Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2021

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 1076-1079. There are two scribes who can be identified as having worked on it and the second, not the artist of this page, is known as "The Desiderius Dialogues Scribe", for his work on this and another volume, Vat.lat.1203 of a Dialogues by Desiderius, abbot of Montecassino and future Pope Victor III.

The bottom border is from a 15th-16th C copy of Proclus' Commentary on the Parmenides, Vat.gr.1799, f.1r

Borg.arm.49, Missal with Gospel of John (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. p. 78

Vat.arm.10, Bible, Acts and Epistles (1301)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 238-240

Vat.arm.16, Assorted Texts (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 261-278. 43 seperate texts identified in the catalogue

Vat.arm.26, Hymnal for Vespers and Matins, Catholic use of Transylvania (18th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 313-319

Vat.arm.44, Gospels (1501)

Script is of the bolorgir type

Vat.gr.1746, Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, Maximus the Confessor, Euagrius Ponticus, et al. Theological Miscellany (1368 )

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κλήμης (ff. 28r-296v)

Vat.gr.1752, John of Damascus Dialectica, Expositio fedei (13th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1759 (Upgraded to HQ), Nicephorus Gregoras, Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, et al. Miscellany (1401-1700)

Pinakes Entry, includes medical, theological and geographical works, among others. Scribes: Alvise (Luigi) Lollino (ff. 1-7, 8-10v, 15-16v), Μάξιμος Μαργούνιος ἐπίσκοπος Κυθήρων (ff. 11-13), Ἰωάννης Εὐγενικός, διάκονος καὶ νομοφύλαξ (ff. 425-426)

Vat.gr.1799, Proclus Commentary on the Parmenides (1487-1600)

Pinakes Entry, scribes: Bartolomeo Zanetti (ff. 175-303), Ἀνδρόνικος Νούκκιος (ff. 1-93, 97-144v), Βασίλειος Βαλερίς (ff. 93-96v, 145-174v)

Vat.gr.1805, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory the Presbyter Orationes, Vita S. Gregorii Nazianzeni (10th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1806, Niles Ancyranus, John Chrysostom, Athanasius of Alexandria Menologium metaphrasticum pro mense Ianuario (12th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1824 (Upgraded to HQ), Theocritus, Moschus of Syracruse, Euripides, Aeschylus, Johannes Pothus, Manuel Holobolus Poetica > Miscellanea (13th-14th C)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry. Conntected to Vat.gr.1825

Vat.gr.1828, Constantinus Lascaris, Aphthonius, Hermogenes Works on Rhetoric (13th, 16th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1829 (Upgraded to HQ), Romanos the Melodist, Joseph the Hymnographer Liturgical Songs (11th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.5735, Gregory the Great Dialogues (c. 1076-1079)

Incipit: (f.1v) Incipit liber primus. De honora ad abbate mona-sterii fundensis.

Beneventan hand, from Montecassino. The second hand is identified as "The Desiderius Dialogues Scribe", the same scribe as Vat.lat.1203

Vat.lat.5740, Arnaldus de Villanova, Martinus Oppaviensis Expositio super Apocalipsim, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum. (14th C)

Incipit: Expo[s]ito[n] sup[er] apocalipsi Mag[ist]ri arnaldi de uilla nona. Pertra[n]sibu[n]t plu[r]imi & multiplex erit sci[enti]a. Q[uam]vis h[oc] d[i]c[tu]m co[mmun]e sit toti sc[ri]ptu[ra]e sac[re]

Vat.lat.9043, Leonardi Antonelli, Michaelis Arditi, Antonini Astuto, et al. Letters to Gaetano Marini (1758-1811)

Vat.lat.9061, Letters to Gaetano Marini (c. 1751-1815)

Incipit: (f.2r) de Hohenheim de 9[o] Aout 1793. Mon cher Resident Marini. J'ai reçu Votre relation

Mostly letters from Württemberg

Vat.lat.9066 (Upgraded to HQ), Letters

Letters "of illustrious men" selected by Gaetano Marini

Vat.lat.9096, Gaetano Marini Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae (c. 1777-1800)

Vat.lat.15183, Hymnarium (18th C)

Incipit: Dominica ad matvtinvm. Hymnus. Primo die, quo Trinitas beata Mun-du[m] condidit

See Iter liturgicum italicum