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.