Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 19 of 2021

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 two Tibetan manuscripts were digitized this week, Sire.L.12 and Borg.ind.32. The Sire, like every part of that collection, is a translation of the Bull of the Immaculate Conception, and the other is a pair of travel documents issued to 18th C missionaries, one by the Dalai Lama and one by the "King of Tibet".

One of the stranger documents to come online this week is Vat.lat.8950, dramatically titled Castigationes in Chronicon Monasterii Sancta Sophice Beneventi. This 18th C work compares the 1722 printed edition of the Chronicon against the original manuscript, held at the Vatican under shelfmark Vat.lat.4939. This chronicle relates the history of the Monastery of Santa Sophia in Benevento which is still preserved in the city center, though the church is hidden behind a Baroque facade and the cloister is mostly the Museo del Sannio. To the right you can see the original ff. 28v-29r above f.1 of the copy, a heavily decorated start opening to start the main text.

The bottom border is from Vat.lat.9018, f.9v. This is an early printed copy of Michael Scotus' Physionomia, annotated in ink and followed by a copy of the pseudo-Aristotelian Omnes Homines

Barb.lat.2188, Collection of Letters

Incipit: Frederico Coniti Vbaldino Hieronymus Tetius S. P. Quid ergon illistratas

Borg.arm.9, Davidis Invicti, et al. Definitiones Philosophicae, Conlectio Sententiarum, etc. (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 9-13

Borg.arm.35, Ritus consecrationis catholici, Nonula de consecratione catholicorum, etc (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. p. 61

Borg.arm.38, Liturgia missae (1671)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 64-65

Borg.arm.39, Liturgia Missae cum interpretatione latina auctore (1651-1700)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. p. 65

Borg.arm.40.pt.2 (Upgraded to HQ), Paul Piromalli De Fide Catholica ad Regem Persarum, Apologia de duplici natura Christi contra Simonem Armenorum doctorem (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 65-67. autograph copy

Borg.arm.44.pt.1, Gabrihelis a Villafori Lexicon Linguae Armenae (18th C)

Borg.ind.32, Transcription and Translation of a Diploma issued to missionaries by the VII Dalai Lama Blo bzang bskal bzang rgya mtsho (1708-1757) and one by Pho lha nas, the King of Tibet (1728-1741) (1741)

Incipit: Diploma del gran'Lama del Tibet & la liberia di Conscienza senitto in Cavatteri nostrali

In Tibetan

Pal.lat.670, Johannes Andreae Novella (1407)

Incipit: [H]ieronim[us] ho[r]at[ur] in p[ro]logus libri reg[um]

Codices Palatini Entry

Sire.L.12, Translation into Tibetan of the Bull of the Immaculate Conception (1868)

Incipit: Traduction en langue Thibetaine de la Bulle Ineffabilis de N. S. P. le P. Pie IX touchant le dogme l'immaculée de Conception de la B. V. M

Translated by the missionaries J.C. Fage and Auguste Desgodins in December 1868.

Vat.lat.3755.pt.1, Promotiones Cardinalium a Leone IX usque ad Paulum IIII cum Insignibus Pontificum et Cardinalium (16th C)

Incipit: (f.IIIr) Index Pontificum, Quor[um] insignia vel Cardinales Habentur

Vat.lat.5157, Claudianus Carmina, De bello Gothico, Carmina minora (1275-1300)

Incipit: H[ic] ubi dicat[ur] faciu[s] missus q[ue] repente

Vat.lat.5166

Incipit: (f.3r) Ma sel sapesti credo cum furore

See JONAS

Vat.lat.5183, Horace Odes, glossed

Incipit: Quinti Oratii flaccii Venustrii Poete Lyricor[um] Carminum Liber Primus Incipit Admecenate[m]

Vat.lat.5203, Guarinus Veronensis De significatione verborum

Incipit: Abiurrare est rem creditam negare p[er]iurio

Vat.lat.5288, Francesco Aelius Marchesius De familiis Neapolitanis

Incipit: (f.1r) Francisci Aelii Marchesii ~~Nea-politani~~ de nobilium familiar[um] origine libellvs ad Hier. Carbo-nem ~~neapolitanvm~~.

Vat.lat.5446, Dell'Arte del combattere spetialitate contra Turchi, Libro V. Dell'Orginanza

Incipit: (f.Vr) Sac. Ces. M[ta]. Vna delle cause & la pio principale per la quale contra il Turco intanti anni ancora non si è fatto quel progresso

ff.V-XXII contain introduction and table of contents

Vat.lat.5484, Marcus Antonius Mazzaronus De Tribus Coronis P. M. Schediasma

Incipit: (f.3v) Quem diu mortales omnes eroptarunt e coeloiam tan-dem demisit

Vat.lat.5501, Alessandro Archirota Decalogus Psalmorum ubi quinque psalmi misericordiarum et quinque iustitiarum Dei continentur, ex integro Davidico Psalterio recollecti iuxta septuaginta duorum interpretum editionem qua Divus Augustinus utitur, cum expositione ipsius Doctoris... (16th C)

Incipit: (f.IIr) Decalogus Psalmorum ubi quinque psalmi mi-sericordiarum et quinque

Vat.lat.7693

Incipit: (f.1r) Ratio ad inuemieridie[] pasca q[uod] nunq[ue] ... Accipe post festa[m]

Vat.lat.7733 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: (f.1r) Il comincia il prologo nelle me ditationi di messere Ieu[s] Chr[ist]o n[ost]ro redemptore. Intra-laltre grandi uirtudi che si

Vat.lat.8588, Guillelmus Peraldus Summa de Virtutibus

Incipit: Incipit su[m]ma uirior[um] fr[atr]is guiliel-mu de ordine fr[a]t[ru]m p[rae]dicator[um]. Inci-pit

Vat.lat.8702, Michaelangelo Luchi (18th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) Catalogus. No. 1 De Amore in Deum Liber. inc: Cum de illo amore scribere

Vat.lat.8807.pt.3

Incipit: 1579. Ad ueniente ante dicta dia XVII Iulii celebrinta est sessio xxii in qua Alexander Papa

starts p.655

Vat.lat.8885

Incipit: (f.1r) Collecta fideliter & accurate Epilogata ex variis christianor[um] librorum hystoriis. Vrbanvs secundus Fredericus Imperator ps.

Vat.lat.8896, Roman History until Constantine (15th C)

Incipit: Ascanius enee filius fundauit cuiutate[m] albanem cuius descendu[n]tes regnaueru[n]t

Index at start, the text is incomplete at the end

Vat.lat.8903, Martianus Capella De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Book 1

Consists of a printed copy of the text with numerous manuscripts pages

Vat.lat.8949

Vat.lat.8950, Castigationes in Chronicon Monasterii Sancta Sophice Beneventi (18th C)

a comparison of the 1722 Venetian printed edition and the manuscript Vat.lat.4939

Vat.lat.8954, Pierre Jacques Sabin Bremond d'Avignon De la Recherche du vrai dans les sciences (1844)

Incipit: (p.1) Préface. L'impression de cette premiere partie de mon ouvrage allais être terminée en 1831

Vat.lat.8956, Orations and Sermons

Vat.lat.8964, Carafa Several letters (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) In nomine domini amen. Anno Domini Millesimo quingentissimo sexafesimo nono, Indictione duodecima Pontificatus Sanctissimi in Chr[ist]o Patris et Domini N[ost]ri Pii Papæ quinti Anno quarto, Mentis Junii

f.1r dated to 1556

Vat.lat.8965, Firmicus Maternus Mathesis (1481)

Incipit: [I]ncipiu[n]t capitula Libroru[m] prim-us liber ep[isto]lam habet solam quid sit mathesis

Vat.lat.8974

Vat.lat.8975

Vat.lat.8976, Marci Mastrofini Secunda Pars Metaphysicae Sublimioris

Incipit: (f.1r) Specimen. Operis MSS., cui Titulus, Secunda Pars Metaphysicae Sublimioris Marci Mastrofinii. Auctoris propositum est

Vat.lat.8979, Specimen Vesponsionum ex Nova praesertim Appendice erutarum, quibus, contra ea quae affert, et infert Mastuotinius in suis libellis S[anctis]simo Domino N[ost]ro PP Leoni XII

Incipit: (p.1) Cap. I. De declaratione Mastrafinio pro-posita

Vat.lat.8980

Incipit: Nova appendix. Continens locatum Primaetum Secundae Partis Metaphysicae su-blimioris quorum vatio habetur in Specimine

Vat.lat.8984, De Monachis siue Regularibus de que Eorum Exemptionibus a Jurisdictione Episcopali

Incipit: De Monachis siue Regularibus deque Eorum Exemptionibus a Jurisdictione Episcopali. De Monachorum nominibus primo videamus μοναχοσ

Vat.lat.8985, De L'autorité du Roy danz l'administration de l'Eglise Gallicane

Incipit: (p.3) Table dea matierea contenuea danz ce Manuscrit intitule

Vat.lat.8986

Incipit: A... Statuta et Santiones Terre ophydæ. Feliciter Incipiunt. Prologus. Quoniam sicut optimum Anumaliu[m] est Homo

The blue ink of the rubric is faded on f.1r

Vat.lat.8987, Statutorum Civitatis Corneti

Incipit: Statutorum Civitatis Corneti Liber Primus. Quod Populus Cornetanus semper conservatur sub

Vat.lat.8989, Urban VIII, Benedict XIV Statutes of the Universities of the Shoemakers and Tailors of Rome (18th C)

Incipit: Urbanus Papa VIII. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Christi fidelium quorum librt

Vat.lat.8994, Catalogue of the Library of Josepg Simonii Assemani, Archbishop

Incipit: (p.1) Codices Hebraici Mss. Codex in fol. membr. Sæc XIII. quadratis Literis elegantissima etque ac ad curatissima manu exarcutus, quo continentur

Vat.lat.9007, Steffano Cosmi Notizie Istoriche dell'Origine e Progresso del Clero Veneto (1679)

Incipit: (p.3) Istoria Dell'Origine, e progressi del Clero Veneto. Capitolo Primo. L'Ordine Eccl[esicasti]co in Venezia alle li natali coll'istessa

Vat.lat.9013

Incipit: (p.705) Cap. XVIII. Apostolicam Sedem Ep[iscop]i ex to-tius orbis partibus consulebant

starts p. 705

Vat.lat.9017

Incipit: (f.3r) Lo primo Capitolo del p[ri]mo libro sie quante cose de luomo considerare quando uiene a parlare. Conciosia co-sa che In dire et in par-lare

Vat.lat.9018, Michael Scotus, ps-Aristotle Physionomia, Omnes homines (1474)

Incipit: (p.1) Prima pars libri buins. Capitulu[m] primu[m] De tempore coitus mascule et femi[n]e, et de de-dectu ipsuis

Printed, marginal notes in ink

Vat.lat.9019 (Upgraded to HQ), Jacapone da Todi Laude

Incipit: Bonitas diuina [con]querit[ur] de affectu creato. La bonta de silamenta che l'affecto no la amata

Vat.lat.9023, Gaetano Marini, Francesco Bianchini, et al. De Jus ò Ragione, Dissertation on the Lead Pipes of S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, etc. (18th C)

Incipit: De Jus o Ragione, che compete a Padronali delle Vigne o Territorii, sotto de quali si trovano i Sagri Cimiteri de SS. Martiri di Roma. In un solo periodo potreffe

A full listing of the contents can be found in Forcella, Vincenzo. Catalogo dei manoscritti riguardanti la storia di Roma che si conservano nella Biblioteca Vaticana. Roma [etc.]: Fratelli Bocca, 1879. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:004863391..

Vat.lat.9037

Incipit: In nomine D[omi]ni Dei Saluatoris nostri Jesu Ch[ris[ti Regnantibus Dominis nostris

Vat.lat.9073 (Upgraded to HQ), Gaetano Marini Inscriptiones Christianae Latniae et Graecae (18th C)

Incipit: Romæ in S. M. Transtib. humi in navi intrantibus laeva

starts p.553, pp. 273-552. Part of a set of 4, Vat.lat.9071-9074

Vat.lat.9074 (Upgraded to HQ), Gaetano Marini Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae, notes (18th C)

Incipit: Defunctar[um] Nomine Posita. E. Coem. Commodillae regulis inscriptum opere tessellato

Vat.lat.9151, Copia: Delle Aggiunte, Correzioni schade e Postille apposta da Gaetano Marini al suo exemplare de' Fasti Conjolani (1823)

Vat.lat.9171, Francesco Cancellieri Bibliotheca Cardinalizia e Principe (19th C)

Vat.lat.15164, A Drama of Ancient Egypt (18th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Argomento. Oppresso Aprio Re dell'Egitto dal perfidio Amasi suo favorito, e Ministro vitima della propria indolenza

Vat.lat.15180, Brevis memoria eventuum memorabilium civilium et ecclesiasticorum populi Romani utramque Daciam incolentis a tempore descensus eiusdem usque ad nostram aetatem a. D. 1858 adumbrata (1858)

Incipit: (f.2r) Praefatio. Populus, qui hodie extensum illum terrae tractum a Carpato Monte

Vat.lat.15199, Mazzo volgare di cose diverse (17th C)

Original sale document as flyleaf

Vat.lat.15356.pt.3, Translations of the Lords Prayer and Gospel Fragments into Indian Languages (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Brammhanice. Pater noster qui caelis in es, tuum nomen

On the flyleaf Indo-Ariane. CLXXXI.