Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 13 of 2023

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. Rounding out the week were singular manuscripts from Vat.turc and Ross.

To the right is f.114r from Ott.lat.308, a 14th C Processionale from England. The identification of "Use of Sarum" is slightly misleading here, although Sarum refers to the old town of Salisbury, that liturgical use was the most common on in use across England. The script is distinctively English with the loop-top 'l' and the closed-top 'a'. The large rubric in the middle explains that the service for the Vigil of St. Andrew, celebrated on November 29th. The long explanation is required because sometimes that occurs during Advent, which requires changing the observance.

The bottom border is from Reg.lat.1477, a collection of works on the natural landscape by Giovanni Boccaccio and Vibius Sequester. This line comes from f.1r, the start of De montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus by Boccaccio.

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Barb.lat.752, Francis of Mayrone Quaestiones Theologica (15th C)
Incipit: [...] Queritur p[ri]mo vtrum p[ri]mum

Barb.lat.754, Leonardi de Rubeis de Ghifono Sermons in similitudines (14th C)
Incipit: [S]imilitudo vultus eor[um] facies ho[min]is

Barb.lat.783, Alousii Lippomani Catena in Psalms 27-30 (16th C)
Incipit: Interpretatio in Psalmum vigesimu[m] septimum. Titulus Dauidi, vel, psalmus ipsi Dauidi. Eusebius, Non obliti

Barb.lat.792, Thomas Aquinas Secunda Sedundae (14th C)
Incipit: Post comune[m] [con]sideratoem de u[ir]tutib[us]

Barb.lat.4176 (Upgraded to HQ), Alessandro Scarlatti, et al. Ariette musicali (17th C)
Incipit: Aira, Getti i sospiri al vento

Borg.ar.41, Acts of the Apostles, Epistula ad Laodicenses (16th-17th C)

Borg.ar.64, Quran (17th C)

Ott.lat.228, Peter the Chanter Commentary on the Psalms

Ott.lat.253, John of Damascus Works
Incipit: [D]eus om[n]is custodiat

Ott.lat.302, St. Augustine City of God, Book XXII
Incipit: Sentencia de libro retractacio-num beati augustini. In terrarum roma gothor[um]

Ott.lat.303, Richard of Middleton In I, II Sententiarum (13th-14th C)
Incipit: Abscondita p[ro]duxit in luce[m]. H[aec] uper[ba sc[ri]pta

Ott.lat.305, Raymund de Peñafort Summa de poenitentia, Summa de Matrimonio (13th C)
Incipit: Qvoniam ut ait Jeronim[us] s[e]c[un]da

Ott.lat.306 (Upgraded to HQ), St. Cyprian Epistles and Works (15th C)
Incipit: Cecilii cipriani Ep[iscop]i carta-ginensis ep[isto]la LI. In[cipit]. Bene ammones donate k[arissi]mie

Ott.lat.308, Sarum Processionale (14th C)
Incipit: Post dicat[ur] p[salmus] Deus misereat[ur] n[ost]ri

See DIAMM, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 530[main chant in square neumes], with 15th C added polyphony on f.155


Ott.lat.309, Calendar, Computus, De Sphera
Incipit: (f.8r) Capitulum p[ri]mu[m] de c[aus]a bi-sexti

Ott.lat.312, Isidore of Seville De Divinis Officiis, etc
Incipit: (f.2r) De ordine misssae vel orationibvs qvae in ea continentvr in libro officiorv[m] isidori capitvlo xv. Ordo avtem misse vel orationvm

Ott.lat.316, St. Augustine Works (15th C)
Incipit: In libro de ciuitate dei

Ott.lat.327, Stephani de Garci Sacramentale Neapolitianum
Incipit: (f.7r) Collecturus p[ro] exercitio mei in

Pal.gr.22, Aphthonius, Hermogenes rhetor Progymnasmata, De statibus, De inventione, De ideis, De methodo eloquentiae (14th-16th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry, , Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 14./15. Jh.


Pal.gr.24 (Upgraded to HQ), Gregory of Nazianzus Theologica > Iohannes Chrysostomus (1144 )

Pal.gr.25, Gregory of Nazianzus Sermons and writings (10th, 13th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry, , Codices Palatini Entry, Gregorius; Nazianzenus; Himiliae et epistolae; 10. Jh.


Pal.gr.138 (Upgraded to HQ), Liturgy (1299)

Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 14. Jh., See Pinakes Entry,


Reg.gr.4 (Upgraded to HQ), John Chrysostom Theologica > Iohannes Chrysostomus (901 - 1000 )

Reg.gr.7, Catena on Octateuch and Song of Songs (15th C)

Reg.gr.13 (Upgraded to HQ), Liturgical Psalter (10th C)

Reg.lat.1477, Giovanni Boccaccio, Vibius Sequester De montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, de nominibus maris, De fluminibus fontibus lacubus nemoribus paludibus montibus gentibus per litteras (15th C)
Incipit: Joh[ann]is Boccaccii de certaldo. Ci-uis honorabilis florentini & po-ete precipui. De montibus Sil-uis fontibus Lacubus flumi-nibus Stagnis seu paludibus

Reg.lat.1478, Solinus, ps-Solinus, Pierre d'Ailly De mirabilibus mundi, Pontica, De concordantia theologiae et astronomiae (15th C)
Incipit: Libri huius prolog[us] Incipit. Cum et aur[i]um clemencia et optimarum ar-cum studiis prestare

See Biblissima, scribe: Jean Noblet


Reg.lat.1730, Florus Epitome of Livy (15th C)
Incipit: Popvlvs Roma-nis a rege Romulo in caesarem Augustum se-ptingentos per annos

See Biblissima,


Reg.lat.1857, De Episcoporum prastantia auctoritate officio et potestate
Incipit: Tractatvs de presta[n]tia episcoporvm et eivs avc-toritate officio et potestate. Episcopus secundum Augustinum

Reg.lat.2088, Instrumenta Venditionis domus, vinea, facta cuidam Jacobo de Benedictis
Incipit: In dei no[m]i[n]e amen. Hieronymus Ep[iscopu]s Albanen[sis].

Reg.lat.2089, Origen Sermons on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Judges
Incipit: Incipivnt omelis origenis in li-bro genesi Nvmero XVI.

Reg.lat.2090 (Upgraded to HQ), Virgil, et al Bucolica, Georgics, etc (11th-12th C)
Incipit: [T]itire tu patule recubans sub regmine fagi

See Biblissima, includes some 14th and 15th C repairs and glosses


Reg.lat.2092, Roman Breviary
Incipit: (f.7r) Incip[it] ordo breuarii s[ecundum] co[n]suetudi[n]e[m] romane ecc[les]ie

Incipit: (f.2r) Compendiu[m] []omis de obligatione papali missum ad equite[m]

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit prologus de gestis pontificum et comitum

Reg.lat.2115, Basilica Sancti Vincentii Laudunensis, Lapidaire de Marbode, etc (1301-1325, 1175-1225)
Incipit: (f.3r) Incipiunt capitula libri sequentis. De confirmat[i]one omniu[m] possessionu[m]

See JONAS, contains the Lapidaire in Latin and then a French translation. ff.1r-2r is a table of contents


Ross.1079, Gilles Bellemère Lectura super Clementinis, Books 4-5 (1375-1400)
Incipit: Incipit Tercia lectura domini Egidii de bellamera sup[er] clemen. Rubrica de constingumitate et affinitate et super quarto libro

Vat.ar.1405, al-Hamdani, et al al-Iklil, Ma'rifat al-galib wa'l-maglub (1884)

dated Sha'ban 23, 1301 AH (June 18, 1884)


Vat.ar.1406, Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Husayn ibn Furak al-Isbahani Ial-Imla fi'l-idah wa'l-kasf 'an wuguh al-ahadit... (15th C)

Ownership note of 891 AH on f.150r (1486)


Vat.ar.1415, Mahmid b. Halil Commentary on the Bad'iyya of Zaynaddin 'Abdarrahman b. Ahman b. 'Ali al-Humaydi (19th C)

Vat.ar.1416, Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. 'Abdallah b. Malik Ibn 'abbad an-Nafzi ar-Rondi Gayt al-mawahib al''ilmiyya fi sharh al-Hikam al'Ata'iyya (1584)

dated Dhu'l Qa-dah 992 AH (November-December 1584)


Vat.ar.1418, Zaynaddin 'Abdarra'uf b/ Tagal'arifin al-Munawi al-Haddadi an-Nuzha azzahiyya fi ahkam al-hammam at-tibbiyya wa'sh-shar'iyya (17th-18th C)

Vat.ar.1423, 'Abdalbaqi al-Hanbali Riyad ahl al-ganna fi atar ahl as-sunna (1684)

Dated Shaban 5, 1095 AH (July 18, 1684)


Vat.turc.232, Nehgi Divan (1676)

dated Rabi' 1087 AH (June-July 1676)