Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 28 of 2022

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 Franciscan Breviary from around 1300. An interesting detail is that from the Barb.lat collection, three manuscripts this week have the same text, Q. Curtius Rufus History of Alexander the Great (Historiae Alexandri Magni).

To the right is f.10r from Pal.lat.1795, a copy of Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae from the first half of the 15th C, so during Poggio's own lifetime. Its 1470 printing is considered the "first published book of jokes". The text here begins "Aput facinu[m] cane[m] q[ui] fuit vir crudelis ac dux p[rae]cipuus", which is the start of the 18th joke Querimonia Spolii Causa Ad Facinum Canem Facta.

The bottom border is from f.1r of Barb.lat.101, a 15th C copy of Cicero's De oratore

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Barb.lat.88, Pliny the Younger Panegyrics (15th C)
Incipit: Plinii secvndi panagyricvs dictvs traianoimperatori foe-liciter incpipt

Barb.lat.96, Curtius Rufus History of Alexander the Great (15th C)
Incipit: Qvinti Cvrtii Historiografi excellentissimi degestit magni Alexandri reges macedonis incipi filiciter

Barb.lat.97, Plautus Commedies: Mostellaria, Menaechmi, Miles gloriosus, Mercator, Psudolus, Poenulus, Persa, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculntes (15th C)
Incipit: Mostellariæ argumentum. Manumisit emptor anores philolaches

Barb.lat.99, Seneca Tragedies (15th C)
Incipit: Lucii Annei Senecæ Tragediar[um] Prima incipit Hercules furens

Barb.lat.101, Cicero De oratore (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Tvlii Ciceronis Liber Primvs de Oratore ad Brvtvm. Cogitanti mihi sepenu[mer]o & memoria

Barb.lat.107, Curtius Rufus History of Alexander the Great (15th C)
Incipit: Qvinti Cvrtii Romani Historici [de] re-bvs gestis magni Alexandri Mac[edonis] inter latinos hystoricos facile principis

Barb.lat.108, Sallust De coniuratione Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum (15th C)
Incipit: Crispi Sallvsti catilina in-cipit lege feliciter. Omnes homines qvi sese student præstare

See Biblissima, scribe: Ursuleo Pietro


Barb.lat.110, Curtius Rufus History of Alexander the Great (15th C)
Incipit: Intr hec Alexander ad conducendu[m] ex pelopo[n]-nesso militem

Barb.lat.111, Julius Caesar De bello Gallico, De bello Civili, De bello Alexandrino, De bello Africano, De bello Hispaniensi (1453)

See Biblissima, rubric extremely faded


Barb.lat.112, Petrus Candidus Decembrius Epitome in libros Plutarchi de comparationibus virorum illustrium (15th C)
Incipit: Qvae in libris epitomatvm P. candidi de-scripta svnt hic breevitr annotantvr. de theseo et Romvlo Regibvs

Capp.Giulia.IV.47 (Upgraded to HQ), Giacomo Carissimi Missa a 4, Messa a Otto Voci e Organo, Missa a 9, Messa a Noce voci, e Organo

Incipit: Caro mea Mottetto p[er] l'eleuazione ab C. J. B.

Ott.lat.1145, Peter de Auvergne, Aristotle Quaestiones in Metaphysicam (14th C)
Incipit: Sicut ph[ilosophu]s dic[it] in x[o] me[taphysice] sue in o[mn]i g[ener]e est

Ott.lat.3109, Pier Luigi Ghezzi Raccolta di Diverse cose antiche (18th C)

Pal.lat.1795, Poggio Bracciolini Jokes (Facetiae) (1401-1450)
Incipit: Mvltos futo[n]s esse, Arbitror qui has nostras confabulacio[n]es

Pal.lat.1796, Francesco Grifolini, Rinutius Aretinus Phalaridis epistolae (tr), Epistolae Bruti (1463)
Incipit: [V]ellem malatesta no-uelle printemps illustris tanta[m]

Pal.lat.1797, Distributio virtutum iuxta decalogum (1585)
Incipit: Distribvtio Virtvtvm iuxta Decalogum. Primum præceptum perfectam Dei notitiano

Codices Palatini Entry, from Rhineland Palatinate


Pal.lat.1798 (Upgraded to HQ), Peter Luder Exempla Epistolarum (c. 1459)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1799 (Upgraded to HQ), Flavius Guillelmus Ramundus, Johannes Zacharias, Rolandinus de Passageriis, Bernhard Perger, Johannes Miscellany (1475-1500, 1517)
Incipit: E Epistola u[e]l apostolus e[st] exp[re]ssionis

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany (Konstanz and Heidelberg ?)


Pal.lat.1802, Sentences, Biblical and Latin (Pliny and Seneca), Colloquia ad usum puerorum accomodata (c. 1530)
Incipit: De deo colendo et inne[n]do

Codices Palatini Entry, from Bavaria


Pal.lat.1803, Johannes Sebastianus Aquila Collected Works (1554-1557)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Munich


Pal.lat.1992, Jean Dupin Livre de bonne vie (1451-1500)
Incipit: (f.2r) guerre en ce temps au roy dengleterre tribulation et desolation

Pal.lat.1996, Johann Casimir von Pfalz, et al. Calendar for 1567 (1567)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed book with manuscript additions, mostly written in Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1997, Johann Casimir von Pfalz Calendar for 1570 (1570)

Codices Palatini Entry, manuscript with written annotations


Pal.lat.1998, Frederick III Calendar for 1571 (1571)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed with manuscript additions


Pal.lat.1999, Johann Casimir von Pfalz Calendar for 1571 (1571)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed with manuscript notations


Pal.lat.2001, Johann Casimir von Pfalz Calendar for 1577 (1577)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed with manuscript additions


Pal.lat.2003, Calendar for 1579 (1579)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed with space for notations, none added


Pal.lat.2006, Schreibkalender, Tagebuch Pfalzgraf Johann Kasimirs; Abschussliste 1582 Calendar for 1582 (1582)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed with manuscript additions. Includes "shooting list"


Reg.lat.2051, Breviary, Franciscan Use (1291-1310)
Incipit: Incipiunt fe[s]tiui[tas] s[an]c[t]or[um] p[er] a[n]-ni ci[r]cula. In s[an]c[t]i saturnini M.

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Ascoli Piceno. Includes notated music, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 813[14th C quadrata notation]


Ross.829, Gilles Bellemere Liber Tertius Decretalium
Incipit: Incipit tercius liber decretaliu[m] et sequitur Rubrica de Vita et honestate deruorum. Primo et s[e]c[un]do livris

Ross.963, Bartolus de Saxoferrato Commentaria in Codicem, Books I-IX. Repititio in Codicem, Book VIII (15th C)
Incipit: Vera R[ubr]ica est illa qua[m] dictam vobis

Ross.1009, Chronicae Antiquae, Genealogia dei Picholomini, Tractatus de ignorantiae causis (15th-16th C)

See Iter liturgicum italicum lists as "1488 from Padua", but nothing else, does not match the manuscript


Ross.1013, Miscellany (c. 1753-1763)

Turkish and Arabic fragments


Ross.1025, Aristotle, John Philoponis De anima, Commentary on De anima (15th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρόνικος Κάλλιστος


Ross.1029, (1475-1500)
Incipit: Hie hebt sich an das Puech genamit die Hymelstrass

Ross.1105, Abbot De Nufbour L'Origine de la Noblesse Françoise (1730)
Incipit: (f.2r) L'origine de la Noblesse Françoise. Je pourois d'abord entrer en matiere

text prefaced with a dedication letter to a Monsieud Du Bois, directeur general des ponts et chaussees de France


Ross.1120, Rappresentatione della Samaritana (16th C)
Incipit: Rapresentatione della Samaratina. Christo, Homo d[e] galilea, .s. giouano

Ross.1123, Various Poems (15th C)
Incipit: O mio graue dolor p[er]ch[e] me spinge

Ross.1126, Bellino Bissolo Speculum Vitae (1375-1400)
Incipit: Incipit speculum Vite co[m]positu[m] a maistro Bellino. Istorias recitare nouas uelud e[st] nova fama

Vat.lat.6395, Boccaccio De casibus virorum illustrium
Incipit: (f.3r) Liber primus. boccacii de Certaldo illustrum virorum liber p[ri]mus incipit feliciter. Prohemiu[m] et capp[itu]l[u]m primum

ff.1r-2r is a table of contents


Vat.lat.7402, Josephi Simonis Assemani, Benedict IV, Arsenii Sciukri, et al. Dissertatio de Cultu Sancti Johannis Sirimensis cognominati Maroni, Primi Antiocheni Syro-Maronitarum Patriarche, etc. (18th C)
Incipit: Em[erentissim]i ac R[everentissi]mi patres. Quum sub saculo quarti finem, et initium quinti

ff.1r-3r is table of contents


Vat.lat.8222.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Claudius Donatus Interpretationes Virgilianae Aeneides, Letters, etc. (15th-18th C)
Incipit: Tiberi Claudi Donati ad Tiberium Claudium Maximum Donatianu[m] filiu[m]

Vat.lat.9978, Hieronymi Fracastorii Syphilidis sive morbi gallici (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Hieronymi Fracastorii syphilis sive morbus gallicus ad P. Bembum. Liber 1. Qui casus rerum varii

Vat.lat.9994, Miscellany (15th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Incipit libellus repudii ad mores s[e]c[u]lares paup[er]is

Vat.lat.9995, Albertano of Brescia, et al. De observantia regulae S. Benedicti casus morales, Tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi (1505)
Incipit: De regula b[ea]tissimi p[at]ris b[e]n[e]dicti si quera[tur]

dated on f.59v


Vat.lat.10019, Letters related to Giovanni Battista Rodella (18th C)
Incipit: La Conoscenza di io fortuna

Vat.lat.10028, Note di spese varie, dall'anno 1653 all'anno 1664, spettanti al card. Carlo Carafa, vescovo di Aversa, e riguardanti la sua nunziatura nella Svizzera e a Vienna, Constractus sponsalium inter Caeciliam Ciandelini et Christophorum Bianchi, Mar 26, 1627, etc. (1653-1664, 1627, 1814-1816)

Vat.lat.10052, Tractatus de pluralitate beneficiorum (1482)
Incipit: Qui no[n] intrat p[er] hostiu[m] in ouile ouiu[m]

dated on f.20r in early gothic Arabic numerals