Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2023

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 that are in the Sistine collection. The page starts with the change Sanctificavit dominus, a chant for the dedication of a new church.

The bottom line is from a Catena, or commentary, on the Psalms written in the 17th C. This particular line was found on f.19r of Reg.gr.39, and I believe is commentary on line 32 of Psalm 25

Capp.Sist.10, Antiphonal: De commune Sanctorum (16th C)

Incipit: Incipit commune s[an]c[t]orum s[ecundu]m ordine[m] romane curie. In fe-stiuitatibus apostolorum. Ad uesperas

Arms of Leo X at the bottom of f.2r

Capp.Sist.171, Josquin de Sala, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Agostino Agazzari Missa Ave Regina Coelorum, Missa Laudate Dominum, Missa (1601-1650)

Incipit: Primi Chori Cu[m] octo voc[e]. Iusquin de sala.

Part of a set with Capp.sist.172, both with the same pieces, this for the first of the two choirs. Originally made for the Collegio Teutonico. See O'Regan, T., & O'Regan, T. N. (1988). Sacred polychoral music in Rome, 1575-1621 [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford. Online

Reg.gr.15, Menologium (13th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.21, Simon the New Thrologian Capita Alia Theologica et Gnostica (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.39, Catena on Psalms (17th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.ar.1395, 'Abdalhalim b. Muhammad Ahizadeh Rasa'il (18th C)