Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 10 of 2021

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.

To the right is a calendar page for April from a Breviary made for the Use of Cologne, Vat.lat.14874, f.2v. It is interesting for the way the calendar is annotated, there are the Dominical letters and Golden Numbers, elements used for calculating the date of Easter, as usual on the far left. Then there are the Roman dates, that is the numbers counting down to the Nones, Ides and Kalends of the month, but in early Arabic numerals where the 7, 5 and 4 have not yet taken the modern form. What is most unusual is the column to the far right, with the alphabet repeating, starting with "A" on January 1. Not only is this an unual form, but after "Z" are several of the most common Tironian notes, including &, est, tur, con and occasionally us. This is a common pattern on scribal tests, perhaps on a flyleaf, but not something often seen in a formal part of a manuscript

The bottom border is a line of music from Vat.lat.14852, the top line of f.7r. The text read "-tum uidi dominu[m] meum alle-" with the conclusion "luia" on the following line.

Borg.ind.73, Parts of the Uttararamayana and the Satamukharamayana

Borg.ind.74

Chig.M.VI.126, Aristotle, Jacopo Corbinelli(tr) Rhetoric, translated (16th C)

Incipit: (f.Ir) Della Rhetorica d'Arist. Capitolo primo di cio che da farre fede si troua

See ALI 817

Vat.lat.4583, De inventione ac revelatione ac translatione sanctissimi vultus venerabilis Leboini liber, Miracula sanctissimi vultus, etc. (17th C)

Incipit: De Inventione Ac reuelatione, ax Trans-latione, Sanctissimi uultus venerabi-lis Leboini liber incipit

Vat.lat.4601 (Upgraded to HQ), Partenope Cronaca (14th C)

Incipit: De cita de nap[ol]i la qual[] inter le altre cita del inundo per

Chronicle in Italian of Rome and the countryside

Vat.lat.4658 (Upgraded to HQ), Biography of Camilla Baptista de Varano

Incipit: Rex Christe clementissime tu corda nossra poside ut tibi laudes

Subject named on f.70v

Vat.lat.6701 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: (f.1r) Extat in reynal

Vat.lat.6859, Psalter for Besançon (15th C)

Incipit: Cristi no[m]i[n]e i[n]uocato. Incipit psalt[er]iu[m] cu[m] a[n]tiph[on]is

See JONAS

Vat.lat.8708, Trilingual Bible: Exodus

Incipit: Liber Exodi. In Caput I. Καί ταΰτα τά

Biblical text in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, on pale blue paper

Vat.lat.8741, Miscellanea

Incipit: A. Vita Cossumis e morte di michele caluo appellato

Contains both printed and manuscript elements. Ownership note on f.460r for S. Bartholomei in Insula

Vat.lat.8769 (Upgraded to HQ), Ercole Ciofano Scholia in Ouidii Halieutica (16th-17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Praestantissimo ac nobilissimo viro leonardo salviato s. stephani equiti Herculese Ciofanus Salmonensis

Vat.lat.9212, Book of Hours, Use of Paris (15th C)

ff.1r-12v is Parisian calendar in French See Morello, G. (1988). Libri d’ore della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Belser Verlag. pp. 100-102. Ownership note on f.234r "Janor Chirurgian major du cardinal de Mazarin", sold in 1827 as part of the library of L. M. J Duriez, see Merlin, J. S. Imprimés et manuscrits, composant la bibliothèque de Feu M. L. M. J. Duriez (de Lille)... 1827See JONAS

Vat.lat.14696, Copie di documenti relativi a Guardia Sanframondi (Benevento) e Cerreto Sannita (Benevento). (1722)

Incipit: (f.IIr) Uiridarium Co-piarum autemi-carum exaratarum a propriis Originalibus, uariarum gratiarum

Vat.lat.14805, Miscellany, mostly from the Alessandri collection (17th-19th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Eccomi giunto al Termine fatale che appvesso quasi sono gia a moriue

Vat.lat.14811, Collection of Papal Decrees (16th-19th C)

Incipit: In nomine domini Anno Anatiuitate Eiusdem Millesimo trecentesimo

Vat.lat.14820, Innocent III De sacro altaris mysterio libri sex, de quadripartita dpecie nupatiarum liber, Ad Transmundum archipresbyterum (14th C)

Incipit: Liber de sacra[te] eucharisties de offi[cio] misse

Vat.lat.14822, ibn al Haytam, John of Gaddesden, Taddeo Alderotti, et al. Medical Miscellany - Commentary on Hippocrates, Commentary of the Viaticum of Constantine Africanus, Texts on Urine, etc. (13th-14th C)

Vat.lat.14842, Filippo Ciapparoni (tr) Tractatus de pyrotechnia et balistica, Vindobonae [...] 1766, translated into Italian (1794)

Incipit: (f.2r) Introduzione. Nell'arta militare nul-la uie, che esippa maggior

Vat.lat.14845, Manovre di cavalleria. (1804)

Incipit: Manoure Di cavalleria fatte tradurre dall'ultime ordinanze Francesi dal Maggiore Gioacchio Reali Comandante il Corpo dei Cacciatori

Vat.lat.14852, Antiphonarium (1491-1510)

Incipit: (f.1v) Vente. Ego sum qui sum et consilium meum

See Iter liturgicum italicum, notated music, square notes on 5-line staff. First folio is very damaged, later overwriting also damaged

Vat.lat.14862, Processionale (1491-1510)

Incipit: ...gentiu[m] et gloriam plebis tue is-rahel.

See Iter liturgicum italicum. Notated music. Top of f.1, bottom of f.4 has been sliced off

Vat.lat.14874, Breviary, of Cologne (15th C)

Incipit: (f.7r) S[a]nctis noctib[us] inuitat[orium]. Adorem[us] d[o]m[i]n[um] q[ui] fecit nos

ff.1r-6v is calendar

Vat.lat.14924, Giudicio delle direttioni (17th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) Sindicio Che spetta alle Direttioni. Prima de si renga al giudicio delle derettioni

Part of a small collection of Kabbalistic manuscripts from the Secret Archives, Vat.lat.14921-14927

Vat.lat.14939, Pier Leone Ghezzi Album of Drawings (1702)

Six drawings, no text. Part of the series Vat.lat.14939-14947, all owned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci

Vat.lat.14942, Pier Leone Ghezzi Album of Drawings (1701-1755)

Six drawings, no text. Part of the series Vat.lat.14939-14947, all owned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci

Vat.lat.14943, Pier Leone Ghezzi Album of Drawings (1701-1755)

Seven drawings, no text. Part of the series Vat.lat.14939-14947, all owned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci

Vat.lat.14945, Pier Leone Ghezzi Album of Drawings (1701-1755)

Seven drawings, no text. Part of the series Vat.lat.14939-14947, all owned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci

Vat.lat.14946, Pier Leone Ghezzi Album of Drawings (1701-1755)

Seven drawings, no text. Part of the series Vat.lat.14939-14947, all owned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci

Vat.lat.14947, Pier Leone Ghezzi Album of Drawings (1702)

Seven drawings, no text. Part of the series Vat.lat.14939-14947, all owned by Marquis Benedetto Guglielmi di Vulci

Vat.lat.14962, Assorted Documents Relating to the Vitelleschi Family (17th-19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Fas[icule] No 17. 1737. Breve del Sommo Pontefice Clemente XII. col quale accorda la facolta di erigere nella

Includes Papal briefs of Clement XII, Innocent XIII and Alexander VII

Vat.lat.14963, Assorted Documents Relating to the Vitelleschi Family (18th-19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Fas[icule] N[o] 2. Bolla del Sommo Pontefice Urbano VI[o] spedita a favore del Nobil Uomo Giulio VI-telleschi Patrisio di Comete. 1378

Includes Papal briefs and bulls from Gregory XI, Eugenius IV, Urban VI, Sixtus IV and Clement VII, as well as Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI

Vat.lat.15006, Register of Offerings for Mass to be Celebrated in the Church of Camerino(Macerata) for Members of the Benigni family (1642-1677)

Vat.lat.15011, Commentary on the Four Books of Justinian's Insitutiones (1655)

Incipit: (f.1r) Joannis Philippi Brindini Ciuis nobilisq[ue] Romani In studio Bononien[si]: Anno 1655 int[er] scholores

Vat.lat.15015, Giovanni Battista Federici Tractatus rhetorice (17th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) Oratoriarum Institutionum Liber Primus Quis esse debeat etque perfecta Oratiria Caput Primum

Dated on f.2r MDCLXCII

Vat.lat.15020, Joseph de Sainte-Agathe La restauration du pouvoir temporel au point de vue religieux, historique et politique, (1890)

Incipit: (f.2r) Bibliographie de la question romaine. Abelly - De l'obeissance et soumission qui est due a N. S. P. le Pape en a qui regarde les choses de la foi

In French

Vat.lat.15021, Lorenzo Giampaoli Sanctae Mariae Deiparae Immaculatae dormitio et corporalis assumptio contra perfidam Iani [Ignaz von Döllinger] sententiam vindicata (1878)

Incipit: (f.3r) Augustissimo ac sanctissimo patri Domino Leoni divina providentia papæ decimotertio scientarum patrono ac vindici Laurentius Giampaoli ex apostolico ordine canonicorum regularium lateranensium De Beatæ Virginis Assumptione cum devota reverentia

Vat.lat.15022, Antony Roulliet Le culte catholique à l'Exposition Universelle Internationale de Paris en 1878 (c. 1878)

Incipit: (f.IIr) A Son Excellence Monseigneur Ciccolini President de l'Academie des Arcades de Rome

Introductory letter on f.IIIr to Stefano Ciccolini. In French

Vat.lat.15023, Tommaso Arese Life and Pontificate of Gregory VII (19th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Alla Santita di Nostre Signore papa Leone XIII. Iustauratore sapiente delle filosofiche e delle istoriche discipline

Vat.lat.15034, Miscellaneous Documents Related to the Jubilee of 1750 (c. 1750-1755)

Incipit: (f.1r) Lettera circolare della santita di Nostro Signore Benedetto Papa XIV. A tutti i Vescovi dello Stato Ecclesiastico

Mostly printed matter collected by Cardinal Francesco Ricci

Vat.lat.15057, Giuseppe Calvetti Spiegazioni del Vangelo (19th C)

Incipit: Domenica la dopo pentecoste Cirsi 3[o]. Il vero onest uomo B. Perfectus omnis erit, si sil sicut m[a]gister eius. S. Luca capo 6. v. 10