Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 9 of 2020

There were 51 new manuscripts digitized this week from the Vatican. They include two volumes of the letters of Pope Innocent III, copied in the 17th C, Vat.lat.7214 and Vat.lat.7217. There is also Vat.lat.7172, a c. 1000 hymnal which, according to Bonifacio Baroffio has notated music, but I could not find it.

To the right is the elaborate title page of the start of a two-volume Breviary according to the use of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Olivet, called by all, including the incipit, the Olivetans, Vat.lat.7235 f.19r and the second volume, which appears to begin with a matching title page to a Psalter is Vat.lat.7236

The border at the bottom is from the title page of a massive Antiphonal made for Pope Paul III by his personal music scribe Federico Mario Perugino in 1538, Capp.Sist.11. It contains the music for the feasts of the saints, beginning with that of St. Andrew on Nov, 30.

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Capp.Sist.11, Antiphonarium, de Sanctis (1539)
Incipit: Incipit Antiphonarium festuum per anni circulum. In vigilia S. Andree apli.

Written by Frederico Mario Perugino for Pope Paul III


Sire.N.2, Traduction de la Bulle Ineffabilis dans les principaux dialectes poplaires de la Guyenne (1867)
Incipit: Traduction de la Bulle Ineffabilis dans les principaux dialectes poplaires de la Guyenne

Written by the Brothers of the Ecoles Chretiennes Leobert, decoration by Marie Gadou and the brothers of the Ecoles Chretiennes Ludovicus. Bound by Leon Gruel


Vat.lat.3667, (16th C)
Incipit: Alexandro Farnesio Cardinali Apliss[imo] Ep[iscop]vs Iacomellvs Foelicitatem. Svperioribvs diebvs, cum ut te non latet de impii iustificatione

Vat.lat.3689, Martius Alterius (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Sanctiss. Domino Nostro Pavlo III. Pont. Max. Felicitatem. Proximus annis, Beatiss. Pater, cum pene arderem desiderio

A book on astrology


Vat.lat.3764 (Upgraded to HQ), Liber Pontificalis (11th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) I[n] no[m]i[n]e ep[isto]la Hieronimi ad Damassvm papam. Beatissimo pape damaso

f.Ir-v in a later hand describing the book


Vat.lat.3812, Iosephs Stephans De Adoratione Pedum Romani Pontificis
Incipit: (f.1r) Elenchus libror[um] quorum testimoniis usu est auctor

Vat.lat.3841, Hildebertus Cenomanensis Epistles (1551)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipivnt Epistolae domini Ildeberti privs cenomannensis episcopi postea tvronen[sis] archiep[isco]pi. incipit epistola

dated on f.80v, arms of Pope Julius III on f.1r


Vat.lat.3844 (Upgraded to HQ), Sebastian Compagni Geographia ad Leonem X in XXIII libros divisa (16th C)
Incipit: Sebastianvs Compagnvs Leoni .X. Pont. Max. Gloriam et Foelicitatem. Qvum te rei p christiane pre esse

Vat.lat.3879, Gregory of Tours History of the Franks (16th C)
Incipit: Ex Gregorio Turonico Parisiis impresso M. D. Lxi in optimo loca ad Episcopos Presbyteros & ad Synodos spectemtia. Et omnia que a trecentis decem, et octo

Incipit: Consilium centesmum quintimi Super quoda[m] negocio

Vat.lat.5510, Alessandro Fusconi De Miraculis admirandae et venerabilis eucharistiae, libri duo (16th C)
Incipit: (f.2v) Ad S[anctissimum] D. N. Gregorium XIII Pont. Max. Regis adire sacrae qui uult solennia mensae

Incipit: (f.2r) Leuitici Caput 27. Lectio prima. Locutusque est dominus ad Moysen

Vat.lat.6902 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: (f.1r) Indice delle scritture qui contenuete. Relatione della Legatione di Francia del

Vat.lat.7129, Registro della bottega di Aldo Manuzio il giovane. (1574)


Incipit: Inuentoru[m] libror[um] existontiu[m] i[n] Banchis Bibliotheca magno Pontifica secretae

Incipit: (f.1r) Priuilegia. Eccl[esi]a Monasterii S. Trinitatis de Benusio quo habut ex libro enuilegionum in carta membrana

Vat.lat.7156, Lorenzo Zaccagni De Photini heretici damnatione, de Valentis et Ursacii uenia deque tempore synodi Sirmiensis plenariae et fidei formulis in eadem conscriptis dissertatio in qua Baronii [Cesare Baronio], Sirmundi [Jacques Sirmond], Petauii [Denys Petau], et Petri de Marca (1690)
Incipit: (f.1r) Laurentii de Zaccagnio Vaticanae Bibliothecae Prefecti De Photini Haeretici damnatione de Valentis, et Vracii uenia

Autograph copy


Vat.lat.7167 (Upgraded to HQ), Diaria Sev Acta Ab Anno 1378 Usque ad 1596 (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sub Vrbano Papa VI. Vrbanus Papa sextus, ante Bartholomeus Baren Archiep[isco]pus

Vat.lat.7169, Caffarus de Caschifellone, Bartholomarus, Guillelmus de Multedo, Drocus Henricus, Iacobus Auria Historia Ianuensis, Annales Ianuenses (1576-1625)
Incipit: (f.2r) Euicumq[ue] sua utilitate, uel aliena praeteritor[um] annorum

Covers the period 1099-1293.



Vat.lat.7185, Giovanni Garzoni De Iohannis Bentivoli senioris gestis ad Iohannem Bentivolum iuniorem liber (15th C)
Incipit: Johanes Garzonus B[e]n[e]d[ict]ro Moza[n]do S. P. D. pro emendatione operis

Vat.lat.7214 (Upgraded to HQ), Innocent III Regesta sive epistulae libri III-IX (17th c)
Incipit: Index Epistolarum Libri sexti. 1. Johanni Priori, et Fratribus iuxta Specum

Vat.lat.7217, Innocent III Epistolarum Innocentii III, Romani Pontificis, Book 9 (17th C)
Incipit: (f,2v) Index. Epistolarum anni noni. Episcopo... quod non quaerat cessionem

Vat.lat.7220, Gregory IX Epistles, Book 3 (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Incipit Liber Regestorum Domini Gregorii Pape IX. Anno eius Tertio

Vat.lat.7222 (Upgraded to HQ), Ps-Isidore Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (801-850)
Incipit: XVI De hisqui inpecudes uel in masculos aut olim polluti sunt

Copied at St. Peters Salzburg


Vat.lat.7235, Breviary (15th C)
Incipit: (f.8r) Item qundocu[m] q[ue] fe-stum trium le i[n] domi-nica uenerit, uel in aliq[ua]

See Iter liturgicum italicum, ff. 1r-6v contains Calendar, 7r is Computus


Vat.lat.7236, Breviary (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit psalt[ir]ium se-cundum ordine[m] monacho-rum montisoluieti

Vat.lat.7238, Collection
Incipit: (line 3) ad imagine[m] sua[m].

first section seems to be a 10-11th C Lectionary



Vat.lat.7263, Dissertatio De cultu Sancti Johannis Sirimensis Cognominati Maronis...
Incipit: (f.3r) Index Capitum. Proemium. In quo occasio huius scribenda Dissertationis ostenditur

Vat.lat.7266, Camillo Blasi Dello spirito della chiesa coi principi della terra sopra l'una e l'altra potestà (c. 1786)
Incipit: De Finibus utriusque Potestatis Menmoria. 1. I lacrimevoli sconceroi, che tanto

probably the author's autograph


Vat.lat.7273, Materia Medica

title from f.1r



Vat.lat.7278, Excerpta ex Variis Autoribus

Vat.lat.7288, (16th C)
Incipit: Die Dominico Sa. Februarii 1541. Sixta mandata

Vat.lat.7293, St. Augustine In Psalmos, part 2 (1075-1125)
Incipit: Passionis s[an]c[t]or[um] martirum diem hodie festum habentes

Vat.lat.7296 (Upgraded to HQ), Cassian Institutes
Incipit: In no[min]e d[omi]ni i[n]stitutor[um] ca[s]siani abb[a]tis. Incip[it] p[ro]log[us].

Vat.lat.7298, Juvenal Satyric Poetry (15th C)
Incipit: Ivnii Ivvenalis Aqvinatis po-etae satyrarvm liber primvs feliciter incipit

Vat.lat.7303, Pietro de' Crescenzi Liber ruralium commodorum, Books 1-11 (14th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Liber Petri Cressentii Ciuis bo-nome, Ruralium comodorum et de agricultura. Ep[isto]la missa ad mag[ist]r[e]m ordinis fratrum predicatorum

Vat.lat.7304, Acts of the 4th Council of Constantinople
Incipit: (f.2r) Regali Imperio fidei Catholicae qua[m] tenemus precipim[us]

Vat.lat.7310, Suetonius, Xenephon, et al. Lives of the Caesars, and other histories
Incipit: (f.1r) Suetonii Tranq[ui]lii viri clarissimi de uita cesarum liber incipit Julius Cesar. Annum agens cesar sextu[m] decumu[m]

Vat.lat.7332, Thomas of Capua Summa Dictaminis (13th C)
Incipit: Incipiunt R[e]c[t]e artis dictan-di Magistri Thome capua-ni sancte roman[ne] ecc[lesia]e card[inalis]. In hoc prohemio

Vat.lat.7333, Cicero Orations (15th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) M. Tvllii Ciceronis Or[ati]o de impeatore de lige[n]do incip[it] [prima]. Qvanqvam mihi semper fre-quens conspectus

TOC on f.1r


Vat.lat.7334, Ambrosius Autpertus Libellus de conflictu uitiorum atque uirtutum
Incipit: Incipit s[an]c[t]i aug[us]tini de [con]flictu u[ir]tutu[m] & uicior[um]. Apostolica uox clamat p[er] orbem atq[ue]

Vat.lat.7335, Missal (1301-1310)
Incipit: Dominica p[ri]-ma i[n] aduen-tu d[omi]ni offici-um. Ad te leuaui

See Iter liturgicum italicum, , See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 924[ Title: Passiones, Folio: sparsim, Century: 14i, Provinance: italiano (, Notation: segni musicali],See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 695[ Title: Missale, Folio: passim, Century: 14i, Provinance: OP, Notation: quadrata]


Incipit: Incipit mamortect[us] de ex-posit om[ni]b[us] vocabulor[um] Bi-blie et accentuationib[us]

ff. I-II are a 9th C vulgate text, probably book of Kings or Samuel


Vat.lat.7343, Leonardo Bruni (tr), Plato Epistula XII (15th C)
Incipit: Leonardi Arretini ad cos[i]ma medicem lege feliciter. Inter clamosos ster[pi]-tus negotiorum q[ue]

Vat.lat.7352, De vita Sancte Instimenda
Incipit: (p.1) Sectio Prima De oratione in genere i. De studio orationis

Vat.lat.7448, Conclave for Pope Clement XI, book 12 (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Conclaue Nel quale a morte di Benedetto XIII di San. Mem[oria] e' stato assunto al Pontificato

Vat.lat.12540 (Upgraded to HQ), Letters relating to the death and canonization of John of Capistrano (1476-1500)
Incipit: Ep[isto]la ad R[everendom] Sermonem patre[m] fr[atr]em Jacobu[s] d MArchia ordi[ni]s mi[n]or[um] de conflictu Turchor[um] t[em]p[o]re b[ea]ti Jo[hannis] de ca-pistrano

Vat.lat.14333 (Upgraded to HQ)