Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2022

In total forty-two manuscripts were digitized this week, bringing the total number of high-resolution digitized manuscripts to 18,253, with another 4,539 as low-resolution scanned microfilm. The recent trends continue with Reg.lat as the most common fond, followed by Pal.lat. The rest are a smattering of fonds, including Chigi, Rossiani, and Vat.gr. From Vat.lat we see more of the 19th C antiquarian volumes related to Angelo Mai and another c. 1600 inventory of the Observant Fransiscans, this time from Calabria, Vat.lat.11317.

To the right is a page from a Computus work by Ludolphus Plebanus, Pal.lat.1452, f.6v.

Below is a fragment of border from Reg.lat.1436, f.1r. This is a Declamation to Galeazzo Maria Sforza by Benedictus Colucius of Pistoia

Reg.lat.1436_0003_fa_0001r-border.jpg
Chig.C.VI.174 (Upgraded to HQ), Pontificale Sacramentarium (1291-1310)
Incipit: (f.9r) D[omi]nica p[ri]ma de aduentu. Sta-tio ad s[an]c[t]am maria[m] maiore[m] or[atio]

ff. 1r-6v is calendar, 7r-v is blank, 8r-v is littany. See Iter liturgicum Italicum #1 and Iter liturgicum Italicum #2. From Anagni


Pal.lat.569, Humbert of Romans Expositio regulae Sancti Augustini (15th C)
Incipit: In nom[i]ne d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ie[s]u chr[ist]i. Incipit exposicio Regule beati Augustini secu[n]dum fratrem humbertum aya-gistrum Ordinis fr[atru]m p[rae]dicator[um] et p[ri]mo de p[ro]logo

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.570, Expositio regulae Sancti Augustini (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit prologus libri sequentis. Inter salubres occupaciones quas

Pal.lat.600, Miscellany (15th C)
Incipit: Relatio magistri Johannis de Segobia in deputicione fidei super materia bullarium de presidentia

Pal.lat.607, Cicero, Seneca, et al. Miscellany (15th C)
Incipit: Ringmanuiis Philesius Vogesl[us]ena Iacobo Viniphelimio Precep. S. D.

Codices Palatini Entry, from Germany


Pal.lat.1432.pt.A, Cyprian Leowitz Tabulae Ascensionum, Vol II (1560)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Lauingen, formerly called Donau. Printed tables with hand written observations


Pal.lat.1432.pt.B, Astrological Calendar, 1559, 1560 (x2) (1558-1559)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Augsburg/Lauingen


Pal.lat.1444, Astrological Miscellany (1475-1500)
Incipit: (f.1v) Nota de dizertionib[us]

Codices Palatini Entry, from southern Germany


Pal.lat.1450 (Upgraded to HQ), Computus and Medical Handbook (1475-1500, 1540)
Incipit: (f.1r) Qvoniam sacerdotii digni-tatem attingere cupi-entibus

Codices Palatini Entry, from Heildelberg


Pal.lat.1451 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellany: Computus, Arithmatic, Medicine (1450-1525)

Codices Palatini Entry, From Germany, different areas for the different sections


Pal.lat.1452, Miscellany (15th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, from Bavaria


Reg.lat.445, Gervasio Christiani Statuta Parisiensis Collegii Baiocensium (c. 1377-1378)
Incipit: Statuta collegii scolariu[m] beate marie de dioesi baioten[sium]

Reg.lat.571 (Upgraded to HQ), Ambrose, Isidore of Seville. Sallust LEtters, Tiburtine Sibyl, de coniuratione Catilinae, De bello Iugurthino (12th C)
Incipit: foras un[us] p[ost] unu[m] incipientes a seniorib[us]

See Mirabile


Reg.lat.1426, Annotationes in Librum Caii plinii de viris illustribus
Incipit: Annotationes In Librum caii plinii De viris Illustri-bus. De Proca Rege Albanorum, Cap. I. Amius vicibus

Reg.lat.1436, Benedictus Colucius Pistoriensis Declamatio ad Galeazum Sfortiam (15th C)
Incipit: Ad Illvstrissimvm Principem Galeazvm Sfortiam Inclitvm Insvbrvm ac Gianven[ses] Dvcem Benedicti Pistoriensis Declamatio Incipit

Reg.lat.1550, Oratio suasoria ad Clodionum regem Francorum de Gallia occupanda (16th C)
Incipit: C-um viri optimi singularique virtute praediti officium esse iudicio Clodio rex

Reg.lat.1558, George of Trabezond

Reg.lat.1582, Iacobus de Cessoles Liber de moribus hominum
Incipit: Incipit prologus i[n] libro de motib[us] & officiis tam nobiliu[m] que[m] p[o]p[u]larium sup[er] ludo scachorum

Incipit: Alla Emansuella, Alla Rmasuell[a] delli corsieri

Catalogue of merchant marks


Reg.lat.1700, Juvenal Satires, glossed (14th C)
Incipit: Semper ego auditor tantum nunq[ue] uerepondam

Reg.lat.1702, Prudentius Cathemerinon, and other Hymns, glossed (12th C)
Incipit: Sed rex niliaci litoris inuido fe[r]uens felle iubet preualidam manum

Reg.lat.1711, Paladius De Agriculture
Incipit: Incipit liber paladii Rutili Tauri aemiliani uiri clarissimi opus agriculture Incipit d[e] o[mn]i re

Reg.lat.1731 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Dialletica e[st] ars artium ad om[n] metador[um]

Incipit: In hoc libro co[n]tinet[ur] sc[ient]ia & ars geometrie

Incipit: Lagratia et lapace de lo onipote[n]-te dio semp[er] siano co[n] noi

Reg.lat.1749, Lucius Annaeus Florus Epitome of Livy (15th C)
Incipit: L. annei florus rerum gestarvm populi.... thoma de .t. livip incipit feliciter liber 1

Reg.lat.1752, Solinus, Iohannes de Sacrobosco Collectanea rerum memorabilium, De sphaera (1472)
Incipit: Caii ivii solini sive grammati polyhistor ab ipso editvs et rec-ognitvs incipit

dated from colophon on f.80v


Reg.lat.1754, Cicero De officiis
Incipit: Aureius Ma[r]ci Tulii Ciceron[is] De officiis liber prim[um] incipit. Quamq[ue] te marce fi-lii

Reg.lat.1758 (Upgraded to HQ)
Incipit: Serenissimo et amantissimo domino suo Ludovico dei gratia

Reg.lat.1763, Francesco Pucci Filidino Del Regno di Christo, Poema Sacro (c. 1590-1610)
Incipit: Canto primo. Canto il principio, il varis corso, el fine

Reg.lat.1765, Priscian Institutiones Grammatica, glossed (11th C)
Incipit: Priscianvs Cesari-ensis Grammati-cvs Ivliano con-svli ac patri.

Reg.lat.1766, Medical Miscellany (13th C)
Incipit: similit[er] & in his q[uae] p[re]

Reg.lat.1768, Nicolaus Cruciger Panegyricus ad Cardinalem Raphaelem Rearium (1501-1525)
Incipit: Nicolai Cruciger Pr Pat ad R[everendissimus] D. Raph. Reariu[m] S[an]cti Geor. Car[dinalem] ep[iscopu]m Portuen[sis]

Ross.645, Tractatus de Geomantia (17th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Tractatus de Geomantia Prafatio. Geomantia est vera mentis huma-na

Vat.gr.1852, Miscellany (14th-16th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribes: Ἰσίδωρος καρδινάλιος (105-106v, 209rv, 212, 224-259, 366-368v), Δημήτριος Δαμιλᾶς (ff.369r-382r), Γεώργιος Βαϊοφόρος (ff.385r-407v)


Incipit: L'Anima del Fiscale Brogi. Gia l'ombrosa del giorno aere nemica

Vat.lat.9609, Spicilegium Romanum, Book II (1839)
Incipit: (f.3r) Editoris praefatio. I. Scriptorum hoc volumine comprehenso-rum agmen ducat venutissimus Angelus Politia-nus

Vat.lat.9620, Novae Patrum Bibliothecae, Book III. Cyril of Alexandria (1845)
Incipit: (f.3r) Editoris Praefatio. I. Alterum hoc procedit anecdotorum S. Cyrilli alexandrini scriptorum volu-men

Vat.lat.9622, Novae Patrum Bibliothecae, Book V, Saint Nicephorus (1849)
Incipit: (f.1v) Testimonianza di un Antico Patriarca di Constantinopoli sul primato della chiesa romana

Vat.lat.10054, Casarius of Arles Homilies
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t Omelie S[anc]ti Casarii ep[iscop]i ad mo[nar]chos ista p[ri]ma. Inter reliq[uas] b[ea]titudines

Vat.lat.11317, Libro dell'Inuentarii delli libri de iluoghi et Fratri della Prouincia di Calabria ciera de minori osseruanti di Francesco (c. 1598-1603)

Part of a large set of library catalogues from religious houses, Vat.lat.11266-11326


Vat.lat.11326 (Upgraded to HQ), Index Librorum fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Cappucinor[um]. N 64 (c. 1598-1603)
Incipit: (f.3r) Libri dal luoge di SS. Capucc[ini] di Bologna

Part of a large set of library catalogues from religious houses, Vat.lat.11266-11326