Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 4 of 2021

A total of forty-one manuscripts were added into the online repository this week. Continued work on Urb.gr brings that collection to 94% complete (153 of 162 manuscripts in the 1895 catalogue). The bottom border comes from Urb.gr.129, a collection of the works of the late 4th, early 5th C Bishop Synesius of Cyrenaica, f.1r.

Among the Latin texts are several medical works, including two 11th C codices containing works by Galen, Vat.lat.4417 and Vat.lat.4418. The second of these also has some strange marginal musical notations in Italianate neumes, see f.110r for an excellent example. To the right is the start of the 14th book of Priscian's Institutiones Grammaticae (the middle of book 6 by the modern reckoning), in a 12th C copy. It starts in the middle of f.64v of Vat.lat.4501 with the dramatic 'Q'

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Barb.lat.11, (15th C)
Incipit: Hec aenas at avis edite regibvs

Barb.lat.18, Juvenal, Ovid Satires, Metamorphoses (15th C)
Incipit: Semper ego auditor tantum nunq[us] ne reponam

Barb.lat.3987, Ottavio Rinuiccini Il Narciso (17th C)
Incipit: Fill. Eccu. Fil. Ad cantu sospiratu, e tantu

Borg.ind.35, Appearence of Krishna and Pandavi

catalogue description in latin on f.Ir



Incipit: Personaggi. Maria Vergine, Giuseppe, Angilo

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Incipit: Conuien che tu ci

microfilm, starts f.279r


Urb.gr.119, Lucianus, Maximus Planudes, Matthaeus Camariota, Aphthonius, Hermogenes Collected Works on Rhetoric, with Commentary (1376 - 1400 )

Urb.gr.129 (Upgraded to HQ), Synesius Philosophica > Neo-platonici (1201 - 1400 )


Urb.gr.152 (Upgraded to HQ), Corinthius, Georgius Lacapenus, Michael Hierosolymitanus, Philostratus, Paul the Silentiary, et al. Epistolographica (1301 - 1400 )

Vat.gr.2330 (Upgraded to HQ), Tetraevangelium (11th C)


Vat.lat.4385 (Upgraded to HQ), Johannes de Sacrobosco Sermons, Algorismus in versu,Tractatus de radicum extractione, et de Algorismo (13th C)
Incipit: [A]taq[ue] un[us] g[em]in &

Vat.lat.4394, (12th C)
Incipit: In septuagesima. Occupato[r] mag[]

Incipit: Inp[ri]ncipio c[re]auit d[eu]s cel[ae]u & t[er]ra. Gn. .I. Celu[m]

Vat.lat.4412, Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Incipit: Incipit liber prim[us] Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac de-tenuitate n[ost]ra cu[m]

Vat.lat.4413 (Upgraded to HQ), William de la Mere Correctorium Fratris Thomae (c. 1284)
Incipit: [In]cipi[un]t articuli sup[er] p[ri]ma[m] p[er]te[m] su[m]me fr[atr]is tho[mas]. Questione .12. arti[culo] .2.

An update of his 1278 work by the same name


Vat.lat.4417, Galen, De febribus ad Glauconem, De passionibus et curae, De ponderibus, et mensuris, etc (11th C)

Assortment of medical texts. See Jordanus #10191. First folio damaged at top


Vat.lat.4418 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen, Isidore of Seville, Hippocrates, ps-Bede Collected Medical works (11th C)
Incipit: Galienus glauconisuo salutent, Q[ue]m quide[m] n[on] solu[m] om[n]iu[m]

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 359[, Folio: 79v, 80v, 83v, 89v, 110r, Century: 12/13, Source: Beneventana, Notation: Punti legati]


Vat.lat.4424 (Upgraded to HQ), Aurelius Cornelius Celsus De medicina (15th C)
Incipit: [A]rtivm avrelii cornelii celsi lib[er] vi. Q[ua] ratio medicinae potissima sit et qvem ad modvm

Vat.lat.4482, Albert the Great Medical Dictionary, De virtutibus herbarum, lapidibus et animalium (15th C)
Incipit: (f.9r) Alac id est sanguisuga, et gluten idem

Vat.lat.4489, Corona florida (15th C)
Incipit: ΒΆ Necessitas causa est principium interitus nostri est

Vat.lat.4501, Priscian Institutes of Grammar, glossed (12th C)
Incipit: Ivliano co[n]svli ac patri[cio] p[ri]scianvs salvtem. Cum om[n]is Eloquen-te doctri-na

Flyleaves are later with fragments of diagrams on them


Incipit: Ecclesia catholica, cuius hec

Vat.lat.7284, Raccolta delle Antiche Sagre Iscrizzioni esistenti nells Chiesa de Santi Cosma e Damiano delle Monache Cisterciensi della Carita di Anagni (c. 1757)
Incipit: (f.2r) R[everentissi]mo Padre. La copia fedele delle antiche sacte inscrizzioni che mi

Vat.lat.8496, Joannis Baptiste Coccini Glossemata ad Bullam S. D. N. Gregorii XV Pontificis Maximi de electione Rom. Pontificis (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Illustrissimo et Reuerendiss[imo] Principi D. Ludouivo Cardinali Ludouisio S. R. E. Vicecancellario Joannes Baptista Coccinus S. D. S. D. N. diploma de electione Romani Pontificis tuo potissi-mum hotatatu

Written for Ludovicum Cardinal Ludovisium, vice chancellor



Vat.lat.8538, Lorenzo Sbatti Pratica e Notizie Della Sagra Penitenziaria Apostolica, secondo la Riforma di S. Pio V, ed Innocenzo XII. (18th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Pratica, e notizie della Sagra Penitenziaria Apostolica. Parte Prima Libro Primo. Per che l'esperiensa Maestra mi ha in segnato che con somma difficolta

Vat.lat.8543, D. Emanuele Lacunza/Joannis Josaphat Benezra Tractatus de Glorioso dei Hominis Adventu, excerptus ab opere cui titulus Messiae Adventus in Gloria et Majestate (19th C)

Vat.lat.8545, (18th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Ordo Baptizandi cum assistentia Cardinali

See Forcella, V. (1879). Catalogo dei manoscritti riguardanti la storia di Roma che si conservano nella Biblioteca Vaticana. Fratelli Bocca. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:004863391 pp. 222-5


Vat.lat.8546, (18th C)

See Forcella, V. (1879). Catalogo dei manoscritti riguardanti la storia di Roma che si conservano nella Biblioteca Vaticana. Fratelli Bocca. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:004863391 p. 225


Vat.lat.8564, Homilarium (11th C)
Incipit: dederunt; Quocontra de quorundam reprobatio ne dicitur

Vat.lat.8567, Haimo of Auxerre Commentarium in Isaiam (1100-1125)
Incipit: Prefatio Haymonis in isaia[m] Isaias p[ro]pheta nobili p[ro]sapia ortus

From Abbey of Ss. Peter and Paul, Malmedy (BE)


Vat.lat.8571, Confessore Erudito Dialoghi tra il Maestro e Discepolo
Incipit: (f.2r) Proposizioni, e Risposte Maestro Qual e l'offizio del Confessore.

Vat.lat.8573, Sermons
Incipit: Sermoni de sanctis. [P]enitentia[m] agite app[ro]pi[nquavit] regnum caelorum.

Vat.lat.8597, Paulus Pergulensis, Domenico Bragadin Compendium logicae, Probationes terminorum secundum Dominicum de Venetiis (15th C)
Incipit: Omnes q[uo] aliquid memoria dignu[m] suis po-steris recliqueru[n]t

Vat.lat.8603, Compendium Concilii Basilien

Vat.lat.8613, Bartolomeo da San Concordio Catilinario, Catilinario (15th C)

Translation into Italian of Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum and De coniuratione Catilinae


Vat.lat.8701, Epistolarium (13th C)
Incipit: Confortate manus disso-lutas; et genua debilia roborate.

Vat.lat.13361, Camillo Rospigliosi Letters of Camillo Rospigliosi from 1662-1663, part 4 (c. 1662-1663)

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