Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2023

Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized this week. Due to the small sample set, determining any patterns is unreliable, but Barb.lat and Vat.ar were the top contributors with four each, Ott.lat added three, Barb.gr and Vat.lat added two and one each from Ross and Vat.turc

The image to the right is some 19th C illumination, which is always a bit of a hash, from the title page of Caesaris Balbo's oration for the Sacerdotal Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII, given on February 28, 1849. It was, according to the title page, presented in the Parlemento Subalpino, part of the legislature of the Kingdom of Sardinia which met in Turin. The manuscript is now shelved as Vat.lat.10461, and this page is f.2r

At the bottom is a line of a later addition to Ott.lat.314, found on f.95r. This text is the Mass for Visitation, starting with the introit change Gaudemus omnes. The line of text is the later prayer in the Mass, Omnipotens sempiterne Deus.

Barb.gr.309, John Climacus Scala Paradiso

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.312, Psalter

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.lat.279, Benedetto di Reguardati Conservandi Sanitate (15th C)

Incipit: Ad Reueren[du,] in chr[ist]o p[at]rem & d[omi]n[u]m d[omi]n[u]m Astorgi[um] Agnese[u]m b[e]nue[n]tanu[m] Archiep[iscopu]m Ma[r]chie Anco[n]itane

Barb.lat.328, William of Moerbeke, Ptolemy, ps-Ptolemy, ps-Hippocrates, Plato of Tivoli (tr) Astronomia Ypocratis, Quadripartitum (tr), De iudiciis partium, Centiloquium (tr), De cometis, Liber proiectionis radiorum stellarum, etc (c. 1459-1462)

Incipit: Incipit liber ypocatis p[ro]nostiationis vite mo[r]tis

See PAL for sigla A.2.1, B.6, B.1.2, and B.4,

Barb.lat.1820 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellanea di componimenti poetici. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Carmen. Romulides musæ Romanum Heroa

Barb.lat.4161, Giovanni Maria Bononcini Arie della Commedia "il Ratto delle Sabine" recitata in Tordinona nel 1692 (c. 1692)

Incipit: [N]on posso dispe-rar

Ott.lat.149, Peter Lombard Super Psalmos

Incipit: Cum om[ne]s p[ro]ph[e]tas sp[iritu]s s[an]c[t]i reuelac[i]o[n]e [con]stet esse locutos

See Iter liturgicum italicum Flyleaves ff.2r-v,353r-v are a fragment of a 14th C Missale

Ott.lat.314, Missale (15th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Incipit missale uotiuum ad honore[m] dei & beate u[ir]ginis marie genit[ri]cis ei[us]dem,

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Ott.lat.453, Gregory the Great Homiliarum in Evangelia Books 1-2, Homiliarum in Ezechielem books 1-2 (13th C)

Incipit: Reu[er]entissimo & s[an]c[t]issimo fr[atr]i secundino

Ross.1081, Repertorium Juris, alphabetical (15th C)

Incipit: [A]prepositio an sumatur exclusiue

Part of a 2 volume set, Ross.1081-2

Vat.ar.262, as-Sunusi, Abu Bakr Yahya al Qurtubi, et al al'Aqida as-sugra, etc (1653)

dated 1653 AD

Vat.ar.389, Quran, etc (17th C)

Vat.ar.420, Album of Calligraphy (15th C)

Vat.ar.1431, Sufic Miscellany (1828-1829)

dated 1244 AH (stated July 14, 1828), all in one hand

Vat.lat.10461, Caesaris Balbo Oratio habita die 28 Februarii 1849 in Subalpinorum delegatorum aula pro dominio temporali Summorum Pontificum (1849)

Incipit: Li figlio ed i nipoli di Cesare Balbo offronto al grande Pontefice

Vat.lat.10548, Henry Stevenson, Jr. Schedae ad topographiam Urbis pertinentes (19th C)

Incipit: Fonti della Topografia romane

Vat.turc.343, Mehmed ibn as-sayyid ash-shaih Hamid Mir'at us-salikin (1803)