Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 6 of 2023

For the week ending February 10th, a total of forty-six manuscripts were digitized. Although nine more were added from Vat.turc, the distribution is trending back towards Latin collections, with Barb.lat contributing fifteen manuscripts and Vat.lat. fourteen. All of the rest of the weeks contributions were small fonds, with two from Capp.sist and Vat.ar, and one each from Borg.lat, Ott.lat, Ross, and Vat.et.

To the right is the title page from Capp.sist.8, a Graduale connected to other manuscripts of Plainchant made for Pope Paul II, note his arms at the bottom of the page. This page starts with the Introit, that is the entrance chant, for a Sunday in Lent, "Circumdederunt me gemitus mortis". This page is actually foliated as f.3r because there's a later addition in front of it, a notice of the donation by Cardinal Ottoboni to the library of Pope Innocent XIII.

At the bottom is a line of text from f.69r of Borg.lat.356, this is a personal prayer book, something akin to a Book of Hours but with different contents, from Ste. Patrizia in Naples. Although the book is from the 14th C, the hand is a peculiar late form of Beneventan, a script that had mostly fallen from use at least a century earlier. The script is something of a debased form, with Gothic letterforms creeping in, notable here in the capitol G of "Gl[ori]a"

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Barb.lat.563, (15th C)
Incipit: (f.7r) In nomine domini amen. In-cipiunt oraciones totuis anni circuli. Dominica prima de aduentu. Excita d[omi]ne quesumus potencia[m] tuam

ff.1r-6v is a calendar


Barb.lat.565, John of Constantinople, Mutiano Scolastico (tr) Commentary on Hebrews (tr) (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit co[m]mentarivm ioh[ann]is æpiscopi constantinopolitani in epistola[m] Pauli ad hebreos, ex notis æditu[m] post ei[us] obitu[m] a constanitio p[res]b[ite]ro antiocæno & translatu[m] de greco in latinum a Muriano scolastico

Barb.lat.574, Gregory the Great Homiliarum in Ezechielem, Books I-II, Epistles (11th C)
Incipit: Ex dictis gregorii sup[er]

Barb.lat.575, Gregory the Great Moralia in Job (12th C)
Incipit: Reuerentissimo & s[an]c[t]issimo fr[atr]i leandro [] ep[iscop]o g[re]gori[us]

Barb.lat.577, Remigius of Auxerrois Expositionis super Apocolypsis (12th C)
Incipit: Incipiunt capitula in apocalipsin. .I. Joh[anni]s septe[m] eccl[aes]us que sunt in asia

Barb.lat.633, John of Damascus (14th C)
Incipit: Ioh[ann]is p[res]b[ite]ri damascem lib[ri] i[n]ci-pit i[n] quo e[st]

Barb.lat.638, Smaragdus Patrum tractatibus, Tractatus de conceptione beatae Mariae, de officiis Ecclesiasticus, etc
Incipit: Hvnc modicu[m] libellum sma-ragdus de di-uersis patrum tractatibus

Barb.lat.639, Cassiodorus Varia, De anima, etc (14th C)
Incipit: Libri uariarum theodorici reg[is] i[n] liber p[ri]mus. Cum disero-rum gr[ati]am

Barb.lat.656, (17th C)
Incipit: De divinis vocationibus ex parte altera Demonstrationu[m] Sancti Petri fratris maioris SS. Basilii magni et Gregorii Nyiseni

Barb.lat.670, Isidore of Seville Etymologies (13th C)
Incipit: Domino meo et dei dervo Brallioni Episcopo isi-dorvs. Omni desid[er]io desid[er]aui

Barb.lat.682, Peter Aureol, et al (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit compe[n]diu[m] iu[e]n[a]lis sensus toti[us] die[m] sc[ri]pture editu[m] a fr[atr]e pe. aureoli ordinis

Barb.lat.683, Peter of Blois Letters, Oppositiones, De confessione facienda, De instrucyione episcopalis officii (14th C)
Incipit: Incipiunt ep[isto]le mag[ist]ri pet[ri] bles[ensi] Bath[onensis] archid[eaconi] quaru[m] p[ri]ma[m] uice[m] prologi obtinet. Henrico dei gr[ati]a illustrissimo

ff.1r-1v is a Table of Contents


Barb.lat.688, Petrus de Tarantasia (Innocent V) Super primum Sententiarum (14th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) [Q]uinquid nostri ordinem celi et pones ro[n]nem ei[us]

ff.1r-2v is a table of contents


Barb.lat.706, Jerome Commentary on Isaiah (11th C)
Incipit: q[uo]d negare no[n] possumus, & moyses om[n]i eruditus

Barb.lat.708, Thomas James Notationes et observationes in S. Ambrosii opera Parisii excusa 1603 juxta Romanam editionem 1580 ex manuscriptis oxoniensibus collectae (c. 1612)

Borg.lat.356 (Upgraded to HQ), Office Book/Book of Hours (14th C)
Incipit: frangam et constringam et ex-altabuntur corona iusti

See Iter liturgicum italicum, late Beneventan hand from Ste. Patrizia in Naples


Capp.Sist.8, Graduale (16th C)
Incipit: Dominica in Septvagesima ad missam introitvs. Circu[m]de-derunt

Capp.Sist.698, Letters, to and from the Cantori Pontifici (1587-1594)

Ott.lat.220, St. Augustine De Psalmo lxxvii
Incipit: Incipit tractat[us] beati Augustini de psalmo lxxvii[o]. Psalm[us] iste ea co[n]tinet q[uae] i[n] uet[er]i p[o]p[u]lo

Ross.879, Quran (1757)

dated Rabi' I 23 1171 AH (


Vat.ar.572, Quran (17th C)

Suras 6, 36, 42, 68, 97, 108


Vat.ar.889, Quran (16th-17th C)

Sura 6


Vat.et.321, Story of Gabra Manfas Qeddus, All the Hosts of Angels, Miracles of Mary (19th-20th C)

Vat.lat.6319, Informatione delle cose de Suizzeri et delle lighe Grise et de Vallesani et di Geneva, etc.
Incipit: (f.2r) Li cantoni di Suizzeri sono in tutto XIII. Li Lutherani sono quattro, otto Catholici, & uno neutrale

Vat.lat.8301, Fabius Danzetta De negotiatione Clericis interdicta collecta-nea, et an opificium typographicum sit negotiatio si fiat per conductos ministros ab Ecclesiasticis (1764)
Incipit: (f.2r) Factum. In Typographia Patavina Seminariu, Ecclesiasticum

Vat.lat.8307, Fabius Danzetta Dissertationes et responsa de quaestionibus Juris Ecclesiastici et Eheologiae moralis, etc. (c. 1729)
Incipit: Istruzione per l'Oriente Sopra la Communicazioni in Divinis de Cattolici co Scismatici ed Eretici

Begins with a bi-lingual (Italian and Latin) printed work


Vat.lat.8327, Perche possano li Romani Pontefici esiggere le Annate, e come debbano li Vescovi della Germania pagarle (1789)
Incipit: (f.1r) Avviso. Bisognarebbe negare quasi del tutto

Vat.lat.9756, Hieronymi Amati Inscriptiones veteres et excerpta varia: (19th C)
Incipit: Sua Eminenza Reuerendissima Il sig[nore] Cardinali Placido Zurla

Part of a set, Vat.lat.9734-9775


Vat.lat.9814, Dominici Passionei Letters (1708-1735)
Incipit: Sesto Libro de Mss che s'inviana per la prima molta

Vat.lat.9872, Collected Consular Documents: Gaul 402-996 (18th C)
Incipit: Le P. Sirmond n'ayant conduit

Part of the work the Maurists did collecting documents relating to the French Councils. The set is Vat. lat. 9862-9875


Vat.lat.10290 (Upgraded to HQ), Jacopone da Todi, et al Laude (1401-1425)
Incipit: L'anima sitibunda, Sempre sia ad amare

Vat.lat.10315, Della lettura de' Padri della chiesa. (1776-1825)
Incipit: Introduzione. Si leggono per ordinario le Opera de SS. P.P. o semplicemente

Vat.lat.10336, Guido Antonio Costa Scrittura intorno a diverse materie appartenenti alla fortezza urbana all'Em.mo e Rev.mo sig. card.le Lelio Falconieri legato di Bologna (17th C)
Incipit: Scrittura intorno a diuerse mate-rie apparen[ti] alla Fort[ez][za] Vrbana. Ab Emin[tissimo] et Reu[erentissimo] Sig[nore] Card[inale] Lelio Falconieri legato du Bologna

Vat.lat.10337, ps-Lanfranco Margotti Informazione della corte di Roma. (c. 1599)
Incipit: Inform[azione] al v. Card[inale] d'Este creduta del Lanfranco. In questo Theatro del Mondo, che cosi


Vat.lat.10429, Scipione Pannocchieschi d'Elci Letters to Cardinal Rospigliosi and Flavio Chigi (1657-1658)
Incipit: All' Em[erentissimo] S[ignore] Card[inale] Rospigliosi 24. Fbre 1657. Con l'aggiunti[mo]

Vat.lat.10430, Giovanni Ughelli Notizie e memorie dei viaggi fatti dal card. Carlo de' Medici. (1628-1655)
Incipit: 1628 Viaggio del pape Card[inale] de Medicis

Vat.turc.213, Ga'feri Divan (19th C)

Vat.turc.225, Izzet 'Ali Pasha Divan (18th C)

Vat.turc.252, Fena'i Mustafa Efendi, Gulsheni Hasan Dede Seza'i Divan (18th c)

Vat.turc.253, Ali Shehri Celebi, Kelim Poetry (18th C)

Vat.turc.255, Ahmed Shemsi Pascia Divan (18th C)

Vat.turc.321, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Imam-Zade Ahmed b. Mehmed Efendi (tr) Shar'at-i islam (tr) (1590-1591)

Dated 999 AH


Vat.turc.331, Hamdullah ibn Hair ud-Din Vesilat al-itqan fi sharh rusuh allisan fi huruf al-Qur-an (1552-1553)

dated 960 AH, text on the pronounciation of the Quran


Vat.turc.347, Niyazi Misti Mehmed Vahdetname o Risalet ut-tavhid (1840-1841)

Dated 1256 AH


Vat.turc.350, Sheih-Zade Nuqtat ul-bayan