A total of fifty-nine manuscripts were uploaded this week, all on Monday. Whatever pattern may have been emerging over the last few weeks, this weeks fond breakdown does not seem to follow. The largest number were in Vat.lat, with twenty-four manuscripts, including many 19th C antiquarian works, followed by Barb.gr with fourteen. The rest were very small collections, with four manuscripts added from Barb.lat, Borg.ar, and Ross, two from Ott.lat and Urb.lat, and one each from Ott.gr, Vat.ar, and Vat.turc. Finally comes two manuscripts from the confusingly numbered P.I.O., one just plain P.I.O. and one shelved as P.I.O.slav, though not granted a separate page in the system. The P.I.O collections, from the Pontificio Istituto Orientale, are very small, numbering only some 40 manuscripts, and are one of the newest sections as the Instituto was founded in the early 20th C by Benedict XV. There is minimal cataloging of the collection online.

To the right is f.1r from P.I.O.slav.53, a manuscript about which I know very little at the moment. It is clearly a manuscript of liturgical music, and based on the music and script I would venture that it is not older than the 18th C, but until I can access some of the rarely held catalogues, I know little else

Below is a line of decoration from f.2r of Urb.lat.397, a 15th C copy of Bartholomaeus de Pisis' Liber conformitatum vitae Beati ac Seraphici Patris Francisci ad vitam Iesu Christi Domini Nostri. As this was made for the library of the Duke of Urbino, f.1v has a roundel inscribed with the overall contents of the book, making f.2r the first page of real text.