit: R[everentissimo] D[omi]no D. Ivlio de Medicis .S. Mariae in Do[mi]nica diac. cardinali legato bon[um] Iacobvs argyropylvs .s. p.d. Admonet isocrates illustrissime, ec reuevendissime

ff. 1r-v contains a letter of dedication to Pope Clement VII

Vat.lat.8406, (18th C)

Incipit: Istruzione per Monsignore Merliini Nunzip Ordinario alla Real Corre di Toriino, destinato dalla santita di N. S. Papa Be-nedetto XIV come Nunzio estraordinario

Vat.lat.8426, Annotationes excerpta ex Vita Clementis XIV Pontificis (1774)

Incipit: Annotationes excerpta ex Vita Clementis XIV Pontificis, conscripta ab Authore Annonymo Berolini et Lipsiz 1774. Author pagina 3.4.5; et 6 laudat principe

Vat.lat.8427, Progetto d'introdurre un nuovo genere di Coltivazione nei Territori di Civitavecchia, Corneto, e Toscanella, e di altri Luogh[] dell Provincie Annonarie

Incipit: (f.3r) Discorso Preliminare. Da piu Secoli si compiange da noi e si ammira

Vat.lat.8444, Tratto della Giurisdiione della Chiesa Romana sul regno della Puglia e Sicilia (17th C)

Vat.lat.8472.pt.1, Letters of Mario Filonardi (1635-1640)

Vat.lat.8472.pt.2, Letters of Mario Filonardi (1640-1643)

Starts on f.232r

Vat.lat.8473.pt.1, Francesco Ingoli Documenti vari in massima parte diretti a Mario Filonardi, nunzio apostolico in Polonia, relativi alla storia polacca dal 1635 al 1643. (1630-1644)

Incipit: (f.1r) Quando ogni alto soggetto mi maneasse di scriuere

Vat.lat.8481, (18th C)

Vat.lat.8482 (Upgraded to HQ), Antonio Maria Visentini L'introductione Della soda e reale Architettura, e Prospetiva di Antonio Visentini, Veneto (c. 1764)

Incipit: (p.1) Per introducione dell' Architettura, e Prospetiua. nella Academia Publica istituita a comun feneficio per studio del buon

Vat.lat.8485, Ignatius Rossi Comparison between Vulgate and the Cava Bible (19th C)

Vat.lat.8553

ff.1r-2v contains several indexes

Vat.lat.8554, William Durand Speculum iudiciale (14th C)

Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni & gl[or]iose uirginis m[at]ris ei[us] speculu[m] iudici-ale a meg[ist]ro Giull[i]o duranti [com]positu[m] incipit. Incipit p[ri]ma p[ar]ti cl[aus]a & primo de iudice delegato.

Vat.lat.8558, Bible (minor prophets and wisdom) (1076-1125)

Incipit: dicit d[omi]n[u]s [ex]ercituum. Magna etis glo-ria domus istius nouissime plus quam pri-ma