Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 15 of 2023

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 a lone Vat.copt adding up to seventeen, a majority of this weeks manuscripts came from non-Latin scripts, a rare occurrence. The week rounded out with three from Vat.lat and one each from Chig and Ott.lat.

To the right is f.26v from Vat.cop.5, a 13th C Coptic psalter in the Boharic dialect.

At the bottom is a line of text from f.137r of Vat.ar.110.pt.2, a copy of 'Amr ibn Mattā's Book of the Tower... possibly. The authorship, and even textual nature of several interrelated books by this title, is the subject of much scholarly debate, and since the catalogue for this collection predates nearly all of that debate, the identity here is possibly subject to emendation. It seems that Georg Graff identifies this as the author's autograph copy, see The Blood and Body of Mithras Myth.

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Barb.lat.796, Angelo Massarello Summarium Sacri Concilii Tridentini et Bononien (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Reuocatio suspensionis Concilii. Die ultima mensis Nouembris anno Domini 1544

Barb.lat.801, Sacti Concilii Florentini Transumptum authenticum (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sacti Concilii Florentini. Transumptum authenticum, in quo continentur Unio Græcoru[m], Armenor[um] & Iacobinorum cum S[ancta]

Barb.lat.802, (17th C)
Incipit: Nomina Patrum et Theologorum qui Tridentino interfuerunt et aliquid hactenus typis mandarunt. Adamantius floreninus Augustinianus

Barb.lat.803, Hieronymi Seripandi Farrago eorum quae in Concilio Tridenti et Bononiae tractata sunt sub Paulo III Pont. Max (16th C)
Incipit: Nomina Patrum et Theologorum qui Tride[n]tino interfuerunt et hactenus aliquid typis mandarunt

Barb.lat.804, Julio Moro Compendium eorum quae in Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini (16th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) De patria magnalia. maximaq[ue] longo dicendi genere

Barb.lat.807, Declarationes Sacri Concilii Tridentini (17th C)
Incipit: Decretum Sacræ Cong[s] Ill[mor] Sac. R. R. D. D. S. R. E. Cardinalium Sacti

Barb.lat.816.pt.1, Instrutione a Monsignore Visconte per il Concilio di Trento (17th C)
Incipit: Instrvtione a Monsignore Visconte per il Concilio di Trento Pivs Papa Qvartvs. Andando Voi per ordine nostro

Barb.lat.817.pt.1, Conciliorum et Synodorum variorum differentiae, Dubia, et Resolutiones (17th C)
Incipit: Constantiensis Decreti Defensiones. Decretum Concilii Constantien[sis] sess[ione] IIII[o], promulgatum

Barb.lat.817.pt.2, Conciliorum et Synodorum variorum differentiae, Dubia, et Resolutiones (17th C)
Incipit: Vorum Segobiensis de doctrina, et canonib[us] Sacramenti ord[] dictum di VI nouembrei Locii Annotatum per P. Laynez

Starts f.279


Barb.lat.4142, Ariette musicali (17th C)
Incipit: Gia che perso Ho La spe-ranza

Chig.C.IV.112, Book of Hours, Use of Angers (1425-1475)
Incipit: Amauit eum d[omi]n[u]s & ornauit eum

See JONAS, calendar on ff.2r-13v, see CoKL DB


Ott.lat.283, Breviary (14th C)
Incipit: D[omi]nica p[ri]ma de aduen-tu s[ecundu]m luca[m]. In ill[o] t[empore] Eru[n]t signa i[n] sole & lu-na & stellis

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Tuscany.


Pal.gr.29, Aristides Aelius Histories (14th C)

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


Pal.gr.30, John Chrysostom Sermons on Matthew, 1-90 (13th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry, , Codices Palatini Entry, Johannes; Chrysostomus; In S. Matthaeum Homiliae XLVI-XC10. Jh.


Pal.gr.32 (Upgraded to HQ), John Chrysostom Sermons on John, 1-88 (11th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, Johannes; Chrysostomus; In s. Ioannis evangelium Homiliae I-XLVIII10. Jh., See Pinakes Entry,


Pal.gr.34, Porphyry, Aristotle Isagogue, Categories, De interpretatione, Analytica priora (14th C)

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


Reg.gr.2, John Chrysostom Sermons on John, 1-88 (12th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰγνάτιος μοναχὸς


Reg.gr.10 (Upgraded to HQ), Biblica > Vetus Testamentum (11th C)

Reg.gr.12 (Upgraded to HQ), Lectionary (11th C)

Reg.gr.14, John Chrysostom Sermons on Matthew, 1-90 (12th C)

Reg.gr.18 (Upgraded to HQ), Basil of Caesarea, Apollinaris Laodicenus, et cl Works, Sermons, Contra Sabellianos et Arium, etc (1073 )

Reg.gr.24, Gregory of Nazianzus Sermons (11th C)

Reg.gr.26, Basil of Caesarea Sermons (12th C)

Vat.ar.110.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), ʿAmr ibn Mattā Book of the Tower (14th C)

Possibly autograph copy? Exact nature of the text is uncear


Vat.ar.110.pt.2 (Upgraded to HQ), ʿAmr ibn Mattā Book of the Tower (14th C)

starts f.130, Exact nature of the text is uncear


Vat.ar.231, Quran (16th C)

Vat.ar.1396, Abu Zakariyya Yahya b. Saraf an-Nawawi Riyad as-salihin (14th C)

Vat.ar.1430, Ali b. Mahmud b. Muhammad ar-Ra'iid al-Badahshani Ahlas al-halisa (1700)

dated to 1112 AH (Started June 6, 1700)


Vat.copt.5, Psalter (13th C)

Vat.lat.7534, Giovanni Bianchini Institutiones Canonicae in libros quatuor divisae (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Canonicarum Institutionum Libri quatuor. Dissertatio proæmialis De origine et progressusuri Canonici

Vat.lat.9658, Sedulius, Prudentius, et al Opus paschale, Psychomachia (glossed), Vulgaria corrupta, Hymni divini officii de festis, etc (11th C, 14th C, 1401-1425, 13th )
Incipit: Incipit liber sedulii B[]ri Pascales quicu[m]q[ue] dapes conuiua requiris

See Biblissima, fragments of 4 different manuscripts


Vat.lat.10256, Francisci Cancellieri Descrizione delle basilica Vaticana con una biblioteca degli autori che ne hanno trattato (1788)
Incipit: (p.3) Indice de' paragrafi

Printed book with notations in the author's hand