Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 47 of 2023

A total of ninety-eight manuscripts were digitized this week into the Vatican repositories. The distribution of works is back to the most recent pattern, with a massive forty-two coming from Pal.gr. This brings the collection to 357 volumes uploaded into the Vatican repositories of the 400 that are available at Heidelberg, almost 90% coverage. Hopefully this means that another few weeks of uploading will complete this project.

From the manuscripts newly digitized this week Barb.lat contributed the most, with twenty-four, followed by Reg.gr with thirteen. Smaller additions came from Ott.lat with seven, Barb.gr with four, and Vat.lat with three. Although a much smaller collection than Pal.gr, the work on the P.I.O also drives, hopefully, towards completion. Two more of the slavi manuscripts were added this week, bringing that collection to 43 of 54 manuscripts scanned.

John of Damascus wrote his Philosophical Chapters to act as an introduction to the basic concepts of logic, as a lead-in to his works on Orthodox theology. To the right is f.3v from Pal.lat.242, a copy of this work, also called Dialectica, with scholia (commentary) from the early 14th C, perhaps Cyprus. This sort of full-page miniature, here of the titular saint, is extremely unusual in Greek theological works.

There is, sometimes, a tendency to anthropomorphize manuscripts, they are skin and spine, they have scars, but they are just objects in the end. It is hard, however, not to feel a bit sad for the life of Pal.gr.225, whose f.117v contributes the line of Greek text seen below. This is a book for Greek Orthodox Liturgical use, aferial psalter, and was written about 1451-1452 in Constantinople, a city at the end of its Greek Orthodox existence

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Barb.gr.491, Pachomius, Ammon, Theophilus of Alexandria, et al In Thebaide, Epistles, etc (17th C)

Barb.gr.569, Catena on Octateuch (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Camillo Zanetti


Barb.gr.571, Ordo for Baptism and weddings, etc (17th C)

Barb.gr.576 (Upgraded to HQ), Basil of Caesarea Scholia in Job, Sermons

Barb.lat.931, Opusculum Studio Sancti Caroli elaboratum De Choreis, et Spectaculis in festis diebus non exhibendis (17th C)
Incipit: (f.Ir) Sanctis[simo] ac Beatis[simo] Parti et D. N. Pavlo Qvinto pontifici maximo

Barb.lat.1005, Petri de Soto Responsio ad epistolam D. Decani (16th C)
Incipit: Responsio Petri de Soto ad Ep[isto]lam D. Decan. Multum reu[erendi] D[omi]ne Magister Doctissime

Barb.lat.1008, Censura quatuor Propositionum Cleri Gallicani in Conventu Parisiensi Anni 1682 (c. 1682)
Incipit: (f.1r) Cleri Gallicani de Ecclesiastica potestate declaratio. Ecclesiæ Gallicanæ Decreta, et Libertates

Barb.lat.1010, Quaedam contra Jansenium (17th C)
Incipit: Alexander Ep[iscopu]s Servus Seruiorum Dei omnibus Christi fidelibus

Barb.lat.1011, D.O.M. Disputatio de Sententia Sancti Thomae Ecclesiae Doctoris Angelici Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum in Controvertia Conceptionis Immaculatae Dei Genitricis Vigginis Mariae (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) De Sententia Sancti Thome Ecclesia Doctoris Angelici Ordinis Fratrum Prædicator[um] in Controuersia Conceptionis Immaculatæ Beatissimæ Virginis Genetricis Dei Mariæ. Disputatio. In hac Disputatione ex authoritatibus

Barb.lat.1012, (17th C)
Incipit: Parænesis ad Principes ditione Disputatem, et Immuuitaten ecclesiatica

Starts f.234r


Barb.lat.1016, Julius Isopius Pro Henrico Barbonio in haeresim relapso, ad Ascanium Columnam Cardinalem (17th C)
Incipit: Compendium Totius Assertionis Catholicæ

Starts f.43r


Barb.lat.1019, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.126r) Pro Sacrorum ordinum gloria et munimine Nonnulla propositiones de fide immediate

Starts f.126r


Barb.lat.1024, Andreae Eudaemon Joannis Cydonii e Societate Jesu adversus disputationem Pseudo Roggeri Uuidringtoni Juramento Fidelitatis libri tres (17th C)
Incipit: (f.Ir) Lectori. Is qui Roggeri Vuidrington romine

Barb.lat.1026, (16th-17th C)
Incipit: Dilectis filiis, nobilibus viris Principibus regii Sanguinis ac Ducibus et Sacribus Catholicae Coronae Aegni Franciae Sixtus Papa V

Barb.lat.1037, Collationes historicae, Sacrorum Canonum et Theologiae, habitae Romae ab anno 1673 ad annum 1677 (17th C)
Incipit: Collatio habenda die 10 Ap[ri]lis 1673 Pro Historia Eruditiones. De Sibyllinis carminibus citatis

Barb.lat.1081, Three Theological Works (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Tractatvs Theologicvs De poenitentiæ Sacramento. Prooëmivm. Cum nostris temporibus

Barb.lat.1092, Dominici Gravina Quaeromonia Apologetica de Adulatoribus Palatinis (17th C)
Incipit: Quærimonia apologetica De Adulatoribus Palatinis Fr[atr]is Dominici Grauina Neap[olitini] S. T. Mag[ist]ri ordinis.

Barb.lat.1097, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IIr) Alexandro VII Partri Patrum Primariæ Sedis Apostolicæ et Vniversalis Sancæ Ro-mania Ecclesiæ

Barb.lat.1109, Nicolai Riccardi Lectiones ad quaestionem XIX S. Thomae de voluntate Dei. (17th C)
Incipit: Qvæstio XIX In Primam partem S[ancto] Thomæ De Volvntate Dei. Quando per breuitatem temporis

Barb.lat.1110, Nicolai Riccardi Tractatus de bonitate et mailtia humanorum actuum (17th C)
Incipit: Tractatvs de Bonitate et Malitia Humanorum actuum. Temporis angustis quibus

Barb.lat.1128, Mauritii Centini Ausculania Fragmenta theologica de Sacramentis (17th C)
Incipit: quia ton conmoduce hoc in singuloru[m]

Starts f.15r


Barb.lat.1130, Tractatus de Actibus Humanis (17th C)
Incipit: Tracatus de Actibus Humanis. Præcisa cuiuscumque introductionis prolixitate

Barb.lat.1143, Angelo Petricca a Sonnino Turris David (17th C)
Incipit: (f.Ir) Sanctiss[imo] ac Beatiss[imo] Patri Vrbano VIII pont. opt. max. Exitiosum bellum aduersus Eareticos Caluanistas

Barb.lat.1146, P. Simmeri Quaestiones de Sacramentis in Speciæ (17th C)
Incipit: Ad quæstiones de Sacramen-tis in specie. Disputatio præambula de Sacramentis in Genere.

Barb.lat.1147, P. Simmeri Tractatus Theologiae moralis de Peccatis aduersus praecepta primae (17th C)
Incipit: Tractatus Theologiæ Moralis. De peccatis aduersus præcepta primæ Tabulæ. Primo primæ Tabulæ preæcepto.

Barb.lat.1148, P. Simmeri Quaestiones disputatae de Sacramento Paencitatate (17th C)
Incipit: Quæstiones disputatæ de Sacramento Poenitentiæ. Auerie faciom tuam a peccatis meis

Barb.lat.1149, P. Simmeri Tractatus De restitutione famae, honoris et Rei (17th C)
Incipit: De Restitutione Famæ, Honoris, et Rei. Oblifationis restituendi duas

Barb.lat.1173, Bartholomaei Guidicione Tractatus de libero arbitrio contra iniquos Pauli Apostoli interprete (16th C)
Incipit: De errore negantium liberum arbitrium et fructu[m] bonoru[m]

Ott.lat.492, Bulla non nullarum Pontificum roma novum de erectione collegii secretariorum Apostolicorum
Incipit: Seruus seruorum dei. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Non debet reprehensibile iudicari

Ott.lat.494, Liber constitutionum et Practice sacri Officii inquisitionis in tres partes distributus (1491)
Incipit: Incipit prima pars hv-ivs libelli in Qua ponuntur iiii[or]

Dated in colophon on f.192r


Ott.lat.547, Pontificale (14th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Ordo .VII. eccle-siasticor[um] gra-duum

See Iter liturgicum italicum from Perugia (?), See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 782[ Title: Pontificale, Folio: passim, Century: 14, Notation: quadrata]


Ott.lat.556, Antonio Solereii Epistola ad Rodulphum Pium Faventiae Antistem, Sermo ab eo factus, in capitulo Baiocensis ecclesiae (16th C)
Incipit: Illustrissimo & Reuerendissimo d[omi]no, d[omi]no Rodulpho Pio sauentiæ Antistiti meruissimo, ac sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ Cardinali

The sermon is printed, foliation restarts there


Ott.lat.587, (17th C)
Incipit: Memoria di Mons[ignore] I Arci ues-couo di Tolosa, la quale contie-ne la discussione di una

Ott.lat.2783, Inclyti Hungaria Regni Decretorum et constitutionum atque articulorum Ordinum a sancto Rege Stephano (c. 1570)
Incipit: (f.1v) Operis Divisio. Primus liber continet Decreta, et constitutiones atq[ue] articulos de Ecclesias-ticis rebus et Personis, et de Rege ac Dominorum aliorumq[ue] statu & con-ditione

Ott.lat.2956, Ordinationi del Re di Francia Filippo di Valois, Carlo VII e Francesco II, etc (16th C)
Incipit: Phillipes par la grace de dieu Roy de france

In French


P.I.O.slav.45, Psalter (18th C)

Volume 3 of 4


P.I.O.slav.46, Psalter (18th C)

Volume 4 of 4


Pal.gr.221.pt.1, Johannes Xiphilinus Sermons (1275-1300)

See Codices Palatini Entry, ends f.206


Pal.gr.221.pt.2, Johannes Xiphilinus Sermons (1275-1300)

See Codices Palatini Entry, starts f.207r


Pal.gr.223 (Upgraded to HQ), Constantinus Harmenopulus, Aristophanes, Hephastion, Manuel Moschopulus, Thomas Magister, Euripides, Johannes Pothus Pediasimus Poetica > Miscellanea (1495 )

Pal.gr.224, Demosthenes Orations (15th C)

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


Pal.gr.225, Ferial Psalter with Odes (1451-1452)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Μιχαήλ. Possibly localized to Constantinople


Pal.gr.226 (Upgraded to HQ), Augustinus Aurelius, John Philoponus, Damasus, Jerome of Jerusalem, et al Theological Miscellany (15th-16th C)

Pal.gr.227, Bible: Gospels (1275-1325)

Pal.gr.228, John Chrysostom Orations (13th-14th C)

Pal.gr.229, Bible: Gospels (1301-1325)

Pal.gr.231, Homer, Georgius Pachymeres Iliad, Works (13th-14th C)

Pal.gr.233, Judicial Miscellany (1304)

Pal.gr.234, Theodorus Prodromus, Cyril of Alexandria, ps-Cato De spiritibus dictionum, Opera Descripta, Catonis disticha (15th C)

Pal.gr.235, Boethius, Thomas Aquinus, Petrus Hispanus, Aristotle, George Gennadius Scholarius (tr) De dialectica, Sententia super de Anima, etc (15th-16th C)

Pal.gr.236, Euripides, Thomas Magister (Scholia) Orestes and Hecuba (with Scholia) (15th C)

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


Pal.gr.237, Themistius, Simplicius, Alexander of Aphrodisius In Aristotelis de anima commentarius, Scholia in Aristotelis De physica auscultatione, Problemata (14th C)

Pal.gr.238, ps- Manuel Moschopulus Vocum Atticarum conlectio (16th C)

Pal.gr.240 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristophanes Comedies: Plutus, Nubes, with Scholia (15th C)

Pal.gr.241, Theological Miscellany (1425-1475)

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


Pal.gr.242, John of Damascus Dialectica with Scholia (13th-14th C)

Pal.gr.243, Musical and Theology Miscellany (14th C)

Pal.gr.244, Suidae Lexicon (1453-1460)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης (ff.7r-359v, 395v-403r), Μιχαὴλ Λύγιζος (ff.360r-395r)


Pal.gr.245 (Upgraded to HQ), Menologium: November-June (13th-14th C)

Pal.gr.246, Homer Iliad (15th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ματθαῖος Λαμπούδης


Pal.gr.247, Nicetas Heracleensis Catena on Psalms, Ps. 1-76 (12th C)


Pal.gr.249, Judicial Miscellany (10th-12th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry](https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote/65981/),


Pal.gr.250, Gregory of Nazianzenus Sermons (10th-12th C)

Pal.gr.251 (Upgraded to HQ), Galen De usu partium (15th C)

Pal.gr.253 (Upgraded to HQ), Stephanus Byzantinus Ethnica seu de urbibus et populis (c. 1470-1480)

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


Pal.gr.254, Hermogenes, Theophrastus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus Rhetorical Miscellany (c. 1470)

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


Pal.gr.255 (Upgraded to HQ), Porphyry, Aristotel Isagogue, Categories, De interpretatione, Analytica priora, Analytica posteriora, Topics, De sophisticis elenchis (1472-1485)

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


Pal.gr.256, Miscellany (1449 )

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Νικόλαος Μελλαχρηνός (ff.14r-389v)


Pal.gr.257, John Chrysostom Sermons on Matthew (10th-11th C, 15th C)

Pal.gr.258, Paulus Evergetinus Synagoge (1401-1450)

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


Pal.gr.259, John Chrysostom Sermons on Genesis (1054 )

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Νικηφόρος πρεσβύτερος Χρυσός


Pal.gr.260 (Upgraded to HQ), Aelianus Claudius, Aristotle De natura animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium, Historia animalium

Pal.gr.261 (Upgraded to HQ), Diogenes Laertius, Lucianus, Claudius Ptolomy, et al Vitae philosophorum, Demonax, etc (15th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Δημήτριος Ῥαοὺλ Καβάκης


Pal.gr.262, Leontius Byzantinus, Photius Excepta Leontina, Ad Amphilochium quaestiones (1451-1500)

Pal.gr.263, Manuel Moschopulus Schedographia (14th C)

Pal.gr.266, Laonicus Chalcocondyles Historiae de origine atque rebus Turcarum (15th C)

Pal.gr.267, Claudius Aelianus De natura animalium (15th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Aelianus; Claudius; Animalium historiae libri XVII15. Jh., Pinakes Entry,


Pal.gr.424, John Chrysostom Sermons on Genesis (11th C)

Reg.gr.95, Dionysius of Halicarnassis Antiquitates Romanae (1446 )

Reg.gr.119, Theon Smyrnaeus, Asclepius Trallianus De utilitate mathematicae, Commentarius in Nicomachi Geraseni Pythagorei Introductionem (16th C)

Reg.gr.132 (Upgraded to HQ), Ovid Metamorphoses (14th C)

Reg.gr.133, Ovid, Maximus Planudes (tr) Heroides (tr) (14th C)

Reg.gr.137, Constantius II, Themistius Pro Themistio Philos. Ad Senatum Concio, Orations (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀντώνιος Καλοσυνᾶς


Reg.gr.138, Mithridates, Brutus Epistularum Bruti, Epistles (16th C)

Reg.gr.146 (Upgraded to HQ), Johannes Stobaeus Anthologium (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Lascaris Galeoto miræ indolis Adolesce[n]tulo. Quem tibi pro ,isi mitto Galeoti libellu[m]

Reg.gr.150, Pardus Gregorius Corinthius De dialectis (15th C)

Reg.gr.154, Galen Ars medica, Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequantur (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης (ff.41r-72r)


Reg.gr.159, Hermias, Nicetas David Paphlago, Gregory of Nazianzenus Irrisio gentilium philosophorum, Scholia in Gregorii Nazianzeni cermina, Epitaphium 119 (16th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος


Reg.gr.164, Nicephorus Blemmydes, Theodor of Gaza De anima, Introductio II: Epitome physica, De fato (16th C)

Reg.gr.167, John Philoponus De usu astrolabi libellus (15th C)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἄγγελος Βεργίκιος


Reg.gr.189, Bible: Gospels (12th C)

Reg.lat.1469, Nonius Marcellus, Giullelmus Brito, Festus Pompeius, ps-Cicero, Gasparinus Barzizius, Servius, et al De compendiosa doctrina, Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, De verborum significatu, Synonyma, De compositione, Commentarii in Vergilium, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Index ear[um] rer[um] que hoc codice co[n]tine[n]-tur Nonii marcelli

See Biblissima, scribe: Johannes Bateman


Ross.872, Du‘a’ Hizb al-bahr, Bu‘a’ Musd, Du‘a’ Uways al-Qaranl, Du‘à’ Bilal al-Habaši (17th C)

A text about talismans and magic squares


Vat.lat.10583, Henry Stevenson, Jr. Scheae de libris anniversariorum seu necrologiis (19th C)
Incipit: Appunti generali sui Necrologi

Vat.lat.10586, Henry Stevenson, Jr. Schedar de praecipuis illustribus scriptoribus et eruditis (19th C)
Incipit: Vmanismo e Vmanisti

Vat.lat.10590, P. Aloysii Galletti Inscriptionum omnium urbis Ecclesiarum collectio (19th C)
Incipit: Hic requiescit corpus insignis

Third of three volumes


Vat.sir.150, Georgii Arbelae, Jabaliahe Magni, Jesujahi Arzunite, etc Questiones de ministerio Altaris, Questiones de Baptismo, etc (1709)

Dated 2020 Anno Graecorum