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 Vat.lat with four, and one each from Vat.ar and Vat.turc.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat is the end product of the translation and transfer of a story about Siddhartha Gautama (before he becomes the Buddha). The story goes from Sanskrit to Arabic, retitled Kitāb Bilawhar wa-Būd̠āsaf (Book of Bilawhar and Budhasaf), before entering the Christian world in Georgian. There they are "baptized" Barlaam and Ioasaph upon the translation into Greek and the story modified to be about christian monasticism. The text is contained in Ott.lat.269, f.88r of which can be seen to the right, along with a full series of illustrations, nearly one per page in some sections. As an interesting note, the prick holes are still visible in this manuscript, see the far right edge of this image, indicating that is has likely never been trimmed.

At the bottom is a line of music from f.127v of Vat.lat.7598. This is a 15th C Missal following the Roman Use for a Fransiscan. The music is unusual in that it is written on a three-line staff, opposed to the common 4-line or modern 5-line. This line of music is from the chant "Omnipotens sempiterni deus", the first Collect of the Good Friday service.