Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2022

At the close of the week a total of sixty-seven manuscripts had been added to the Vatican repositories. Roughly similar to the last few weeks in distribution, Vat.lat contributed the most with thirty-two, followed by Barb.lat with twenty-four. The remainder came from smaller groups, Ott.lat with eight, Pal.lat with two and Ross with a single manuscript.

A standalone copy of just the Pauline Epistles, Ott.lat.9 probably dates to the 11th century. The notation "circa ann. 400" on one of the flyleaves in a 16th or 17th C hand indicates at that time they thought the volume was "400 years old". A tall and narrow volume, it is decorated with a large initial "P" to start the first epistle, and space for another on f.41r, to the right, that was never filled in. Although unsigned and undated, there is a colophon on f.79v that begs prayers from all prophets and saints for the scribe and his brothers, who only gives his origin as "Italy"

The border at the bottom is from f.2r of Ott.lat.3295, a 9th C collection of canons once in the collection of the monastery of St. Pantaleon in Cologne.

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Barb.lat.294, In octo libros Aristotelis De Physica Ausculeatione Philosophiæ Naturalis (17th C)
Incipit: (p.1) In octo libros Aristotelis de Physica Auscultatione Philosophiæ Naturalis- Logica iam utrumque explicata

Barb.lat.316, Lucerna Salis Philosophorum (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Dedicatio. Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Pax terris, bona voluntas sominibus

copy of the original published in 1658


Barb.lat.411, Oratio e verbis Psalmorum compacta (15th C)
Incipit: D[omi]ne i[e]hu chr[ist]e rex altissimi filius

a long rubric at the top of f.1r was already illegible by the 19th C catalogue of Pieralisi


Barb.lat.430, Alain de Lille De Planctu Naturae (17th C)
Incipit: Beati Fr[atr]is Alani Doctori Uniuersalis et Conuevsi ord[inis] cist[erciensis] Tractatus de complanctu naturae

Barb.lat.432, Bonaventure, Philippo Cagliola Officium Divi Eustachii Bonaventurae (1634)
Incipit: (p.3) Protestatio. Vniversa quæ de seraphici Doctoris

Barb.lat.435, Tractatis de virtutibus (14th C)
Incipit: Post hec autem aggredi-amur c[um] dei auxilio

Barb.lat.438, Alvarum Gomez Proverbia Salomonis (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Illustrissimo principi francisco quinnonio Sanctæ crucis Reuerendissimo Cardinali aluarus gomeZ. S. Cum bonomiæ essem in cesaris comitatu

Barb.lat.442, Paschasii Diaconi, Peter Damian, et al. De Corpore et Sanguine Domini, Epistola, Orations (15th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Incipiunt uersus paschasii diaconi de corpore et san-guine domini

ff.1r-1v is table of contents, ff.2r-v are blank


Barb.lat.449, Flores Beati Augustini in Libris de Trinitate (14th C)
Incipit: Alores b[ea]ti Aug[us]tini in Lib[ro] de t[ri]nitate p[er] ue-ritates eleas

Barb.lat.450, De vita activa et contemplativa (13th C)
Incipit: I[ste prosper fui]t aq[ui]tanicus uir eruditisor[mus], o[mn]ium artiu[m] dogmate

Barb.lat.454, Vincentii Dominici Officum proprium S. Joseph (1635)
Incipit: Beatissime Pater. Quod Sacerdos omnium minimus ultro Sacer-dotem Summum literis audeat

Barb.lat.456, Lucas Holotenius Epistola Theodoli Episcopi, ex codice MSS Bibliothecae Bobleianae Oxoniensis Academiae, et Barbarino (16th C)

Barb.lat.460, Tertullian, St. Ambrose, St. Bernard, et al (17th C)
Incipit: Septimii Florentis Tertulliani di Iona propheta Carmen Heroicu[m]

Barb.lat.466, St. Bernard, St. Augustine, et al. (13th-14th C)
Incipit: Amantissimo p[at]ri ac d[omi]no dei gr[ati]a su[m]mo pontifici Eu-genio

Barb.lat.467, Tertullian Carmen de Iona (17th C)
Incipit: Septimii Florentis Tertulliani de Iona propheta carmen Heroicum.

Barb.lat.474, Joannis de Sancto Geminiano Sermons (14th C)
Incipit: Incipiu[n]ts[er]mones d[o]mi[ni]ca-les s[ecundum] fr[atr]em joh[ann]em de s[an]c[t]o Geminiano

Barb.lat.477 (Upgraded to HQ), Jerome, Bede, et al Grammar Texts, De Natura rerum, De temporibus, etc (10th-11th C)

See Jordanus #9965, Biblissima, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 234[ff.148r-153v, 11th C neumes]


Barb.lat.481 (Upgraded to HQ), Gregory of Nazianzus De amore in pauperii, etc (16th C)
Incipit: Gregorii Nazanzeni Theologi De amore In Pauperes

Barb.lat.484 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: De s[an]c[t]e t[ri]nitati fide. N[ost]re iustitie et saulti[s] cau-sa fides e[ss]e

Barb.lat.485, (14th C)
Incipit: (f.108r) In no[min]e d[omi]ni i[n]cip[it] lib[ro] sententiaru[m] de diu[er]si[s] uoluminib[us](f.108r) In no[min]e d[omi]ni i[n]cip[it] lib[ro] sententiaru[m] de diu[er]si[s] uoluminib[us]

Starts on f.108


Barb.lat.497, Prayers to the BVM and Saints, extracted from Jerome, Augustine, Ephraem, Cyprian, Gregory and Isidore (1075-1125)
Incipit: infatigabiliter legam, et efficac[] compleam. Et quicquid i[n] me

Barb.lat.501, Epistola de singularitate Clericorum (14th C)
Incipit: Pro miseram quide[m] uob[is] an[te] temp[us]

Barb.lat.505 (Upgraded to HQ), Professio fidei Christianae, De Sancta Trinitate, Book IV, etc. (10th C)
Incipit: (f.2v) Interpretatio. Quomodo credis d[eu]m

ff.1r-2r is a computus table


Barb.lat.611, Henrici de Assia Expositio in tria priora Geneseos capita. (15th C)
Incipit: In principio Cre-auit deus celum & terram &c. Hoc uerbu[m] introducens

Ott.lat.6 (Upgraded to HQ), Bede, Ausonius, et al Carmen de Cyclo paschali, Ecologues, etc (11th C)
Incipit: de eo quod quattuor modis iudicat d[eu]s om[n]e peccatu[m]

Ott.lat.7 (Upgraded to HQ), William Durand Speculum Legatorum (14th C)
Incipit: [R]euerendo in chr[ist]o p[at]ri d[omi]no fr[atr]i lacino dei gr[ati]a

Ott.lat.9, Bible: Pauline Epistles
Incipit: Paulus seruus chr[ist]i i[e]hu uocat[us] ap[osto]l[u]s segregat[us] in eua[n]g[e]liu[m] d[e]i

Ott.lat.11, Palladinus Vita S. Joannis Chrysostomi, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Domino S[an]c[t]o ac b[ea]tissimo p[at]ri Eugenio Am-brosius

Ott.lat.19, De Oratione Dominica
Incipit: Qvia freque[n]t[er] i[n] eu[an]gelio

Ott.lat.20, Peter Comestor Historia Scholastica
Incipit: [R]euerendo pat[ri] d[omi]no su-o Guill[el]mo dei gr[ati]a Be-neue[n]tano archiep[iscop]o

Ott.lat.21, De virtutibus
Incipit: Non enim ueni soluere legem

Ott.lat.3295 (Upgraded to HQ), Collection of Canons (9th C)
Incipit: Incipiunt Canones Apostolorum.

ex libris of St. Pantalon in Cologne, see Bibliotheca Laureshamensis


Pal.lat.433, Homilary (1451-1500)
Incipit: [R]euentissimo & s[anc]ti-ssimo

Pal.lat.772, Roman Law Miscellany (1130-1160)

Ross.830, Bellamera Lectura super V Libris Decretalium Gregorii IX, Vol 8 (1375-1425)
Incipit: De co[m]modato Rub[ri]ca Quonia[m]

Book 8 of 13, found in Ross.823-835


Vat.lat.6899, Regulae grammaticae linguae Turcicae, Epistle from Pope Innocent XI, Sermon, etc. (17th C)
Incipit: Primus. De Genere numero, et casu Nominu Turcicone. Genus quod dicunt

Vat.lat.7037, Definitiones Cap. Generalis Ord. Cisterciensis ab anno 1157, quinto post obitum S. Bernardi Abbatis usque ad annum 1282 (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IXv) Ill[ustrissime] D[omi]ne. Librum hunc Definitiones n[ost]ri Ordinis Cisterciensis

Vat.lat.7041, Liber de nonnullis legitimis Canonibus, et Pseudo canonibus, itemque de Abusionibus (17th C)
Incipit: Quæris a me, o carum, et sacrum caput, scire, quæ causa

Vat.lat.7120, Concordancia Prophetarum ex uirogua testamento contra
Incipit: Incipit quot mo[d]is asp... s[an]c[t]o

Incipit: Quare Septuagesima celebrat[ur] Ideo ut quem admod[o] Populus Dei

Vat.lat.9370, Thesaurus pontificum (1451)
Incipit: Incipit liber qui intitulatur Thesau-rus pontificum Rubrica. Quem admofu[m] consta[n]-tinus ep[iscop]us Cypri

Scribe: Bruno de Deventer, Patron: Pietro de Monte, colophon on f.147v


Vat.lat.10089, Index censuum (c. 1609)
Incipit: Mary Striglers erben

Vat.lat.10090, Astrum chronologicum Trieffensteinense (1651)
Incipit: (f.2r) Præfatio. Ad[modu]m r[eueren]dus pater et d[omi]nus Ioannes Molitor

Vat.lat.10091, Liber accepti et expensi Missionis Moguntinar Trans-Rhenanae dictae (18th C)
Incipit: Fundatorum et benedactorum Misionis Moguntinae

Vat.lat.10094, Statuta congregationis Cisterciensis, Collection of Acts related to Cistercian in Germany (18th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Literæ Convocationis Nos F[rater] Claudius Vaussin

Vat.lat.10095, Varia notatu digna insignis Ecclesiae Collegiata ad utrumque Sanitum Joannem in Haugis Collecta per Carolum Josephum Armbknecht (18th-19th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Series D. D. Præpositorum Insignis

Vat.lat.10100, Kalendarium continens nomina tam fratrum in monasterio S. Jacobi Scoturm extra muros Herbipoli professorum, quam ettiam aliorum. (c. 1617)
Incipit: (f.5r) Præfatiuncula ad FF. Quoniam Humanæ fragilita

Vat.lat.10101, Expositione sopra la regola del N. P. Sancto Francesco (17th C)
Incipit: Espositione sopra la regola del N. P. S[ancto] Francesco. Il nostro Padre S. Franc[esco] benediceua tutti

Vat.lat.10104, Homiliae et sermones, a feria VI Dominicae II in Quadragesima ad feriam III Dominicae Resurrectionis (17th C)
Incipit: Feria 6[ta] d[omi]nica 2[da]. De Vinea

Vat.lat.10107, Thomas Holzclau Notamina (18th C)
Incipit: Sanctum Jesu Christi Evangelium. Ev[an]g[e]l[u]m vox greca latine

Vat.lat.10109, Compendium theologiae moralis de sacramentis (18th C)
Incipit: Proemium. Praestantissima est Sacerdotum dignitas

Vat.lat.10114, Compendium sacrorum Bibliorum, Analysis psalterii David, Flores senentiarum ss. Patrum ex diversis (18th C)
Incipit: Catalogus librorum veteras Testamenti

Vat.lat.10115, Bartholomaei Holzhauser Interpretationis Apocalypsis Books I-VI, etc (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Liber I. In Apocalypsim S. Jo[hann]is Ap[osto]li de

Vat.lat.10116, Disciplina ven. Seminarii Herbipolensis ad S. Kilianum (c. 1744)
Incipit: (p.2) Sub Gloriosissumus Auspiciss Reverendissimi & Celsissimi

Vat.lat.10117, Sermons (18th-19th C)
Incipit: Dominica Ima Adventus

Vat.lat.10118, Bartholomaei Holzhauser Interpretatio Apocalypsis, Visiones et monstra (1794)
Incipit: (p.4) Mysteria apocalypseos a Venerabili viro D. Bartholomao Holzhauser explanata

Vat.lat.10119, Vita di Giovanni Molitore (18th C)
Incipit: Caput primum []ortus, Studia, Clericatus. Ioannes Molitor, Dettebaco oppido de miraculasam

Vat.lat.10126, Causae Contra Galileum Galilei mathematicum. Ex archivio S. Officii (1775-1825)
Incipit: (p.1) Contro Galileo Galilei. Nel mese di febraro 1615 Il Padre Maestro

Vat.lat.10133, Le diverse ed artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli dal ponte della Treja (1806)
Incipit: (f.1v) Dell'eccellenza delle Matemati-che qvanto esse siano necessarie. Presupposta l'utilita & l'eccellenza grande

Vat.lat.10134, Gabrii de Zamoreis Sermons de virtutibus et vitiis (15th C)
Incipit: [E]ciam atq[ue] etiam mecu[m] tacitus ip[s]e conscidera[n]s

Vat.lat.10142, Thomas Aquinas Commentum in tertium librum Sententiarum Magistri Petri Lombardi (19th C)

printed with manuscript annotation


Vat.lat.10145, Thomas Aquinas Summa de veritate catholicae fidei contra Gentiles (c. 1878)

Vat.lat.10146, Antonius Uccelli Scidulae et notae S. Thomam Aquinatem (19th C)
Incipit: Niceta doctor. Niceta magnus doctor super Joannem

Vat.lat.10148, Antonius Uccelli Works (19th C)

Some of the works are printed


Vat.lat.10155, Gregory of Nazianzus, Rufinus (tr) Orations (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: Explicit Appologeticvm Incipit Liber II De Natali Domini G[re]g[orius] Naz[i]a[n]ze[ns]i[s]. Chr[istu]s nascit[ur]

Vat.lat.10156, St. Jerome Liber de viris inlustribus, Vita s. Hilarionis abbatis (1376-1425)
Incipit: Hortaris dexter ut traquillum sequens eccle-siasticos

Vat.lat.10158, La mina suentana (17th-18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) La mina Sventata overo Gl'Artifici della Francia scoperti. Mi havete addi-mandato un gran saggio della