Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2023

A total of thirteen manuscripts were digitized this week, which marks the middle of the year. The distribution is somewhat odd, due to the low numbers, with Vat.ar giving five and Ott.lat four as the top two contributors. Following was Barb.gr with two, and one each from Barb.lat and Vat.lat.

To the right is f.7r of Ott.lat.331, a 14th C manuscript of Jacob Voragine's Golden Legend, an immensely popular collection of legends and stories about the saints. This particular manuscript is interesting due to contemporary corrections in the margins, visible here on both outer edges of the leaf. This page contains the life of St. Andrew

At the bottom is a line of Arabic text from f.7v of Vat.ar.1448, a 1643 manuscript of the writings of Abd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī, not the writings of the similarly named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, eponymous founder of the Wahhabist movement.

Barb.gr.371 (Upgraded to HQ), John Chrysostom Liturgy (1542)

See Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.419, Basil of Caesaria, Maximus the Confessor, Theodore of Edessa, et al Sermons, Vita Aestetica, etc (14th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry

Barb.lat.391, Vulgate Bible: Psalms 76-100 (17th C)

Incipit: Psalmvs LXXVI Argvmentv[m]. De mutatione iræ Dei in misericordiam

following the edition of Sixtus V

Ott.lat.331, Jacob Voragine Golden Legend (14th C)

Incipit: [repre-]sentat ecc[lesi]a a septuagesima us[que] ad pascha

Ott.lat.367, Bible: New Testament (c. 1400)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit p[ro]logus. Matheus ex iudea

Ott.lat.380, Tractatus de Concilio (15th C)

Incipit: (f.4r) ultimo, Saluator siquidem n[oste]r rex

Ott.lat.382 (Upgraded to HQ), Francisci Victoriensis Annotationes In Secundum Secunda Sancti Thome (1534)

Incipit: Incipiunt annotatio[n]es r[everen]di m[a]g[ist]ri fr[atr]is fran[cisci] victoriensis in 2[m] 2[e] B. tho. A[nno] 1534.

Vat.ar.1440, Zayn ibn Nugaym al-Ashbah wa'n-naza'ir al-fiqhiyya 'ala madhab al-hanafiyya (1723)

Dated Gumada II 1135 AH (started March 11, 1723)

Vat.ar.1448, 'Abdalwahhab al-Kibrit al-ahmar fi bayan 'ulum ash-shayh al-akbar (1643)

Dated Rabi II 11, 1053 AH (June 29, 1643)

Vat.ar.1456, Miscellany (1440)

Dated Shawaal 843 SH (Started March 16, 1440)

Vat.ar.1461, al-Murtada Du'sh-sharafayn Abu'l-ma'ali Muhammad b Ali al Husayni al-Bagdadi naqib an-nuqaba 'Uyun al-ahbar fi manaqib al-ahyar (1294)

Dated Ragab 4, 693 AH (started May 28, 1294)

Vat.ar.1462, Abu Mansur 'Abdalmalik b. Muhammad b. Isma'il at-Ta'alibi al-Adab (1734)

Dated Ragab 1147 AH (Started November 27, 1734)

Vat.lat.10551, Henry Stevenson, Jr. Schedae ad Urbis ecclesina pertinentes (19th C)