Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 19 of 2022

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 Usnard's Martyrology from the Chigiani collection, a few volumes from Ross, two parts of an early 19th C Japanese report on Russia in Vat.estr.or.177 and a copy of Nachmanides' commentary on the Five Books of Moses in Urb.ebr.9.

Breaking with recent practice, only one volume from the Pal.lat collection was added in, and this is not even a manuscript. Pal.lat.1334 is more properly termed a Block Book (Xylographic work), rather than a manuscript or incunable. These were printed from wood blocks with a single block representing each page, both image and text. In f.9r, to the right, we see an illustration of a proverb about the weather, "si vitulus in nube vi coeli factus claret", although the precise meaning and source of this is unclear.

The border at the bottom is from f.70r Reg.lat.1884, which is one of the documents in the Regiensis collection relating to Queen Christina herself. This volume is a series of plans for her apartments in Rome.

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Chig.C.VI.178, Usnard's Martyrology (c. 1400)
Incipit: (f.2r) Prefatio sup[er] opere martirology excerpta ex libris b[ea]ti augustini ep[iscop]i co[n]tra faustu[m] disputat. Festiuitates s[an]c[t]or[um] apostolor[um] seu martiru[m]

Description of the text in ff.Ir-Iv, dated to 1650


Pal.lat.1334, Franciscus de Retza Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis beatae Mariae (1471)
Incipit: Si magnes carnem hommis ad se

Codices Palatini Entry, from Regensburg, this is a Blockbook


Reg.lat.1296, Rasis, Gerard of Cremona (tr) Works (tr)
Incipit: Abuberti filii zacarie Liber incipit t[ra]nsla-tus a mag[ist]ro Girardo cre[m]onensi de arabico in latinu[m] qui Ahuansor votatus est

Reg.lat.1406, Sallust Works (11th-13th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Incipit liber salusti Gagi crispi

Some are glossed. See Biblissima


Reg.lat.1411, Isocrates, Iacobus Mirabella (tr) De Regno (15th C)
Incipit: Illustrissimo ac gloriosissi-mo Principi Ferdinando Siculorum Regi Iacobi mira-belle siculi

Reg.lat.1421 (Upgraded to HQ), Plutarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam (tr) De tuenda sanitate praecepta(tr) (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) De Tvenda bo-na vale-tvdi-ne: Moschion et Zeusippus. Tv sane Glaucum medicum

See Mirabile


Reg.lat.1430, John Grammaticus Collectio autorum qui de V. Graecorum dialectis sunt commentati
Incipit: De qvinqve græcorvm di-alectis in alphabeti la-tini scilicet et græci formam redactis avto-ribvs tamen ioanne gram-matico, evstathio at-qve corintho

Reg.lat.1824 (Upgraded to HQ), Isidore of Seville Etymologies
Incipit: D... ... et dei Suo Braulioni ep[iscop]o ysidorus tue s[an]c[t]itatis

Reg.lat.1884 (Upgraded to HQ), Plans for Queen Christina's Apartments in Rome (17th C)
Incipit: Apparta[menti] delle Sig[nore] Donne

Reg.lat.1891, Bartolo de Saxoferrato, et al Tractatus de fluminibus, etc
Incipit: (f.2r) Tractatus tiberiadus. Tiber est Regio iuxta flumie tybe[r]is coustituta

ff. 1r-v is a taboe of contents


Reg.lat.1953, Isidore of Seville Etymologies (801-825)
Incipit: Domino meo et d[e]i servo brav-lioni ep[iscop]o Isidorvs. Omni desiderio desideraui nunc

From Orléans, see Innovating Knowledge


Reg.lat.1963, Chirurgiae parvae
Incipit: Incipit cyrurgia

Reg.lat.1978, Scipione, Abbate Coppa Capriccio Politico (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1rb) Augustissima Regina. Filosofarono egregiamente coloro, Sacra Reale Maesta, i quali dissero, ch' ogni cosa

Reg.lat.1981, Franciscus Philelfus De iocis et seriis (15th C)
Incipit: Francisci Philelfi Praefatio in Satyrarvm Hecatostichon decadas ad sactosanctvm ecclesiæ romanæ pontificem Pivm Secvndvm. Silvivs Aeneas Fveras qvi nvper ab alto

Reg.lat.1985, Aeneas Siluius Piccolomini Aeneas Siluius Piccolomini (15th C)
Incipit: Fvit in Vrbe con-stantinopoli Romanu[m] Imperiu[m] magna cu[m] gloria sub Constantino Constantii filio

Reg.lat.1991, Porcelio de Pandoni De felicitate temporum Pii II (c. 1458-1464)
Incipit: Ad divvm pivm II Pont. Max Porce-lii pandoni poetæ lavreati epigra[m]-matvm poematvmq[ue] solvta præfa-tio incipit. Quod prestat nouorum principie[m]

Reg.lat.1994, Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae (15th C)
Incipit: Ammiani Marcellini Rervm Gestar[um] Liber Qvartvsdecimvs incipit foeliciter. [P]ost emensos insuperabilis expeditionis euentus languentibus partium ammis quas

Reg.lat.2001 (Upgraded to HQ), Humiliatorum Ordinis Constitutiones
Incipit: In nomine d[omi]ni amen. Incipiunt constitutio[n]es ordinis humiliator[um] correcte de ma[n]dato d[omi]no fr[atr]is

Reg.lat.2002, Nicholas de Lyra Postilla on Job, Tobias, Baruch, Judith and Maccabees

Reg.lat.2003, Dominicus de Dominicis Sermons
Incipit: Vidi similem filio ho[m]i[ne]s

See Mirabile


Reg.lat.2004, John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, et al Sermons on the Apostles, etc (c. 1537)

Reg.lat.2005, Bernard of Sienna Sermons
Incipit: Incipit tabula s[er]monu[m] et ma-terier[um] sup[er] sequens opus de xpiana religione. Dominica I[us]

Incipit: Cogitaveram Ill[ustrissimi] ac R[everendissimi Domini & Patres

Reg.lat.2015, Tobia Aldino Cesenate Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam plantarum, que continentur Romæ in Horto Farnesiano (1622)
Incipit: Ill[ustrissimo] et Reu[endissimo] P. D. Odoardo Farnesio, S. R. E. Card[inalem] amplissimo, Episcopo

Reg.lat.2016, St. Ambrose Theatrum Politicum seu de Prinicipis Officiis
Incipit: Ad Formam regis. Fol .i. in cap. .i. In commune iubes si quid censes

Reg.lat.2026, Tractatus de virtute heroica
Incipit: Segvendo il proposto The-ma di parlare della Virtù Eri=oica, inerita-mente alla M. V, gloriosa Regina

Ross.752, Giordano de Rivalto Prediche quaresimali (14th C)
Incipit: thedoro nonfou tu istesoro che sono belli e fonti

Ross.853, Mundinus de Lentiis Anathomia corporis humani (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit Anathomia corp[or]is humani p[er] mu[n]dinu[m]. &c. Quia ut ait

Ross.937, St. Paulinus, vita et martyrium (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit vita vel actus beatissimi paulini p[at]ris nostri Sancti petri discipulii atq[ue] primi lucani epischopi. Misericor[um] et miserator d[omi]n[u]s de summa celi

St. Paulinus was the first bishop of Luca


Ross.938, Theological Miscellany (15th C)
Incipit: Cap[itulum] p[ri]mu[m]. Incipit compendiu[m] theologice uerita-tis p[ri]mis de u[it]a deitat. Virtus theologice sublimitat[is]

Ross.940, (1517)

in German


Urb.ebr.9 (Upgraded to HQ), Nachmanides Pentateuch and Commentary (15th C)
Incipit: מה שיסד הרב הגדול רבינו משה בר' נחמן זצ"ל

Perhaps from Volterra


Vat.estr.or.177.pt.1, 大槻玄沢 (Ōtsuki Gentaku) 環海異聞 (Kankai ibun), Book 1 (c. 1807)

A report on time spent in Russia by a Japanese castaway


Vat.estr.or.177.pt.2, 大槻玄沢 (Ōtsuki Gentaku) 環海異聞 (Kankai ibun), Book 16 (c. 1807)

A report on time spent in Russia by a Japanese castaway


Vat.lat.9665, Justinian Digestum Novum (14th C)
Incipit: D[omi]ni iustiniani princip[al]is p[er]oetur aug[ustus] Juris enucleati ec om[n]i uet[er]i

Ex libris for the Convent of St. Francis of Asissi on f.1v


Vat.lat.9774, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis, Book XLI (1833)

Vat.lat.9775, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis, Book XLI (1834)
Incipit: 1834. Copiata dal sig[nore] Luigi Vescovali Prepo

Vat.lat.9776, Hieronymi Amati Schedae variae inscriptionum veterum, magnam partem ab eius amicis descriptarum (19th C)

Vat.lat.9777, Hieronymi Amati, Aemiliani Barti Papyrum aegyptiam Ptolemaci Philadeplhi aero graece scriptam (19th C)