A total of fifty-nine manuscripts were digitized this week. The pattern emerging in recent weeks was completely smashed this week. The top two contributors were Pal.gr and Reg.gr, each with thirteen, and Vat.ebr with eleven. Following on was P.I.O. with five, Vat.lat and Ott.lat with four, and Barb.gr, Barb.lat and Reg.gr.Pio.II, each adding three. As an interesting statistical note, of the fifty-nine manuscripts, only eleven are in Latin script, the rest in Greek, Russian, Turkish, or Hebrew. Note that the Pal.gr volumes were digitized years ago, and available in the Heidelberg repository, but were only uploaded to the BAV this week

To the right is f.194r from Vat.lat.10510, part of a two volume Atlantic Bible. This page contains the end of the prolog to, and the beginning of the book of Nahum, one of the minor prophets. The term "Atlantic" does not refer to its provinance, most are from Italy and this one is no exception, coming from Bovino, but rather to it's size. This is about average for the class of manuscripts at 55x40cm.

The border at the bottom is a line of Hebrew text from Vat.ebr.294. This miscellany contains extracts from the Talmud and works on Kabbalah, halakhah and midrash, all copied by a single scribe. The script used defies categorization, it might be an unusual variant of late Byzantine semi-cursive, but it might be something else. The manuscript is in a rather poor state of repair, with some leaves missing or damaged, and many bound out of order. This line came from f.18r, part of an extract of Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi's Risalah fi mahiyyat al-nafs as translated by Zerahiah b. Isaac of Barcelona. Despite al-Farabi's importance to Islamic philosophy, no copy of this work survives in the original Arabic, it is only preserved in the Hebrew translation.