This is the last weekly report from 2023. I'll do the traditional year-end review, with a brief summary of the twenty-four manuscripts digitized at the bottom. As a note, this concludes the fifth year I have been involved in tracking the BAV digitizations. The initial work happened at the very beginning of 2018, and I took over completely in the summ...

A second week in a row concludes with sixty manuscripts digitized. This week did not follow recent patterns, but reprised the October/November model, with Pal.gr contributing the most manuscripts, twenty-six. This brings the Pal.gr fond to 387 manuscripts uploaded, out of the total size of 400. Hopefully one more week of work, in January, will complete ...

A full sixty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, perhaps the last working week of 2023. In what has started to become a new pattern, Barb.lat was the most populous fond, with twenty-three manuscripts, though unusually Vat.lat follows it with thirteen. The smaller contributions came from Ott.lat with six, Barb.gr with five, and Vat.turc with three. ...

A total of fifty-four manuscripts were digitized this week, the first full week of December for 2023. Like last week, there was influx of 17th C manuscripts from the Barb.lat collection, totaling nineteen volumes. Following on that was the continued work on Pal.gr, with the fifteen volumes added this week bringing the total to 356 of the 398 codices in th...

Another busy week at the Vatican with eighty-six manuscripts digitized. In an unusual twist, Barb.lat was the largest contributor, with 32 manuscripts, followed by the expected Pal.gr with 23. Following in the recent trend, Reg.gr added eleven and Ott.lat nine, Smaller contributions from Vat.lat with three and Vat.gr with two. Completing the week were l...

A total of ninety-eight manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repositories. The distribution of works is back to the most recent pattern, with a massive forty-two coming from Pal.gr. This brings the collection to 357 volumes uploaded into the Vatican repositories of the 400 that are available at Heidelberg, almost 90% coverage. Hopefull...

This week sixty-three manuscripts were incorporated into the Vatican repositories. This week there were a lot of smaller contributions, which means the pattern of recent weeks got slightly twisted. Although Ott.lat added the most manuscripts, with fifteen, both Pal.gr and Reg.gr added nine to keep up Greek progress. Following on Vat.ar added six, Barb.l...

This week a total of seventy-six digitized manuscripts were uploaded into the Vatican repositories. The emerging pattern of recent weeks continues, with the plurality of manuscripts, twenty-four, coming from Pal.lat. Unusually the second most popular collection was Ott.lat, with fifteen, followed by Reg.gr with twelve. A large number of smaller collecti...

A total of fifty-nine manuscripts were added this past week. Following recent patterns the vast majority of the manuscripts, thirty-six, came from the Pal.gr collection. The other collections added small numbers, six from Ott.lat, four from Vat.lat, three each from Barb.lat, Barb.gr, and Reg.gr.Pio.II, and two from Reg.gr. The week concludes with a si...

A banner week ends with one-hundred and seventeen manuscripts digitized. Following recent patterns, the bulk are in Greek, forty-four in Pal.gr and seventeen in Reg.gr.Pio.II, followed by the Latins contributing fourteen in Ott.lat, ten in Vat.lat, and six in Barb.lat. Additional Greek volumes came from Reg.gr with nine, P.I.O. with eight, some Greek an...

Only forty manuscripts were added to the repositories this week, and all of them on Monday. Following the recent pattern, Pal.gr was the most popular, contributing 26 volumes. Everything else came in small sets, Reg.gr added three, and Vat.lat., Vat.copt, P.I.O and Reg.gr.Pio.II each added two. Rounding out the week, one manuscript each came from Vat.gr, ...

The library was busy today, with a total of one hundred and three manuscripts added. The last time over a hundred were done in a week was mid-July. Following the pattern of last week, the fifty-five of these were not new digitizations, but uploads to the Vatican's Pal.gr repository Heidelbergs that had already been available at Reg.gr. The second Regggr...

A total of fifty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. The pattern emerging in recent weeks was completely smashed this week. The top two contributors were Pal.gr and Reg.gr, each with thirteen, and Vat.ebr with eleven. Following on was P.I.O. with five, Vat.lat and Ott.lat with four, and Barb.gr, Barb.lat and Reg.gr.Pio.II, each adding three. As an...

The scanners were back to full speed this week with seventy-four manuscripts added to the repository. What seems to be the current pattern continues, with Ott.lat contributing thirty-four, the most of any fond. Following that was Barb.gr with thirteen, Vat.lat and P.I.O. with ten, all but two from the slav subsection. The rest came in small amounts, th...

Another somewhat slow week from the Vatican with only thirty-three manuscripts digitized. There was an extremely distinct pattern this week, twenty-three of those manuscripts were from Ott.lat, six from Vat.lat and the remaining four from P.I.O, three from the slav subfond. The recent work on the P.I.O collection means that fond, which only had two manu...

Only twenty-three manuscripts were digitized this past week, all on Tuesday. Perhaps due to the low number, the distribution does not follow any recent pattern. The largest number, eight, came from Barb.lat, Vat.lat. following with five and Barb.gr with four. More work on the small P.I.O collection continues with three volumes, including one from the sl...

During the past week forty-three manuscripts were digitized into the Vatican repository. Following the pattern of recent weeks, the largest contributor was Ott.lat with twenty-two. The Barberini family followed, with seven from Barb.lat and five from Barb.gr. P.I.O added four, three from the slav subsection and one from the main collection, Vat.gr added...

A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized this week, marking the end of August of 2023. In what is becoming a pattern, Ott.lat contributed the most, with nineteen, followed by Barb.gr with five and Barb.lat with four, joined this week by Vat.lat. P.I.O also contributed four, with three from the slav subsection. Two each came from Vat.gr and Vat.ar...

Vacation season is over and the Vatican is back to work, adding forty-seven manuscripts this week. In what seems to be becoming a new pattern, Ott.lat contributed the most with seventeen, followed by Barb.lat with nine and Barb.gr with eight. No other fond added many, both Vat.lat and Vat.gr added three, two from P.I.O (both in the slav subfond) and one ...

August vacation continues at the Vatican, meaning that no manuscripts were digitized. During the recess, I have made some improvements to the code, the most noticable of which is the addition of OpenGraph metadata. This includes a title, basic page summary for all pages, and an image, where one exists, for the Fond and Weekly pages. To the right is a sm...

Due to the August summer vacation season, no manuscripts were digitized this week

Another thirty-six manuscripts were digitized this week, still without an obvious pattern to the work. The largest contributor was Barb.gr, with fourteen, followed by Ott.lat with eleven and Barb.lat with seven. After that Vat.lat contributed only two, and one each from Borg.ar and P.I.O. (from the slav subset). To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat.877,...

A total of forty-five manuscripts were digitized this week, the thirtieth week of 2023. In continuation of the last few weeks, there was no obvious pattern to the fonds represented. The largest number came from Ott.lat, which added fourteen. Next came the Barberini siblings, Barb.lat with eight and Barb.gr with seven, followed by the unusually small add...

As we approach the August holiday, the Vatican digitization continues along at pace, with forty-nine manuscripts added this past week. In a break with recent weeks, none were from the Vat.lat collection, Ott.lat contributed twenty-two, the largest number of any single fond. Following that Barb.gr and Capp.Giulia each added six, P.I.O. four, and Vat.ar ...

This week brought one hundred and twelve manuscripts, the most added in a single week since the first half of 2022, when the Reg.lat work was in full swing. The distribution by fond was somewhat abnormal this week, with the largest fond, Barb.gr only contributing twenty five, which is less than 1/4 of the overall total. Close to that in size were Ott.la...

A total of thirteen manuscripts were digitized this week, which marks the middle of the year. The distribution is somewhat odd, due to the low numbers, with Vat.ar giving five and Ott.lat four as the top two contributors. Following was Barb.gr with two, and one each from Barb.lat and Vat.lat. To the right is f.7r of Ott.lat.331, a 14th C manuscript of...

Only five manuscripts were added this week to the Vatican archives, two more of the late 17th C song books from Barb.lat, and one each from Vat.ar, Vat.copt and Vat.ind. To the right is f.11v from Vat.copt.18, a bilingual liturgical manuscript dated to anno martyrum 1247 which converts to 1531 CE. It contains the Office for the evening and morning cen...

A total of fifty-nine manuscripts were uploaded this week, all on Monday. Whatever pattern may have been emerging over the last few weeks, this weeks fond breakdown does not seem to follow. The largest number were in Vat.lat, with twenty-four manuscripts, including many 19th C antiquarian works, followed by Barb.gr with fourteen. The rest were very small...

Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized this week. Due to the small sample set, determining any patterns is unreliable, but Barb.lat and Vat.ar were the top contributors with four each, Ott.lat added three, Barb.gr and Vat.lat added two and one each from Ross and Vat.turc The image to the right is some 19th C illumination, which is always a bit of a h...

Only forty-two manuscripts were digitized this week, the first full week of June for 2023. Continuing the pattern-ish of the last weeks, Vat.lat, with twelve, and Ott.lat, with eleven are the two most popular fonds. Following up is Var.ar with eight, and then a large number of smaller sets. Two each were contributed by Barb.lat and Reg.gr, and one from...

A total of fifty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, all uploaded on Monday. Somewhat similar in distribution to the last few weeks, though with a higher percentage of manuscripts from a specific fond, in this case eighteen from Ott.lat. The rest are widely spread, with eight from Vat.lat, five from Var.ar and Reg.gr, four from Borg.ar, three ea...

Despite the Vatican Library being offline for two days due to a fire under Rome's streets, a total of sixty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. It was a bit of a weird week in terms of patterns, although Ott.lat has been a consistent contributor recently, and led this week with twenty. The rest was an assortment of smaller groups, eight from Vat...

Due to the Feast of the Ascension falling this week, the Vatican digitizers were rather quiet, uploading nineteen manuscripts in total. The most, eight, were contributed by Reg.gr, with Ott.lat adding five and Vat.lat four. One manuscript each was added from Barb.lat and Capp.Giulia, completing the weeks work. The Barberini volume, Barb.lat.4135 is one o...

A total of fifty-three manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican. It seems that the work is settling into a new pattern of diversity, with no fond contributing a majority of the manuscripts. This week Reg.gr contributed the most, with thirteen, but Both Ott.lat and Vat.lat added nine, and Barb.lat added eight. Smaller contributions came from P...

This week the Vatican was back up to speed, with a total of seventy manuscripts digitized. Latin-script manuscripts predominate this week, with nineteen coming from Vat.lat, seventeen from Ott.lat and 16 from Barb.lat. Other languages follow, with six from Vat.ar, five from Reg.gr, and four from Pal.gr. The week closes out with two from Ross and a rare...

Another quiet week at the Vatican, only twenty-seven manuscripts were added. Greek manuscripts were the main focus, Reg.gr contributing fourteen to be the largest single fond, and Pal.gr adding six for the number two spot. The rest came from Reg.lat with four, and one each from Barb.lat, Capp.sist and Vat.ar. To the right is f.1r from Capp.sist.28, ano...

Only six manuscripts were digitized this week, three from Reg.gr, two from Capp.sist and one from Vat.ar. Despite this extremely small sample, it is interesting to see no manuscripts from the usual "large" fonds, nothing from Vat.lat or Barb.lat, Reg.lat or Ross. To the right is f.56r from Cap.sist.10, one of the many Antiphonaria made for pope Leo X th...

After a few days off at the beginning of the week for Easter, thirty-two manuscripts were uploaded to the archives. The small total number makes it difficult to establish if the distribution signals a new working pattern, but the plurality of manuscripts this week, ten, came from Barb.lat. With seven from Reg.gr, five from Vat.ar, four from Pal.gr, and ...

Despite it being Holy Week, the Library managed to upload sixty-five new manuscripts this week, all on Monday. Work continues agressively on the Reginensis collections with seven from Reg.gr and sixteen from Reg.lat, pushing the collection to a total of 2,046 digitized, or 95.5% of the 2,113 manuscripts remaining in the Fond. Reg.lat tied with Var.ar for...

This week had another forty-four manuscripts uploaded into the Vatican repositories. Following the pattern of last week, as much as there was a pattern, the top contributors are Ott.lar and Reg.lat, with eleven each. Below that is a wide spread of collections, six from Vat.ar, five from Barb.lat, four from Pal.gr, three from Reg.gr and two from Borg.ar. ...

For this week, forty-six manuscripts were added to the online repository, all on Monday. In a flashback to the pattern of a year ago, the largest section of the weeks manuscripts came from Reg.lat, with twenty-two. After that Ott.lat and Vat.lat each contributed eight, Barb.lat six, and Vat.ar three. The rest was split among Vat.turc and Ross with two ea...

A total of forty-five manuscripts were added this week, mostly uploaded on Friday. This week saw an interesting distribution across the Vatican fonds, although the extent remains inline with recent weeks, the top contributor was Ott.lat, with 21 manuscripts, followed by Barb.lat with eight. The rest were small contributors, Reg.lat with six, Pal.gr and V...

A total of fifty-one manuscripts were digitized this week. One pattern that has re-emerged is the weekly cycle, with the mass of manuscripts getting uploaded on Monday, with only a few getting added during the rest of the week. The distribution of manuscripts, however, did not follow any recent pattern. The largest number of manuscripts came from Reg.lat ...

The first full week of Lent yielded fifty-seven manuscripts added to the Vatican website. In what is starting to settle into a new pattern, Vat.lat and Barb.lat contributed the most, with 21 and 18 respectively. Both Ott.lat and Reg.lat contributed five and the rest came from Capp.sist with three, Vat.ar and Vat.turc with two and a single volume from Ros...

A total of fifty manuscripts were digitized this week, probably slowed down by Ash Wednesday. We seem to be approaching a new pattern, with Vat.lat and Barb.lat contributing the bulk of the manuscripts, twenty-one and eighteen respectively. Vat.turc continues to contribute at a slower pace, with only seven this week, and the rest came from small lots: Ot...

A total of seventy-nine manuscripts were digitized this past week. This week continues reducing the number of Turkish and Arabic manuscripts digitized, with only one each in Vat.ar and Vat.turc. The most popular fond this week was Vat.lat, with twenty-nine, followed with Barb.lat at twenty. A new addition is Pal.gr, contributing 10 manuscripts for the f...

For the week ending February 10th, a total of forty-six manuscripts were digitized. Although nine more were added from Vat.turc, the distribution is trending back towards Latin collections, with Barb.lat contributing fifteen manuscripts and Vat.lat. fourteen. All of the rest of the weeks contributions were small fonds, with two from Capp.sist and Vat.ar, ...

A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized this week. Although still contributing, the Vat.turc was not the primary fond this week, with only seven manuscripts. The largest collection this week was Vat.lat, with nineteen, and trailing close behind Vat.turc was Barb.lat with six. The small contributors were Ott.lat with three, Borg.ar and Vat.ar wi...

A total of 78 manuscripts were digitized into the archives this week. This was the fourth week of the year, which marks the fifth anniversary of my work on this project. During the fourth week of 2018 I did the initial bulk load in of existing manuscripts as a baseline for future additions. At that point there were 15,118 objects in the repository and ...

A total of thirty-six manuscripts were digitized this week, the third week of the year. A new pattern is developing, with Vat.turc continuing to be the most populous fond with fourteen manuscripts. Vat.lat follows with twelve, Barb.lat with eight, and Ott.lat with five. The week is wrapped up with two from Capp.Sist and a single Ross volume, a 1468 cop...

Only eighteen manuscripts were added to the online Vatican repositories this week. For the first time since I have been tracking, the majority are not in a Latin script. Eleven manuscripts were added from Vat.turc two from Vat.ar. The only latin contributions came from Barb.lat, with two, and Ott.lat with three. Helpfully, for those of us who cannot re...

For the first week of 2023, a total of sixty-one manuscripts were digitized. It is unclear if there is a new pattern to the digitization work congealing, but this week the largest fonds were Ott.lat, with nineteen volumes, and Barb.lat with sixteen. Both Vat.lat and Vat.ar brought in eight, Vat.turc brought in 4, and rounding up the week were Capp.Sist a...