Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 46 of 2023

This week sixty-three manuscripts were incorporated into the Vatican repositories. This week there were a lot of smaller contributions, which means the pattern of recent weeks got slightly twisted. Although Ott.lat added the most manuscripts, with fifteen, both Pal.gr and Reg.gr added nine to keep up Greek progress. Following on Vat.ar added six, Barb.lat gave five and four more from P.I.O, all from the Slav subsection. Both Vat.lat and Vat.turc added three, two each from Barb.gr and Reg.gr.Pio.II and a single volume from both Var.et and Vat.sir.

To the right is the title page of a copy of Johannes Andreae's Hieronymianus, found on p.1 of Ott.lat.480. The text is not, like most of Andreae's work, a canon law text or commentary, but a biography/hagiography of St. Jerome, peppered with quotes from his own writings.

At the bottom is a fragment of a copy of Boethius' De Musica showing a diagram of musical intervals. This particular image comes from f.12r of Reg.lat.1638, a 10th C copy. Despite diagrams being quite rare in Carolingian and earlier manuscripts generally, copies of Boethius almost always have them, perhaps pointing to their creation very early in the textual history.

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Barb.gr.589, Nicephorus Canones, Antirrhetici, De differentia inter imaginem et crucem, Brevarium, Apologeticus pro sacris inaginibus (17th C)

Barb.gr.591 (Upgraded to HQ), John Philoponus, ps-Dionysius Areopagite In Aristotelis Physica, De divinis nominibus (1151-1200)

Barb.lat.392, Psalter, Vulgate edition of Sixtus V with commentary (17th C)
Incipit: Psalmvs CI. Argvmentv[m]. Oratio vere poenitentis ueniam

Book 3 of 3


Barb.lat.1009, Lucae Castelline Diversa pro secunda impressione librorum de electione et elucidarie 1627 (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) ad preludia

Barb.lat.1031, Status controversiae de efficacia gratiae, et qua ratione incommoda utresque sententiae ab alia vitentur (17th C)
Incipit: Status controuersiæ De efficacia gratiæ, et qua r[ati]one incommoda unius sent[entiæ]. ab alia uitentur.

Barb.lat.1044.pt.1, Acta Congregationis institutae a Clemente VIII, ad examinandam doctrinam libri Ludovici Molinne de concordia libri arbitri cum gratiae donis (17th C)
Incipit: (f.7v) Adsit spir[itus] S[ancti] Gratia. Die 2[m] Mensis Jan, Anni salutis d[eu]m

Barb.lat.1108, Nicolai Riccardi Lectiones ad quaestionem XIV S. Thomas de Scientia Dei. (17th C)
Incipit: Qvaestio XIV Sancti Thomæ. De Scientia Dei. Diuina sapientia

Ott.lat.456, Tractatus de vtilis et virtutibus compilatis de dictis sancti Bernardi atque plurimorum aliorum sanctorum, etc (15th C)
Incipit: (f.7v) Incipit tractatus de uitiis et virtutibus [com]pilatus de d[o]ct[or]is sancti bernardi atq[ue] plurior[um] alior[um] sanctor[um].

See Biblissima, ff.4r-6r is a table of contents


Ott.lat.480, Johannes Andreae Hieronymianus
Incipit: Heronimianum hoc opus p[er] Ioh[ann]em andree argente de notione

Ott.lat.518 (Upgraded to HQ), Summa de Casibus conscientibus
Incipit: Symonia est studiosa cupiditas u[e]l

Ott.lat.520, Basil the Great, Leonardo Bruni (tr) De utilitate studii in libris gentilium ad nepotes (tr)
Incipit: Incipit prollogus i[n] libro s[an]c[t]i basilii ep[iscop]i de modo stu-dendi atq[ue] recte

Ott.lat.545, Breviary, Fransiscan Use (1465)
Incipit: In no[m]i[ni]s d[omi]ni. Amen. Incipit ordo breuiaru[m] fratrum minor[um]

See Iter liturgicum italicumfrom Reggio Emilia (?)


Ott.lat.552, Theologia moralis
Incipit: det[erm]i[n]ata p[ro]p[ri]etate ut

Ott.lat.558, Eusebius of Cremona Epistola ad Damasium papam et Theodosium
Incipit: Epistola Eusebii cremonensis olim di scripti beati hyeronimi ad damascii episcopum portuensem et teodosium romanorum cenatorem de uita

Ott.lat.567, Expositio Missæ
Incipit: Dicta Ap[osto]l[i]s ad Ephesios, Secto induite uos Armatura dei

Ott.lat.581, Responsio ad articulos de Purgatorio Theologis ad examinandum propositos
Incipit: (f.1r) Responsio ad Articulos de Purgatorio Theologis ad examinandum propositos Primus Articulus. Primus Articulus esse Purgatorium

Ott.lat.588, P. Antonio Viera Sermone Nell essequie della Regina Nostra Signora D. Maria Francesca Isabella di Savoia
Incipit: Mortua est ibi Maria et sepulca est in eodem loco

Ott.lat.591, Robert Holkot Super libros Sententiarum
Incipit: Incipit liber super s[en]t[e]n[ti]ar[um] libros Reue-rendi magistri Ro-berti Holkot ordi-nis fratrum predi-cator[um]

Ott.lat.2013, Sidonius, Ausonius Epistles, Carmina, Monosticha de XII Caesaribus (12th-13th C)
Incipit: Incipit libell[us] sidonii claromuntensis. Sidonius Constantio suo salute[m]

See Biblissima, scribe: Pierre de la Fosse


Ott.lat.2966 (Upgraded to HQ), Synodus Meldensis, Privilegia contractus et Bullae S. Maria Blesensis, etc (14th C)
Incipit: Notandum est q[uia] in quintri feria illuis septimane septembris in qua

See JONAS,


Ott.lat.3009, Pius II Epistola ad Mahumetem Jurcarum Principem, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Pius Episcopus Seruus Seruorum dei Mustri Mahinneti Turchorum prinicipi Timore[m]

Ott.lat.3058, Regulae usuales curialibus civitatis Barchinonentis et Chatalaunia
Incipit: Inicuim sancti euangelii secu[n]-dum Johannem. In principio erat u[er]bum et

ff.4r-9v is a calendar


P.I.O.slav.23, Syntegma of Matteo Vlastari (17th-18th C)

P.I.O.slav.29, Spiridon Potemkin, et al Three Starovian Works (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.31, Catechism (1768)

P.I.O.slav.39, Old Believers Apologetica (19th C)

Pal.gr.23, Aristotle, Epictetus, Democritus, Aphthonius, et al Miscellany (13th C)

Pal.gr.268, Eusebius Vita Constantini, Constantini oratio ad sanctorum Coetum, De laudibus Constantini (1301-1325)

Pal.gr.269 (Upgraded to HQ), Ephraem the Greek, John Chrysostom, Symeon Archbishop of Thessalonica, et al Theological Miscellany (15th C)

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


Pal.gr.270 (Upgraded to HQ), Porphyry, Claudius Ptolomy, Michael of Ephesus, et al. Commentarius in tetrabiblum Ptolemaei, Introductio in tetrabiblum Ptolemei, Centiloquium, In Aristotelis sophisticos (c. 1500)

Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 15.-16. Jh., See Pinakes Entry,


Pal.gr.273, Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, ps-Theodoretus Catena on Luke, Catena on Ten Prophets, etc (13th C)

Pal.gr.274, Euthymius Zigabenus Panoplia dogmatica ad Alexium Comnenum (1150-1200)

Pal.gr.275 (Upgraded to HQ), Libanius, Aelius Aristides, Michael Apostolius, et al Rhetorical Miscellany (1463-1472)

Pal.gr.276, Simplicius Commentarius in Epicteti Enchiridion (1468)

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


Pal.gr.277, Dionysius of Halicarnassis, Demetrius Phalerius, Apsines, Minucianus, Aristides Aelius, Menander, Libanius Rhetrical Miscellany (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Πέτρος Ὑψηλᾶς


Reg.gr.128, Maximus Planudes (scholia), Diophantus Arithmatica, De polygonis numeris (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Camillo Zanetti


Reg.gr.131, Gregorius of Cyprus, Atticus, Herennius, Lesbonax, Theodosius of Alexandria, Olympiodorus Proverbs, Bibliotheca, De ideis Platonicis, De figuris, De accentu circumflexo, In Philebum, etc (1650-1651)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Petrus Rezander


Reg.gr.134, Manuel Chrysoloras Erotemata grammaticalia (c. 1455-1498)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Ῥῶσος


Reg.gr.142, Epigrams, etc (16th C, 15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,two unrelated texts bound together. The second, earlier, one was written by Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος


Reg.gr.145, Manuel Moschopulus Erotemata grammatica, Schedographia, Vocum Atticarum conlectio (14th C)

Reg.gr.165, Macrembolita Eustathius De Hysmines et Hysminae amoribus (15th C)

Reg.gr.166.pt.1, Constantini Manassis, et al Synopsis Chronica, etc (14th-15th C)

Reg.gr.166.pt.2, Constantinus Manasses, Maximus Planudes Compendium chronicum, Epigrams (14th-15th C)

See Pinakes, starts f.113r


Reg.gr.168, Synesius of Cyrene, Libanius Epistles (14th C)

Reg.gr.Pio.II.6, Gregory of Nazianzenus, Elias Cretensis (gloss) De moderatione in disputando, In Heronem, In consecratio Eulalii, Ad patrem, Ad cives Nazianzenos, Adversus Arianos (16th C)

Reg.gr.Pio.II.26, Didymus Alexandrinus, Oregin, Gregory of Nazianzenus, et al Catena on Psalms (16th C)

Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σαγκταμαύρας


Reg.lat.1599, Joseph Castaleonis, Julii Capilupi, Hippoliti Capilupi Carmina, Centones Virgiliani, etc (1389-1407)

Reg.lat.1624 (Upgraded to HQ), Balthasaris Oferiani In paradoca M. Tullii Ciceronis (15th C)
Incipit: Balthasaris Ofe-riani partheno-peiiad clarissim[u]m virvm,

Reg.lat.1638 (Upgraded to HQ), Boethius, et al De Musica, Musicae in divina Psalmodia, etc
Incipit: Prohemiv[m] Mvsica[m] Naturaliter Nobis e[ss]e

Vat.ar.118 (Upgraded to HQ), ar-Rašīd Abū' l-Barakāt Illustratio intellectuum de scientia fundamentorum (جلال العقول فى علم الاصول ) (1323)

Dated 723 AH


Vat.ar.177 (Upgraded to HQ), John of Damascus, Anbā Antonio (tr) Opera philosophica et theologica(tr) (13th C)

Vat.ar.180 (Upgraded to HQ), (13th C)

Vat.ar.249, Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Ismail al-Buhar al-Gami as-sahih (1495)

Volume 4 of 10. Dated Ramadan 900 AH, started May 26, 1495. Ex libris of the Waqf of the mosque az-Zaytuna of Tunisia


Vat.ar.266, Al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad 'Imadaddin abu'l-Fida Ima'il b 'Ali Taqwim al-buldan (14th C)

Vat.ar.374, Minhag al-bayan fima yasta'-miluhu al-insan Abu 'Ali Yahya b 'Ali b 'Isa Ibn Gazla (15th C)

Vat.et.27, Psalter (16th C)

Vat.lat.5891, Christophori Saxi Orations: in funere Lucae Alberti Podiani Perusini medici, etc
Incipit: Christophori Saxi Perusini Oratio in funere luce. Alberti Podiani Perusini Medici Præ-stantissimi. Coneionem pro uita

Vat.lat.6104 (Upgraded to HQ), Onofrio Panvinio Vitae Pontificum (16th C)
Incipit: S. Gregorvs Magnvs Papa et confessor.. Anno Salvtis DXC

Starts on f.896r, volume 3 of 4, Vat.lat.6102-6105


Vat.lat.10803 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellany (14th-16th C)
Incipit: De aduentu Antichr[ist]i Ex quo Paulus Ap[oste]lus. Scribit in Ep[istu]la sua

Vat.sir.193, Georgii Barberaei Suulpharagii Grammatica Syriaca

Vat.turc.5, Devotional Work (17th C)

Vat.turc.12, Devotional Work (17th C)

Includes some magical diagrams, text a mix of Arabic and Turkish


Vat.turc.15, Devotional Work (1549)

Dated Rabi' II 956 AH. Ownership mark for Pervane ibn 'Abdullah of Esztergom, Hungary