Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2023

This week a total of seventy-six digitized manuscripts were uploaded into the Vatican repositories. The emerging pattern of recent weeks continues, with the plurality of manuscripts, twenty-four, coming from Pal.lat. Unusually the second most popular collection was Ott.lat, with fifteen, followed by Reg.gr with twelve. A large number of smaller collections followed, P.I.O. contributing six, Vat.lat adding four, and Barb.lat, Reg.gr.Pio.II, Reg.lat and Var.ar each adding three. The weeks work wrapped up with two from Barb.gr and a single volume, a seventeenth-century copy of the works of Maximus the Confessor, from Ott.gr.

To the right is f.1r from Reg.gr.163, a volume containing Manuel Chrysoloras' Erotemata grammaticalia and some Epistles of Synesius. This manuscript from the later part of the 15th C is less interesting for what it contains, the Erotemata was an extremely popular grammar, but how it's appearance signifies a change. This is a Greek manuscript decorated in the style of a late 15th C book of hours, everything about the appearance is Northern French or Belgian, not Greek. Chrysoloras had the fortune not to see his native Constantinople fall, but his work became the standard Greek grammar of the Humanists of 15th C italy in the mid to late 15th C. It's 1471 printing by Adam d'Ambergau was probably the first book printed in Greek.

To the bottom is an element from f.83v of Reg.lat.1620. This is a late 12th C copy of the Epistles of Symmachus. In this copy of the text several of the letters start with a title block "Incipit Epistolarum Liber Symmachi" written in alternating colors, part of which is seen below

Barb.gr.308, Menologium: Nov-March)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.502, Praxapostolus (12th and 14th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.lat.994, Theological Compendium (17th C)

Incipit: Ad laudem cunctipotentis Dei exortum est huius

Barb.lat.1039, Generales Congregationes tres S. R. et universalis Inquisitionis habitae coram Urbano VIII anno 1625 de Conceptione B. Mariae Virginis (17th C)

Incipit: Feria V. die 30 8bris 1625. In Generali Cong[regatione] S. R. et Vniuersalis Inquisitionis habita coram

Barb.lat.1044.pt.2, Acta Congregationis institutae a Sanctissimo D. D. Clemente Papa VIII ad examinandam doctrinam libri Ludouici Molinne (16th C)

Incipit: Censura Vniuers[alis] Louæuic[i] An. 1586. R. R. In chr[ist]o PP. Patri Rectori

Starts f.237r

Ott.gr.319, Maximus the Confessor Quaestiones, Epistles, Mystagogia, Spiritualis tomus (17th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Ott.lat.516, Rituale (16th C)

Incipit: Kyrieleison

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Ott.lat.540, Gregory the Great Dialogues

Incipit: I. De honorato abbate monasterii fundensi

Ott.lat.541, Orationes Pro Variis actionibus Pontificalibus

Incipit: (f.1r) Orationes ad diuersa Initio Congregationis. Ad sumus Domine sancte Spiritus

Ott.lat.557 (Upgraded to HQ), Sermons

Incipit: (f.1r) D[omini]ca [prima] in adue[n]tu do[mini] d[e] ep[isto]la s[er]mo p[ri]m[us]. Hora e[st] i[t]a nos

Ott.lat.561, Tractatus qui inscribitur de consideratione quintae essentiae in duos libros distributus cum notiis marginalibus

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit liber primus de [con]sideratione quinte essentie omnium rer[um] transmutabilium panp[er]ib[us] euange-licis viris erogatus. [F]ecit Salomon

Ott.lat.562, Responsa seu Elucidationes quorundam Tridentini conciliilocorum ab Illustrimis Cardinalibus congregationis emisse ac concesse diversis episcopis et aliis praelatis

Ott.lat.564 (Upgraded to HQ), Francisci de Ruere de Pavona Tractatus de Sanguine Christi tempore passionis effuso

Incipit: Tractatus editus per eximium Artium et Theologiæ Monacam Magistru[m] Francis-cum

Ott.lat.566 (Upgraded to HQ), Peter John Olivi Postilla super Euangelium Sancti Johannis

Incipit: Uoxtonitrui tui i[n] rota

Ott.lat.589, Jacobi Laderchii De Corpore S. Hieronymi Doctoris Max. In sacros Basilica S. Mariae Maioris In Urbe Roma

Incipit: (f.1r) Emin. & Reuer. Principi D[omi]no, D[omi]no Petro Otthobono S. R. E. Cardinali Ampliss. Vicecancellario et sacrosanctæ Basilicæ S. Mariæ Ad Præsepe

Ott.lat.1737, Isidore of Seville, St. Augustine, Athanasius of Alexandria De Deo, Encheridion, Vita s. Antonii (11th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Incipit liber s[an]c[t]i ysidori ep[iscop]i q[uo]d d[eu]s summus et incommutabilis sit

Ott.lat.1797 (Upgraded to HQ), Plato De Virtutibus (tr)

Incipit: Plothonis De virtutibus Ex græco. Virtvs est habitus quo boni sumus

Ott.lat.2642, Diarium Electionis Polonicae Anno MDLCCCVII: Item Convocatio Warsoviensis, Confaederatio Cracoviensis (c. 1587)

Incipit: (f.2r) De Conuocatione lex. Vt post mortem Regis a Consiliariis et Baronibus Congregatis Regni, dies et tempus Electionis designetur.

Ott.lat.2749, Regitter der Letteres au Roy de Ambassadeur de France a Rome depuis Jun 22 1546 et Octobre 18 1547 (c. 1546-1547)

Ott.lat.2796 (Upgraded to HQ), Chartulary of Philip Augustus, King of France (14th C)

Ott.lat.3070, Calendar for Laon (1175-1225)

Incipit: Hec sunt [] eccl[es]ie lugd[unensis] p[er] totum annu[m]

P.I.O.18, Biografia lui Beniamin Pop Densusianee, canonic lector in Lugorie (1907)

Title and date from front cover

P.I.O.24

In Syriac

P.I.O.28, Resume des Exercices spirituels pour les jours de la semain, par un carmelite en 1761 (1853)

In Syriac through f.66v, Arabic after. The Resume de Exercices... is the Arabic text

P.I.O.39, (18th C)

In Greek

P.I.O.slav.38, Ustav o Brakach (Marriage Canons) (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.51, Kanonnik s dopolnenijami (Canons with supplemental texts) (18th C)

Pal.gr.404, Sextus Julius Africanus, Marinus, Georgias, Porphyry, Nemesius Emesenus Ars belli, Vita Procli, Oratio in laudem Helenae, Vita Plotini, De natura hominis (1579)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος (Madrid)

Pal.gr.406, Leo IV the Wise Tacticae constitutiones, Books I-XIX (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.407, Georgius Pachymeres, Manuel Philes In universam Aristotelis philosophicam epitome, In Obitum Georgii Pachymerae (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.408, Theodorus Balsamon Commentarius in canones et in epistulas canonicas (1563)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Pal.gr.409 (Upgraded to HQ), Nilus Cabasilas, Nicolaus Methonae, Nilus Monachus, Georgius Moschampar, Athanasius of Alexandria, et al Theological Miscellany (c. 1550)

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

Pal.gr.410 (Upgraded to HQ), Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus De legationibus, Book I (c. 1540-1591)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry., Pinakes Entry, scrbe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Pal.gr.411 (Upgraded to HQ), Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus De legationibus, Book II (c. 1540-1591)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Pal.gr.412, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus De legationibus, Book III (c. 1540-1591)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Pal.gr.413 (Upgraded to HQ), Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus De legationibus, Book I (c. 1575)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰάκωβος Ἐπισκοπόπουλος

Pal.gr.414 (Upgraded to HQ), ps-Georgius Codinus De officiis (1582)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Pal.gr.416, ps-Athanasius of Alexandria/Eutherius Thyanensis Dialogi contra Macedonianos, De sancta trinitate (1578)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος (in Toledo)

Pal.gr.417, Theodoretus Cyrrhensis De Graecarum affectionum curatione (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Pal.gr.418, Achilles Tatius, Mecrembolita Eustathius Leucippe et Clitophon, De Hysmines et Hysminiae amoribus (1553)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.419, Philological Miscellany (1595-1601)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Eilhardus Lubinus

Pal.gr.420, Sticherarium, Triodium, Pentecostarium, etc (1325-1375)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρόνικος Βασιλικός

Pal.gr.421, Photius Bibliotheca 1a-232 (1595-1596)

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

Pal.gr.422 (Upgraded to HQ), Photius Bibliotheca 232-280 (1595-1596)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σαγκταμαύρας, Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος (ff.43r-55r)

Pal.gr.423, Miscellany (800-1600)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, collection of nine pieces

Pal.gr.425, Hesiod, Johannes Tzetzes Works and Days with gloss, Theogony with gloss (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Κωνστάντιος (ff.1r-75v, 100v-101r)

Pal.gr.426 (Upgraded to HQ), Boccacio, Johannes Tzetzes, et al De amoribus Thesei et Aemiliae (tr), De Imperio et Margarona, etc (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Δημήτριος Ζῆνος, Κωνστάντιος (ff.94r-100v)

Pal.gr.427 (Upgraded to HQ), Johannes Beccus, Gregory of Nazianzenus, Athanasius of Alexandria Epigraphae, Works Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry](https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote/66159/), scribes: Κωνσταντῖνος Μεσοβώτης (ff.1r-44v), Κωνστάντιος (ff.46r-61v, 63r-70v)

Pal.gr.428, Galen, Proclus, Diocles Carystius, Pindar, Demitrius Moschus Miscellany (800-1600)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.429, Nonnus Panopolitanus Epitheta Nonni (16th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.430, Johannes Stobaeus Anthologium (1532)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.125, Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Economics, Magna moralia, Ethica Eudemia (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.126, Michael of Ephesus/ps-Alexander of Aphrodisius In Aristotelis Metaphysica (c. 1510)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Sebastianus Ducius

Reg.gr.129, Lexicon graeco-barbarum, sive graecum cum interpretatione in dialecto vulgari , in litteram digestum (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.130, Maximus Planudes Dialogus grammaticalis, Lexicon (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος

Reg.gr.135, Theodore Prodromus In Aristotelis Analytica Posteriora commentaria (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes, of a unit with Reg.gr.136. Scribe: Νικόλαος Χωνιάτης

Reg.gr.136, Michael Psellus, Theodorus Prodromus In Aristotelis Organum (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes, of a unit with Reg.gr.135, Scribe: Νικόλαος Χωνιάτης

Reg.gr.139, Epistles (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος

Reg.gr.141, Plato, Olympiodorus (Commentary) Gorgias with Commentary (1573)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος

Reg.gr.149, Theodore of Gaza Grammaticae introductio (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης

Reg.gr.151, Theocritus Idyllia (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Δημήτριος ὀ Καστρηνός

Reg.gr.157 (Upgraded to HQ), George Lacapenus, Andronicus Zarides, Thomas Magister Epistles, Ecloga vocum Atticarum (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.163, Manuel Chrysoloras, Synesius Cyrenensis Erotemata grammaticalia, Epistles (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος

Reg.gr.Pio.II.14, Proclus, Plato Diadochi Platonici in Platonis Parmenidem, Book VII (15th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.51, Horologium Use of the Order of St. Basil (17th C)

Pinakes Entry,

Reg.gr.Pio.II.55, Gospel Book (11th C)

Pinakes Entry, includes Canon tables, etc

Reg.lat.1616 (Upgraded to HQ), Guido of Arezzo, et al Micrologus, Fierabras, Otinel, etc (1317)

Incipit: P[ro]emiu[m] magistri Guidonis Augensis sup[er] t[ra]ctu[m] suum de musica. Gimnasio musas placuit reuocare

See JONAS, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 111[f.18v, Fleury Neumes]. From f.18r, in French

Reg.lat.1620, Symmachus Epistles (1175-1200)

Incipit: Incipivnt Epistole Simmachi patricii-lvres de Dalma

See Biblissima,

Reg.lat.1644, Les Conseils et Les exemples Politiques de Juste Lipse

Incipit: Les Conseils et Les exemples Politiques de Juste Lipse. Chapitre Premier. Entree en discours e[t] en mataere e[t] en passant

Vat.ar.23.pt.1, Epistles of Paul (1856-1857)

See Heidelberg Historic Literature, dated 1273 AH

Vat.ar.23.pt.2, Epistles of Paul (1856-1857)

Starts f.159r. See Heidelberg Historic Literature, Dated AH 1273

Vat.ar.1957

Vat.lat.5565, Giovanni Battista Lucarelli Viaggio dell'Indie fatto per il R. P. Francescano Scalzo fr. Giovanni Battista da Pesaro insieme con altri frati di S. Francesco, i quali l'anno 1577 v'andarono con l'autorità apostolica e col consenso del re Cattolico. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) B[eatissimo] P[atre]. Poi che con e piaciuto alla

Vat.lat.9764, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibus inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis descripta sunt (1829)

Incipit: Vasi di Musignano

Vat.lat.10584, Henry Stevenson, Jr. Schedae de libris historicis et notitiae de archivis (19th C)

Incipit: Storia in genere. ed estratti di alcuni archivi

Vat.lat.11229, Tomus III. Codicum Mss. Bibliothecæ Vaticanæ Reginæ Suecorum, Signatus num 105.

Incipit: (f.3r) An. Lib. 105. pag[ina] 909. Codex Regio - Vaticanus signatus num[ero] 477, qui scriptis videtur xiii. seculo