At the end of the year the Vatican takes two weeks off from digitization, and I use that time to look back at the past year. For this week we'll be looking inwards at changes and improvements to the site and the code, which is freely available on GitHub. Code Stats First, a couple of top line numbers from the codebase, 173 commits1, which caused 4275...

Despite being the week leading up to Christmas, forty-six manuscripts were added to the repository this week. Unsurprisingly, the majority were from the Reg.lat fond, with Vat.lat.9xxx completing almost all of the remainder, Ott.lat, Pal.lat each contributed one and a few other regions of Vat.lat made a showing as well to round out the collection. Coming...

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week. This week the majority are from Pal.lat, ones that had already been in the Heidelberg repository and just not yet imported into the Vatican. This likely reflects the slowdown in digitizations leading into the Christmas vacation. The remainder fit into the recent pattern, mostly Reg.lat and Va...

Forty-five was the final count for manuscripts digitized this week as we approach the end of the year. Unsurprisingly the patterns of the last few months continue, Reg.lat, Vat.lat.9xxx and some catchup in Pal.lat, with a few stragglers in Ross and other parts of Vat.lat. Within the Reg.lat manuscripts this week is an interesting 10th C volume of serm...

A total of sixty-one manuscripts were digitized this week. Unsurprisingly the largest number, this week actually a true majority with thirty-two, come from the Reg.lat fond. At the current pace the remaining ~800 manuscripts will be done before the end of 2022. The bulk of the remaining manuscripts are from the Vat.lat.9xxx range, with a smattering of o...

Fifty-four manuscripts were digitized this week. The BAV is working to digitize the entire Reg.lat collection, and the good progress has continued this week with twenty-seven manuscripts added. In addition, the two-volume Wilmart catalogue, covering 1-250 and 251-500 have been digitized and made available. Besides the Reg.lat volumes, the bulk of the we...

Forty manuscripts were added to the online archives this week. As we have come to expect, the collections which predominat are Ross, Reg.lat and Vat.lat.9xxx. The week was filled out by a single Chigiani, a pair of Javanese texts from Vat.ind and an unexpected Carthusian Breviary in Vat.lat.7683.pt.1 Vat.lat.9524 is a Spanish book on calculation, a Ars ...

A total of forty-five manuscripts were digitized this week. They predominently fall into the same sections as the last few weeks, Reg.lat, Ross and Vat.lat.9xxx. A new fond for the week is the Pal.lat, with four manuscripts getting added. These were already available on the University of Heidelberg Bibliotheca Palatina digital website, but not yet in t...

Only eight manuscripts were digitized this week. They contain representitives of the three major collections of the recent weeks, Reg.lat, Ross and the later Vat.lat. One of the interesting volumes is Reg.lat.285, which is a collection of writings by the sequential Archbishops of Centerbury, Lanfranc and Anselm. To the right is f.23r, the start of the An...

On pace with the last few weeks, a total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week, focusing on Ross, Reg.lat and Vat.lat, in that order. A single volume from the Cappella Guilia fond, Capp.Giulia.IV.102, a mass and psalm setting for eight voices by Virginio Mazzocchi completes the collection. Interesting additions this week include an early cop...

A total of forty-eight manuscripts were added this week to the online repository. Trends from recent weeks continue, though the Rossiani collection edged out Reg.lat to be the largest single fond for the week, work on digitizing Reg.lat continues. Manuscripts from Vat.lat fond in the 9000s continue to be added, many from the 18th C, including multiple vol...

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were added this week. A plurality of these comes from the new hotness, Reg.lat, with the bulk of the rest in Vat.lat.9xxx. A lone Borg.lat and a couple of Ross volumes complete the set. To the right is f.12v from Ross.587, a copy of Zacharias Chrysopolitanus' Unum ex Quattuor. This 12th C Gospel harmony begins with a ...

Only twelve manuscripts were digitized this week. The bulk of these fall in the Reg.lat, fond, though a couple more Ross in the 5xx range snuck in as well. Only a single Vat.lat was added, and a 19th C History of the Indian Subcontinent, Borg.ind.19 rounds out the week The rock star this week is Reg.lat.2077 a 7th C copy of Jerome/Gennadius, Eusebius, a...

The week started out with thirty-nine manuscripts on Monday sixty-six were digitized in total. Recent patterns that continue are several volumes in Reg.lat, a number from the Rossiani collection in the 500s, and Vat.lat in the 5xxx and 9xxx range. The later contains still more volumes by Gaetano Marini and Francesco Cancellieri, the former, more in a seri...

Thirty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, starting with an unprecedented 4 on Sunday. The work on the Rossiani collection continues, with another four added this week. These are frequently elaborately decorated, which should mean that they are described in the recently published I manoscritti Rossiani. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, edited by Si...

A total of twenty-eight manusctipts were digitized this week. One of the last remaining Vietnamese manuscripts in the Borgiani collection, Borg.tonch.4 was digitized, bringing that fond to the edge of completion. The work on the Rossiani collection seems to be ramping up, with eight volumes added. Among these is a mid 13th C copy of pseudo-Gioacchino da ...

A total of thirty-one manuscripts were added this week to the digital archives, bringing the total count of digitized manuscripts to 21,705. Work continues on the Armenian fonds, with two early volumes from Borg.arm coming online this week as well as two early 17th C volumes from Vat.arm. In the Latin collections work continues on the Vat.lat.9xxx includi...

Only sixteen manuscripts were digitized this week by the library, and three of those were just scanned microfilm. The thirteen high-quality scans are widely distributed, with an Armenian Hymnal and a Sanskrit Thesaurus rounding out the assorted Latin texts. Interestingly three manuscripts from Reg.lat were added, this collection has been quiet for severa...

Summer vacation is over and the library is back to digitizing, with sixty manuscripts added this week. Sixteen volumes from the Ott.lat collection that were added are all part of a large set by Dominico Iacovacci Repertorii Di Famiglie di Dominico Iacovacci Cavaliero dell'Abbito di Calatrave., from the early 17th C. In addition to a volumes from Vat.gr a...

Another week of vacation at the library so no new manuscripts were digitized. Instead I worked through some of the unidentified Rossiani volumes already online, Ross.1-22 have now had at least a cursory pass. All of the illustrated volumes were catalogued in 2014, so parts of this is pretty easy. To the right is f.12r from Ross.3, an early 14th C Vita o...

Due to summer vacation at the library, there were no manuscripts digitized this week. I've been working on cleaning up the entries linked to the Bannister index, the auto-linking for that source is ... imprecise. In doing that, however, I came across Barb.lat.610, f.7r to the right, a Roman Missal dated to 1509. It was made in Florence and decorated by...

A total of fifty-five manuscripts were added this week as we approach the August holidays. The three Borg.arm manuscripts added this week bring that collection to 75% complete. Included in the chunk of manuscripts from the Vat.lat.9xxx series was Vat.lat.9340, a late 14th C Pontifical Missal (in this case Pontifical does not refer to the Pope, but any Bi...

Only twenty-eight manuscripts were added this week. The pattern of the last few months continues, with Borg.arm manuscripts, Vat.gr and Vat.lat > 9,200 making up the bulk of the additions. To the right is f.2r from Vat.lat.9339, a 17th C portolian chart of the Mediterrenean that has some connection with the Knights of Malta. The codex begins with this c...

There were fifty-four manuscripts added this week to the online repository. Recent trends continue, with a number of Armenian volumes from both Borg.arm and Vat.arm collections joining the collection. These additions bring the Borg.arm fond to 75% complete. A number of Vat.gr manuscripts were also added, but the size of this collection means that the 5...

A busy week at the Vatican, with ninty-three manuscripts digitized, the bulk of them coming in two days. Work continues on the Armenian collections, twenty-one volumes added to the Borg.arm fond bring that one past the 75% complete mark and those to Vat.ar have brought it almost to 50%. In addition Sire.a.10, the Armenian volume in that collection, was d...

Twenty manuscripts added this week. Almost all of them continuing patterns from the previous few reports, Armenian and Greek from the Vaticani collection as well as works by Gaetano Marini and Francesco Cancellieri from Vat.lat. One interesting addition, partially seen below, is Borg.ind.72, f.1v. This is a Burmese manuscript, painted on gilded metal pla...

A total of thirty-five manuscripts were added this week. Fourteen more Vat.gr volumes brings that collection up to 309 digitized in full color. Work continues, though slowing, on the Gaetano Marini volumes, but the next block of Vat.lat, texts relating to Francesco Cancellieri, has been accelerating. To the right is the stunning, early 9th century carv...

A total of ninteen manuscripts were digitized this week. Included were more of the Vat.gr and Vat.ar fonds that have been in process lately, as well as more works related to Gaetano Marini. Of particular interest is Borg.lat.763, one of the rare manuscripts in the BAV that was written in the new world. This volume is an illustrated guide to the fruits ...

Only twenty-one manuscripts were digitized this week. Trends of the last few weeks continue to hold, Armenian texts contribute five, Vat.gr another nine, and four more related to Gaetano Marini. The image to the right is the first text page (v.2r) from Vat.lat.5735, a copy of the Dialogues of Gregory the Great that was written at Montecassino around 1...

There were sixty-two manuscripts added this week to the online repository. Additions continuing recent trends include a section of Greek manuscripts from Vat.gr, more Armenian texts, now starting to focus on Vat.ar, and many more volumes related to Gaetano Marini. A small addition was made, two volumes, to the Borg.tonch collection of Vietnamese texts, br...

A quiet week this week with only 18 manuscripts digitized. A number of Greek manuscripts in the Vat.gr fond have been added as well as three more from the works of Gaetano Marini. One of the other manuscripts added this week is a copy of Beato Amadeu da Silva's Nova Apocalipse, Vat.lat.5680 f.9r to the right. Composed in Portugal in the late 15th C, this...

There were forty-one manuscripts digitized this week. Work continues this week digitizing Armenian manuscripts, both in the Vat.arm collection and in Borg.arm. In the later, 38 of the 88 shelfmarks have been digitized so far. To the right an image of St. Luke from Vat.arm.43. As far as I can tell this manuscript is uncatalogued, the main reference on ...

There were a total of eighty-nine manuscripts digitized this week, however forty-four of those are old bindings in the Legature collection. These were removed from Pal.lat manuscripts in the late 19th Century during a period of rebinding, but saved in a seperate fond. Many of these date to the 16th C. To the right is a nice dated example, the cover from...

Fifty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week for the online repository. The recent trends in digitization continue, with six more Armenian manuscripts from the Borgiani collection added, bringing that collection past the 1/3 complete markand. Work on Vat.lat in the 5,000, 8-9,000 and 14-15,000 ranges, was the bulk of the weeks manuscripts. In addition ...

A total of twenty-one manuscripts were digitized this week. Work continues on the Borgiani Armenian collection, which is nearly 1/3 digitized at this point. The bulk of the remaining manuscripts are part of Vat.lat, from the blocks of 4,000-5,000, 8,000-9,000 and the post 14,666, where work has been focused in recent weeks. To the right is f.3r from Va...

Sixty-four manuscripts have been added to the online repository this week. From the small Borgiani collections that have been trickling in we gain another Armenian in Borg.arm.33, a Pontificale, and another Vietnamese in Borg.tonch2, the second volume of a 2-part history of Vietnam. The bulk of the additions are in the two tranches of Vat.lat that have ...

Fifty-seven manuscripts were added this week. Continuing from the last few, more of the Barberini Armenian collection was added as well as from the three active blocks of Vat.lat, late 4000, late 8000 and >14,666. To the right is a page, f.30r, from Vat.lat.8951, a book of Alfonso Tables, which are some sort of astronomical calculation table, attribute...

There were twenty-nine manuscripts added to the online archive this week. The trends of the last few weeks continue, beginning with a few Borgiani Armenian manuscripts. Tn this week's case a pair of grammars, one of Armenian, and one an Italian-Turkish Lexicon with the Turkish transcribed in the Armenian alphabet. Work also continues on the late Vat.lat ...

Seventy manuscripts have been added this week. Several more Armenian manuscripts from the Borgia collection join the ones added in the last few weeks. An unusual addition is Barb.or.130 a collection of unrelated 17th and 18th Century fragments, including f.49r, a page purporting to have the text of the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew along with Psalm 116 in mult...

Although the work-week was shortened by Easter, fifty-one manuscripts were added to the online repository. As with last week several Armenian manuscripts were added from the Borg.arm, and one more from Barb.or. The library continues it's work on Vat.lat between 14666 and 15203, with 22 more digitized this week, bringing the total to over 200 volumes. Al...

A total of twenty-three manuscripts were added this week. The library continues its work digitizing the Borg.arm Armenian volumes, with four more added this week. This includes an interesting Grammar of Italian, written in Armenian, Borg.arm.6. The bottom divider is a bit of marginal decoration from Borg.arm.7, a 17th C Hymnal. Work also continues on th...

Thirty manuscripts were added this week, including several items of Armenian liturgy and another palm-leaf manuscript from the Vat.ind collection. Continuing the work from last week, two more volumes of drawings by Pier Leone Ghezzi were uploaded, making eight of the nine volumes donated by the Marquis of Vulci available online. Among the Vat Lat collect...

A total of forty manuscripts were added this week to the online archives. Of note are six of a nine-volume collections of drawings by Pier Leone Ghezzi, done around 1702 and once oned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci, Vat.lat.14939-14947. There is also a medical Miscellany, including a Commentary on the Viaticum and an annonmous text on urine. T...

Fourty-two manuscripts were added in total this week. The work on the > Vat.lat.14666 tranche continues with an assortment of late 19th C additions to the library as does work on the palm leaf codices in Borg.ind and Vat.ind. A particularly papal manuscript added this week was Vat.lat.4767, one volume of a seven-part Missal made for Pope Clement VII in t...

Fifty-one manuscripts were added this week to the online archives. Ongoing trends that continue are, Vat.lat manuscripts above 14600, and records from the Papal Court of Avignon. The image to the right is December from the calendar of Vat.lat.14859, a composite codex containing complementary parts of two different Missals. There are several interesting ...

A total of fifty-seven manuscripts were added to the online repository this week. The most dramatic piece from this week is absolutely Pal.lat.1631, the Palatine Virgil, a copy of the Aenied, Eclogues and Bucolics written in Italy, probably in the late 5th or early 6th C. This places its creation within the sphere of the Western Roman empire, or at least...

A total of sixty-one manuscripts were added to the repository this week. This includes eight volumes related to the papal court at Avignon. Seven volumes of Latarium, a type of register of fines, and one of criminal convictions. These are all in the range of Vat.lat.14666-Vat.lat.15203, which has seen a surge oc activity since the beginning of February. C...

A total of seventy-three manuscripts were added this week. Work on Urb.gr continues, this weeks four manuscripts brings the total to 157, meaning only five more will complete the Fond. This week brought in two 19th C manuscripts in Asian scripts, Sire.L.13 in Korean and Borg.cin.394. The later is a letter in Chinese, with hand-added romanization of the p...

A total of forty-one manuscripts were added into the online repository this week. Continued work on Urb.gr brings that collection to 94% complete (153 of 162 manuscripts in the 1895 catalogue). The bottom border comes from Urb.gr.129, a collection of the works of the late 4th, early 5th C Bishop Synesius of Cyrenaica, f.1r. Among the Latin texts are sev...

A total of forty-four manuscripts were added this week. Work on the Urb.gr fond continues with 149 of the 165 manuscripts now digitized. This weeks additions covers the 9th Century, a collection of Isocrates (Urb.gr.111), through the 17th Century, with a pair of Adversaria/indexes (Urb.gr.164 Urb.gr.165). One of those manuscripts is Urb.gr.79, a collect...

Twenty-two manuscripts added this week to the online Vatican archives. Progress continues this week on the Urb.gr fond, with 131 manuscripts so far digitized out of a total of 165. The bottom border comes from a member of that collection. Urb.gr.112 is a collection of the works of the Athenean orator Isocrates, f.1r provides the border image. The main i...

Forty-seven manuscripts were added this week to begin 2021. Recent trends are continuing, with Urb.gr manuscripts being added in bulk and the occasional Borg.tonch. Another volume of Pierluigi Galletti was added, reminding us that despite nearly 300 individual items, his works are not yet done being digitized. To the right is the image at the start of ...