Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 41 of 2023

The library was busy today, with a total of one hundred and three manuscripts added. The last time over a hundred were done in a week was mid-July. Following the pattern of last week, the fifty-five of these were not new digitizations, but uploads to the Vatican's Pal.gr repository Heidelbergs that had already been available at Reg.gr. The second Regggr fond was also one of the Greek ones, Ott.lat, which contributed sixteen. After that there were a number of smaller groups, seven Reg fr.Pio.IIom Barb.gr VatBarb.lat, six from Barb.lat, four from P.I.O, of which three were the slav subfond, and Vat frgr.Pio.II. The week had a large number of single-addition fonds, Barb.gr, Capp.Giulia, Ott.lat, Reg.lat, Vat.ar and Vat.ebr.

To the left is a page from Ott.lat.2069, a 14th C collection of scientific works. It begins with Jordanus Nemorarius's Arithmatica and then contains Boethius' De institutione arithmetica, upon which Jordanus based his work. Finally it contains Boethius' De Musica, from which f.102v on the right is taken. This text is often filled with complex circle diagrams, and this one depicts the mathematical relationship between a major and minor key

At the bottom is a line of very tidy late Greek minuscule from f.1r of Pal.gr.300. This is a mid 16th C copy of Dio Chrysostomus's De regno. This is a collection of four orations on kingship addressed to the Emperor Trajan. Of note, there is no trace of a BAV watermark in the image because it was taken from the Heidelberg website, where the same images are available as at the Vatican, but unmolested.

Barb.gr.364, Geroge Coressii Works

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.lat.406, Officium Sanctae Elisabeth Regine Portugalliae, Semiduplex (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Ad Vesperas. Antiphona. Dum esset Rex. &c. cum reliquis de Laudibus

Barb.lat.447, Sententiae et notae collecta ex Sacra Scriptura, Patribus et proganis scriptoribus (15th C)

Incipit: (f.Iv) Cu[m] q[uo]da[m]

Barb.lat.869 (Upgraded to HQ), Durandus de Sancto Porciano, Fulgentius Planciades, et al De scismate Benedicti xii dicti xiii antipapæ Tractatus in Duas Partes Divisus, De legibus, Expositio Virgilianae continentiae, Expositio sermonum antiquorum, etc (17th C, 14th C)

See Biblissima,

Barb.lat.992, Jacobi de Marchia Dialogos contra Fraticellos (18th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit Dialogus. Catholicus. Quid tibi uidetur de Papa Joanne XXII?

Barb.lat.993, Jacobo de Marchia Opusculi contra Fraticellos (18th C)

Incipit: Incipit Dialogus. Cath. Quid tibi uidetur de Papa Joanne XXII

Barb.lat.997, Caesaris Laccatelli De Vita Activa et Contemplativa paradoxa juridica (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Adsit Spiritus sancti Amor & Charitas De Vita Activa & Contemplatiua Paradoxa Ivridica. Rem fere præter omnium opinionem

Capp.Giulia.IV.31, Tommaso Baj Offertorio a 8 voci pieno per la Messa del Sancissimo Sacramento (c. 1785)

Incipit: (f.1v) Sacerdotes Domini

Ott.lat.2069, Jordanus Nemorarius, Boethius Arithmetica, De institutione arithmetica (14th C)

Incipit: [U]nitas e[st] e[ss]e rei per se discre-tio

See Jordanus #10302, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 1061 (15th C copy of Boethius)

P.I.O.35

Greek

P.I.O.slav.7, Sbomaja rukopis': Kanony, stichi duchovnye, molitvy (17th-18th C)

P.I.O.slav.21, Alfa i Omega (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.28, Geneology of the Grand Princes of Moscow (c. 1682)

Pal.gr.70, Proclus, Geminus, Isaax Comnenus, Georgius Codinus, et al Miscellany (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.75, Gregory of Nazianzus Works (10th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry. Final work is Gregory of Nyssa, often misattributed to Nazianzenus

Pal.gr.76, Maximus the Confessor, Athanasius of Alexandria, John of Damascus, Augustine Aurelius Theological Miscellany (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κύριλλος Ναυπάκτιος

Pal.gr.77, Hermes Trismegistus, Dioscorides, et al Medical Miscellany (c. 1350-1450)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.78, Porphyry, Aristotle Isagogue, Categories, De interpretatione, Analytica priora and posteriora, Topics (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἱερώνυμος

Pal.gr.79, John Climacus Scala paradisi (14th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.80, ps-Amphilochius Iconiensis, George of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, et al Vita s. Basilii Magni, Vita S. Johannis Chrysostomi, Sermons, etc (12th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.81, John Chrysostom Sermons on Genesis, 1-13 (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.82, Libanius, Basil of Caesarea Epistles (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἐμμανουὴλ Ζαχαρίδης

Pal.gr.83, Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (c. 1442-1494)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης

Pal.gr.84 (Upgraded to HQ), Dionysius of Halicarnasses, Aphthonius, Marcellinus, Thucydides Vita anoyma Thucydidis, Progymnasmata, Vita Thucydidis, Histories (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Μιχαὴλ Λύγιζος (ff.1r-6r), Ἰωάννης

Pal.gr.87, Psalter (1450-1475)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.89 (Upgraded to HQ), Liturgical Gospels with Tables, prolog, etc (13th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.90.pt.1 (Upgraded to HQ), Gregory of Nazianzus, Nonnus, Cato, Pinax, Aelius Aristides Carmina, Paraphrase of John, Disticha, Orationes (c. 1300)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry

Pal.gr.90.pt.2 (Upgraded to HQ), Aelius Aristides Orations (c. 1300)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry

Pal.gr.91 (Upgraded to HQ), John Climacus, Ephraem the Greek, etc Theological/Monastic Miscellany (13th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.92 (Upgraded to HQ), Theodorus Prodromus or Manuel Moschopulus Schedographia in prosam redactae (1276 - 1300 )

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry. The CP site lists Manuel as author, Pinakes lists Theodore

Pal.gr.93 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellany (13th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.94 (Upgraded to HQ), Iamblichus De vita Pythagorica, Protrepticus, De communi mathematica scientia, In Nicomachi arithmeticam introductio, De anima (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κωνσταντῖνος Μεσοβώτης

Pal.gr.95 (Upgraded to HQ), Claudius Ptolemaeus, Euclid Harmonics, Elements (13th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.97, Aristotle De incessu animalium, De sensu et sensibilibus, De memoria, De divinatione per somnum, De somno et vigilia, De motu animalium, De gereatione animalium (14th-15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.98, Euripides Plays: Medea, Alcestis, Hecuba, Orestes, Andromacha, Rhesus, Phoenissae, Troiades (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.99, Sophocles, Pindar Plays: Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Olympia. Olympic Odes (1451-1500)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Θωμᾶς Βιτζιμάνος

Pal.gr.101, ps-Sabas Sanctus, Marcus Abbas Lauriota Office for the Liturgical Year. Athionite Use (1372-1373)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Πουλοπόδης Τριποκαρίδης

Pal.gr.102 (Upgraded to HQ), Hermes Trismegistus, Theognis, Dionysius Periegeta,Ibn-Masawaih, et al De terrae motibus, Gnomae, Orbis descriptio, De medicamentis evacuantibus (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μιχαὴλ Λύγιζος

Pal.gr.103 (Upgraded to HQ), Manuel Moschopulus Schedographia (1437)

See Biblissima, , Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 15. Jh., Pinakes Entry. There's a fragment of Plato's Euthyphro as endleaf

Pal.gr.104, Demosthenes Orations (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Θωμᾶς Βιτζιμάνος

Pal.gr.105, Menaeum/Synaxarium for July (14th-15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.106, John of Damascus Dialectica, Epistula de hymno trisagio, Works (14th-15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κωνσταντῖνος Tζαμάντουρος

Pal.gr.107, Liturgical Psalter (14th-15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.278 (Upgraded to HQ), Manuel Chrysoloras, Argyrus Isaac, Aristides Aelius, Libanius, Choricius of Gaza Astronomical, Rhedotical and Grammatical Miscellany (1401-1450)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry

Pal.gr.280, Apollonius of Rhodes Argonautical, with scholia (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.282, Libanius Orationes (13th-14th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Δοκειανός

Pal.gr.284 (Upgraded to HQ), Flavius Josephus Jewish Wars (10th-11th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.285, Greek Acts of the Council of Florence (c. 1450-1460)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης (most), Μιχαὴλ Λύγιζος (some pages)

Pal.gr.286, Plutarch Lives (1451-1500)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Γρηγορόπουλος

Pal.gr.287 (Upgraded to HQ), Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus Tragedies, some with scholia (14th-15th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Κατράρης (partial)

Pal.gr.288, John Chrysostom, Symeon Metaphrastes, et al Psalms, Precationes, Liturgy, Thema: Pascha, etc (12th C, 14th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry. Three fragments

Pal.gr.289 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristophanes Plays: Plutus, Nubes (1475-1500)

Codices Palatini Entry, Aristophanes; Sammelhandschrift; 15. Jh., See Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.290, Hesiod, Plato Works and days, Alcibiades I-II, Crito (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.291, Manuel Chrysoloras Erotemata grammaticalia (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Τριβιζίας

Pal.gr.293 (Upgraded to HQ), Hesiod, Aristophanes, Thomas Magister Works and Days, Plays: Plutus, Nubes, Ranae, Vita Aristophanes (15th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.294, Manuel Chrysolaras Erotemata grammaticalia (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.295 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristotle, Galen, John of Damascus Problemata, De crisibus Book III, Expositio fidei (15th-16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.296, Ibn al-Ǧazzār Viaticum Peregrinantium (c. 1470-1490)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.297 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen, Hippocrates, et al Medical Miscellany (15th-16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.298, John Chrysostom Ad populum Antiochenum homilae 1-21, Ad illuminandos catechesis e (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κωνσταντῖνος Μεσοβώτης

Pal.gr.300, Dio Chrysostomus De regno 1-4 (1525-1575)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Μαυρομάτης

Pal.gr.301, Georgius Codinus, et al Miscellany (1501-1550)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.302, Miscellany (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.303, Theon Smymaeus, Gregory of Nazianzus De utilitate mathematicae, In Athanasium (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe for ff.42r-72 Ἰωάννης Μαυρομάτης

Pal.gr.304, Themistus, Isocrates Orations (15th-16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.305, Theucydides Histories (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Γεώργιος Ἀλεξάνδρου (ff.1r-149v), Δημήτριος Μόσχος (ff.151r-156v)

Pal.gr.306, Nicephorus Blemmydes Introductio I: Epitome logica (13th-14th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, palimpsest. Undertext is 10th-11th C Liturgy at 90 degrees to main text

Pal.gr.307, Zosimus Historia Nova I-VI (1501-1550)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.90, Theon of Alexandria, Ptolemaeus Claudius Syntaxis Mathematica with commentary (13th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.94, Julianus Flavius Claudius, Nonnus, Philo, Nicomachus Gerasenus, Euclid, Aristoxenus Tarentinus, Alypius Misopogon, In laudem funebrem S. Basili, etc (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.103, Diogenes Laertius, Laonicus Chalcocondyles Vitae philosophorum, De rebus Turcicis (15th-16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀντώνιος Ἔπαρχος (ff.107r-122v)

Reg.gr.104, Phalaris, Apollonius of Tyana, Brutus epostolographus, John Philopponus, et al Epistles, Compendium de dialectis, De enclisi, etc (1451-1500)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.106, George Trapezuntius, Johannes Arclas Epistula ad Joannem Cuboclesium contra Graecos, Canon in Pentecosten (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.109, Michael of Ephesus In Aristotelis Metaphysica (1475-1500)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry

Reg.gr.111, Asclepius Trallianus In Aristoteles Metaphysica (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.114, Nicephorus Blemmydes, Boethius Introductio ad philosophiam, De dialecta (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Νικόλαος Χωνιάτης

Reg.gr.171, Michael of Rhodes (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Iohannes Franciscus e Candia

Reg.gr.172, Galen Medical works (14th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Χρυσοκόκκης

Reg.gr.174, Galen De methodo medendi, Book XIV (14th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κωνσταντῖνος Θεόγνωστοσ Σελαγίτης

Reg.gr.175 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen Medical Works (14th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.177, Nonnus Scholia mythologica, In irationem in sancta lumina, Scholia mythologica (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Ἰάκωβος Διασσωρινός(everything else), Κωνσταντῖνος Παλαιοκάππας(ff.20r, 53v-54r)

Reg.gr.178, Aspasius, Porphyry In Ethica Nicomachea, De virtutibus (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.183 (Upgraded to HQ), Michael Psellus de Arte medica ad Constantinum Porphyrogenitum (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.187, Psalter (13th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.2, St. Athanasius, et al Letters, Vita, etc (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.7, Anthology from Gregory of Nazianzenus (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.16 (Upgraded to HQ), Archimedes, Eutocius Ascalonis Geometric works, commentary (1550-1600)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.17, Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra Tetrastico (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.18.pt.1, Catena in Prophetam: Jeremiah, Baruch and Jeremiah threnos (16th C)

ff.1-256

Reg.gr.Pio.II.18.pt.2, Catena in Prophetam: Ezechiel, Habakuk, Isaiah, Daniel (16th C)

ff.257-528

Reg.gr.Pio.II.22, Menalogium for November (11th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.lat.1649, Boethius Sixth book on Topics of Cicero

Incipit: Anic[ius] Ma[n]l[ius] Sever[inus] Boec[ius]

Vat.ar.595, Quran (16th C)

Volume 22 of 30. Includes marginal Italian glosses

Vat.ebr.405, Abraham ibn Ezra, Abraham b. Alexander of Cologne, et al Yesod Mora, Keter Shem Tov, Atarah Malkhut, Hayyei Olam, etc (14th C)

See Biblissima, collection of three unrelated manuscripts bound together.

Vat.gr.205, Apollonius Pergaeus, Serenus Antinoensis Conica, De sectione cylindri, De sectione coni (1536)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Iohannes Honorius

Vat.gr.232, Proclus Commentary on Plato's Parmenides (c. 1535-1549)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Iohannes Honorius

Vat.lat.9749, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis (c. 1824)

Vat.lat.9750, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis

Vat.lat.9759, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis (1818-1834)

Incipit: Martial LXIV

Vat.lat.9761, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis (1818-1834)

Vat.lat.10561 (Upgraded to HQ), Henry Stevenson, Jr. Schedae ad coemeteria et antiquitates agri Romani pertinentes (19th C)

Incipit: Via nomentana Schede generali

Vat.lat.10612, Martylogy of Usnard (1464)

Incipit: Natal[us] b[ea]ti mathie ap[osto]li

dated on f.44r

Vat.lat.10628, Raccolta di quesiti, voti, etc. Volume III (19th C)