No manuscripts were expected this week, but eight were added anyway. In addition I will be giving a year-end wrapup farther down the page. There were not enough manuscripts added to see any real pattern, but half are from Vat.ar, two from Vat.lat and one each from Barb.lat and Ott.lat. To the right is p.3, a plan of Old St. Peters drawn in 1809, from Vat.lat.10373. Unsurprisingly there are many volumes in the BAV about Old St. Peters, the 4th C church torn down to make way for the Michaelangelo/Bramante/Bernini/Maderno building we see today. The bottom border comes from f.1r of Vat.lat.8175, a 15th C manuscript of Geremia da Montagnone's Compendium moralium notabilium.

Now to the end of year report, starting with the topline numbers: 2,895 manuscripts were digitized in 2022 from 33 different fonds¹. Since there are usually 49 working weeks in a year, this gives an average of 59 manuscripts a week, nearly 33% higher than last year's rate of 44 MS/Week. Here's the overall breakdown by fond. Note that, as in previous years, only a few fonds contributed the vasy majority of manuscripts, this year six fonds provided nearly 95% of the digitized volumes

One trend that I've noticed across the years which was particularly obvious this year, is that of manuscripts being added in groups, that is one or two fonds will contribute the bulk of the manuscripts for several weeks, and then the work will shift to other collections. Note here the focus on Reg.lat and Pal.lat early in 2022, compared with the even distribution of Ross, and the increasing work in Vat.lat towards the end of the year ²

Notes

1. select fond_code, count(*) as number_added from manuscripts where year(date_added) = 2022 group by fond_code;
2. select week_added, if(number_added>5, fond_code, "Other") as other_fond_code, sum(number_added) from (select week(date_added,4) as week_added, fond_code, count(*) as number_added from `manuscripts` where year(date_added) = 2022 group by week_added, fond_code) as all_tables group by other_fond_code, week_added