Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 7 of 2020

A slightly slow week at the Vatican with only 33 manuscripts digitized, though they have also been busy digitizing early printed books. Though those are outside my scope, you can see some of the new ones in Fond Stampati Rossiano.

The bottom border is from an unidentified Greek MS, Reg.gr.37 f.4r

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Bonc.I.48, Varii Segueti et opera Zioni ehi miche, Quattato del Mercurio, Explanatio in Libro Chimicum cui titulas Rosarium Philosophorum



Ross.334, Galen Isagogue
Incipit: Incipit libre ysagogae... galieni. Medicina diuidu[s] in duas partes

Ross.384, Constantinus Africanus De Coitu Liber
Incipit: p[ro]dest aut[em] illi cui sup[er]habu[n]dat si fuerit

Sire.O.8, Traduction de la Bulle Ineffabilis dans les Dialectes de L'Italie (1864)
Incipit: (f.2r) Lettera Apostolica del santissimo nostro Padre Pio IX per divina prouidenza Pontefice

dated on f.1r


Vat.lat.3572, De modis in iude studendi (15th C)
Incipit: Ad sanctissimvm patrem et dominvm dominvm.... svmmvm pontificea... Ecce sanctissime pater o-pusculum presens tue uere

Vat.lat.3573, (15th C)
Incipit: Ad xystu[m] .iiii. Pont. Max. Andree Brent Pata episctola

Vat.lat.3575 (Upgraded to HQ), Metriatis Epistolae in episcopalis Bruti
Incipit: Sanctissimo d[omi]no n[ost]ro Nicolao p[a]p[e] V Ri-nucius eum deuotione reuere[n]tie uotu[m]. Solent Beatissime pater

Vat.lat.3857, Raymond Llull Ars generalis ultima (c. 1418)

See Bonner, Anthony (dir.), Ramon Llull Database, Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull (University of Barcelona), http://www.ub.edu/llulldb/. Item #281


Vat.lat.3866, Suetonius Vita Horace (11th C)
Incipit: Vita Oratii flacci hec est. Horatius flaccus uenusinus patre ut ipse tradit

Incipit: Acceperunt sacri Ro. Imperii electores ceteriq[ue] principes potentatus atq[ue] status a vobis

Incipit: Prefatio in vniuersalibus. Cvm sit necessarium grisaori et ad

Vat.lat.5533 (Upgraded to HQ), Vincento Serafini (tr) Dell' Acquisto et Conservatione Della Pace Universali & perpetua Dell'Anticsissima & Nobilissima Citta d'Ascoli (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Alla Sant[ita] di N[ost]ro S[ignore] Sisto Quinto. La prima volta ch'io uenni a baciar

Incipit: (f.1r) Quae in ligustico mari su[n]t nelpenes ligusticu[m] Pelagus

Incipit: (f.1r) Neapolitanae Litteraturae Theatrum Oration Incerti Auctoris. Habita In Florentissima Academia Neapolitana

Vat.lat.6800 (Upgraded to HQ), Suetonius Lives of the 12 Caesars
Incipit: Caii Suetonii Tranquilli De vita Duodecum caesarum liber primus .C. Julius Caesar incipit

Incipit: Octauus Phys[icorum] captus florentiae die. Liber hic (autore simplicio)

Vat.lat.6862, Hugh of St. Victor De arrha anime
Incipit: Incipit Soliloquium Magistri Vgonis de s[an]c[t]o victore de arra anime. Homo.

Incipit: Si Volucris nascitur ad volandum ita homo ad laborem

Vat.lat.7084, St. Augustine De moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae, Retractationum, De duabus animabus contra Manichaeos (15th C)
Incipit: {I]n aliis libris satis opinor egisse nos que[m]

Incipit text in red too faded to read


Vat.lat.7126, Breviary (13th C)
Incipit: ... forsitan credas [et] credens ad restauratione[m] tue

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Naples, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 418[ Title: Breviarium, Folio: 107r, Century: 13, Source: italiano (transizione), Provinance: Napoli o Spoleto, Notation: linea o rigo]


Vat.lat.7154, Lorenzo Zaccagni Catalogus datarum in bulli Pontificum Romanorum (1700-1725)
Incipit: (f.Ir) Catalogus Datarum in Bullis Pontificu[m] Romanor[um] ex Flonuphri Panuini scholis

Autograph copy


Incipit: Iste sunt synodalles [con]stitutio[n]es & statuta uenerabili[s] p[at]ris diu[m] iacobi dei gr[ati]a Ep[iscop]i

Vat.lat.7166, Insitiutes of Justinian, with commentaries (17th C)
Incipit: Volens Imperator cupide legum inuentuti tradere sap[ienti]am a Justa

Vat.lat.7177, Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Posterior Analytics
Incipit: Commentaria in Universam Aristotelis Log[ic]am iuxta angelicam D. Thomae Aquinas doctrina[m] proemivm

Vat.lat.7178, Raguaglio di Parnaso (1627)
Incipit: Raguaglio di Parnaso. Apollo conferma alla Republica di Genoua il priuilegio di sedere nella Sala Regia

dated on f.1r


Vat.lat.7182 (Upgraded to HQ), Lorenzo Bonincontri, Rodolfo Iracinto Dierum solemnium Christianae religionis libri quattuor, Epigrams (15th C)

See JONAS


Vat.lat.7188 (Upgraded to HQ), (15th C)

Vat.lat.7197, Virgil Bucolica (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Virgilii Maronis Bvcolicorvm Liber Incipit. Ttythirus Melibeus drachmatieus

Vat.lat.7232, Missal
Incipit: (f.VIIIr) Incipit ordo ad b[e]n[e]dice[n]du[m] aqua[m]

Fransiscan use, pr f.1r. ff. Ir-VIIv is a calendar


Vat.lat.7241 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: (f.1r) Archiep[iscop]is Ep[iscop]is aliisq[ue] p[re]latis

Collection of laws or charters


Vat.lat.7268, Camillo Blasi De iuramento propositionis gallicanae contra infallibilitatem Romani Pontificis (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) De Juramento Propisinionis Gal-licanae contra Infallibiliantem Romani Pontifici Epistola ad Amicum

Possibly an autograph copy