Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 1 of 2021

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 the text of Vat.ar.692, f.2v. This is a 16th Century copy of Life of Barlaam and Josaphat, a fascinating work which started as a life of the Buddha, and through translation and cultural exchange became the story of a pair of Christian saints. Their feasts were even added to the Roman Martyrology on November 27.

The bottom border is from the bi-lingual title page of Urg.gr.108, a collection of philosophical works by Theophrastus and Aristotle, prefaced by an excerpt from Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers. This type of Humanist title page is found on most manuscripts, both Latin and Greek, from the Urbani collections.

Borg.ind.69.pt.2, Medical Text: Indigenous treatment for fevers, i.e. vatajvara, pithajvara

Borg.tonch.9, J.E. Nuremberg, Philiphê Bỉnh (tr) Book of Miracles, on the Mass, on Death and Life of St. Phapha (1814-1816)

Several works collected. Differença entre o temperal e eterno was published in Coimbra in 1741

Ross.321, Bible

Incipit: (f.4r) Pentathecus. ca 7. Genesis, 50 ca.

Owned/used by Charles Boreomeo (as per note on f.2r), ff.4r-5v is TOC, text begins with Frater ambrosius letter on f.6r, ends on f.429r and then Index of Biblical Names

Ross.524, Peter Lombard Sentences

Incipit: Incipit p[ro]logus sup libru[m] s[e]n[tent]iar[um] Cupientes aliquid de penuriia

Urb.gr.11, Gregory of Nyssa Refutatio Confessionis Eunomii, Contra Eunomium (17th C)

Pinakes Entry, copied from the 1615 Paris edition

Urb.gr.20, John Chrysostom Thema: John the Evangelist, In Matthaeum Homilae 1-90 (992)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γρηγόριος (a Monk)

Urb.gr.36, Aristotle Physics (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης

Urb.gr.68 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen, Hippocrates, et al. Scientia > Medica (14th C)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.81, Strabo Geography (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Δισύπατος Γαλησιώτης

Urb.gr.92 (Upgraded to HQ), Thucydides, Dionusius of Halicarnasses, Marcellinus Histories, On Thucydides' Idioms, Life of Thucydides (13th-14th C)

Pinakes Entry, parchment endleaves from a 11th C Onomasticon of Julius Pollux

Urb.gr.97, Plutarch Lives, De Latenter vivendo, etc (10th C)

Pinakes Entry, Owned by Leonardo Bruni, has some 15th C annotations

Urb.gr.98, Plutarch Moralia (c. 1320-1366)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μακάριος Χρυσοκέφαλος (ff.199-349). Note that it was donated to the Pipios monastery in 1366

Urb.gr.104, Arrian Anabasis of Alexander, History of India (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Δισύπατος Γαλησιώτης (ff.5-147)

Urb.gr.107, Polyaenus, Diodorus Siculus, Athenaeus, Athenaeus Naucratensis Strategemata, Library of History, Feminae in Bellis Sapientes et Fortes, Deipnosophistae (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης

Urb.gr.108 (Upgraded to HQ), Diogenes Laertius, Theophrastus, ps-Aristotle Lives of the Philosophers, De Igne, Metaphysics, De lapidibus, etc (c. 1427)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Θεόδωρος νοτάριος, διάκονος καὶ νομικός. Ownership note by Francesco Filelfo on f.151v.

Urb.gr.116, Aeschines, Apollonius In Timarchum, In Ctesiphontem, de falsa legatione, Epistula. Vita Aeschinis (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.120 (Upgraded to HQ), Lucian, Anacharsis Works, Epistulae (13th-14th C)

Pinakes Entry, flyleaf f.1 is a fragment from Leo the Wise

Urb.gr.128, Synesius of Cyrene Letters, Catastasis, Sermons (13th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.133, Demetrius Cydones Letters and Sentences (1375-1400)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μανουὴλ Καλέκας

Urb.gr.138, Homer Iliad, Odyssey (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Δοκειανός (ff. 1-24, 97-216), Γηράρδος (ff.217-237)

Urb.gr.140 (Upgraded to HQ), Sophocles, Euripides, Theodritus, Pindar Poetica > Tragici (1201 - 1300 )

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, also contains several bits of commentary on the poems. Scribe: Ἰωάννης

Urb.gr.142 (Upgraded to HQ), Euripides, Iohannes Tzetzes, Magister Thomas, Demosthenes Poetica > Tragici (1401-1436)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Χορτασμένος

Urb.gr.144, Pindar Olympia, Pythia (c. 1440-1478)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης

Urb.gr.147, Quintus Epicus Posthomerica (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος (most pages)

Urb.gr.160, Theognis Suda, Gnomae (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Καλοφρενᾶς (ff.225-362), Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης (ff. 1-224, 363-366)

Urb.gr.161, Suda (1461)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.ar.692, Life of Barlaam and Josaphat (16th C)

Vat.ind.19 (Upgraded to HQ), Lives of the 13 Saints (17th C)

In Tamil

Vat.ind.30

Vat.lat.4373, Exposito in Sacra Scriptura

Incipit: aspicieba[m] ego in uisione noctis & ecce in nubib[us] celi

Vat.lat.4378, Aldobrandini de Cavalcantibus Sermones de sanctis (14th C)

Incipit: Sermones de s[an]c[t]is. Sapi[enti]am sanctor[um] narrent p[o]p[u]li & laude[m] eor[um] nu[n]ciat ecc[lesia].

See Kaeppeli, T. (1970). Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum medii aevi. Ad S. Sabinae. vol.I, p.36

Vat.lat.4917, Paul the Deacon History of the Lombards (11th C)

Incipit: In n[omi]n[e] D[omi]ni Incipivnt capitvla de histo-ria langobardorum. De germania q[uo]d plures

Formerly owned by Cardinal Sirleto

Vat.lat.6384, John Buridan Sententia libri Ethicorum. (15th C)

Incipit: [O]mnis ars & o[mn]is doctrina & si[mi]l[ite]r &c. Iste e[st] lib[er] ethicor[um] Aristotilis

Flyleaves appear to be erased charter

Vat.lat.6839, Pontificale (14th C)

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Vico Equense

Vat.lat.8029.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Pierluigi Galletti Documents on the Bailica of St. Pauls, from 386-1494, from diverse sources, part 1 (18th C)

Incipit: Valentinianus, Theodosius et Arcadius Augusti sallustio Vrbii praefecto

Autograph copy

Vat.lat.8483, Exuperantius Ferrettus Defensorium Fidei Contra Hæriticos

Incipit: (f.Vr) e primis cuiuscungue tractatus huius libri, elementis, Diuino quodam præsagio in xystum .v. ter Pontificem Max.

Vat.lat.8489, Vitruvius De Architectura (15th C)

Incipit: Qvom diuina tua mens et numen Imperator cæ-sar imperio potiretur orbis terrarum

Owned by Braccio Martelli

Vat.lat.8490

Album of pen drawings all'antiqua, described on f.1r as from the statues and pictures of the BAV

Vat.lat.8492 (Upgraded to HQ), Giacomo Mazocchi Epigrammata antique Urbis Romae (1521)

Incipit: (f.1v) Iacobvs.Mazochivs Mario.Volaterrano episcopo.Aqvinati. Antiqua Vrbis Romæ monimenta

Printed edition with marginal annotation.

Vat.lat.8497, Pietro Corsini De electione Urbani VII anti-papae an. 1378 (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Vniuersis Christi fidelibus, qui renati fonte bapti-smatis Christiano nomine profitentur, & agno-scunt fidem catholicam.

Vat.lat.8499, (1800)

Incipit: (f.4r) Informe Y Consulta que hizo a S. M. Catol. El Supremo Consejo de castilla sobre la impresion, que se solicitaba de la traduccion de los Libros de el presbitero portugues Antonio Pereyra

dated on f.195r, April 22, 1800

Vat.lat.8501, ps-Cicero, Cicero, St. Bernard, Gregory the Great, Martinus Capella In Sallustim Crispum invectiva, Orationes in Catilinam, Orationes Philippicae, etc. (15th C)

Incipit: (f3r) est stare aut [con]ting[ens] i[n] infinitu[m] ire

See Jordanus #10263, foliation different from BAV catalogue entries

Vat.lat.8517, Hermes Trismegistus Poimandres (1659)

Incipit: Argumentum Marsilii Ficini Florentini, in librum Mercurii Trismegisti ad Cosmum Medicem Parriae Patrem. Lo tempore, quo Moyses natus est floruis Athlas Astrologus

Vat.lat.8522, Lactantius Divinarum Institutionum, De ira Dei, De opificio dei (15th C)

Incipit: L. caeli firmiani lattantii aduersus gentiles institutionum liber incipit primus. Magno & excellenti ingenio uiri

Vat.lat.8526, Silvester Mariottus, Thomas Selliius, Franciscus Gregorius, Aloysius Salvatorius Liber Censuum Anni 1795 (1795)

Incipit: (f.1r) A. Mariottus. Abbate S. Apollinaris Classen-tium de Ravenna,

Vat.lat.8527, Silvester Mariottus, Thomas Sellius, Anselmus Salianus, Franciscus Gregorius Liber Censuum Anni 1794 (1794)

Incipit: (f.1r) A. Mariottus. Abbate S. Apollinaris Classentium de Ravenna

Vat.lat.8556, Notitiae bibliographicae Nobilium ac Illustrium familiarum Florentinarum (17th C)

Incipit: Montre che .s. giouani gualberto facena penitetia nell' eremo