Fifty-three manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repositories. The distribution heavily favored the Vat.lat collection this week, which added twenty-five manuscripts, mostly in the range of Vat.lat.9852-10300, covered by Vatasso and Carusi's early 20th C catalogue. The rest of the manuscripts are from Ott.lat, with sixteen, Barb.lat with eight and Ross with four. Of particular from the final collection is Ross.1186, a pocket almanac for 1467, complete with it's original girdle-form binding. To the right is f.2r from that manuscript, the wheel of the year for 1467. The text block below was originally written in blue ink, but it apparently faded enough that it was over-copied, testifying to the active engagement with this small book.

This week also saw the digitization of several early-modern dramatic works, including tragedies about S. Eustache and Boniface, a comedy called Lo Stordito, a play about Alexander the Great and more. The two hagiographical plays were written by Pope Clement IX.

Below is a fragment of the profusely illuminated p.1 from Ott.lat.89, an alphabetic catalogue of saints from Abel, named a protomartyr, through Eunodio, Bishop of Ticino. It is then followed by several more saints all starting with the letter A. Both paleographical and hagiographical evidence points to an Italian origin, with a plethora of Neapolitan and other specifically Italian saints named.