Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2022

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 is approximately 90% scanned, and one hopes they finish it up, rather than leaving it incomplete. It is interesting that the one Pal.lat volume, Pal.lat.2030 is a 17th C catalogue of the Palatine library as held in the BAV.

The image on the right, from Ross.870, is a bit of a mystery. The Rossiani catalogue describes the manuscript as "Some prayers and Kabbalistic formulae" in Turkish, the Diamond union catalogue seems to identify it as a Koran, although that is confused by the website lack of availability as of June, 2022. Whatever it is, there are a series of diagrammatic drawings early in the book. Although the incorrect foliation (left to right numbering) of the scans makes it f.67v, this was in the first 8 folios of the manuscript as read

The bottom border is from Barb.lat.63, a copy of Gaius Julius Solinus's De mirabilibus mundi, also known as the Collectanea rerum memorabilium. This 15th C manuscript has white-vine borders on f.1r, from which this fragment was extracted.

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Barb.lat.45, Aethicus Ister Cosmographia (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit liber ethicor[um] translatus philosofico edito oratulo Jeronimo p[res]b[ite]ro dilatum ex cosmographia id e[st]

Barb.lat.46, Ovid Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris (15th C)
Incipit: Si qvis in hoc arte[m] p[opu]lo n[on] novit amandi

Barb.lat.51 (Upgraded to HQ), Petronius Satyricon (glossed) (17th C)
Incipit: In petronii arbitri Satyricon Notæ iuxta odinem et scripturam imprssionis Parisiensis anni 1601

The author of the gloss is unknown


Barb.lat.54, Pliny the Younger, Martial Epistle "de morte Martialis", Epigrams (1475-1500)
Incipit: Audio Valerium Martialem decessisse, et moleste-fero

Barb.lat.57, Cicero Rhetoric ad Herennium (c. 1440-1460)
Incipit: Marci Tvlii Ciceronis Rethoricorvm Ad Heren-nivm liber primvs hic est. Et si negotiis familiaribus

See Biblissima. Scribe: Pietro Ciacchi. Signed and dated "1410" on f.96r, but the script looks later. Ullman posits an L was forgotten, either before (1460) or after (1440) the X


Barb.lat.63, Solinus Collectanea rerum memorabilium. (15th C)
Incipit: Gaii publi solini viri doctissimi liber polinistror ubi omnis antiquitatis miranda sub compendio lecta sunt

Barb.lat.67, Sallust De coniuratione Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum (15th C)
Incipit: Crispi Salustii Catilinarius liber feliciter incipit. Omnis ho[m]i[n]es qui sese student ceteris prestare animalibus

Pal.lat.2030, Index of the Vatican Pal.Lat Collection (1678)
Incipit: (f.3r) A. A. Sermones breues de sanctis et de tempore num. 123 p. 50

Codices Palatini Entry, written at the Vatican


Ross.521, Albert of Padua Expositio Evangeliorum Dominicalium (1333)
Incipit: Domine deus ecce ne-scio loqui quia puer ego sum

dated in colophon on f.91r


Ross.765, Songs, Excerpta Moralia, etc (15th-16th C)
Incipit: Ave stella diana, lucida & serena

In Italian, f.Ir notes it might be Venetian dialect


Ross.800, ps-Cornutus Commentum in Persii Satyras (15th C)
Incipit: [A]ulus persius flaccus natus est pri-die nonas decembris

Ross.842, Nicolò de' Tudeschi (Panormitanus) Lectura Super II, III, IV & V Libro Decretalium (1433-1453)
Incipit: tur. Ex quo cuide[n]t[us] colligit[us]

Part of a set, Ross.842-845


Ross.855, (18th C)
Incipit: Magia Spirituum

in German


Ross.870, Surotæ coranicæ preces aliquot et formulæ cabalisticæ (17th-18th C)

In turkish, Nashi script


Ross.941, Lives of 37 Female Saints (1484)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incomincia la lege[n]da de la gl[orios]o-sa sa[n]cta catheri[n]a v[ir]zene & martire. La beata Catherina belissima unica

In Italian


Ross.945, Petrarch De Viris Illustribus (1401-1425)
Incipit: La tabola di libro de miss[er] franc[isco] petrarcha i[n]-titolato di viris ilustribus

Ross.951, Jean Daucy Epitom des Gestes des 63 Ducs de Lorraine depuis Lother justues au present Charles XII (1556)
Incipit: (f.1r) A Tres hauti et Tres puissant Prince Charles par la grace de. Dieu, Duc de Lorraine et Marchis

Ross.981 (Upgraded to HQ), Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Demetrius Phalerius, Apsines, Cassius Longinus, et al. Texts on Rhetoric (1533-1566)

Ross.982 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen De usu Partium (16th C)

Ross.985, Giusto de Conti La bella Mano (15th C)
Incipit: P[er] Alfabeto A segnato p[er] ... Amore q[uan]do p[er] ferme ben felice

Ross.992, Fioretti di S. Francesco (14th C)
Incipit: [P]rimo capitolo nara de xii primi co[m]pagni de sancto

Vat.lat.9299, Vita e Transito di S. Girolamo (15th C)
Incipit: De la natione del beato Jeronimo, Et come uene[n]do a roma astudiare recieuete il batesimo

Vat.lat.9863, Collected Consular Documents (18th C)
Incipit: Collatio quedum an epistolarum Symmachi papae, ad Codicem

Part of the work the Maurists did collecting documents relating to the French Councils. The set is Vat. lat. 9862-9875


Vat.lat.9865, Collected Consular Documents (18th C)
Incipit: hadriani papae acrosticus

Part of the work the Maurists did collecting documents relating to the French Councils. The set is Vat. lat. 9862-9875


Vat.lat.9885, Bargagnati Silvestri a Fabriano Trattato dell'Autorita della Chiesa del Romano Pontifice (18th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Prefazione Il nostro Secolo, che da certi uni chiamasi

Vat.lat.9889, Catalogue of Greek and Italian Vases (1857-1858)
Incipit: Camera I. Tila 1. Anfora di juelta forma a ma-nichi attortigliali [figura gialle] Apolli-ne

Vat.lat.9905, Tiberii Alpharani Hieracensis De Sacrosanctae Basilicae B. Petri Apostolorum Prinicipis in Vaticano Urbis sitae antiquissima et nova structura (19th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Gregorio XIII Pont. opt. max. Tiberius Alpharanus sacro sanctos pedes osculatur

Vat.lat.9915, Nicholas of Osimo (1460)
Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri je[s]u chr[ist]i. In come[n]ca lo libro d[i]c[t]o quadriga spirituale. Di celo apo-stolo qui lo

dated on f.68v


Vat.lat.9922 (Upgraded to HQ), Relatione Compitissima di Costantinopoli e del Gran Turco (18th C)
Incipit: Relatione Compitissima di Costantinopoli e del Gran Turco. La citta di Costantinopoli fabricata sopra una pon-ta di Terra ferma che entra

Vat.lat.9936, Johannis de Floremontis Comentum super Valerio Maximo (1428)
Incipit: (f.2r) [V]alerii Maximi expositionem aggressur[us]

dated on f.2r


Vat.lat.9941 (Upgraded to HQ), Albrtus Magnus, Avicenna, Costa ben Lucae, Arnaldum Saxum(tr) De mineralibus, Books I-V, De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, Liber de phisicis ligaturis (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit Primus liber min[er]alium Albrti qui est de lapidibus Et habet duos tractatus