Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 4 of 2022

A total of ninty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. It is a bit of a bittersweet anniversary, it was four years ago this week that I began helping JB Piggin tracking these manuscripts, work that I was only able to do with him for about 1.5 years. The manuscripts follow the same pattern as recent weeks, just moreso. Reg.lat with 48 manuscripts edged out Pal.lat with 39, leaving eight in Ross. The week is filled out by two from the Cappella Giulia and one each from Vat.lat and Ferr(ajoli). The Pal.lat volumes are principly Astronomy/Astrology in the low to mid 1400s and then Classical authors, including a lot of Cicero in the upper 1400s and 1500s.

To the right is f.2r from Reg.lat.1095. This is a manuscript copy of Aloysio Antenoreo's Mundi Magnetici from about 1633, but it imitates the look of contemporary printed volumes.

The bottom border is from f.1r of Pal.lat.1559, a very nice, very Florentine copy of Pliny's Natural History

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Capp.Giulia.III.49.pt.1, Responsory Music for Christmas Eve (1707)

Capp.Giulia.III.49.pt.2, Responsories for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (1722)

Ferr.737, (17th-18th C)

Pal.lat.535, Devotional Miscellany (15th C)
Incipit: Cursus de passione chr[ist]i. DOmine labia mea ape[r]ies

Pal.lat.1433, Table of Planetary Locations, 1482-1606

Codices Palatini Entry, from Augsburg


Pal.lat.1434, Cyprian Leowitz Canon extrahendi arcum ecliptice verum ; Ratio partis proportionalis colligendae (1525-1575)
Incipit: Canon extrahendi arcum Eclipticæ uerum, qui singulis ascen-sionibus rectis

Codices Palatini Entry, from Augsburg


Pal.lat.1435 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellaney (1473-1478)
Incipit: (f.15r) Incipit tractatus iudicior[um]

Codices Palatini Entry, from southern Germany, the final part, ff.311-328 is printed. ff.1-14 contains empty horoscope diagrams


Pal.lat.1436, Astronomical/Astrological Miscellaney (1447)
Incipit: Gloriosus deus et sublimis qui o[mn]ia uerbo creauit terra

Codices Palatini Entry, from present-day Belgium


Pal.lat.1437, Computus Texts (1375-1500)
Incipit: Incipit co[m]put[us] volgaris abbreuiat[us]

Codices Palatini Entry, from southern Germany and Hungary


Pal.lat.1439 (Upgraded to HQ), Astronomical/Astrological Miscellaney (1487-1493)
Incipit: Canones Eclipsium [sol] et [lune]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Krakow and Leipzig


Pal.lat.1440, Practica geomantiae, Condiciones domorum in geomantia (16th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1441, Cyprian Leowitz Horoscopes for Johannis Baptiste Teteilbachii Sr and Jr (1525-1575)
Incipit: Ista Natiuitas est facta Bambergæ

Codices Palatini Entry, from Franconia


Pal.lat.1442, Cyprian Leowitz Horoscopes and Predictions (1547-1575)
Incipit: 1530 Die .30. Martii Horis a Meridi: 6. Min: 45.

Codices Palatini Entry, from Bohemia


Pal.lat.1443, Johannes de Ashendon, Ibn-Abī-'r-Riǧāl, Abu-'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī , et al. Astrological/Geometrical Miscellaney (1351-1400)
Incipit: Incipit su[m]ma Judicialiu[m] de

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1476 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero Orations (14th C)
Incipit: Qvamq[ue] i[n] michi se[m]per freq[ue]ns [con]spectus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy. Was owned by Giovanni Bembo (f.303r)


Pal.lat.1506, Cicero Epistles to Friends, I-VII, IX-XVI (15th C)
Incipit: Ego omni offi-cio ac potius pietate erga te cete-ris satis-facio om[n]i-bus

Pal.lat.1510, Cicero Epistles (15th C)
Incipit: Cicero Brvto Salvtem. Lvcivs Clodivs tr[ibunis] pl[ebis] designatus ualde me diligit uel ut

Pal.lat.1512, Cicero De finibus (15th C)
Incipit: Marci T. C. de finibvs bonorv[m] & malorv[m] liber primvs ad brvtv[m] incipit feliciter. Non eram nescivs Brv-te

Codices Palatini Entry, from Florence


Pal.lat.1521, Cicero, ps-Sallust, ps-Cicero De legibus, De amicitia, Orationes in L. Citlinam I-IV, Invectiva in Ciceronem, Invectiva Sallustim, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Tulii Ciceronis de Legibus Liber primus incipit. Lucus quide[m] ille & haec arpinarium querc[us]

Pal.lat.1526, Cicero De officiis (14th-15th C)
Incipit: Quamq[uam] te marce fili annu[m] iam au-dientem Cratippu[m] idq[ue]

Pal.lat.1527, Cicero, Aristotle De officiis, Politica (15th C)
Incipit: Qvamq[uam] te Marce filii a[n]nu[m] Iam audiente[m] C[r]atippu[m]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1528, Cicero Opera (15th C)
Incipit: M. Tullii Ciceronis ar pinatis officiorvm liber primvs incipit. Quanq[uam] te marce fili annum iam audie[]-tem Cratippu[m]

Pal.lat.1530, Cicero De Officiis (15th C)
Incipit: Quamq[uam] te Marce fili annu[m] iam audi-entem Cratippum idq[ue]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Bologna


Pal.lat.1532, Cicero De officiis (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Tullii Ciceronis de officiis ad M Filivm Liber primvs inci-pit lege foeliciter. Quamq[uam] te M. fili annum iam audiente[m] Cratippum idq[ue]

Pal.lat.1533, Cicero De officiis (15th C)
Incipit: Qvamqvam te marce fili annum iam audientem cratippum

Pal.lat.1536, Cicero Opera (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Tvlii ciceron-is de senectvte liber aut cato maior foeli-citer incipit. Otite si qvid ego a div to curam ue leuasso

Pal.lat.1539, Seneca, ps-Seneca Assorted writings (14th C)
Incipit: (f.3v) Annei lucii Senece d[e] paupertate. Honesta in quit epicurus res e[st] paup[er]tas

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy. ff.1r-3r is table of contents


Pal.lat.1541, Seneca, ps-Seneca Assorted writings (15th C)
Incipit: Cuilibet volenti

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1542, Seneca, ps-Seneca Epistles (15th C)
Incipit: L. Annei Senece ep[isto]lar[um] liber primus ad Lucillu[m]. De collige[n]da. et sistenda

Codices Palatini Entry, from Venice


Pal.lat.1543, Seneca, ps-Seneca Epistles (12th C)
Incipit: Lucus ennius seneca Incipit prologus S[an]c[t]i Ieronimi pr[es]b[ite]ri. Cordubensis fotini stoici discip[ilu]s

Codices Palatini Entry, from France


Pal.lat.1544, Seneca, Coluccius Salutatus Excerpta controversarium, Declamatio Lucretiae (15th C)
Incipit: Inci[it] p[ro]logus i[n] libris declama-tionu[m] senece. Tuti[us] aneus se-neca nouato melle filiis salute[m].

Pal.lat.1545, Seneca Dialogues other works (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit tractat[us] Senece ad Gallionem. Uiuere Gallio frater om[n]es quide[m] beate vo-luut

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1552, ps-Seneca, Petrarch, et al. Miscellaney (15th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1555, Quintilianus Institutio oratoria (15th C)
Incipit: Efflagitasti con cotidiano co[n]ui-cio Ut libros quos ad

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1558, Quintilianus Declamationes minores (15th-16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) De sunt non pauca excutiamus submisis raptore[m]

Pal.lat.1559, Pliny the Elder Natural History (15th C)
Incipit: Argumentum sequentis operis. Vita plinii Secundi ex Catalogog Viror[um] illustru[m] Tranq[ui]lli. Plinius secundus Nouocomensis equestribus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Florence


Pal.lat.1561, Pliny the Elder Epistles, I-VII, IX (15th C)
Incipit: C. pliny secundo liber pri[mu]s ep[isto]lar[um]. C. plinius secundus: secundo suo salutem Frequenter hortatus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Venice


Pal.lat.1563, Vitruvius, Frontinus De architectura, Stragegemata (15th C)
Incipit: Caritvla Libri primi vit[r]vvii pollionis prologvs. Libri p[ri]ncipiu[m] primi denotat quesit Architecturæ scientia & undenascat[ur]

Pal.lat.1565, Palladius, Godefridus de Franconia(?), et al Opus agriculturae I-XIII, Paladii liber breviatus per Godefridum, Vocabulorum Palladii (1375-1400)
Incipit: Incipit liber Palladii Rutili Thauri Emiliani viri illustris in opus agricult[ur]e

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1567, Pomponius Mela, et al. De Chorographia, etc. (15th-16th C)
Incipit: Cosmographiae pomponi Melae liber primus incipit ..... prohemium Lege foeliciter. [U]Rbis situm dice[re]

Codices Palatini Entry, from Italy. 2nd and 3rd section are unidentified


Pal.lat.1569, Solinus, Einhardus Collectanea rerum memorabilium, Vita Karoli, Genealogia regum Francorum (15th C)
Incipit: Quoniam quidem impatientius potius quam

Codices Palatini Entry, from Venice. Rubric is too faded to read


Pal.lat.1570, William of Conches, Solinus, et al. Dragmaticon, Collectanea rerum memorabilium, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: Queris venerande sux Normannoru[m] & Comes an-dagauensiu[m] cur M[a]g[ist]ris

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany. First section unidentified


Reg.lat.295, ps-Haimo of Auxerre Explanatio in Psalmos (1175-1200)
Incipit: Incipivnt glosvle magistri anselli archidiachoni svp[er] psalt[or]ivm. Incipit liber himnorv[m]

Reg.lat.301, Odo of Cluny, et al. Collations, Book III, Hagiography (12th C)
Incipit: Incipit prefatio in libro collationu[m] donini odonis abbatis. Domino & patri turpio-ni pontifici

Reg.lat.303, Peter Comestor Scholastica Historia (13th C)
Incipit: Reuerende patri et d[omi]no suo guile[l]mo d[e]i gr[ati]a se-nonensi archiep[iscop]o

f.1 is extremely damaged and partially rewritten in a later (17th ?) hand


Reg.lat.495, Sulpicius Severus, Gregory of Tours, et al. Texts on St. Martin of Tours (801-825)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incip[it] Lib[er] S[an]c[t]i Martini de Trinitate. Clemens trinitas est una diuinitas

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 121 f.1v 10th C neumi accenti for a hymn to Martin


Reg.lat.496, Collection of Readings, prayers, etc for November (11th-12th C)
Incipit: Igit[ur] chlotharius rex francor[um] co[m]perto q[uo]d uir

Reg.lat.542, Hagiography (12th C)
Incipit: Incipit p[ro]logus in vita s[an]c[t]i silvestri Historiographvs n[oste]r. eusebius cesariensis palestine

Reg.lat.560, Eusebius, Jerome (tr) Chronicle
Incipit: Eusebius iheroni-m[us] uincentio & galieno suis salu-te[m] Vetus iste disertoru[m] mos fuit ut exercen-di

Reg.lat.579 (Upgraded to HQ), Vita, Inventio, Translatio et Miracula Marie Cleophae et Marie Salome
Incipit: Sanctam et indubitata[m] precelsamq[ue] ac salutifera[m] beatissimaru[m] soror[um] gloriose semperq[ue] virgi[ni]s ma-rie chri[st]fere

Reg.lat.611, Christophe Richier, et al. Lignée des rois de France, Chronique universelle abrégée de la Création à Louis XI, Enseignemens notables aux poursievans, Armorial de France, Nomenclature des pairs de France, Costumes des Turcs (1475-1500)
Incipit: (f.1r) Cy co[m]mence la ligne de la noble maison Royal de france co[m]mençant a loys de bonnaire Roy de france

See JONAS,


Incipit: Joh[ann]is ad et[er]nu[m]

Reg.lat.926, Jean de Saint-Romain Réponse au discours de Jean d'Auffay sur les droits de Marie de Bourgogne (1501-1525)
Incipit: Sur la question qui est entre ca

See JONAS,


Reg.lat.964, Recueil Sommaire de la Cronique Francoyse, Vol IV (16th C)
Incipit: Prologue du quart volume sur le Recueil Sommaire de la cronique francoyse. Sil est ansi que debte Long temps

Reg.lat.992 (Upgraded to HQ), Ivo of Chartres Panormia (12th C)
Incipit: Incipit prologus pannorime iuonis uenera-bilis carnotensis ep[iscop]i de multimoda distinctio-ne scripturaru[m] sub una castor[um] eloquiorum facie Contentarvm.

Incipit: Aphorismi Episcopales. ex Doctorum sentenciis collecti.

Incipit: Adriani pape ad kareolum regem de Imaginibus. Domino excelentissimo filio nostre que spiritali conpri[us]

Reg.lat.1066, Nicolaus Trivet In Boetii de Consolatione philosophiae
Incipit: Explanac[i]on[em] libror[um] Boecii de

Reg.lat.1092, Jacobus de Cessolis Liber de moribus hominum
Incipit: Incipit prologus libri stacor[um] que[m] composiu[m] frater Jacobus de Ce-sullis ordinis predicator[um]

Reg.lat.1094, Bernardus Silvestris Experimentaribus
Incipit: Cum om[n]e q[uo]d quis experit[ur] sit ad appetendu[m] p[ro]pt[er] se u[e]l p[ro]pt[er]

Reg.lat.1095, Aloysio Antenoreo Mundi Magnetici (c. 1633)
Incipit: (f.1r) Eminentiss & Reuerendiss p[ri]n[ci]pi Aloysio S.R.E. Cardinali Capponio Archiepiscopo Rauennati Foelicitatem

Imitating a printed work


Reg.lat.1096, François Aliegri, et al. Astrological Miscellaney (c. 1500)
Incipit: Incipit S Signis Zodiaci. Par-tem itaq[ue] zodiaci xii[a] inq[ua] sol exsticit primo die

See JONAS,


Reg.lat.1098, George of Trebizond
Incipit: Georgii trapezuntii Breuis de antiscie tractatus et tunc historib[us] astologorum iudi-cia fallant

Reg.lat.1106, Albertus Magnus De lapidibus
Incipit: Incipit lib[er] prim[us] de colorib[us] & uirtutib[us] lapid[us]. Habete celi silencium

Reg.lat.1111, Laurentius Rusius De natura equorum et illorum cum aegrotat medicina
Incipit: (f.4r) Incipit liber cyrurgie equor[um] conpositus ex dui[er]sis libris quo melior uir uel nunquam pote-rat inueniri

ff. 1r-3v is a table of contents


Reg.lat.1112, Theodore Gaza De instruendis aciebus (15th C)
Incipit: Theodori graeci thessaloniceyis ad eloqu[en]ctissimu o[rdis] p[re]d[ic]aru[m] uir[um] Antonum pano[r]mita

Incipit: Consilium pro suenda valetudine Regina. Et si videatur esse superva caneum

Reg.lat.1116, Bede, Guibert of Nogent Historia Anglorum, Gesta Dei per Francos
Incipit: (p.1) Ad Dioscorum. Leo Dioscoro alexandrinæ ecclesiæ. Quantum didectioni tuæ dominicæ Caritatis

Reg.lat.1125, Panormitanus Lectura in Decretales
Incipit: Quoniam hic voluminis principus no[n] existit i[n]p[ro]hemio et

Reg.lat.1127 (Upgraded to HQ), (10th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Providencia novem populana.

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 298[, Folio: 165v, Century: 11i, Provinance: Angoul仁e, Noirmoutier, Notation: Aqui


Reg.lat.1145 (Upgraded to HQ), (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Sculoa Del primo senno aperta da Fr[atr]a Tomaso Campenella, deruo di Dio et unico maestro della detta Scula

Reg.lat.1153, Bernardus de Gordonio Lilium medicinae
Incipit: (f.1r) Int[err]ogatus a quod[a]m soc[ra]tes quom[odo] posset

Reg.lat.1157, The Spjhere of Pythagoras (15th C)
Incipit: Prens garde a une figure qui signifie le corps et la vi[e], et se le 6[e] qui signifie le maniere et l'estat

See JONAS,


Incipit: Teorica del Vndecimo Caelo. Cap. I. Lagrandeca de los cuerpos celestes

Reg.lat.1179, Raymond Llull
Incipit: Raymun de Lulla Doctoris illumi-nati liber da ascensu et descensu Intellectus


Incipit: De Dialectica di-alogvs. Henricvs et Io Iaco-bvs, Mesmii fratres interlocvtores.


Reg.lat.1194, De sanitatus
Incipit: Quoniam ut ait co-stantius xi

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit liber tholomei Regis Egipti quem composuit ie[su]s filius sydrac qui

Incipit: Liber p[er]fecti magisterii

Reg.lat.1200, De lapide philosophorum
Incipit: Tractatus Opus mu-lieru[m] et Ludus Prieroru[m].

Incipit: Herba Lvcia Mandragora. Ad sanandum feritas sine unguento

Reg.lat.1259, Joannis Verneri De Triangulis Sphericis
Incipit: Joannis Verneri Norumbergen-sis de Triangulis sphericis. Liber primus. Deffiniciones. Circulus maginus in sphera est cuius

Reg.lat.1264, Guillaume de Toulouse, et al. Trésor des pauvres, Eaux médicinales, Secrets des femmes, Herbier (17th C)
Incipit: Le tresor ou Traitte de tres Excellent venerable et souuerain philosophe nommé Maitre Arnault de ville neufue

See JONAS,


Incipit: L'extraict del Remedel Tirees du Cresor de Messire Arnaud de Ville neufue Cathelam

Reg.lat.1276 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: [I]ncipit tractus de naturis a[n]i[m]aliu[m] disti[n]ct[us] p[er] xx[ti] libros q[uod]libet

Incipit: Quandoquidem Chirurgo non utile [modo]

With inset printed illustrations


Reg.lat.1306, (15th C)

See JONAS, ff.1r-3r is Table of Contents. Dated on basis of watermarks


Reg.lat.1486 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero Orations (15th C)
Incipit: Qvamq[uam] mihi semper freqvens conspectus uester multo iocundissim[us]

Ross.564, Papias Lexicon (14th C)
Incipit: Filli utiq[ue] karissime debin si potuis

Ross.621, John Chrysostom
Incipit: Beati Joha[n]nis chrisostomi liber Q[uod] nemo ledit[ur] nisi ase ip[s]o. [S]cio q[uod] crassio[r]ib[us]

Ross.623, Jerome
Incipit: Prologus in dialogum diui hyeronimi æccl[es]iæ doctoris eximii foeliciter incipit

Incipit: Disse nach geschribuen

Ross.660, Giuseppe Luigi Assemani In Librum Justini Febronii De Statu Ecclesiæ (18th C)
Incipit: Josephi Aloisii Assemani Præfatio In Librum Justini Febronii De Statu Ecclesiæ. Febronius Libri Compositor cum sibi finxispet præci-puum si non unicum

Incipit: faciende e[st] p[ro]ba[]co[]

Incipit: (p.1) Incipit prologus Potissorie Johannis Calal-lini de Cerronibus de urbe apostolice sedis

Ross.729 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Incipit modus siue Tractatus Arismetact s[ecun]d[e]m numeru[m]

Vat.lat.9570, Patristic Miscellaney (19th C)