Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 39 of 2022

Only thirty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repository. Due to the lower output than recent weeks, perhaps related to the feast of Michaelmas, the distribution of the manuscripts does not follow the recent trend. The majority of the volumes, twenty in total, come from the Vat.lat fond, with Ott.lat adding nine and Barb.lat adding six. The remaining few volumes come from Ross, with two, and one each from Vat.ind and Urb.ebr. The Hebrew volume is a lovely example of early 14th C Italian script, though the exact date is lost owing to the colophon being partially erased.

To the right is f.196v from Barb.lat.482, a prayer book from Pesaro made in 1459. It contains a calendar, more in the style of a Book of Hours than a Psalter, and the text of the psalms, Song of Songs, and various hymns and orations. The decorations are extremely elaborate and slightly idiosyncratic. The large miniatures are surrounded with inhabited white vine work, which is not a common pairing of artistic styles. The look is also made unusual by some oxidization of ink , yielding large amounts of gray space in the artwork.

The bottom border is from f.95v of Vat.lat.7145, a 17th C collection of charters and chronicles related to the Kingdom of Naples. This line of text starts the entries for 1388.

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Barb.lat.403, Officium (1546-1555)
Incipit: In festo s[an]cte Julie uirginis & martyris. Ant[iphona]: S[an]cta no[mina] iulia

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Brescia, St. Giulia (?)


Barb.lat.410, ps-Dionysius the Areopagite (13th C)
Incipit: [E]cce desc[ri]psi eam tibi &c. p[ro]v[er] .xxii.

Barb.lat.455, Rituale, Use of Rome (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit ordo baptismi ad ca-thecuminum faciendu[m] Inpri-mis Sacerdos stans super li-miuaribus Ecclesie interro

Barb.lat.482, Psalter/Hymnal (1459)
Incipit: (f.16v) Incipivnt rvbrice spi-ritvales svper Quoli-bet psalmo ualde pulcre & deuote a su[m]me declara[n]t ad q[uo]d Psalmista intendat

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Pesaro. ff.1r-8v is a table of contents/liturgical index, ff.10r-15v is a calendar


Barb.lat.489 (Upgraded to HQ), De temporibus nobissimis Antichristi, seu de victoria Jesu Christi contra Antichristum (15th C)
Incipit: Non sum p[ro]pheta nec filius p[ro]phete hu-milis

Barb.lat.491, Office of the Holy Blood (17th C)
Incipit: Dvplex. Ad Vesperas Antiph[ona]. In Christo Iesu. cum reliquis de laud Psalm.

Ott.lat.13, Orations to Jesus and the BVM
Incipit: Oratio s[an]c[t]e ma[r]ie uirginis. Sancta Maria dei genitrix

Ott.lat.16, Bernard de Parma Summa super titulis decretalium, lib. I-V, Libellus de exceptionibus, Summa confessonis (1276-1325)
Incipit: Formauit deus hominem ad ymaginem et similitudine[m]

Ott.lat.23, Philippi de Meneses In Primam Secunda D. Thome Aquino (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) In nomine s[an]ctissime trinitatis. Angelici doctoris Diui thome Aquinatis prima secunde. A philipo de mene-ses explicata

Ott.lat.24, Yeshayah ben Mali Exposito Psalterii
Incipit: Psalterii exposito Rabi syaye tranensis foe-liciter incipit. Beatus vir &c.

Ott.lat.29, John Chrysostom, Pompilio Amasto (tr) Di Sacerdotus libro Primus (tr)
Incipit: (f.5r) Sancti patris nostri Joannis Chrysostomi Costantinopolis Archiepiscopi de Sacerdotio Liber primus. Pompilius Amaseus uertit Primi libri Argumentum. Primus lic liber continet sanctissime


Ott.lat.39, Theologica Veritatis Compendium
Incipit: Ueritatis theo[logice] subslimatis cu[m]

Ott.lat.41, Historia sacra et aliquid Juris canonici
Incipit: Decimus octauus auctor

Incipit: (f.IIIv) de fer. 2 post dom[in]i

Ross.845, Nicolaus de Tudeschis (Panomitanus) Lecura super IV-V Decretalium (1433-1453)
Incipit: Supra visum est i[n] prece[de]n-ti libro de actibus et gestibus

4th of 4 volumes, Ross.842-845


Ross.1033 (Upgraded to HQ), Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Abū ‘Alī ibn al-Ṣūfī’ Kitāb Ṣuwar al-Kawākib al-Thābitah (“Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars”), Rajaz fī Ṣuwar al-Kawākib (1224)

in Maghrebi script. See Catalogue of al-Ṣūfī Manuscripts.


Urb.ebr.20, Rashi, Joseph Kara, et al. Commentary on Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther (1301-1325)
Incipit: זה הרעב היה אחד מעשרה רעבונים שנגזרו בעולם

Made in Italy, colophon partially erased



Vat.lat.6606, (16th C)
Incipit: Accidens cum definitur in abstracto

Vat.lat.7038 (Upgraded to HQ), Barone Antonio Caraccio L'Imperio Vendicato poema heroico (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Can. I. Argomento. mentre l'usurpator del Greco impero

Vat.lat.7045, Sperone Speroni Della reformazione dell'anno, discorso al signor Marchiese Giacomo Boncompagni (1576-1600)

Vat.lat.7060, Alessandro Tassoni Annali Ecclesiastici, e Secolari. 796-943 (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) L'Anno di Christo 796, Di Leone 3[o] Papa 1, Di Constantino Porfirogenito Imp[erale] 7[o].

Vat.lat.7063, Alfonso Ceccarelli La serenissima nobiltà dell'alma città di Roma. Tomo I (16th C)
Incipit: Predatione dell'Avctore A. Lettori. Tvtti i Dotti, i quali hanno trattato della Nobilta

Vat.lat.7086, Nonius Marcellus De compendiosa doctrina (15th C)
Incipit: Actius in mirmidonibus, lassis trahere insalum et uela uen-torum anime in mictere

Vat.lat.7112, Vincent of Beauvais Speculum naturale. (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit speculu[m] na[tura]le fr[atr]is vincentii. de causa suscepti operis et ei[us] mat[er]ia .I.

Vat.lat.7145, Chronicles and Charters Related to the Kingdom of Naples (17th C)
Incipit: Robertus Guiscardus, qui regnum istud viriliter

Vat.lat.7218, (17th C)
Incipit: Index Alphabeticus eorum omnium, ad quos Innocentii PP III. Epistolae datae sunt. Monitum Ad Sectores eodem usuros

Vat.lat.10083, Series religiosorum monasterii Ebracensis ordinis Cisterciensis, ab anno 1127 ad annum 1769 (18th C)
Incipit: Beatus Adamus primus Monasterii Ebracensis Abbas

Vat.lat.10099, Prayer Book (1521)
Incipit: Kyri[e] elenson, Chr[ist][e] elenso[n]

See Iter liturgicum italicum, decorated with cuttings from a printed book


Vat.lat.10108, Arbatel De magia Beterum, Book I (18th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Arbatel De Magia Sen Pnevmatica. Vetervm Tvm Magorvm

Vat.lat.10123, Albert of Saxony Super octo libros physicorum (14th C)

Vat.lat.10143, Thomas Aquinas Sermons (19th C)

Copied by Antonio Uccelli


Vat.lat.10144, St. Remigius of Reims Commentaria in Evangelium S. Matthaei (19th C)
Incipit: S. Remigii commentaria in qvangelium S. Mathaei

Copied by Antonio Uccelli


Vat.lat.10147, Thomas Aquinas Works (19th C)
Incipit: Expositio[n] orationii Dominicae a fratre Thoma de Aquino

With notes by Antonio Uccelli


Vat.lat.10149, Antonii Uccelli Assorted Works (19th C)

Vat.lat.10154, John Climacus, Gentile Fulginiensi (tr) Scala Paradisi (tr) (14th C)
Incipit: In nomine s[an]cte et i[n]diuidue tri-nitatis. Comença el prologo de questo libro. Questo libro compuose uno de li s[an]cti padri

Vat.lat.10159, Lucius Annius Florus Epitomae lib. I-II (1468)
Incipit: L. Anei Flori de Hystoria roma-na Liber primus Incipit. Populus romanus a rege romulo in cesarem augustum

Dated on f.68r "Laus deo VII KL Novembris .M.CCCC.LXVIII. Folios past f.68r contain some later writings


Vat.lat.10161, Carlo Carafa Relazione dello stato dell'imperio e della Germania fatta dopo il ritorno della sua nunziatura appresso l'imperatore. (17th C)
Incipit: Indice Di tutti i Capi contenuti nel P[rese]nte Libro.