Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2021

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 image to the right is f.5r from Vat.lat.8488, a copy of Vitruvius' De Architectua. The text is a gorgeous Humanist hand, at the start of the main work in this image the scribe has effortlessly shifted in the text from gold to blue to green to pink and further on Greek words are executed in red ink with similar skill. Sadly the ambitious decorative program, there's space for a 10-line miniature here and a 14-line on on f.1r, among others, was never begun. All that we have is the text of the first three books, breaking off in the middle of book 3.

Barb.lat.16, Terrence, Donatus (gloss) (15th C)

Incipit: secro. PHE Oh. illus uide os ut sibi distorsit carnifex.

Barb.lat.23, Propertius Elegies (15th C)

Incipit: [C]vnthia prima suis miser[um] me cæpit occllis

Borg.ind.69.pt.1, Medical Text: Indigenous treatment for fevers, i.e. vatajvara, pithajvara

Urb.gr.73, Eutocius Ascalonita Commentarius in conica (1525-1575)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Μαυρομάτης

Urb.gr.94, Xenophon Anabasis (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Urb.gr.112, Isocrates Opera (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης

Urb.gr.115, Demosthenes Opera, Epistles, Exordia (1426 - 1500 )

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

Urb.gr.123 (Upgraded to HQ), Dio chrysostomus, Aristides Aelius, Plato Orationes, Opera, Phaedra (14th C, start)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μιχαὴλ Κλωστομάλλης

Vat.ind.66

Vat.ind.85

Vat.lat.8030.pt.1, Pierluigi Galletti Papal Bulls and Briefs (18th C)

Incipit: Ex Tabulario Canonicorum Lucensium. Leo Episcopu servius serviorum dei.

Autograph. From Leo IX - Gregory XII (entire volume)

Vat.lat.8030.pt.2, Pierluigi Galletti Papal Bulls and Briefs (18th C)

Incipit: Mag[est]ro Vitali Canonico Pisano pro... Abbe[] | di fuori et Conventu S[an]c[t]e M. de Florentia. Innocentiu sp[iscop]us Servus serv. dei dilecto filio Mag[ist]ro Vitali Canonico pisano.

Autograph. From Leo IX - Gregory XII (entire volume)

Vat.lat.8480

Vat.lat.8488, Vitruvius De Architectura (15th C)

Incipit: Marci Vitruuii de architectura Liber primus Incipit. ad Augustu[m] Imperatorem. [C]vm divina tua mens et nume[n] Imperator Cæsar

Space left for decorations unfilled on all pages

Vat.lat.8491, Pittori Ferraresi Mss Baruffaldi 1.

Incipit: (p.1) Vite de' Pittori, e Scultori Ferraresi. Introduziuone. Principio e Progresso della Pittura e Scultura in Ferrara

Vat.lat.8500, Quintilianus Declamations

Incipit: Decla[ma]tiones Qvintiliani Foeli-citer incipivnt cæcus in Limine. [e]x incendio domvs adolos[cent] Patrem extulit

Vat.lat.8507, Giles of Rome Opera Philosophica (1275-1325)

Incipit: Venerabili uiro ex anglor[um] sp[ec]tabi-li p[ro]sapia oriu[n]do

Vat.lat.8508

Incipit: Piedra del Paranoon Politico Sacada del Monte Parnaso Donde se lucan los gouiernos de las mayores monarchias del Universo. De Trajano Boccalini

Vat.lat.8512, Lettera della santita di nostro signore Benedetto PP. XIV. a monsignore Lodovico Valenti assessore dell S. Officio sopra il divoto e pio desiderio di S. M. Giacomo III re della gran bretagna, etc. (18th C)

First 26 pages are 2 printed collections of letters of Benedict XIV

Vat.lat.8515, Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (14th C)

Incipit: Nu[m] ta[n]tem profitiet quicq[ue] ad u[ir]sus eu[m] q[ue] iure

Incomplete. See Smith, L. (Lesley Janette)., Gibson, M. T. (1995). Codices Boethiani: a conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius. London: Warburg Institute, University of London. v. 3 p. 569

Vat.lat.8516, Scipione Chiaramonti Discors Politico Sopra le Scrittura divilgate a Jauore de SS. Venetiani contra l'Immunita Ecclesiastica, e contra le censure di N. S. Paolo Quinto.

Incipit: (f.2r) Proemio. Molti graci Scrittori Ganno sin

Vat.lat.8550, Rights of the King and Pope, List of senior Cardinals, Innocent III, Alexander VI, Julius II, Hadrian VI, Clement VII and Paul III. etc. (16th C)

Incipit: Delli Dritti del Papa, e del Re sopra il Contado Venaisino e sopra Auignone. Molti hano

Includes several sets of legal documents relating to alegence between Leo X and various kingdoms and cities to counter the Turks or other "enemies of Christianity".