Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 17 of 2022

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 imaginibus deorum and _Tractatus de virtutibus et viciis _. It contains a sequence of full page illustrations that range from complex through completely incomprehensible. In about the middle of the range falls f.223v, which we see to the right and which I cannot explain

The bottom border is also from Pal.lat.1066, but from the beginning, that is the normal part of the manuscript, on f.1r

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Pal.lat.872, Livy Ab Urbe condita (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Cum historia, ut

Pal.lat.970, Giovanni de Conversino, Giovanni Boccaccio, et al. Missale, Dialogus inter Johannem et litteram, De casibus illustrium virorum (1379, 15th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) uenerandam celebram[us] festiuitatem precibus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy. The Conversino piece is 14th C, Boccaccio is 15th


Pal.lat.1066 (Upgraded to HQ), Thomas de Cantiprato, Jacobus de Cessolis Liber de natura rerum, Solatium ludi scachorum, etc. (1424)
Incipit: Incipit liber Anathomia humani corporis. N-natu[r]as reru[m]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Bavaria


Pal.lat.1093, Galen Works (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit liber de int[er]iorib[us] G. Inte[r]tio primi, & exe[ra] libri est

Pal.lat.1095 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen Works (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit liber gai[us] de marasmo[n]e siue tabe Tractat[us] p[ri]m[us] de

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy or southern France


Pal.lat.1099 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen, Avicenna Medical Works (c. 1475-1477)
Incipit: I-nquit G[alenus] q[uod] corp[er]a a[n]i[m]aliu[m] sunt

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1120, Avicenna, Erhardi Knab, et al. Fen quarta libri Canonis primi cum expositione (1467)
Incipit: Diuisio libror[um] a[ut] canonu[m] avice[n]ne. Uniuersal prior

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg. ff. 18r-23v is a calendar for Worms


Pal.lat.1121, Avicenna, Ludovici de Florentia Fen quarta libri Canonis quarti cum expositione, De fractura cranei capitulum cum expositione (1476)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1122, Avicenna, Arnoldus de Villanova, Franco de Polonia, Petrus Peregrinus, Ptolemy, et al Medical and Natural Miscellany (1251-1350)
Incipit: Incipit vi[us] lib[er] auicenne de an[im]a. Rerendissimo toletane sedis archiep[iscop]p

Codices Palatini Entry, Avicenna; Arnoldus ; Franco de Polonia; Petrus ; Ptolemaeus; Claudius; Medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Sammelband; 2. Hälfte 13. Jh. ; 1. Hälfte 14. Jh.


Pal.lat.1123, Avicenna, Angelus Decembrio, Bernhardo de Dorgonio, Hieronymus Carazolus, Nicolaus Poll, et al Medical Miscellany (1514-1539)
Incipit: Canones Prinicipis Aui-cennæ a quodam abbreuiati sb-sequntur. Cuius p[re]ponit[us] talis prefatio

Codices Palatini Entry, from Freising


Pal.lat.1124, Johannes Arculanus, Johannes Miachel Savonarola Expositio primae fen quarti canonis Avicenna, Practica de aegritudinibus a capite usque ad pedes (1460-1461)
Incipit: [E]xpo-sitv-rvs prima[m] qvarti cano-nis avicenne.

Codices Palatini Entry, from Ferrara


Pal.lat.1125, Avicenna Canonis liber tertius, Canonis libri quarti fen prima et secunda (13th-14th C)
Incipit: Dictio p[ri]ma de uni[uer]sis

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy (?)


Pal.lat.1126, Gentilis de Fulgineo De febribus vel expositio super primam fen quarti canonis Avicenna (15th C)
Incipit: Febris est calor extraneus ac Excusati ab hiis

Pal.lat.1127, Gentilis de Fulgineo De febribus vel Expositio super primam fen quarti canonis Avicennae (1462)
Incipit: Incipit p[ri]ma fen 4ti ca[nno]n que est de febbris p[ri]m[i]

Pal.lat.1128, Gentilis de Fulgineo Expositio super libri tertii canonis Avicennae (15th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1129, Gentilis de Fulgineo, Jacobus de Forlivio, Gerardus de solo, Avicenna, et al. Medical Miscellany (1452-1455)
Incipit: Notandu[m] est q[uod]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Reg.lat.569, De Sanctitate Vitae et Miraculis Dervi dei Hieronymi Aemiliani (17th C)

Reg.lat.1380, Juvenal (15th C)
Incipit: [I]unuis Iuuenalis aquinas fuit de aquino

See Sanford, Eva M. "Juvenal" in Catalogus Translationum et Commentarium, Vol 1. 1960 p. 191


Reg.lat.1385 (Upgraded to HQ), Paulus Marsi, Aurelius Trebanus Bembiae peregrinae, De laudibus Sigismundi Malatestae in Marium Philelphum et ad Laureum Mameam
Incipit: P. Marsi Pierii Piscinatis Bembitæ Peregrinæ Liber p[ri]mus incipit & p[ro] Libru[m] alloquitur suum

Reg.lat.1405, Gerbertus Remensis, Cicero Regulae de numerorum abaci rationibus, Dream of Scipio, Topica, etc. (11th C)
Incipit: Theophilo suo Gerbert[us] Scolastic[us] Uis amicitiae poene Impossi-bilia redigit ad possibilia

Reg.lat.1453, Commentarius logicus
Incipit: Proæmivm Logic. Qvia Logica fvit institvta ad nos[tr]u[m] Intelectum dirigendum ne erraret

As per Pellegrin Elisabeth. Catalogue des manuscrits de Jean et Pierre Bourdelot : Concordance. In: Scriptorium, Tome 40 n°2, 1986. pp. 202-232. "Possibly published by Joanne Gontherio in Turin"


Reg.lat.1733, Horace Works (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Aduerbium, Interiectio, Coniu[n]ctio: Indeclinabiles. Nomini accidunt quinq[ue] us Speties Genus Nu-merus figura et casus

Prefaced with a fragment on grammar. See Biblissima


Reg.lat.1750, Juvenal Satires (15th C)

Large strip of f.1 has been cut out, included the rubric and incipit. See Biblissima


Reg.lat.1780, Horace, et al. Odes, glossed, De arte Poetica, etc. (12th-13th C)

Reg.lat.1784, Juvenal, Basil the Great Satires, Epistles (15th C)

Incipit: [O]missis superfl-uis nar-racioni-bus qui-busdam in huius libri

Incipit: Nos Aloysivs Moce-nico dei gr[ati]a dvx venetiarv[m] &c. Tibi nobili viva ut dilecto ciui

Reg.lat.1959, Quaestiones super librum De anima
Incipit: Circa prim-um libru-m de ani-ma Que-ritur

Incipit: Urbanus sextus. Bulla. q[uod] fr[atr]es sorores et donati

Reg.lat.1962, Missal (1556)
Incipit: Argumentum de cyclo solari.

See Iter liturgicum italicum. with musical notation, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 810[ Title: Missale, Folio: passim, Century: 1556, Notation: quadrata],See Bannist


Reg.lat.1965, Vitruvius De Architectura (15th C)
Incipit: Cvn Divina tva mens eet nvmen impera-tor cesar imperio potiretur orbis terrar[um]

Reg.lat.1970 (Upgraded to HQ), Remigius of Auxerre Commentart on Martini Capellae's De nuptiis philologiae
Incipit: Incipit commentvm in geometria martiani. Geometria int[er]pretat[us]

Reg.lat.1974, Discorso sopra Cornelio Tacito nel Primo Libro.
Incipit: (f.3r) Discorso sopra Cornelio Tacito nel primo libro. Urbem Romam a principio Reyes habu-ere, libertatem A Consulatim L. Brutii instituit

Ross.764, Petrus Scriniarius Chronica sive Historia (16th C)
Incipit: Chronica siue Historia rer[um] Notabilium Romæ Scripta et Recollecta p[er] me Joa[n]ne[s] Petru[s] Scriniariu[m]

Ross.791, Johannes Regiomontanus Ephemerides Astronomicae (1482-1506) (c. 1482-1506)
Incipit: (f.1r) Joannes canter frisius Lectorii fideli S. P. D. Luminarium Conui[n]ctionum

Ross.798, Baldus de Ubaldis de Gerusio Lectura super Infortiati, Books I-XI (15th C)
Incipit: Quoniam huc non est capud libri Cora[m] alior[um] libror[um] no[n] tracta[m]

Vat.lat.718 (Upgraded to HQ), Albertus Magnus Commentary on Aristotle (1276-1325)
Incipit: (f.1r) De casu & fortuna q[ue]r[e] ag[e]ndu[m]

Flyleaves contain Petrarch


Vat.lat.9667, St. Augustine Opera (15th C)
Incipit: Divi Aurelii Augustini doppo Voluminis caiusdam specimen

Vat.lat.9688, Francisci Cancellieri Indice della Biblioteca di Francesco Cancellieri per ordine di autori e di materie, Indice delle opere stampate da Francesco Cancellieri, Vol I (19th C)

Autograph copy


Vat.lat.9698, Francisci Cancellieri Adversaria de omnis generis rebus historicis et eruditis alphabetico ordine disposita, Book XI (19th C)
Incipit: Indice di Vecci Auctori, Tom. XI

Vat.lat.9723, Francisci Tagliaferri, et al Registro della cose piu notabili fatte nella cava Clementi na dell Marmora en 1606, Ricerche storiche e fisiche sulla caduta delle Marmora (16th-19th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) In Nomine Domini Amen. Memoria della Cava delle Marmora incominciata per fare nel Mese di Settembre 1596. Essendo ststo supplicato alla Santita di Nostro Sig[nore] Clemen-te Papa ottavo

partially printed


Vat.lat.9726, Clement XII, Nicolai Rubbii, Michaelis Angeli Giacomelli, Nicolai Pagliarini, et al Memorie relative al Teatro Latino (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Copia Dalla Seg[retario] di Stato 16 Marzo 1736 La santita di N[ost]ro

Vat.lat.9735, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis (c. 1818)
Incipit: Dion Xiphilin

Vat.lat.9769, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veters et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis, Book XXXVI (c. 1831)

Vat.lat.9772, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis

Vat.lat.9773, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis (1833)