Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 36 of 2023

During the past week forty-three manuscripts were digitized into the Vatican repository. Following the pattern of recent weeks, the largest contributor was Ott.lat with twenty-two. The Barberini family followed, with seven from Barb.lat and five from Barb.gr. P.I.O added four, three from the slav subsection and one from the main collection, Vat.gr added two, and one each came from Capp.giulia, Vat.ar and Vat.turc. Unusually no manuscripts were digitized from the largest fond, Vat.lat.

The collection of Cardinal Ottoboni is organized somewhat thematically, meaning that there are often several copies of the same text near each other. The 1500-1700 range contains classical authors, and that includes Sallust, from whom came two manuscripts. The image to the right is from f.1r of Ott.lat.1664, on of the a 15th C copies of his The Cataline Conspiricy, and The Jugurthine War. This volume also contains the less common Jugurtha Epitaphs.

At the bottom is a fragment from f.1r of Barb.gr.532, a mid 16th C collection of Greek Hagiography made for Marcello Cardinal Cervini. This particular element was at the start of the "Vita S. Antonius" by Athanasius of Alexandria

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Barb.gr.426, Orationes diversorum Sanctorum Patrum ex Grecorum Horologio (1630)
Incipit: (f.2r) Eminentiss[imo] atq[ue] Reuerendiss[imo] Domino D[omi]no Francisco Barberino S.R.E. Amplis-simo, ac dignissimo Cardinali D. Basilius Falasca Abbas S[ancti] Agrippini Neapolis S. D.

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, Dated November 22, 1630 on f.3r


Barb.gr.439, Ignatius (deacon and sceuophylax) Vita S. Nicephori patr. CP. (16th C)

Barb.gr.526 (Upgraded to HQ), Sayings of the Desert Fathers (c. 1600)

Barb.gr.532, Athanasius of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Bessarion, et al Hagiography (c. 1540-1545)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Βασίλειος Βαλερίς


Barb.lat.878, Acta from Florence/Ferrera (17th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Acta et Gesta Concilii ferrerensis

Barb.lat.902, Jacobi Viti Waterforden Discursus Apologeticus (1609)
Incipit: (f.1r) Dispersationis ciuas dam-concessæ a reuerendo

Barb.lat.910, (17th C)
Incipit: Sapientissimo Prinicipi Maphæo Barberino Ingenuæ Livertatis Relectio. Inueni, arbitror Princepis in-clite gratiam in oculis tuis

Barb.lat.930, Theological Miscellany (17th C)
Incipit: Sectio Septima Proponuntur et dissoluuntur argumenta pro auxilio predeter[en]ti. Hæc argumenti possunt esse

Barb.lat.943, Adhortatio Philippi ad quemdam Theodoricum Judaeum, ut christi religonem (15th C)
Incipit: Adhortatio Philippi ad Quenda[m] Theodosiu[m] Judeu[m] ut Christi re-ligione[m], relicta Judaeor[um] sup[er]stitione coleret. Tempore Justiani Imperatoris Christianissimi factus est

Barb.lat.980, Luca Castellio Disputationes Theologicae (17th C)
Incipit: Elenchus Præludiorum disputationum præci-puarum difficultatum huius tractatus

Barb.lat.4110 (Upgraded to HQ), Restoro d'Arezzo Composizione del Mondo
Incipit: In cominciaci illibro del aco[m]positione del mondo cole-sue cagioni composto da restoro darezzo

Capp.Giulia.IV.32, Bagnacavallo Magnificat e Messa ad otto voci (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Tutti. Magnificat.

Ott.lat.402 (Upgraded to HQ), Joannis de Neapolo Quastiones moralis theologicae
Incipit: Qvestio est vtrum asse-rere chr[istu]m eet ap[osto]los

Ott.lat.1147, Miscellanea Polonica (16th C)
Incipit: (f.IVr) Del re di Polonia cio E Discorso sopra la nuoua elet-tione da farsi del Re di Polonia a[nno] 1573

Ott.lat.1323 (Upgraded to HQ), Polllis for Sens, Troyes, etc
Incipit: (f.2r) Hec sunt Beneficia

See JONAS,


Ott.lat.1376, Terence Comedies: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio (1462)
Incipit: Natus in excelsis tectis cartaginis altæ Romanis ducibus bellica preda sui descripsi mores

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1377, Justinus Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi (14th-15th C)
Incipit: Principio rerum genciu[m] na-c[i]onu[mq[ue] Imperiu[m] penes

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1378, Historia Langobardorum
Incipit: Incipit historiæ Langobardoru[m] lib[er] prim[us]. Septem trionalis plaga quantomagis ab estu solis remota est

Ott.lat.1472 (Upgraded to HQ), Gaufridi Angli De artificio loquendi ad Innocentium papam, Chronicon breve a creatione mundi usque ad Theodorum Imperatorem, etc
Incipit: (f.1r) Papa stupor mu[n]di si dix[er]o p[a]p[a] nocenti

Ott.lat.1474, Johannes Cornubiensis, et al Prophetia Merlini, Grand coutumier de Normandie, Droits et etablissements de Normandie (1166-1225, 14th C)
Incipit: Uenerabil[is] R[oberte] p[re]sul exoniensis q[ui] uirtutis

See JONAS, see CODECS for ff.1-r and the rest. Contains the only known copy of John of Cornwall’s Prophetia Merlini on ff.1r-4v, unrelated to the rest of the manuscript


Ott.lat.1499, Claudianus Mamertus De statu Animae
Incipit: Incipit p[re]fatio mam[er]ti claudia-ni in librum suum de statu a-nime. Precipis ut res-pondeam que i[n] reb[us]

Ott.lat.1522, Vitruvius De architectura (15th C)
Incipit: Cvm divina tvamens et nvmen imperator cæsar imperio po-tiretur orbis

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1574, Juevnal, Persius, Guarinus Veronensis Satires, Argumenta metrica Saturarum Juvenalis (15th C)
Incipit: Iynii iuuenalis satir-ar[um] liber primus in-cipit

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1583, Juvenal, Persius Satires (14th-15th C)
Incipit: Pone tigillinum, et latum media sulcum

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1589, Guilhelmi de Brolis Stylus curiæ parlamenti
Incipit: Incipit stilus curie parlamenti editus a mag[istr]o igui[he]lmo de brolis. Quoniam ho[minu]m memoria labilis est

Ott.lat.1591 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero De oratore (15th C)
Incipit: M. T. C. De oratoris ad Quintum Fratrem. Liber primus. Cogitanti mihi sepe numero & memo-ria uetera repetenti

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1617, Sallust The Cataline Conspiricy, The Jugurthine War, (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit salustius u[e]l crispus. proomiu[m]. Omnis Ho[m]i[n]es a se se student

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1664, Sallust The Cataline Conspiricy, The Jugurthine War, Jugurtha Epitaphs (15th C)
Incipit: Crispi salustrii ciuis et nobilis oratoris liber. in catilinario incipit feliciter. Omnes homines q[ui] sese prestare student cete

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1678, Quintus Curtius Rufus Historiae Alexandri Magni (15th C)
Incipit: Qvinti cvrcii derebvs Alexandri macedonis liber primvs inci-pit. Inter haec alex[andri] ad conducendum expeloponenso militem

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1704, Valerius Maximus
Incipit: Incip[it] explanac[i]o[n] valerii maximi edi-ta a fratre patro ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m].

Ott.lat.1749, Seneca Tragedies: Hercules furens, Thyestes, Phoenissae, Phaedra, Oedipus, Troades, Medea, Agamemno, Octavia, Hercules Oetaeus (15th C)
Incipit: [S]oror tona[n]tis hoc enim solum michi

See Biblissima, scribe: Pietro Odo


Ott.lat.2000, Horace Odes, Carmen seculare, De arte poetica, Sermones seu Saturae, Epistulae (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit ode seu carmina oratu flacci. Mecena Satauus edite regibus

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.2068 (Upgraded to HQ), Pompeius Trogus, Justinus Prologi Historiarum Philippicarum, Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi (15th C)
Incipit: Imperium assiriorum a Nino Rege usq[ue] Sarda....

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.2162, Formularium
Incipit: (f.3r) Declaration de possessions

See Biblissima, in Greek


P.I.O.slav.9, Oktoich (c. 1820-1830)

With musical notation


P.I.O.slav.10, Oktoich and Penitential Psalms (c. 1840-1860)

With musical notation


P.I.O.slav.36, Ustav o brakach (19th C)

Wedding Ordinal


Vat.ar.935, Quran (1633)

Dated Ramadan 939 AH (Began March 27, 1533)


Vat.gr.2228.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellany (14th C, 15th C)

See Biblissima, Ends f.257v


Vat.gr.2228.pt.2 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellany (14th C)

See Biblissima, Starts f.258r