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 continues at a steady pace, with nine this week. Vat.lat only contributed three, none in the recently popular 9xxx or 10xxx sequences, and a lone Var.gr book of orations completes the week's additions

To the right is f.1r of Vat.lat.6441, a copy of, Ovid's Metamorphoses which was written around 1458-9 by Liberato da Bagnoregio. This isn't a particularly rare manuscript within the collection, there are at least 28 copies of Metamorphoses, nor are late 15th C white vine manuscripts uncommon, however what caught my eye was the dragon worked into the vines. There are often putti or small animals within the vines, green parrots are particularly common, but the large dragon walking on the frame of the page is quite unusual, if not unique.

The bottom image is from a late 15th C copy of Seneca's Naturales quaestiones, now f.1r Barb.lat.127. This manuscript would be contemporary with the Edito Princeps, which was published in Venice in 1490 by Bernardinus de Cremona and Simon de Luero.