No manuscripts were expected this week, but eight were added anyway. In addition I will be giving a year-end wrapup farther down the page. There were not enough manuscripts added to see any real pattern, but half are from Vat.ar, two from Vat.lat and one each from Barb.lat and Ott.lat. To the right is p.3, a plan of Old St. Peters drawn in 1809, from V...

For the last week of 2022, forty-three manuscripts were digitized. The pattern remains the same as the last few weeks, the majority, twenty-one, are from Vat.lat, with Barb.lat and Ott.lat contributing seven each. The work on the Arabic collections continues as it has recently, with ten from Vat.ar. Sometimes the most interesting manuscripts are the "b...

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week. Trends of recent weeks continue, with the majority of manuscripts, twenty three, from the Vat.lat. After that Barb.lat contributed twelve, and eight Quran manuscript were added, five from Vat.ar and three from Borg.ar. The remaining small collections were Ott.lat with three and a single volume...

In total fifty-two manuscripts were digitized this week. Following recent patterns, the majority, forty, were added on monday and the remaining twelve on friday. The manuscript distribution is a bit unusual, with no significant single fond. Barb.lat and Vat.lat each contributed fourteen, Ott.lat nine, and Ross six. Continuing with the influx of Arabic m...

The last month of the year began quietly, with only thirty-two manuscripts added to the repository this week. As last week, the majority, twenty-one, were from Vat.lat. The remainder were scattered across various fonds, with five in Ott.lat, two each in Borg.ar and Vat.ar and single additions from Capp.sist and Barb.org. Of note is Vat.lat.7818, a 12th...

Another rather quiet week this week with only thirty-nine manuscripts digitized, all uploaded on Monday. The distribution across collections does not follow recent patterns, with the vast majority coming from Vat.lat, 27 in total. The remainder come from Ross and Ott.lat, with four each, Vat.ar with three and a single volume from Barb.lat. That final v...

Fifty-three manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repositories. The distribution heavily favored the Vat.lat collection this week, which added twenty-five manuscripts, mostly in the range of Vat.lat.9852-10300, covered by Vatasso and Carusi's early 20th C catalogue. The rest of the manuscripts are from Ott.lat, with sixteen, Barb.lat wit...

Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized this week. This makes it more challenging to discern patterns, but the three fonds represented are Vat.lat, with eight, Ott.lat with seven, and Barb.lat with two. To the right is f.1r, the title page, from Barb.lat.597, a book instructing a bishop how to prepare for the celebration of the mass. This copy was m...

A total of forty-eight manuscripts were digitized this past week, all but one of them added on Monday. This week the distribution of collections changed again, with Vat.lat and Ott.lat contributing the most with twenty and thirteen respectively. Ross only added seven, and Barb.lat two, down significantly from recent weeks. Completing the week we have t...

In total fifty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. New1 to the digitized collection is the Vatican Greek Papiri collection, coded Pap.Var.gr, of which four were digitized this week. Sadly there is no obvious catalogue of these late classical Egyptian texts. Like many papyrus documents, these are stored between glass, so the foliation is slightly ...

A total of fifty-two manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the broad pattern of the most recent few weeks, the majority of the manuscripts are in the Barb.lat and Ross fonds, with twenty and nineteen respectively. Vat.lat brought nine and Ott.lat added four to complete the weeks total. Although there is little overall pattern to the numbers fr...

A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, lower than the average week's total. The distribution across fonds is a little unusual, vis-a-vis the recent weeks, with Vat.lat and Ross providing the majority of the manuscripts, fourteen and twelve respectively. Beyond that Ott.lat contributed seven, Barb.lat six and Vat.gr two. An interesti...

A total of sixty manuscripts were digitized this week. A new pattern is developing with Barb.lat and Ott.lat as the most common fonds, with nineteen and sixteen respectively, and Vat.lat is the third common fond, with fourteen. Interestingly, considering that this week was Yom Kippur, 5 Hebrew manuscripts from the Urb.ebr collection were added. The week...

Only thirty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repository. Due to the lower output than recent weeks, perhaps related to the feast of Michaelmas, the distribution of the manuscripts does not follow the recent trend. The majority of the volumes, twenty in total, come from the Vat.lat fond, with Ott.lat adding nine and Barb.lat add...

At the close of the week a total of sixty-seven manuscripts had been added to the Vatican repositories. Roughly similar to the last few weeks in distribution, Vat.lat contributed the most with thirty-two, followed by Barb.lat with twenty-four. The remainder came from smaller groups, Ott.lat with eight, Pal.lat with two and Ross with a single manuscript....

In total sixty-four manuscripts were digitized this week. The distribution of the top few fonds has changed slightly, but the broad trends of the last few months continues. This week Vat.lat. was the most populous collection, with twenty-seven, followed by Barb.lat with twenty and Pal.lat with 10. The week's work concludes with five more Ross, and one ...

Seventy-five manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repository. Unsurprisingly the pattern of the last several weeks continues, with Pal.lat and Barb.lat contributing the majority of the manuscripts, with forty and twenty respectively. The remaining manuscripts came from Vat.lat, with eight, Ross and Ott.lat with three a piece and one mor...

A total of sixty-two manuscripts were digitized this week. Trends continue with Pal.lat and Barb.lat manuscripts being the bulk of the work, with thirty-one and twenty-four respectively. Due to the organization of the Palatine collection, when they are uploaded in sequence, or close to numeric order, they are often similar topics, which means that this ...

In total eighty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week, the first batch after the August vacation weeks. Trends from earlier in the summer continue, with the bulk of the manuscripts coming from the Pal.lat (38) and Barb.lat (25) collections. Vat.lat contributed thirteen, split across the range of 6xxx and 10xxx, and Ross added another ten. The week ...

As the Vatican continues their summer vacation this week, no new manuscripts were digitized. I took the opportunity to update the Fond Pages, which now have proper introductions through the end of the letter P. This covers the Pontificio Istituto Orientale(P.I.O) through Patteta. Within this range are the collections of Papyrus documents held in the ...

No new manuscripts were added this week, as the Library has shut down for August break. The only work done on the site this week has been to continue adding to the collection descriptions at the top of the Fond pages. These are now complete through the letter O. To the right is a section of Borg.gr.27, a Greek liturgical roll created in 11th C Sicily. ...

Fifty-six manuscripts were digitized this week, as we approach the end-of-summer vacation season. Recent trends continue, with Ross (21), and Barb.lat (18), contributing the bulk of the new manuscripts. Work on Reg.lat continues to trickle in, with eight added this week, and as many from Vat.lat. Completing the week is a lone Greek manuscript, Vat.gr.22...

In total fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. Trends continuing as last week with Ross, seventeen, and Barb.lat, sixteen, the most populous fonds, followed by Reg.lat with twelve. Vat.lat and Pal.lat each contributed six and the week was completed with a single Syriac volume from Borg.sir. It is interesting to note that ALL of the Pal.lat vo...

There were fifty-seven manuscripts digitized this week. We seem to be in a transitional period, with the work focusing on the Ross fond this week, ninteen, and then Barb.lat with thirteen. Work seem to have recommenced on the Reg.lat project, as twelve of those were added this week, the most we've seen from there in many weeks. The work on Pal.lat conti...

Forty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week, with the distribution following the trends of recent weeks. The principal fonds are Pal.lat, with fifteen, Barb.lat and Ross with ten and Vat.lat with nine. The remaining manuscripts are distributed across some outlayer fonds, Ott.lat and Capp.Giulia with two and Reg.lat with a single manuscript, a notated...

In total fifty manuscripts were digitized this week. The pattern of the previous few weeks was mostly continued, but with Vat.lat contributing the most manuscripts at eighteen, and Ross and Pal.lat following with ten each. Work on Barb.lat continues apace, with seven, and Urb.ebr and Vat.ebr each contributed a single volume. Interestingly the three from ...

Despite the library being closed a day for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, a massive one-hundred thirty-three manuscripts were added to the repository this week. Ross, with forty manuscripts, and Vat.lat, with thirty-six, were the majority of the additions, but Barb.lat and Pal.lat also made significant contributions, with twenty-two and twenty-five re...

This was a quiet week of digitization, with only seventeen manuscripts added to the online repository. Following the most recent trend, these are spread across Barb.lat, Pal.lat, Ross and Vat.lat.9xxx. Interestingly the bulk of the Pal.lat volumes are from the very end of the collection, they are the catalogues of the collection from when it was still in...

In total thirty-one manuscripts have been digitized this week, smaller than past weeks due to the June 16th Feast of Corpus Domini. The trends of the last few weeks continue, with Ross and Vat.lat.9xxx dominating the manuscripts scanned, and fewer items from Barb.lat. Only one Pal.lat was uploaded this week, and none from Reg.lat. The latter collection...

A total of fifty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, maintaining the somewhat slower pace we've seen in May and June so far. As with last week Reg.lat is no longer contributing a larg fraction of these, with only one manuscript, and a scan of microfilm at that, Reg.lat.527. The largest fond this week continues to be *Vat.lat.9xxx, followed by Pal....

A total of forty-two manuscripts were digitized this week. The work on Reg.lat seems to be slowing down, with only two from the collection, and Pal.lat slows as well, down to one. The bulk of the manuscripts are in Vat.lat.9xxx, with some Ross and a smattering of others. A new Fond makes its debut for tracking purposes, with nine volumes of the Borg.cin c...

A total of forty manuscripts were digitized this week. The broad patterns remain the same, but the proportions this week are slightly different, with Ross and Vat.lat.9xxx being the most popular, and Pal.lat and Reg.lat completing the weeks work To the right is f.11v from Ross.950. This volume contains 18th C drawing of the ancient inscriptions in the c...

A total of forty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. Following recent trends, the largest number were from Reg.lat, with fewer Pal.lat than in prior weeks. Rossiani contributed eight manuscripts, but only three from the 9xxx range of Vat.lat. The week was completed with a single, unidentified Indian manuscript, Vat.ind.72 To the right is the cal...

A total of thirty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. They contain mostly volumes from the Reg.lat, wiith fewer fewer of the Vat.lat.9xxx than in recent weeks, with only five this week. The bulk of those are works from a new 19th C antiquarian, Hieronymi Amati (not the 17th C violin maker by the same name). The week is rounded out by a copy of ...

A total of eighty-nine manuscripts were added this week. As expected, the bulk are Pal.lat and Reg.lat, with Ross and Vat.lat the next two most popular fonds. There were two outlier fonds this week, three manuscripts, including a fragmentary Book of Hours and a catalogue of the Reg.lat library from Ott.lat and one manuscript from Chigiani, a stunning ea...

A total of forty-six manuscripts were digitized this week. As one might expect, the Pal.lat and Reg.lat dominate, with just a trio of Rossiani, Vat.lat.718 and the remainder consisting of 19th C antiquarian works in Vat.lat.9xxx. The end of Pal.lat.1066, f.217v through the end, is a copy of Fulgentius metaforalis/Johannes Ridewall's(?) Libellus de imagin...

Only thirty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week, a short one due to Easter break. Trends continue with the fonds represented, in order, Pal.lat, Reg.lat, Ross and Vat.lat.9xxx. This week's unusual ones come from Barb.lat, two represented, and a single volume from Vat.estr.or. This last one is an imperial decree from the Daoguang Emperor, dated in t...

A total of ninty-one manuscripts were digitized this Holy Week. Recent trends continue, with Pal.lat being the most popular Fond, followed by Reg.lat and Vat.lat.9xxx. A few manuscripts from Rossiani continue to be added each week, and this week we also saw several Barb.lat volumes, a Barb.gr and two Burmese manuscripts on palm leaves, one from Borg.ind...

Seventy-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. They focus heavily on the Pal.lat fond, particularly on the 8xx and 16xx ranges. Due to the organization of the collection, this means that the manuscripts digitized consist primarily of canon law and histories, Pal.lat.8xx and classical Latin texts, Pal.lat.16xx. The remainder of the weeks additions c...

A total of seventy-five manuscripts were digitized this week. This week the Pal.lat collection contributed the most volumes with Reg.lat as second. The bulk of the remainder were, as has been the case for the last several weeks, Ross and Vat.lat.9xxx, with the final few coming from Vat.estr.or, Borg.arm and Chigiani. Because of the sorting of the Pal.lat...

A total of forty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. As expected they were mainly Reg.lat and Vat.lat.9xxx, followed by a few from Ross and ... others. This week the others consisted of one from Borgh and one from Vat.gr, a very nice 10th or 11th C glossed Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus. To the right is f.1r of Vat.lat.9649.pt.C, yes we are i...

In total sixty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. As one would expect, the bulk were Reg.lat, followed by Pal.lat and the 9xxx series of Vat.lat, with a smattering of other fonds, Ross, Santa Maria Maggiore, Barb.lat. Borgh and Cappella Giulia. For those who want a laugh this week, three copies of the comedies of Plautus were added, and two of ...

Fifty-two manuscripts were digitized this week, including the expected number of Reg.lat volumes, a few Pal.lat, and more of the Antiquarian works of the Vat.lat.9xxx series. Some of the less common fonds represented are Rossiani, one each from Vat.ind and Vat.indocin, two each from Barb.gr and Borgh and three works from the Cappella Giulia containing 19...

A total of seventy manuscripts were digitized this week, quite a lot considering that they were closed for Mardi Gras and Ash Wedneday. Recent trends continue, with a bulk of the manuscripts from Reg.lat, fewer Pal.lat than in prior weeks, some Vat.lat.9xxx, and then a random assortment of other sections, even one from the rarely seen Vat.turc. To the ...

In total forty-two manuscripts were digitized this week, bringing the total number of high-resolution digitized manuscripts to 18,253, with another 4,539 as low-resolution scanned microfilm. The recent trends continue with Reg.lat as the most common fond, followed by Pal.lat. The rest are a smattering of fonds, including Chigi, Rossiani, and Vat.gr. Fro...

A record-setting week with one hundred thirty-eight manuscripts digitized. Although predominantly Reg.lat, Pal.lat and late-sequence Vat.lat, this week also had a wide assortment of small collections. Those include eleven Rossiani, six from Vat.gr, two each from Urb.lat and Chigiani, and one each from Borg.ar, Borg.ind, and Pattetta. The Pal.lat manuscri...

Only twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. February 11 is the commemoration of the Lateran Treaty, and so the library was closed for several days this week. The collection is mostly from Reg.lat, with three each from Pal.lat and Vat.lat, the later all being 19th Century of antiquarian interest from the circle of Angelo Mai The manuscript R...

A total of thirty-six manuscripts were digitized this week, a number reduced by the time off for Candlemas. Continuing recent trends, the bulk of the manuscripts are Reg.lat, with Pal.lat the second most populous collection. The final few manuscripts are from the 19th C section of Vat.lat, with one from Vat.estr.or and Barb.lat. To the right is a page...

A total of ninty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. It is a bit of a bittersweet anniversary, it was four years ago this week that I began helping JB Piggin tracking these manuscripts, work that I was only able to do with him for about 1.5 years. The manuscripts follow the same pattern as recent weeks, just moreso. Reg.lat with 48 manuscripts ed...

A total of one hundred and five manuscripts were digitized this week. As has been the pattern this year, the largest chunk are from the Pal.lat. collection (49), catching up to what has been available in Heidelberg, and the Reg.lat(36). The remainder are mostly Vat.lat. and Ross., with a couple in the rarer collection Urb.lat., and one each from Barb.lat...

One hundred and forty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week, which is the most that has been seen since we began tracking additions in 2018, week 31 and 32 of 2019 have more manuscripts listed, but that's an artifact of the work done to load in the Arch.Cap.S.Pietro fond which had been missed in the intial loading. The bulk of the manuscripts are fro...

The library was hard at work scanning to start out 2022 with forty-four manuscripts digitized, all from the Reg.lat collection. This brings the collection to 1,466 out of 2,113 volumes complete, well on track to be complete before the middle of the year. To the right is the first page, f.1v, from Reg.lat.294, a copy of Isidore's Etymologies from the t...

This is the second part of the year-end review for 2021. Since, as of Jan. 3, 2022, the Vatican was hard at work digitizing more manuscripts, this is getting inserted as a special, out-of-band, entry. The previous entry covered what happened inside the software in 2021, this will try to give an overview of manuscript additions over the year Just the Nu...