Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 41 of 2022

A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, lower than the average week's total. The distribution across fonds is a little unusual, vis-a-vis the recent weeks, with Vat.lat and Ross providing the majority of the manuscripts, fourteen and twelve respectively. Beyond that Ott.lat contributed seven, Barb.lat six and Vat.gr two. An interesting manuscript for statistical purposes is Vat.lat.15505, a copy of António Ferreira's Tragédia Amorosa de Dona Inês de Castro which was presented as a gift to Pope Francis according to the September 2022 issue of the Vatican's quarterly digital newsletter Online Window into the Library (OWL). This gives us solid data on the state of the Vat.lat shelfmark counts in 2022, and indicates that at least 126 volumes have been added since the 2011 publication of D'Aiuto and Vian's Guida ai Fondi Manoscritti, Numismatici a Stampa della Biblioteca Vaticana which listed 15,379 as the last assigned shelfmark.

To the right is an alchemical diagram in the form of a standing man from Ross.1114, this one found on f.IVv. This folio is not a flyleaf, as the number might imply, but a loose page inserted between ff.32v-33r, and contains the fourth "standing man" diagram in the book.

The bottom border is from one of the flyleaves of Barb.lat.511, f.IVv. This is a 12th or 13th Century fragment with chant for Pentecost in Aquitanian neumes.

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Barb.lat.194, (17th C)
Incipit: Proemium in Physicam. Quoniam ea omnia quæ naturalii philosophus

Barb.lat.511, Usnard's Martyrology (11th C)
Incipit: (f.7r) Nota q[uo]d in [con]fessione debent extendi

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 541[flyleaf 12th-13th Aquitainian neumes]. ff.1r-6v is a calendar


Barb.lat.518, Augustine, Bede, et al Vita St. Leonard, Sermon in dedicatione Ecclesiae, Vita of Fursei, etc. (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit uita sanctissimi leonardi confessoris. Beatus iste leonardus temporibus anastasii imperatoris

Barb.lat.534, Ivo of Chartres Panormia (12th C)
Incipit: (f.Iv) Incipit p[ro]log[us] parnomie u[e]l pan-normie iuonis uenerabil[us] carno-rensis ep[iscop]i

Barb.lat.535 (Upgraded to HQ), (13th C)
Incipit: In trinitatis no[m]i[n]e s[an]c[t]e & indiuidue. Incip[it] hinc felicit[er] isti[us] libri feries

Barb.lat.546, St. Ambrose, Leo the Great In Hexameron, de Noe, Letters (13th C)
Incipit: D[eu]m s[ed] etia[m] yann sine p[ri]ncipio dicentes definiant

Ott.lat.38 (Upgraded to HQ), Chapter Book (1051-1100)
Incipit: capitis martyriu[m] sub chosroe rege cu[m]atus lxx ut

see Iter liturgicum Italicum, from Montescaglioso (Benedictine foundation)


Ott.lat.43, Bible: Acts and Epistles
Incipit: Incipit liber act[uum] apos-toloru[m] cet[er]ar[um]que ep[ista]lar[um]

Ott.lat.47, Psalter/Hymnal (1369)
Incipit: (f.7r) ym[us] iste d[icitu]r in d[om]inicis dieb[us] a l[a]l[end]is octobris

ff.1r-6v is a calendar, see Iter liturgicum Italicum. From S. Lucia in Assisi, Reformed Fransiscans


Ott.lat.48, John of Damascus de Orthodoca Fide, Book IV
Incipit: S. Joannis Damasceni de Orthodoxa Fide Libri Quatuor. Deum eum nemo uidit unq[ue]

Ott.lat.55, Bible: Epistles, Lamentations and Jeremiah (glossed)
Incipit: Iacob[us] cognominatus iust[us] fili[us] marie sorori[us] matris d[omi]ni

Ott.lat.61, St. Bernard Encomia Beatissima Virginis
Incipit: Incipit opusculu[m] do[m]pni bernardi abbatis clarauallis

Ott.lat.77, Bible
Incipit: Frater Ambrosius tua michi

Ross.746, Basil the Great, Leonardo Bruni (tr), Plutarch De legendes gentilium libris (tr), de liberis educandes (15th C)
Incipit: E. Magno Basilio leonardi Arre-tini Traductio ad Colluccium. Epistola leonardi Ad Colutius de tractutione huius

Ross.901, Historia del Principio della Accademia fiorentina, Novelle due (16th C)
Incipit: (f.2v) Essendo Io nella migliore et pui fiorita eta della

Text on f.2r was struck through


Ross.902, Vantaggi Venuti di Christiani per Cristo sopra lo stato della originale giustizia d'Adamo (1805)

dated on title page


Ross.904, Heroditus, Angelo Politiano (tr) Historiae Romanae, Book VIII (tr) (1484-1492)
Incipit: Angeli Politiani ad innocentivm viii pont. max. prae[fatio] in herodiani hi-storia[m] e greco in latinv[m] co[n]versam. Cvm Rome, ab hinc triennium ferme

Ross.905, Autoritade tratte dalla S. Scrittura e dai Padri (15th C)
Incipit: [I]l nome de Dio et de tutti li suoi Sancti Appostol-li et della sua gloriosa Madre. Incomenciano in questo mio quinternetto molte belle Dignissime et utile

Ross.915, Petrarch I Trionfi, Sonnetti e Canzoni (15th C)
Incipit: Luno e dyonisio e laltro e alexandro

Ross.920, Giardino della oratione (1454)
Incipit: In dominicia el Prologo nel libro in titulato el giardino del oratio[n]e.

Ross.1045, Curtius Rufus De Gestis Alexandri (1441)
Incipit: Qvinti Curtii Hystorie Alexandri Macedonis Liber Tertuis Incipit. Primus eni[m] & Secundus uetustate aboleti no[n] h[abe]ntur

Dated in colophon on f.128r


Ross.1084, Arnoldus de Rotterdam Repertorium juris (1436)
Incipit: Memori-am esse thesaurum i[n]ue[n]tor[um] eleganter

Dated and signed in colophon on f.525v


Ross.1085, Johannes de Milis Repertorium Juris, alias Absenti (15th C)
Incipit: (f.4r) Ab-se-n-ti Queritur actio ex contractu per

ff.2r-3v is a list of words


Ross.1114, Orationes, Epistola Luciceri ad Clerum, De rhythimis vulgaribus, Aesopi vita, etc (c. 1485-1487)

Ross.1128, Jerome Inventio ac Translatio corporis S. Anthonii heremite (1425-1475)
Incipit: Incipit ep[isto]la beati Eusebii ad beatum Damasus protuensem

Vat.gr.1038 (Upgraded to HQ), Ptolomy, Euclid Phaseis, Elements, Opera, Canones prompti, De iudicandi facultate et animi principatu, Hypotheses (13th C)

Pinakes Entry, possible that Euclid is 14th C, starts on f.11r


Vat.gr.1941 (Upgraded to HQ), Menologium for January, De Christi nativitatis et passionis annis (10th C, 11th C)

Pinakes Entry, several fragments of seperate Menoligia


Vat.lat.7087, Albertus Magnus, Gerardo da Siena De vegetalibus Books I-V, Commentarius in Petri Lombardi Sententiarum, Book I (14th C)
Incipit: facit natura que t[ame]n ex uno fiu[n]t q[uod]

Vat.lat.7137, Chronicon Salernitanum, Inventario dei possessi di Potone, Glossarium Vaticanum, Lex Ribuaria, etc (17th C)
Incipit: Anonymi Salernitani chronicon ab anno che 760 ad ann. 960. Residente in Apostolica Sede Zaccharia

Vat.lat.7271, Sozomeno da Pistoia Chronicon universale 429-1334 (1472)
Incipit: Anni X[i] Pontif[icu]m Celestin[us] Imp[er]ator[um] Theodosi[us] & Valentinian[us]

Vat.lat.10008.pt.2, Letters to Giovanni Maria Mazzuchelli (1738-1765)

Starts f.278


Vat.lat.10093, Catalogus omnium abbatiarum ordinis Cisterciensis virorum religiosorum, ab anno 1098 ad annum 1662, Catalogus omnium monasteriorum monialium ordinis Cisterciensis Ab anno 1115 ad annum 1650, Catalogus R. dominorum abbatum et religiosorum monasterii (18th C)

Vat.lat.10150, Epistulae ad Antonium Uccelli (19th C)

Vat.lat.10164, Epiphanii Davanzati Collected Inscriptions from Roman Churches (1701-1725)
Incipit: Nota Inscriptionum tum ueterum, tum mo-dernarum, que in Ecclesiis Alma Vrbis Romæ

Vat.lat.10166, Species Tabule di Descrizione di una tavola lapidfea contenente una colleczione di marmi antichi rinvenuti negli scavi del Monte Palatino, e dedicata alla Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Pio IX (19th C)

Diagram for Vat.lat.10165


Vat.lat.10167, Francesco Maria Torrigio Memorie Romane del Beatissimo Prencipe degli Apostoli S. Pietro (19th C)
Incipit: (p.7) Avvertimento. Varii sono i fini di coloro, che leggoro Alcuni han-no solamente

pp. 3-6 are table of contents


Vat.lat.10178, Breve relatione del dominio spirituale e temporale del Sommo Pontafice (17th C)
Incipit: Breve Relatione del Dominio Spiritua-le, e Temporale del Sommo Pontefice Romano. In quanti modi si possa considerare il Sommo Pontefice Romano, Capitolo Primo

Vat.lat.10180, Platina De prinicipe, Books I-III (1470)
Incipit: Platynae liber pri-mvs incipit de pri[n]-cipe ad illusrem o Foedericvm Gonzagam. Prohoemivm. [C]vm essem in alba-no uitandi æstus

dated on f.111v


Vat.lat.10182, Chirurgiae rationalis praelectiones. (17th C)
Incipit: Chirurgiæ Rationalis Prælectiones. Chirurgia Medicina pars

Vat.lat.10186, Taddeo Numai De edificatione Forlivii (17th C)
Incipit: De edificatione Forliuii. Forliuio Citta magna e noblissima nelle parte della Italia

Vat.lat.15505, António Ferreira Tragédia Amorosa de Dona Inês de Castro
Incipit: (f.1r) Auto primeiro, Ossanta dom Pedro, outro çeo outro sool me parace este

See September 2022 OWL, recent donation by the "Presidents of the "Irmandade dos Clérigos (Brotherhood of Clerics) and the "Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto" (Holy House of Mercy of Porto), who gifted it to Pope Francis"