Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 37 of 2021

A total of twenty-eight manusctipts were digitized this week. One of the last remaining Vietnamese manuscripts in the Borgiani collection, Borg.tonch.4 was digitized, bringing that fond to the edge of completion. The work on the Rossiani collection seems to be ramping up, with eight volumes added. Among these is a mid 13th C copy of pseudo-Gioacchino da Fiore's Praemissiones, Ross.552, with some fantastic diagrams explaining, as best as I can tell, how the entire Hebrew Bible points to Jesus as savior. To the right is a snake diagram from f.2v, drawing a pathway from Genesis at the head, through Isaiah to the Pauline epistles.

The work continued on the Vat.lat.9xxx manuscripts including Vat.lat.9449, a copy of William Durand's Brevarium made somewhere around 1400. The border below is taken from f.1r.

Borg.tonch.4, The Story of Saint Francis de Borgia (19th C)

translated into Vietnamese from the 1820 version printed in Lisbon

Reg.lat.31, Jerome, Peter Comestor Commentary (12th C)

Incipit: uisione tetrapodan duo ad gr[at]am lib[ri] qui pseddog[ra]phi appellantur

New @DigitaVaticana, retrieved by @gundormr. Petrus Comestor MS with an ex libris of Jean Ramier, actif at the Paris university (1441-66; died 1485). His Aristotle MS is preserved @laBnF.https://t.co/f2QWrXTkas https://t.co/Ah2TYQhC10 pic.twitter.com/SIPBSvNmpG
— Pieter Beullens (@PieterBeullens) September 18, 2021

Reg.lat.80, ps-Bernard Works, Epitome of the Old Testament (15th C)

Incipit: Si plene vis assequi q[uo]d intendis duo sunt tibi n[e]c[essa]ria

See JONAS

Ross.525, Francis of Marchia Commentary on the Sentences (14th C)

Incipit: Circa prolo-gum se[n]te[n]cia-ciar[um]

Ross.527, Jacob Voragine Golden Legend (1251-1300)

ff.1r-va are table of contents

Ross.535, Priscian Institutiones, Book XVI, glossed (1125-1175)

Incipit: []I[n] omnis elo-quentie doc-trina

damage, including removal of capitol letters on ff.1-2

Ross.536, Statius Thebaid, glossed (12th C)

Incipit: Terzigena[m] phitona deus septe orbib[us] at[ri]s

Ross.537, Boethius, Gerbertus Commentary on Porphyry's Isagogue, In Categorias, De differentiis topicis, De Syllogismis categoricis, De rationali et ratione uti (C. 1120-1130)

From Florence.

Stunning first page of Boethius' commentary on Porphyrius' Isagoge in BAV Ross. 537 (with logical works by Boethius). Newly digitized @DigitaVaticana.https://t.co/3BxiVpvLtD pic.twitter.com/evyFpx91Yy
— Pieter Beullens (@PieterBeullens) September 16, 2021

Ross.538, Boethius Consolation of Philosophy, glossed (13th C)

Incipit: Carmina qui [con]dam studio florente peregi

Ross.552 (Upgraded to HQ), ps-Gioacchino da Fiore Praemissiones, Super Esayam (1250-1275)

Incipit: [C]oncordia tribuu[m] duodecim cum totidem ecclesiis

Ross.563, Matthew, Patriarch of Constantinople Testimonia de Sacra Scriptura

Incipit: Prologus i[n] libru[m] q[uae] d[]r testimonior[um] sac[re] sc[ri]ptu[r]e editu[m] a d[omi]no matth[e]o p[at]riarcha [con]sta[n]ti[n]ap[o]litano o[mi]li asu[m]pto esac[ro] ordine p[rae]dicatorum

Vat.arm.12, Medical Formulas (16th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis p. 244

Vat.gr.1952, Liturgy (16th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.5807, Bernardus Guicciardinus (16th C)

Incipit: Reuerendissimo in christo Patri Ac domino domino Julio de medicis Archiepischopo florentino

Untitled theological treatise with dedication to Cardinal Julio Medici

Vat.lat.9155, Francesco Cancellieri Trattato Sopra la Set[]ana Santa di Francesco Cancellieri (19th C)

Vat.lat.9160, Francesco Cancellieri Le Terme Diocleziane illustrate da Francesco Cancellieri con le chiese ivi erette di S. Ciriaco di S. Maria Degli Angeli e di S. Bernardo (1794)

Incipit: (f.1r) Pianta della Terme di Diocleziano, Il primo loro piano fu riempiuto di scarichi delle rovine

tipped engraving as f.1

Vat.lat.9172, Francesco Cancellieri Memorie del culto di S. Lorenzo Martire in Oriente in Occidente (1821)

Vat.lat.9175 (Upgraded to HQ), Francesco Cancellieri IL Lago dell'acqua verfine ne sabbati e nelle domeniche pomeridiane del mese di agosto il marcato in ogni mercoled ed il palazzo pamfiliano (1810)

Vat.lat.9210, Breviary, Use of Passau, Summer (15th C)

Incipit: Oravit ad te om[n]is s[a]c[ct]is in tempore

Vat.lat.9354

Vat.lat.9374.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Letters of Pius II (15th-16th C)

Vat.lat.9374.pt.2 (Upgraded to HQ), Letters of Pius II (15th-16th C)

Incipit: Nuli quia Corronum

starts f.203

Vat.lat.9408, Hugh of St. Victor De sacramentis

Incipit: Q[uae] cautela boni op[er]is h[ic] sig[nifi]cata. Hic [tria] attende q[ua]nta caute-la bono op[er]i ad hibenda

Vat.lat.9415.pt.2, (18th-19th C)

starts f.161, printed pages through f.200

Vat.lat.9417, Capitulary, Benedictine (12th C)

Incipit: -nensi lupicini abb[at]is, cui[us] uita s[an]ct[i]tatis & mira-c[u]lor[um gl[ori]a illustris fuit. XI KL ap[ri]l[i]s

See Iter liturgicum italicum, ff.1r-2r is a fragmentary Necrology for end of Nov and beginning/end of Dec.

Vat.lat.9419, Johannis de Imola Commentarium super tertio Decretalium. (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit secvnda pars lectvre spectabilis d-octoris domini ioh-annis de immola sv-per tertio

Vat.lat.9422, Psalter/Collects/Hymns (14th C)

Incipit: (f.7r) Feria .s[anct]a. ad primam Beatus uir. Qua-re fremueru[n]t. D[omi]ne ne i[n] furore

See Iter liturgicum italicum, flyleaves contain a fragmentary Office of the Dead in a later hand, ff.1r-6v is calendar, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 714, musical notation

Vat.lat.9449, William Durand Repertorium sue Brevarium Aureum (1376-1425)

Incipit: Alpha & o i[e]hu chr[ist]e. I[n]-cipit repertoriu[m] ma-gistri guilligelmi duranti d[e]o gra[tia]s. Rev[er]endo in chr[ist]o pat[ri]