Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 50 of 2021

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week. This week the majority are from Pal.lat, ones that had already been in the Heidelberg repository and just not yet imported into the Vatican. This likely reflects the slowdown in digitizations leading into the Christmas vacation. The remainder fit into the recent pattern, mostly Reg.lat and Vat.lat.9xxx, with a smattering of others, in this case a few other Vat.lat. volumes and Ross.720, John Chrysostom's Homilies on John in the original Greek.

To the right is f.1r of Reg.lat.843, a French translation of the Legend of the Three Kings from 1469. The image shows the three kings, two in "exotic" robes, the third in fashionable 15th C attire, presenting their gifts to the baby Jesus. The bottom border is from f.155r of Reg.lat.1011, a 15th C copy of Bernardus de Gordonio's Lilum Medicine

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Pal.lat.429.pt.bis, Friedrich Sylburg (16th C)
Incipit: (f.5r) Catalogus Librorum Græcorum manuscriptorum Bibliotheca Palatinæ Cod. Palat. 429

Pal.lat.453, Konrad von Brundelsheim, Aelred de Riévaulx Sermones de sanctis et de communis, De Jesu puero duodenni (c. 1330-1350)
Incipit: [] s[er]mones s[an]c[t]is. Uenite post me, math. IIII[o]

Codices Palatini Entry, Cistercian Monastery on the upper Rhine, perhaps Wonnental


Pal.lat.455, Johannes Herolt Sermones de Tempore, etc (1438)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Lauterhofen (in Neumarkt).


Pal.lat.456, Jordanus de Quedlinburg, Godefridus Herliacensis, Jacobus de Cessolis, el at. Tractatus Super Pater noster, De electis et damnatis, Sermons, etc. (1401-1433)
Incipit: Tractatus super pater noster nonulla et auibus. Pater noster.

Pal.lat.457, Fratris Guillelmi prioris Lugdunensis Sermones (14th C )
Incipit: Hora est iam nos de somp-no surge[m]. hic temp[us] dicit[ur] tempus aduent[us] quia cant[us]

Pal.lat.458, ps-Cicero, Franciscus Philelphus, et al. Sermons, Rhetorica ad Herennium, Oratia in laudem Philippi MAriae Vicecomitis, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: Verbum caro factu[m] [est] Scribit[ur] originale Joh[ann]is p[ri]mo cap[i]t[ul]o

Pal.lat.459, Sermones, Argumenta in singulos libros Sacrae Scripturae, etc (15th C)
Incipit: [P]recinxti me u[ir]tute ad bellu[m]

Pal.lat.1159, Constantinus Africanus Pantegni (13th-14th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) [M]orb[us] est queda[m] dispositio mala ledens

Pal.lat.1164, Constantine Africanus, et al. Viaticus, Antidotarium Nicolai (glossed), Trotula, etc. (13th-14th C)
Incipit: Q[ue]m q[ui]dam ut in rethori-is tullius

Pal.lat.1165, Constantinus Africanus, Gerard of Berry, et al. Viaticus, commentary, Assorted Medical Works (13th-14th C)
Incipit: Q[uia] cont[ra]rio [con][tra]riis id[em] ypoc[ra]s sensit.

Pal.lat.1166 (Upgraded to HQ), Petrus Hispanus Questiones super Viaticum, Exposito antidotari Nicolai (13th-14th C)
Incipit: [] iudicib[us] prius fu[m]at auctoritate

Codices Palatini Entry, initial flyleaves are fragments of a larger Hebrew text, starting in the middle of the prayer "Nishmat Kol Chai",


Pal.lat.1168, Thomas of Cantimpré, Bernardus de Gordonio Liber de Natura Rerum abbreviatus, De phlebotomia (14th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Incipit Exterptu[m] ex p[ro]petatibus rer[um]. Sermo g[e]n[er]al[is] de septe[m]

Pal.lat.1169 (Upgraded to HQ), Albert the Great De vegetabilibus et plantis, De nutrimento et nutribili, De mineralibus et lapidibus et metallis (1436)
Incipit: Incipit liber p[ri]mus de vegetabilibus Cu-ius p[ri]mus tractat[us]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1170, ps-Albert the Great, Henrici de Saxonia, Paulus de Lunogis, Johannes Paulinus, Averroes De secretis mulierum cum commento, De corio serpentis, e theriaca (1460-1461)
Incipit: Incipiunt Secreta Mulierum. Ad Lucidio[r]e[m] [est] noticia[m] sequ[en]tiu[m] ha-benda[m]

Pal.lat.1172, Petrus de Abano Conciliator Litium Medicinalium (1425-1475)

Pal.lat.1173, Petris de Abano Conciliator litium medicalium II (1425-1475)

Pal.lat.1174, Bernardus de Gordonio, Jordanus de Turre, et al Experimenta, De conservatione vitae humane tractatus, De regimine acutarum, De prognosticis, Signa leprosorum (14th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Exp[er]ame[n]ta. Vt capilli tui non cadant

Pal.lat.1175 (Upgraded to HQ), Arnaldus de Villanova, al-Razi, et al. Medicinalium introductionum speculum, De theiraca magna, Medicationis parabolae, etc (1473-1486)
Incipit: Arnoldi de uilla noca physici peritissimi Theorice medicine speculum

Pal.lat.1176, Bernardus De Gordonio, Arnaldus de Villanova, Gentiliis de Fulgineo, Roger Bacon, et al. Compendium libri regiminis acutarum, Medicinalium introcuctionum speculum, De gradibus medicinarum, Antidotarius, etc (14th C)
Incipit: Liber Beate u[ir]ginis in Mulbronner. Iuxta libr[um] regimenti acutor[um] sunt aliqua

Pal.lat.1177, ps-Hippocrates, Johannes de Rupescissa, Arnaldus de Villanova, ps-Raymond Llull, et al. Tractatus de Urinis, etc, (1447-1448)

Pal.lat.1178, Arnaldus de Villanova Brevarium practicae medicinalis (15th C)
Incipit: []Bo arnoldus de villa nova d[eu]m p[a]pe[m] ph[is]ic[us] aggregaui flore[m]

Pal.lat.1179, Arnaldus de Villanova, Bernardus de Gordonio, et al. De humido radicali, Medicationis parabolae, Medicinalium introductionum speculum, etc. (1351-1400)
Incipit: Incipit libellus mag[ist]ri arnaldi de hu[m]ido radicali [con]tinens t[ra]ctat[us] duos

Pal.lat.1180, Arnaldus de Villanova, Bernardus de Gordonio, Gentiliis de Fulgneo, Roger Bacon, et al. De humido radicali, Medicinalium introductionum speculum, Medicationis parabolae, etc. (1430-1470)
Incipit: [I]Ncipit libellus magistri arnaldi de hu[m]ido radiculi [con]tine[n]s tractat[us] duos

Pal.lat.1182, Arnaldus de Villanova Brevarium praxticae medicinalis (1477)
Incipit: Ego Arnoldus de Villa nova d[omi]ni n[ost]ri pape phi[si]corus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1183, Erhard Knab, et al. Practica medicinalis wive Viaticus I-VII, Chiurgia Bona, etc (1465-1466)
Incipit: (f.3r) Quonia[m] ordo [est] rebus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1184, Bernardus de Gordonio, Galen, et al Lilium Medicine I-VII, De interioribus seu De locis affectis I-VI (14th C)
Incipit: De colore cutis. Color cutis duob[us] mod[us] fit.

Reg.lat.315, Renclus de Moiliens Psalms and Litany, Hours of the BVM in French, Gallicum Carmen - Miserere (14th C)
Incipit: sanctis eius. Le psaume dauid. Laudate dominum in sanctis eius

Reg.lat.393, Lawrence Zaeagnii Trattato dell'Origins e Progressi Del sovrano dominio de' sommi pontefici (1699-1702)
Incipit: (f.3) Beatissimo Padre. Questa prima parte del mio Trattato sopra l'origine, e progressi del Soura-no Dominio de'Sommi Pontefici nello

Reg.lat.398, Nicolai de Clamengiis Epistles (15th C)
Incipit: Vide quantos inde fructus sis conseguturns et noli te frustra labora[m]

Reg.lat.439, Wandalbert of Prum Metrical Martyrology (1375-1400)
Incipit: Uuandalberti diaconi Domino Otrico Uuandalbertus salutem dicit. Ueteri et per antiquo præcepto monemur

Reg.lat.547, Jacques de Vitry Historia Orientalis (14th C)
Incipit: P[ri]mus ar[us] e[st] p[ro]logus iacobi de vit[ri]aco ep[iscop]i archorien[sis] & post cardinalis ep[iscop]i. [S]ecunda pars principalis lib[er]

Reg.lat.835 (Upgraded to HQ), Mores et leges Turcorum ad Nicolaus V (15th C)
Incipit: Si quem ista non excitent haud sane

Reg.lat.839, Ménestrel d'Alphonse de Poitiers Gestes des nobles rois de France (1260-1300)
Incipit: [A] son treschier seingneur lettres bon crestien

See JONAS


Incipit: Ce Vont les empirances de lor prememe[n]t

Reg.lat.843, Legend of the Three Kings, Pontificale (1469)
Incipit: Chy enapres sensieut hystore des trois Roys translatee de latin en franchois

Reg.lat.1008, Nicholas Jauer Flagellum Fascinariorum seu Maleficorum
Incipit: Flagellum fastinerior[um] scilicet hereticor[um] malefi-cor[um]

Reg.lat.1011, Bernardus de Gordonio Lilum Medicine, Calendar (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit liliu[m] medicine m[a]g[ist]ri B[er]nhar-di de Gordonio. Int[er]rogatus a quodam socrates qu[omod]o

The Calendar and Computus ff.177r-184r is from Germany


Ross.720, John Chrysostom, Agepetus the Deacon In Johannem Homiliae, Capitula admonitoria (1551-1600)
Incipit: Του εν αγιοισ πατροσ ημων ιωαν-νου αρχιεπισκοπου κονσταντιν[ο]π[ο]

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Νικόλαος Παχύς


Vat.lat.5936, St. Jerome Letters
Incipit: Ep[isto]la s[an]c[t]i Jeronimi ad evstochiu[m] de vir-ginitate servanda. Avdi filia & uide ei incli-na aurem tua[m]

Vat.lat.7865, Gregory of Catino Register of Farfa, Book XIII (18th C)
Incipit: CCCXXIIII. In n. d. d. s. n. J. C. Hludouici diuina ordinante prouidentia Imperatoris Augusti anno in dei no-mine XXIII. mense Januarii per Ind[iction] V.

Vat.lat.9270, Gian Maria Mazzuchelli Indici alfabetici degli scrittori italiani (18th C)
Incipit: Questo tomo e spogliato nelle lettere segunti A. B. C. D. E. F. G. I.

Vat.lat.9538, Angeli Mai Arianorum Fragmenta (19th C)
Incipit: p.279 (a) censuisti aduersus fidem nostram, quae est vera

Vat.lat.9541, Angeli Mai Proclus in librum decimum Reipu-blicae Platonis (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Alexander Morus in Notii brevibus ad loca

Vat.lat.9586, Constantine Tsochendorf, Angeli Mai Specimina veterum scripturarum e codicibus Latinis, Graecis, Orientalibus ... (19th C)

Vat.lat.9595.pt.1, Angelia Mai Scriptorum Veterum, Nova Collectio, Book VIII (1833)
Incipit: (f.3r) Editoris Praefatio. De Libris Chronicis Eusebii Pamphili

printed with annotations


Vat.lat.9595.pt.2, Angeli Mai Scriptorum Veterum, Nova Collectio, Book VIII (1833)
Incipit: Eusebii Pamphili Canon Chronicus. a Primus Assyriorum rex Ninus Beli filius regnavit omni Asie

starts p.281. printed with annotations


Vat.lat.9600, Classicorum Auctorum e Vaticanis Codicibus Editorum, Book III (1831)

Pinakes Entry, printed with Annotations