Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2021

Twenty manuscripts added this week. Almost all of them continuing patterns from the previous few reports, Armenian and Greek from the Vaticani collection as well as works by Gaetano Marini and Francesco Cancellieri from Vat.lat. One interesting addition, partially seen below, is Borg.ind.72, f.1v. This is a Burmese manuscript, painted on gilded metal plates, in what the catalogue refers to as "tamarind-seed" script.

To the right is a large, 67x77 cm, engraving from Vat.lat.9313.pt.A, depicting the Lateran council of 1725. This was not a full Synod, but only bishops directly dependent on Rome, and quasi-Episcopal Abbots. The goal was suppression of Jansenism.

Barb.lat.3221 (Upgraded to HQ), Monumenta Sacra Varia

Borg.arm.56, Vartan Hunanian Calendar with Interpretations (1671)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis p. 81

Borg.ind.31

Incipit: (p.1*) E[merentissi]mo Principe. Mentre che qui solitario in questi deserti Barmani a tatt'altro m'attendeno

Borg.ind.72, Kammavaca: Upasampada, Kathina

On 10 metal plates, covered with red laquered wood covers. Burmese tamarind-seed large script in black on gilt ground, fine red-line decor. See Fillozat, Jacqueline. “Nine Pali Manuscripts in the Vatican Library.” Journal of the Pali Text Society., Journal of the Pali Text Society, 26 (2000): p. 148.

Vat.arm.30, Hymnal (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis pp. 322-323

Vat.arm.35, Giovanni Debole Scudo della Fede contro Le Ereside, e gli Errori degl' Erchici (1745)

Vat.gr.1789 (Upgraded to HQ), Catena in Psalmos (10th-11th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1840 (Upgraded to HQ), Liturgy: Euchologium, Canones, Tropes, etc. (13th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1841, Cyril of Alexandria, et al. Lexical works (13th-14th C)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1848, Psalter (12th C)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1858 (Upgraded to HQ), Cardinal Bessarion, Macarius Serranus, Dositheus Dramensis, Nicetas Nicaenus, et al. Epistles, Liturgy, Sermons, etc. (14th-16th C)

Pinakes Entry. Eight known scribes

Vat.gr.1891 (Upgraded to HQ), Porphyry, Aristotle, Johannes Apocaucus, et al. Isagogue, Categories, Epistles, Various Mathematical texts, etc (13th-14th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.5499, Silvestro Degli Effetti De providentia disputatio (c. 1585-1600)

Incipit: (f.1r) Ad Sixtum V Pont. Max. De prouidentia Disputatio Siluestri de Effettis, Cum Joannes Dominicus Ninus patruus meus

Vat.lat.7817, Vita de Cola de Renzi (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) La Vita de Cola de Rienzi. Cola de Rienzi fu de uasso lenaio

Vat.lat.9094, Gaetano Marini Christian Inscriptions (c. 1775-1800)

Vat.lat.9098, Gaetano Marini Inscriptions, Caralitanae (c. 1775-1800)

Incipit: T.B.M. Acai Bixit Pivs Tvs Annos e qviebit in ce

Vat.lat.9181, Francesco Cancellieri Notizie de due Palazzi Cesarini e Riario della vecchia e nuova Cancelleria (19th C)

Incipit: (f.4r) Notizie del Palazzo della nuova Cancelleria di Roma

Vat.lat.9184, Francesco Cancellieri Memorie de possessi solenni di XIX Senatori di Roma dall'anno MDLXXXVII al MDCCCXVIII e delle loro allocuzioni a'sommi pontefici nel passaggio pel Campidoglio dalla Bas. Val. alla Lateranense nel giorno del loro solenne possesso (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) I Due volumi si crede che possano accendere a circa Trenta fogli in Dodici

Vat.lat.9313.pt.A (Upgraded to HQ), Pier Leone Ghezzi Engraving of the Lateran Council of 1725 (1725)

Incipit: Concilium Lateranense Celebrari cœceptum die XV Aprilis Absolutum die XIIXI Maii Anno Jubilei MDCXXV

printed on both sides

Vat.turc.187, Hafiz Mustafa Nuzhat ul'ussaq wa rauzat ahl al-widd wa l-wifaq, Commentary on the Qaside of Rasuhi (1729)

See Rossi, E. (1953). Elenco dei manoscritti turchi della Biblioteca vaticana. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vatican. pp. 166-167. in Nashi script, possibly autograph