As we approach the August holiday, the Vatican digitization continues along at pace, with forty-nine manuscripts added this past week. In a break with recent weeks, none were from the Vat.lat collection, Ott.lat contributed twenty-two, the largest number of any single fond. Following that Barb.gr and Capp.Giulia each added six, P.I.O. four, and Vat.ar and Barb.lat three each. To round out the week, Vat.ind, Chig, Borg.lat, Borg.ind, and Barb.or each added one. As a note, the P.I.O. collection is unusual, it is tracked as a single Fond in both the main guide to the collection, and in the website, but the shelfmarks are subdivided into P.I.O. and P.I.O.Slav.

At the bottom is f.57v from Ott.lat.912, a copy of an anonymous French Chronique universelle de la Creation a Philippe IV from the second half of the 14th C. This small illustration is identified as "Turpin of Reims". Note that by his vestments and mitre we can tell that this isn't Judge Turpin, but Tilpin, bishop of Reims for most of the second half of the 8th century. He was considered to be the author of the Historia Caroli Magni, thus is an ideal miniature to start the section covering the life and reign of Charlemagne.

The bottom border is a line of music from f.3v of Capp.Giulia.IV.158, a four-part mass in honor of St. Aegidius/Giles by Tomas Luis de Victoria. It is an interesting choice of mass, as Victoria went to the school of St. Giles in Ávila as a boy. This line of music was for the lyrics "vita venturi sæculi Amen Amen" to end the Graduale chant Domine prævenisti eum in benedictionibus.