Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2023

A second week in a row concludes with sixty manuscripts digitized. This week did not follow recent patterns, but reprised the October/November model, with Pal.gr contributing the most manuscripts, twenty-six. This brings the Pal.gr fond to 387 manuscripts uploaded, out of the total size of 400. Hopefully one more week of work, in January, will complete this section.

This week included a large number of different collections, with Vat.lat, adding eleven, Ott.lat seven and Barb.lat five. Following them was Barb.gr with three and Patetta and Vat.sir with two. Single manuscripts came from Sbath, Vat.ar, Vat.gr, and Vat.turc.

On of the manuscripts added this week contains a listing of the noble families of Venice, along with their heraldry (Coats of arms). To the right is f.50r from this volume, Vat.lat.6087. At the bottom of this page, you can see the arms of the Foscari family. The Lion of St Mark's is visible, if slightly crude, at the top right. The Foscari were one of the 150 hereditary noble families who were the only ones who could hold the senior offices of the Republic, allowing Francesco Foscari to become doge in the 15th C.

At the bottom is a line of 9th C Caroline Minuscule from f.21r of Barb.lat.680. This manuscript contains a copy of the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, the largest and best documented of the early ecumenical councils. The line of text is from a page listing the important people who signed onto the acts, it continues for the entire next column of text.

Barb.gr.298, Regula ad Patres spirituales, Chapter CCXXXVII

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.317 (Upgraded to HQ), Argumenta librorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti

See Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.548, Theodoretus of Cyrene Interpretatio in Psalmos

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, marginal notes in the hand of Guglielmo Sirleto

Barb.lat.680, Acts of the Council of Chaldedon (9th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) neq[ue] uolens doctrinae p[re]sentis s[an]c[t]i concilii consentire

Barb.lat.1213, Appendia locupletissimus ad Manuale Concionatorum valde utilis ad conciones, Scripture variae concenentis Controuesia de Auxiliis divine gratiae et della necessita di essere in breve dalla Sta. di N. S. questa matoria diffinita, etc (17th C)

Incipit: Index locorum sacræ scripturæ, quæ in hoc operæ ponderatione speciali sanctoru[m] Patrum explicantur. Genesis. Cap. 1. Spiritus Domini ferebatur

Barb.lat.1340, Repetitio Duo Fratres Qui Romae de Verbum obligationibus, habita per Sfortiam (17th C)

Barb.lat.1341, Sfortiae Oddi (17th C)

Incipit: (f.Ir) Ordo seu Methodus ab Auctore Seruatus in hac volemni Repeti-tione Rubr

Barb.lat.1343, In Rubr. de acquirenda Poss[ne] bonorum eaque retinenda et amittenda breve compendium (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Ad Ss. Nihil con de acq. pon. 1 Nihil commune Habet proprietor cum Possessione

Ott.lat.611, Bonaventure In IV Sententiarum (13th C)

Incipit: Unguentarius faciet pigmenta

Ott.lat.619, Vita Pauli Pontificis IV, Book III

Incipit: Libro Quarto Del Conclave di Marcello secondo e del Electione di Paolo Quarto Cap. p[rimo]. Doppo Giulio e. il quale mori il 1555

Book 3 of 3, Ott.lat.617-619

Ott.lat.625, Bible: Genesis-Ecclesiasticus

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit prologus s[an]c[t]i ieronimi p[re]sb[ite]ri ad paulin[um] de studio sc[ri]pt[or]ar[um]. Frater ambrosius tua michi

ff.IIr-IIIr is a table of contents in arabic numerals

Ott.lat.627, Richard de Mediabilla On the Sentences (1275-1300)

Incipit: In noua sig[na] & immuta mirab[i]lia gl[or]ifica

Ott.lat.628, Antonii de Beccariis Disputationes de Unione Verbi Dei

Incipit: (f.1r) Disputatio Prima. Disputationes Quinque de unione diuini uerbi

Ott.lat.636, Tractatus septiformis de moralitatibus rerum seu corporum celestium elementorum, Animaliumm Avium, Piscium, Arborum, seu Plantarum, Herbarum et Lapidum

Incipit: Incipit Tabula g[e]n[er]al[i] Justa l[ib]ram in opus sequen[t]s moralitatum

Ott.lat.2252, Plura ad astronomica et chronologica pertinentia. (14th C)

Incipit: Canones ex co[m]munes. Utrum luna sit uelox uel tarda unienire.

Pal.gr.141 (Upgraded to HQ), Maximus Planudes, Manuel Philes, George Lacapenus Versus sacri, Epigrams, Epistles, Comparatio hiemis et veris, etc (c. 1310-1330)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ζαχαρίας Καλλιέργης (ff.286v-287r)

Pal.gr.142, Demosthenes, Lycophron, Hesiod, Marcianus Herecleensis, et al Orations, Alexandria, Theogony, Periplus maris exteri, etc (1470-1471, 1505-1506)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Δημήτριος Ξανθόπουλος (ff.2r-77r, 82r-109r, 110r-133r), part 1, ff.1-135 is 15th C, the rest is later

Pal.gr.143 (Upgraded to HQ), Philostratus, Palaephatus, Xenophon, Hippocrates, Galen Imagines, Heroicus, De incredibilibus, Hiero, Prognosticon, Aphorisms, De Urinis, etc (1475-1525)

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

Pal.gr.144, Manuel Chrysoloras, Euripides, Theodorus Prodromus Erotemata grammaticalia, Hecuba, Orestes, Epigrams, Phoenissae (1301-1350, 1450-1500)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.158 (Upgraded to HQ), Isaac Tzetzes, Lycophron, Manuel Holobolus, et al Alexandra, with scholia (1501-1525)

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

Pal.gr.159 (Upgraded to HQ), Porphyry, Aristotle Isagogue, Categories, De interpretatione, Analytica, Topics, De sophisticis elenchis (1442 )

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης (written in Florence per Colophon)

Pal.gr.160 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristotle, Phillip II of Macedon, ps-Alexander the Great Politics, Rhetoric, Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, Epistula ad Olympiadem, etc (1442)

Codices Palatini Entry, Aristoteles; Sammelhandschrift; 1442, See Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.161, Aristotle De Xenophane, Physica, De caelo, Meterologica, De generatione et corruptione, de anima (c. 1440)

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

Pal.gr.162 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristotle, Theophrastus, ps-Aristotle De spiritu, Mirabilium auscultationes, De mundo, Mechanica, De igne, etc (c. 1442-1457)

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

Pal.gr.163, Aristotle Parva naturalia (c. 1450-1459)

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

Pal.gr.164, Aristotle Metaphysica, Problemata (15th C)

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

Pal.gr.165 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristotle Ethics (15th C)

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

Pal.gr.166, Plutarch Lives (1401-1450)

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

Pal.gr.167, Plutarch De Alexandri Magni, Lives (1451-1500)

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

Pal.gr.170, Plutarch Scripta moralia (1425-1475)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἀθανάσιος μοναχός

Pal.gr.171 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible: New Testament (1442-1453)

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

Pal.gr.172, Demosthenes Orations (1442-1459)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης (table of contents)

Pal.gr.173 (Upgraded to HQ), Plato Dialogues (10th C)

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

Pal.gr.174 (Upgraded to HQ), Lucian Works, with Scholia (14th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.175, Plato Twelve Dialogues (1425-1475)

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

Pal.gr.176, Herodotus Histories (1400-1457)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Pal.gr.177 (Upgraded to HQ), Plato Minos, Leges, Epinomis (c. 1425-1459)

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

Pal.gr.178, Plutarch Scripta moralia (c. 1425-1459)

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

Pal.gr.179 (Upgraded to HQ), ps-Herdotus, ps-Homer, et al Vita Homeri, Oratio in laudem Helenae, Argonautica, Hymns, Hero and Leander, etc (1401-1450)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Εὐγενικός, διάκονος καὶ νομοφύλαξ (ff. 21r-136r, 140v)

Pal.gr.180, Homer Iliad (1452-1459)

See Biblissima, See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰωάννης Σκουταριώτης

Pal.gr.239, Iohannes Xiphilinus, ps-Codinus Sermons, De Hagia Sophia (14th C)

See Biblissima, Codices Palatini Entry, Pinakes Entry,

Patetta.35, Breviary, Fransiscan use (c. 1391-1410)

Incipit: (f.7r) Incipit beati

See Iter liturgicum italicum, ff.1r-6v is calendar

Patetta.42, Book of Hours, Use of Rome (15th C)

Incipit: (f.11r) Incipit offitium glo-riose uirginis marie secu[n]dum usum rome. Ad matutinu[m]

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Italy. Missing f.1,12 (Jan and December from Calendar). Ff.1r-10v are calendar. See [CoKL DB}(http://www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/852)

Sbath.438, Collection of Melkhite Hagiography (1748)

Partially translated from Greek

Vat.ar.1602, Quran (1834)

Dated Muharram 1250 AH (May-June 1834)

Vat.gr.1342 (Upgraded to HQ), Aristotle Magna moralia, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Economics (13th C)

See Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.5993, Servius Commentary on the Aeneid of Virgil (11th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) In exponindis auctoribus Hæc consideranda sunt

See Biblissima,

Vat.lat.6004, Antonio d'Azara Postilla super Evangelia Dominicalia (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipiu[n]t postille Copillat[us] p[er] fratre[m] Antho[n]ium de pa[r]-ma Ordi[ni]s p[re]dichator[um]

Scribe: Iohannes, O.Hum (colophon on f.240r). Flyleaf is a fragment of an Electuarium, ex libris to Santi Apostoli in Rome

Vat.lat.6016, Commentum super Apocalypsim

Incipit: (f.1v) Incipit com[en]tu[m] svp[er] Beatvm Ioh[anne]m Ap[osto]l[u]m A-p-o-cali-p-s-i-n

Vat.lat.6079, Missale, Fransiscan Use (1390-1410)

Incipit: decorem induit dominus fo[r]-titudine[m] et

See Iter liturgicum italicum Italian. Includes notated music, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 688[ Title: Missale, Folio: passim, Century: 14/15, Provinance: OFM, Notation: quadrata],See Bannister, H. M

Vat.lat.6087, Insignia familiarum Venetae Civitatis ordine alphabetico (1556)

Incipit: Aleardi guesti

Vat.lat.6531, Isidore of Seville, Virgil, Latinus Latinius, et al De Romanis mensuris constituendis, De coro mensura Hebraeorum, Aeneid, Sermons, etc (15th-16th C)

Incipit: (f.6r) De differenciis Ciceronis In dubiis rebus Liber Lege feliciter. Inter altaria et aras hoc inter est

See Biblissima, See Jordanus #10247

Vat.lat.6697

Incipit: Bernardo Olgiatto n[ost]ro Dep[onsario] G[e]n[er]ale. Pagate ad Aless[andro] Musotto n[ost]ro

Vat.lat.9765, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibue inscriptiones veters et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis descripta sunt (1829)

Incipit: S. Sedis Lateran Possessio et catholici magnae britanniae emancipati

Vat.lat.9768, Hieronymi Amati Libelli in quibue inscriptiones veters et excerpta varia e libris de rebus antiquis Aegyptiis, Etruscis, Graecis, Latinis descripta sunt (19th C)

Incipit: Minucii, Miniciis

Vat.lat.10643, Raccolta di quesiti, voti, etc. Vol XVIII (1826)

Incipit: Segretaria della S. Congre[gatione] della

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 718[ Title: Ordo sororum, Folio: passim, Century: 15x, Provinance: Milano (OESA), Notation: quadrata]

Vat.lat.10683, Porphyry, Boethius (tr), Aristotelis, Gilberti Porretani, Boethius, et al Introductio in Aristotelis Categorias (tr), Works (tr), Liber sex principiorum, Liber de divisione (14th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipiu[n]t ysagoge porphyrii a i[n]troductio[n]e ei[us] ad cathe-gorias .I. predicame[n]ta aristotilis

Vat.sir.144, ps-John Philoponus, Elias of Harran On Difference, Number, and Division

Although traditionall attributed to Philoponus, the preface by Elias attributes it to Sergius of Ḥuzri, Thomas of the monastery of Mar Zakkai and Simeon of the monastery of Talil. See Fiori, E. (2023). "Chapter 5 A Geological Approach to Syriac Miaphysite Christology (Sixth–Ninth Centuries): Detours of a Patristic Florilegium from Antioch to Tagrit". In Florilegia Syriaca. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Vat.sir.318, Officia Sanctorum, Maronite Use

See Scriptorum veterum nova collectio e Vaticanis codicibus edita, Volume 5 (1831), Part 2. pp. 27-28

Vat.turc.246, Sami Mustafa Efendi Divan (18th C)