Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 10 of 2024

The Vatican continues progress, if a bit more slowly, with thirty-four manuscripts digitized in the past week. As seems to becoming a new pattern, the largest number of these were musical volumes from the Chigiani collection, with fifteen of those added this week. Other collections that contributed were Ott.lat with six, Vat.lat with five, Barb.gr with four, and Capp.Sist with two. A single manuscript each from Barb.lat and Vat.gr completed the weeks work.

To the right is f.5r from Ott.lat.665. This is a complete Bible with Eusebius' Prolog at the front and the Index of Hebrew names at the back. This page has the start of the actual Bible, with the I of "In pincipio" being the entire left edge of the page, despite the rest of the word starting on line 11.

At the bottom is a line of music from f.47v of Capp.Sist.133. This is a 17th C manuscript copy of a polyphonic mass by Palestrina, the great composer of the Counter-reformation.

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Barb.gr.367, Psalter with Canticles, Use of Rome

Barb.gr.485, Theodore of Alania Alanicus, In Christi Sepulturam, Ethica, Matthaios

Barb.gr.573, Blastares Matthaeus Opera Juridica

Barb.gr.574, Bible: Pauline Epistles with Scholia (12th C)

Barb.lat.1414, Joannes de Monte Sperello (15th C)
Incipit: [I]n glo[sa] rubrice p[ri]ma [con]tinuatio e[st] bona

Capp.Sist.133, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missa O admirabile Commercium (17th C)
Incipit: Missa O Admirabile Commercium

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Capp.Sist.313, Paschale Piseri, Geminiano Santini, Christobal da Morales, et al In Dominica Tertia Quadragesima Lamentabatur Jacob, etc (1774-1794)
Incipit: (f.2v) Cantus Primus Sex Vocum. Lamentabatur Jacob

Chig.Q.IV.1, Mario Savioni Arietti, Canti, et Madrigali (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Nell al Maria Sauioni. Luci belle io mori-ro

Chig.Q.IV.14, Pietro Simone Agostini, et al Arie, ariette, canti e madrigali (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Re-

Chig.Q.IV.32, Giovanni Bononcini Arie, ariette, canti e madrigali (17th C)
Incipit: Inuano il dio bambin-

Chig.Q.IV.22 (Upgraded to HQ), Bartolomeo Lazari Regule di contraponto (1639)
Incipit: (f.1v) minciare il Contraponto si deuono auertire

Chig.Q.VI.79, Francesco Mancini, Dionigio Fregiotti Arie, Ariette, Canti e madrigali (17th C)
Incipit: Cantata a Solo. De sig[nore] Franc[isco] Mancini. Stauan due Torto-relle

Chig.Q.VI.95, Alessandro Melani L'Idaspe (17th C)
Incipit: Atto P[rima] Scena P[rima] Lido di mare. Idaspe solo. Auoi torno in uoi m'ag-giro

Chig.Q.VII.99, Luigi Rossi, Giacomo Carissimi, Carlo Caproli, Carlo Rainaldi, Mario Savioni Arie, a voce sola, con accompagnamento (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Luigi Rossi Lamento d'Ariaane. Al soaue spirar d'aure se-rene

Chig.Q.VII.109, Alessandro Scarlatti Teodora Augusta. Concertino in 3 Atti. (1693)
Incipit: Atto 2[o] Scena Prima. Luogo spatioso e solitario in cui si uedon

Part 7 of an 8 part set


Chig.Q.VII.120, Pasquale Anfossi La Clemenza di Tito. Act I (18th C)

Three act musical, first performed in Rome at the Teatro Argentina in 1769.


Chig.Q.VII.121, Pasquale Anfossi La Clemenza di Tito. Act II (18th C)
Incipit: Atto Secondo, Scena P[ri]ma

Three act musical, first performed in Rome at the Teatro Argentina in 1769.


Chig.Q.VII.138, Giuseppe Sarti L'Ipermestra, Sinfonia and Act I (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Trombe. Corni

Three act musical, first performed in Rome at the Teatro Argentina in 1766


Chig.Q.VII.157, Antonio Sacchini L'Artaserse, act II (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Atto Secondo Scena Prima. Artaserse, ed Artabano. Artas. Dal Cancere o Custodi, qui si conduca Arbace

Three act musical, performed at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, 1768


Chig.Q.VII.165, Carlo Franchi Il Siroe, Act I (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Corni e Trombe

Three act musical, performed at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, 1770


Chig.Q.VIII.195, ps-Dionigio Fregiotti, et al Arie, ariette, canti e madrigali (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Violino Primo Duetto. Ah caro ben t'arresta

Chig.Q.VIII.196, Raccolta di Barcarole, Minuetti, Arie, Canzoni e Quadriglie (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Barcarola per Piano Forte

Ott.lat.664, Horologium Sapientiam

Ott.lat.665, Bible
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit ep[istu]la s[an]c[t]i iero-lmini p[re]sbit ad

Ott.lat.711 (Upgraded to HQ), Tractatus de Jurisdictione Imperii, et auctoritate Papae super ipsum
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t cap[itu]la sup[er] breue[m] tractatu[m] de iuris dictio[n]e[m] inp[er]ii et auctorutate pa-pe super ip[su]m.

Ott.lat.713, Andreas de Escobar De Lumine Confessorum (1438)
Incipit: Confessorum lumen uocatur hec doctrina omnibus peniten-tiariis et confessoribus

Dated in colophon on f.91v


Ott.lat.714.pt.1, Thomas Aquinas Lectura super quattuor libros Sententiarum

Ott.lat.801, Zozimus In Jure Canonico
Incipit: (f.2r) De Pvrgatione Canonica

Vat.gr.2025 (Upgraded to HQ), Euthymius Hagiorita (tr) Vita Barlaam et Joasaph, Bible: Susanna, Daniel, Bel and the Dragon (12th C)

Vat.lat.10743, Onofrio Panvinio, et al Indices vicariatuum, feudorum, concessionum, alienationum factarum a Romanis Pontificibus et censuum pro eis Camerae Aoistikucae debitorum (1575-1625)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ex originali F. Onuphii Panuinii. Vicariatus, feuda, concessiones alienationes facta

Vat.lat.10874, Scrutina Conclavis Innocentii XIII (1721-1723)
Incipit: Catafalco Eretto nella Basilica Vaticana per le solenni eseqvie celebrate nella morta del sommo pontifice Clemente XI

Includes partially printed works


Vat.lat.10879, Letters of Cardinal Mazarin (1627)
Incipit: (f.1r) Al Sig[nore] Card[inale] Grimaldi. Ho Veduto quello che

Vat.lat.10883, Litterae et bullae diversorum Romanorum Pontificum, Anno 1275-1586 (17th C)
Incipit: Index Bullarum et Litterarum, que in hoc 2[o] Tomo ontinentur, cui titulus

Vat.lat.10888, Trajano Boccalini Commentaria sopra gli Annali di Cornelio Tacito (17th C)
Incipit: Introductione a i Come[n]tarii di Traiano Boccalini Sopra Gl' Annali di Cornelio Tacito. Il discovere quantunque mediocremente intorno

Part of a two-volume set Vat.lat.10888-9