Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 21 of 2023

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.lat, seven from Pal.gr and Reg.re, six from Barb.lat and five from Barb.gr. The less common collections also contributed, with four from Borg.ar, three from Vat.ar, two from Vat.turc and a lone Psalter from Borg.arm.

To the right is f.2r of Barb.lat.176, a copy of Martial's Epigrams written in 1487 by Oddo de Beka Alamanus. He is also known to be the scribe of two other manuscripts at the BAV, Vat.lat.263 and Vat.lat.617, along with MSS 6294 at the BNE, all made in the 1480s. The main text is preceded by a Vita of Martial by Domitius Calderius and a letter by Pliny on the death of Martial.

Below is two lines of text, the last two in the original hand, from Ott.lat.261. I'm unsure of the contents of the manuscript, but it ends with a bit of a calendar, and the text here reads "illius s[an]c[t]i qui ibide[m] requiescit, abomnibus celebretur amen [amen]." The final "h with a zig zag and a dot" is the Tironian note for amen

Barb.gr.20, Damianus Optica (16th C)

See Biblissima, See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἄγγελος Βεργίκιος (fl. 1535-1569)

Barb.gr.296, John Italus, Pope Eugene IV Doctrina theologica, Definitio Concilii Florentini (c. 1425-1450)

See Biblissima, See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry, scribe : Christophorus Benna (ff.2-3, 4-5, 45-51)

Barb.gr.302 (Upgraded to HQ), Leo the Wise, John Chrysostom, ps-Leontius CP Presbyter Hymns, Works, Homily 19: Jacum Genesareth et in S. Petrum apostolum

See Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.307 (Upgraded to HQ)

See Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.315

See Biblissima, See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.lat.176, Domitius Calderius, Pliny the Younger, Martial Vita Martialis, Episte: de morte Martialis, Epigrams (1487)

Incipit: Vita Martialis in commentarios qvos domitivs calderinvs edidit. Marcvs Valerivs Martialis in Hispania bilbilim patriam habet

See Biblissima, scribe: Oddo de Beka Alamanus

Barb.lat.4134, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Marc'Antonio Ziani, Pietro Romolo Pignatta Composizioni vocali da camera. (17th C)

Incipit: Vorresti farmi piangere

Barb.lat.4137, Giovanni Domenico Freschi, Antonio Sartorio, Petronio Franceschini, Antonio Giannettini, et al. Vocal Chamber Music (17th C)

Incipit: Dolci aurette a moro-sette se qui in torno

Barb.lat.4138, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Marc'Antonio Ziani Arias from Operas (17th C)

Incipit: Il uedermi tradito co-si

Barb.lat.4140, Domenico Gabrielli, ps-Domenico Gabrielli, Carlo Pallavicino Arias from Opera (17th C)

Incipit: Torno a uoi lucidi alberghi come al mar

Barb.lat.4175 (Upgraded to HQ), Giovanni Lotti, Lello Guidiccioni, et al. Ariette musicali (17th C)

Incipit: Mezza tra uiua, e morta

Borg.ar.43, Quran, fragment (17th C)

Borg.ar.65, Abu Hamid Gawahir al-quran (16th C)

Borg.ar.163 (Upgraded to HQ), al-Mugadala ma'a al-Yahud, Masa'il Ibn Qarah, etc (14th C)

one of the texts is dated Rab'i I 21, 792 AH (March 9, 1390)

Borg.ar.168 (Upgraded to HQ), Kamaladdin Abu'l-fadl Ga'far b. Taglib Badr as-safir wa-uns al-musafir (1388)

Dated Rab'i I 7, 790 AH (March 16, 1388), volume 1 of 2

Borg.arm.83, Psalter, Horologion, Calendar, Nersetis (17th C)

Ott.lat.17, Cassiodorus Epistles

Incipit: Incipit prologus Cassiodori Senatoris. Cvm disertor[um] gra[tia]m

Ott.lat.33, Innocent III De Contemtu mundi

Incipit: Incipit liber de miseria et uilitate humane nature editus a d[omi]no innocencio papa tercio, particula p[ri]ma de miseria ho[min]is

Ott.lat.64, Eusebius Historia Ecclesiastica

Incipit: [perit]orum dicunt esse [me]dicorum ubi

Ott.lat.227 (Upgraded to HQ), John Chrysostom Commentario super Evangelium Johannis

Incipit: Incipit p[ro]logus burgundio[n]is indicis in [com]me[n]-tione iohannis crisostomi supra ewa[n]-gelium

Ott.lat.240, Didymus, Jerome (tr), Isidore of Seville De Spiritu Sancto (tr), De Differentiis Catholicae Fidei

Incipit: (f.1r) Incip[it] lib[er] didimide sp[irit]u s[an]c[t]o. Cvm in Babilone uersarer, et purpu-rate meretricis

Ott.lat.260 (Upgraded to HQ), Nicolas de Clamanges De filio Prodigo, etc

Incipit: Incipit liber de filio p[ro]digo p[er] Nicolau[s] de Clame[n]giis ca[n]torem

Ott.lat.261

Ott.lat.272, Compendium Moralium notabilium

Incipit: Nemo quecu[m]q[ue] facile credit q[uo] credito

Ott.lat.280, Odonis de Cambolico De multiformi visione Dei

Incipit: In no[n]i[n]e d[omi]ni amen. In n[ost]ra disputat[i]o[n]e de

Ott.lat.332, Pope Leo Epistles

Incipit: fessus paratum se e[ss]e ad cortigendum, si quid inse fuerit i[n] uentum quod reprehentione sit dignum

Ott.lat.341, John Chrysostom Super Mattheaum, etc

Incipit: Incipit p[ro]log[us] Sicut referu[n]t math[eu]m

Ott.lat.342, William Brito, Nicholas de Gorran In prologus Bibliae, In Matthaeum

Incipit: (f.5r) Prolog[us] Partib[us] expo[n]itis textus noua

flyleaves ff.1r-4v and ff.160-161 are from a copy of Digestum vetus in 2 columns

Ott.lat.343, Isidore of Seville, Fulgentius Planciades Etymologies, Expositio sermonum antiquorum (14th C)

Incipit: Ut ualeas qu[ae] requiris cito in hoc

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.361, Sermons

Incipit: (f.1r) Cu[m] sup[er]ior[um] meor[um]

Ott.lat.365, Sermons on the Gospels

Incipit: In principio erat v[erbu]m et v[erbu]m erat

Ex libris on f.1r for Hospital sancte Brigitte de Urbe, includes some glossing in German

Ott.lat.378, Formula juramenti episcoporum electorum

Incipit: [E]go Electus Eccle-siæ ab hac hora in antea fiedelis

Ott.lat.415, Gabrielis de Saconay Tractatus de heresibus: Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum (1543)

Incipit: (f.1v) Non erit tibi molestum Lector, id quod initis

Ott.lat.481 (Upgraded to HQ), Richard of Poitiers Chronica ab exordio mundi (12th C)

Incipit: Incipit chronica ricardi pictavensis duniacensis monachi de di-uersis libris collecta

Ott.lat.560, Faltonia Betitia Proba Virgilii Centones Veteris et Novi Testamenti

Incipit: P[ro]be uxorii adelphi lib[er] centoru[m] ex u[ir]gilianis incipit ysodoris in libro ethmologiar[um] dicit hec u[er]ba

Ott.lat.604, Jerome, Prosper of Aquitaine, et al Chronicon Eusebii, Chronicon vulgatum, etc (14th-15th C)

See Biblissima,

Pal.gr.57 (Upgraded to HQ), Stephanus Byzantinus Ethnica seu de urbibus et populis (1480-1490)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Ἀλεξάνδρου, Codices Palatini Entry, Stephanus; Byzantinus; Ethnicorum seu Topicorum epitome; ordine litterarum digesta; 16. Jh.

Pal.gr.58, Dionysius of Halicarnassis De Thucydide, De Demosthenis dictione, Ad Ammaeum epistula 1, De antiquis oratoribus, Ad Pompeium Geminum (1450-1500)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribes: (ff.1-32) Πέτρος Ὑψηλᾶς, (ff.89-131) Ζαχαρίας Καλλιέργης , Codices Palatini Entry, Dionysius; Halicarnassensis; Sammelhandschrift; 15. Jh.

Pal.gr.59, Thomas Magister, Gregorius Cyprius, John of Damascus, Synesius of Cyrene, Nicephorus Gregoras, Aeschylus Miscellany (1541)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Ναθαναήλ, Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 1541

Pal.gr.60 (Upgraded to HQ), Claudius Ptolomy, Porphyry Harmonica, In Ptolemaei Harmonica (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, , Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 16. Jh.

Pal.gr.61, Appian Iberica, Annibaica (16th C)

See Biblissima, , Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 16. Jh., Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.62, Theodosius Tripolita, Maximus Planudes, Hero of Alexandria, Barlaam Calaber de Seminaris, et al Mathematical and Geometric Miscellany (16th C)

See Biblissima, , Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 16. Jh., Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.63, Syrianus the Philosopher, Aelianus Claudius, Proclus In Aristotelis metaphysica, De natura anumalium, In Platonis rem publicam commentaria (15th-16th C)

See Biblissima, , Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 15./16. Jh., Pinakes Entry, scribes: Δημήτριος Δαμιλᾶς (ff.1-91), Ζαχαρίας Καλλιέργης (ff.173-178, 182-291)

Reg.gr.51, Theodore Balsamon Commentarium in nomocanonem, Commentarius in canones et in epistulas canonicas (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.67, Nicetas Choniates, et al Panoplia dogmatica (scholia) (1562)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Pierre Moreau

Reg.gr.76, Bible: Epistles of Paul (1451-1500)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribes: (ff.1-39) Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος, (f. 40) Ἀντώνιος Διζομαῖος

Reg.gr.77, Polychronius diaconus Catena in Prouerbia (Latin and Greek) (1598)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: David Wagnerus (in Augsburg)

Reg.gr.78, Daniel Raithenus, John Raithenus, John Climacus, Maximus the Confessor, et al Vita Johannis Climaci, Scala paradisi, Liber ad pastorem, etc (13th-14th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,