Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 34 of 2022

In total eighty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week, the first batch after the August vacation weeks. Trends from earlier in the summer continue, with the bulk of the manuscripts coming from the Pal.lat (38) and Barb.lat (25) collections. Vat.lat contributed thirteen, split across the range of 6xxx and 10xxx, and Ross added another ten. The week concludes with two from the Ott.lat collection and one from Reg.lat. Although the work on the Reg.lat manuscripts was proceeding very rapidly earlier in the year, it seems to have slowed to a crawl,. Although > 90% of the manuscripts are digitized, it is hard to anticipate how long it will be before they complete the project

Alchemical manuscripts often have incomprehensible allegorical art, and Pal.lat.1885 from the late 16th C is no exception. I can explain nothing about the iconography of f.27r, but I thing the facial expression is quite understandable for "nine birds of different colors are points arrows at me"

The border from the bottom is from f.1r of Reg.lat.1943, the extremely elaborately decorated first page of a 15th C copy of the Epistles of St. Jerome.

Reg.lat.1943_0009_fa_0001r-border.jpg
Barb.lat.143 (Upgraded to HQ), Suedonius, Pliny Vita Plinii, Natural History, Books I-VI, IX-XI (15th C)
Incipit: Liber Primvs Plinii Secvndi Natvralis Historie -Veronensis- Capitvlorvm Qvi

Barb.lat.144, Priscian Institutions (901-925)
Incipit: Priscianus Grammaticus Caesari-ensis Iuliano Consuli ac Patricio Salutem. Cum omnis eloquentie doctrinam

Note there are 14th and 15th C replacement leaves and decorations added to the orignal MS. See Biblissima


Barb.lat.159, Stephanus Byzantius, Guilelmus Xylander (tr) Traduction latine de l'Ethnica de Stephanus Byzantius par Guilelmus Xylander
Incipit: Stephani Byzanii de urbibus & populis liber. Guilielmo Xylandro Augustano interp[re]te

Barb.lat.163, Pliny Natural History (1498)
Incipit: (f.1r) Caii Plinii Secvndi Natvralis Historie Liber XIX. In quo lini natura continetur

See Biblissima, part of a set with Barb.lat.162


Barb.lat.166, Mesue De simplicibus medicinis
Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e pat[ri]s & filii & sp[i]r[itu] s[an]c[t]i am[en]. lib[er] incip[it] d[e] [con]solato[n]e

Barb.lat.182, Ptolemy, Thebit Bencora, et al. Almagesti (tr. Gerard of Cremona), De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Prologus primus in Almagesto ptholomei pheludensis. Qvidam p[ri]nceps nomine

See PAL for siglum A.1.2, See PAL for siglum C.1.1


Barb.lat.198, Antonius Baduinus Commentaria in Porphyrii introductionem et Aristotelis logicam. Book II (17th C)

Part 1 found in Barb.lat.197


Barb.lat.233, (17th C)
Incipit: Brevis to-tius logicae Intro-ductio. Animus enim noster, qui e[st] ex mente divina quodammado

Barb.lat.237, Laurentius Rurius De Equis (16th C)
Incipit: R[everentissi]mo in Christo Patri et D[omi]no D[omi]no N. Dei gratia Sancti Adriani Diacono

Barb.lat.244, Horoscopes (c. 1669-1670)

Barb.lat.245, Josehp de Tertiis De Triplici Figura Demonis Cacodemonis et Coelesti (c. 1670)

Tables of astronomical observations


Barb.lat.247 (Upgraded to HQ), Mauritii Centini Peripateticae disputationes in universam ab Aristotele in Phyiscis traditem doctrinam (17th C)

Barb.lat.252, Lectiones in Logicam Aristotelis (16th C)
Incipit: Lectio 39.

Barb.lat.254, De ludo scachorum (14th C)
Incipit: Ubicv[m]qve fu[er]is ut sis gratiosus

Includes diagrams of chess games


Barb.lat.273, Raymond Llull, et al. Chemical and Alchemical Miscellany (16th C)
Incipit: Rudiani Ph[ilosoph]i Tractatus et est quædam Practica nobi-lissima, quæ multum ad

Barb.lat.276, Gerard of Cremona, Johannes de Calomonte, et al. Toledan Tables. Tractatus quadrantis, etc (1473)
Incipit: [I]ncipiunt cano-nes azarchelis in tabulas tholeta-nas, a magistro ge-rardo cremonensi ordinati. [Q]voniam uniuscuiusq[ue]

See Jordanus #9961, scribe: Johannes de Calomonte Flandrinus


Barb.lat.290, Summularum, Book I, Parts I-III (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Summulæ. Questiones Logicæ in breuem summam

Barb.lat.292, Summularum, Book III, part II (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Subsectio Decima nona De Argumentis a Maiori ad minus, et Guius loci Habitudine

Barb.lat.314, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Liber Primvs sectio Prima. Quæ præcipue consideranda de Homine Ciuili. De Homine, sub ratione qua Ciuilis

Barb.lat.321, Tabulae in Logicam, alphabetico ordine despositae (16th C)
Incipit: Arg[umentum] seu dubitateo de actuali inhere[n]tia

Barb.lat.329, Joannis Casae De officiis inter potentiores et tenuiores amicos (16th C)
Incipit: Magna omnino aeteres diuturnaq[ue] molestia caruiste mihi uideri solent

Starts f.289r


Barb.lat.331, Poggio Bracciolini De varietate fortunae (15th C)
Incipit: Ad nicolavm papam .V. poggii florentini de varietate fortune. Liber primvs. Mvlta Qcondam pace ac bello pre-clara ante

Barb.lat.332 (Upgraded to HQ), Guillelmus Placentinus, Peter of Abano, et al. Practica (14th C)
Incipit: Eor[um] aut[em] que fiu[n]t et posse sciri et

Charter of other legal instrument extracted from bindings


Barb.lat.333, Mundini de Foroliero Vocabularium Medicinae (14th C)
Incipit: [Q]voniam nichil karius et amirabilius antiquis fuit

Ott.lat.1340, Recueil d'ordonnances et livre de raison de Jean Isambert (15th-16th C)
Incipit: (f.5r) Ordonna[n]ces royaulx publices en la court de parleni[n]t a paris le dix et septiesine jour de Juins Lan mil Quatre cens Cinqua[n]te et quartre du regne du Roy Charles septiesime du nom

See JONAS,


Ott.lat.2529, Acts of the Council of Basel (15th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Decreta scaros[an]c[t]i genera-lis concilii Basilien[sis]. Dessop prima celebrata in maiori eccl[es]ia Basilien[sis] xxi Januari Anno domin

Pal.lat.1800 (Upgraded to HQ), Carolus Virulus, Stephanus Fliscus, Pamphilus, Ugonus Parmensis, et al. Miscellany (1463-1482)
Incipit: Continet iste libellus epistolares quasda[m] formu-las iudicio

Codices Palatini Entry, from south Germany. Partially printed


Pal.lat.1815, Frontinus, et al. Strategemata, De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae (1475-1500)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sexti Julii Frontini Strategematon liber primus incipit. [C]vm ad instrue[n]dam rei mili-taris

Pal.lat.1816, Nicolaus Caesareus Prognostica (1557)
Incipit: (f.2r) Præfatio. Videmus Illustrissime

Codices Palatini Entry, from Wittenberg


Pal.lat.1817, Avicenna Canon, Book II, IV, V (13th-14th C)
Incipit: Incipit lib[ri] cano[n]is auic[enne] ii. v[ir]tu p[ri]ncip[us] habuhali

Pal.lat.1819, Juridical Miscellany
Incipit: Solutio matrimonio quem ad modum dos pecatur

Pal.lat.1820 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero Opera, Orations (1394)
Incipit: M. tullii Cyceronis de offitiis. Incipit liber p[ri]mus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy. Colophon on f.129v dated and signed Johannes Ludouicus de Lambertatiis


Pal.lat.1822, Rasis, Jacobus de Partibus, ps-Hippocrates, et al. Medical Miscellany (1526)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Regensburg


Pal.lat.1828, Martin Luther Bericht über den Augsburger Reichstag von 1530 (1530-1560)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Weimar (?)


Pal.lat.1834, Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, et al Letters (1536-1543)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ad Ioannem Riivm. Accepi literas

Codices Palatini Entry from Wittenberg. First 13 folios are table of contents/index, then foliation restarts at f.1r


Pal.lat.1838, John Calvin Commentaria In epistolas Pauli (Auszug) (1555)

Codices Palatini Entry, from southern Germany


Pal.lat.1839, Theodore de Bèze Dictata in sextum et septimum caput epistolae I ad corinthios (1551-1600)

Codices Palatini Entry, southern Germany


Pal.lat.1841, Kaspar Peucer De coena domini (1551-1575)
Incipit: De præsenti a corporis et sa[n]gvinis christi in coena

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1849, Johann Hilten Miscellany (1525-1575)
Incipit: Sagax rector omnium Deus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Thüringen


Pal.lat.1850, Erhard Bacher Loci communes (1562-1568)

Codices Palatini Entry, From Wittenberg


Pal.lat.1851, David Hartmann Oratiuncula de nomine Jesu (1585)
Incipit: (f.1r) In nomine suo Jesv Christe. Quæ a Deo opt. Max. move & instisuto maiore[m]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1852, Jacobus Kimedoncius, et al. Notae historicae (1560-1592)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1853, Francisco de Enzinas De statu Belgico (1577)
Incipit: De statv Belgico de q[ue] re-ligione Hispanica, Historia francisci Enzinatis Burgensis

Codices Palatini Entry, from western Germany


Pal.lat.1855, Miscellany from the Reformation (c. 1518-1538)
Incipit: De m[at]rimonio. Quid s[un]t m[at]ri[moni]o

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg (?)


Pal.lat.1857, Miscellany (1525-1575)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1858, Scripta de controversia de duabus naturis in Christo et communicatione idiomatum (1576-1577)
Incipit: (f.3r) Epistola Scripta ad Nobiliem a Meiendorff in Germaniam

Codices Palatini Entry, from Königsberg


Pal.lat.1859, Sermons (c. 1553)
Incipit: Dominica Trinitatis post pent. Ioan 3.

Codices Palatini Entry, from Öhringen (?)


Pal.lat.1860, Pierre du Moulin (the Elder) Synodi Dordrechtanae decreta ; Confessio fidei (1619)
Incipit: (f.2r) Ivdicivm Synodi dordrectanæ de quinque doctrinæ ca-pitibvs in Belgio con-troversis

Codices Palatini Entry, from Dordrecht


Pal.lat.1861, Notae in evangelia (1525-1575)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1862, Orationes scholasticae (1580-1582)
Incipit: Orationes dvæ antidicae De quæstione Scho-lastica es Catechisica, An Christianorum puen-statim ab infantia

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1863, Matthäus Hofstetter Dialog (1600-1610)
Incipit: Candido Lectori, Salutem. Quemadmodum qui ludis Scenicis ad sunt

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1864, Almosenregister, Briefe (c. 1540)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Augsburg


Pal.lat.1880, Miscellany (15th-17th C)
Incipit: [I]nocentii papæ libellus de miseria ho[min]is et fragilitate humanæ conditio[n]is

Codices Palatini Entry, from southern Germany and Italy


Pal.lat.1881, Epitaphia ducum Saxoniae (1615-1622)
Incipit: Epitaphia Duorum Illustrissimorum Electorum aliorumq[ue], Principum Saxonia vt cadum

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.1882, Locorum communium collectio (1537)
Incipit: de amicitia. Amicorum omnia sunt

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1883, Sententiae latinae (1601-1625)
Incipit: A. Amor docet omnia

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg (?)


Pal.lat.1885, Alchemical Illustrations (c. 1570-1580)
Incipit: Clariss. Viro D. Francisco Lavbespi-nio regio svppraefecto bitvrgvm

Codices Palatini Entry, southern Germany


Pal.lat.1890, Johannes Pleniger Medical Miscellany (1530-1546)
Incipit: Interrrogationes in pro-mum librorum Galeni

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heidelberg


Pal.lat.2018, Calendar for 1567 (1567)

Pal.lat.2019, Daniel Melzer Beschreibung von Buda und Pest (1603)

Pal.lat.2020, Writing Calendar, Index (16th C)

Pal.lat.2021, Manuscript Index of the Palatine Library (16th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Poetæ. Andreas Diuius. Aeschylus

Pal.lat.2022, German Prayer Book (16th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, includes genealogical notes


Pal.lat.2023, Calendar of Count Palatine Johann Kasimir (1569)

Codices Palatini Entry, printed with hand written notes


Reg.lat.1943, Jerome Epistles (15th C)
Incipit: Dormientem te & longo iam tempore legentem potius quam scribentem

Ross.1020, Cicero De officiis, Paradoxa ad Brutum (1470)
Incipit: [Q]uamq[uam] te ma[r]ce fili an-num iam

Ross.1067, Johannes de Ruelant De herbis et aliis medicinis (1425-1475)
Incipit: Cum ego i[n] medi-cine artis [studio] opt[i]mas scire

colophon on f.161v "Per me Johannem Ruelant de Almania"


Ross.1070, Aegidius de Bellamera Lectura super decreto Gratiani (1375-1425)
Incipit: Opus Remissoriu[m] super decreto. A-d honorem Sancte et

Ross.1122, Vita di Sisto V (17th C)
Incipit: Papa sisto V[o] nacque nella Prouincia della Marca

Ross.1171 (Upgraded to HQ), Correspondence of Piux VII (1800-1808)
Incipit: Nel momento che con sommo consolazione Io inteso la lieta

Ross.1172 (Upgraded to HQ), Pope Pius VII's Travel to Paris (1804)

Ross.1173, Papal Nuncia in Paris (1802-1806)
Incipit: Istrucezione per l'E[merentissi]mo Legato 1. Decembre 1802

Ross.1178, Documents of Pius VII (1800-1808)

Ross.1199 (Upgraded to HQ)

Incipit: Augsburg. 1. Günther Zainer. 1. 11. Jan. 1471. Rodericus Zamorensis. Speculum humanæ vita

Vat.lat.6513, Antonii Augustini Epitome Juris Pontificii: De Criminibus contra Se (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Lib XXXVI. de criminibus contra se. De alea Tit .1.

autograph copy, part 30 of a 38 volume set


Vat.lat.6516, Antonii Augustini Epitome Juris Pontificii: De Excommunicatione (16th C)
Incipit: Vt quis iuste excommunicetur a iudue, necessaria est caussa iusta, et admo-nitio

autograph copy, part 33 of a 38 volume set


Vat.lat.6735 (Upgraded to HQ), Letters of Popes Urban IV, Gregory X, Innocent V, John XXI, etc. (13th C)
Incipit: Epistola de mirabilib[us] montis vesuuii p[er] qua[m] mandat[ur]

Vat.lat.6747, Aristotle Libri Phisicorum (14th C)
Incipit: Quoniam quid[em]


Vat.lat.6757 (Upgraded to HQ), Pietro Mallio Descriptio Basilicae Vaticanae (1201-1225)
Incipit: (f.2r) Incipiu[n]t no[m]i[n]a s[an]c[t]or[um] Ro[m]anor[um] pontificum. Beatus petrus ap[osto]l[u]s

Vat.lat.6768 (Upgraded to HQ), Quaestiones pulcherrimae in Sacram Theologiam, et in Aristotelis libros Parvorum Naturalium, et logicalium ex diversis auctoribus collectae (14th C)
Incipit: [U]tru[m] possit o[ste]ndii euidenter


Vat.lat.6887 (Upgraded to HQ), Horus Apollo, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Persus, et al Hieroglyphica, Epistle, etc (16th C)
Incipit: Hori apollinis Niliari Hieroglypha quæ in lingua ægyptia

Vat.lat.6896, Summa Leber perfectionis magisterii in scientia naturae, Artificalis memoriae Regulae per Jacobum Ragonam Vicentinum ad Jo, Franciscum Marchonem Mantuae (15th C)
Incipit: P[ro]hemium Incipit su[m]ma leber p[er]foroi[n]s magisterii i[n] s[cie]n[ti]a n[atural][us]

Vat.lat.10001 (Upgraded to HQ), Nicolao Januarii Tractatus de natura, infirmitatibus et curis equorum (1479)
Incipit: Quarto de conoscere sua bellicza di loccorpo et di limenbri et di loro facczuni

In Neapolitan


Vat.lat.10069, Liber pontificalis, Use of Würzburg (19th C)
Incipit: Ritus Vesperarum. Rms cum Mitra, et Dedo ducitur ex Sacristici a 2

Vat.lat.10072, Catalogus vivorum ac defunctorum admodum reverendorum, nobilium, eximiorum ac doctissimorum dominorum capitularium et domicellarium insignis ecclesiae collegiatae ad SS. Iohannem Bapt. et Evang. in Haugis dictae [Herbipoli] (1776-1825)
Incipit: (p.1) D. Fridericus Wisner Decanus Iubilæus. Gramschazen. Obtinuit Canonicatum, et Præbendam vacantem per obitum

Vat.lat.10076, Miscellany on the Würzburg churches (18th C)
Incipit: Registrum Documentorum Ecclesie in Hauge descriptum in libro Catenato

Vat.lat.10077, St. Godehard of Hildesheim: Vita sive res gestae (18th-19th C)
Incipit: Prologus. Quoniam cutex Majori-bus nostris accepimus