Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2024

A new pattern seems to be emerging, another slow week brings twenty-nine new manuscripts to the repositories. As with last week, Ott.lat brings in the most, with eleven, followed by seven Barb.lat, and six Chigiani musical volumes. Three Capp.sist volumes, and one each Barb.grand Vat.gr complete the weeks work.

Manuscripts of the work of Raymund Llull often contain elaborate and complex programs of illustration, and Ott.lat.832 is no exception. To the right is an untitled illustration from f.6r which shows a row of angels above a row of Old Testament prophets, above a row of Apostles. Interestingly only ten apostles are shown, with Peter (keys) and Paul (sword) being the only ones easily identifiable.

At the bottom is part of the border from f.1r of Capp.sist.321, a 19th C copy of Palestrina's Motets. Although this manuscript was copied in 1830, as per the title page, it maintains the 16th C mensural notation of the original.

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Barb.gr.575, Origen On John, On Matthew

Barb.lat.1405, Baldis de Ubaldis Liber Consiliorum (15th C)
Incipit: Lex. Et si p[rimo] tres.

Barb.lat.1406, Baldis de Ubaldis Consilia (1376-1425)
Incipit: (f.1r) In chr[ist]i no[m]i[n]e Amen. Primo statuto canet[ur]

Barb.lat.1407, Baldis de Ubaldis, et al Consilia (1376-1425)
Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni am[en]. Ecc[lesia] s[anc]ti chr[ist]ofor[i] de chiasana

Barb.lat.1408, Baldis de Ubaldis, et al Consilia (15th C)
Incipit: In chr[ist]i no[m]i[n]e amen. Quedam Ecc[lesia] collegiata sunt

Barb.lat.1412, Baldis de Ubaldis Liber Consiliorum (15th C)
Incipit: In chr[ist]i no[m]i[n]e am[en]. In c[aus]a q[ue] uertit[ur] i[n]t[er] bartolomeu[s]

Barb.lat.1413, Expositio super Decretum Gratiani (13th C)
Incipit: eccl[esi]e reg[u]laris institutionib[us] unitur

Barb.lat.1420, Statutorum Communis Florentiae, Book II (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) [D]e modo procedendi in Ciuilibus

Capp.Sist.321, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina Motecta decantanda ad Obedientiam in Vesperis (1830)
Incipit: (f.2r) Salvator mundi salva nos omnes

Capp.Sist.325, Officium ad Vesperas et ad Matutinum (1667)
Incipit: (f.3r) In Natiuitate Domini ad Vesp. ant. Rex pacificus magnifica-tus est cuius

Scribe: Justus Romanus


Capp.Sist.611, Constitutiones Pontificiae Cappellae cum Brevi Pauli PP. III (1545)
Incipit: (p.1) Forma Juramenti. Iuramentum Cantorum. Ego. .N. clericus .N. ab hac hora inantea obediens et fidelis ero fan-ctissimo Domino nostro Pape

Chig.Q.IV.2, Mario Savioni, Giuseppe Corsi, Giacomo Carissimi, Giovanni Bicilli, Giovanni Battista Giansetti Arie, ariette, canti, madrigali da camera, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) O so che stiamo bene che stiamo bene

Chig.Q.IV.3, Arie, ariette, canti e madrigali. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Consolati cor mio, Con-solati Con-solati cor

Chig.Q.IV.17, Giovanni Matteo Gentilini, Antonio Cesti, Bernardo Pasquini, Giuseppe De Santis, Pietro Simone Agostini Arie, ariette, canti e madrigali. (17th C)
Incipit: Nel molle sen d'un Prato oue

Chig.Q.IV.38, Giovanni Lorenzo Luiler, Luigi Mancia, Antonio Masini, Bernardo Pasuini Arie, ariette, canti e madrigali (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Son pur suentura-ta, Son pur

Chig.Q.VI.75, Dionigio Fregiotti Arie e componimenti diversi (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Fille ne gl' occhi fuor porti diuiso il sole nelle

Chig.Q.VII.112, Niccolo Piccinni L'Olimpiade (18th C)
Incipit: Atto secondo, Scena P[ri]ma, Argene, e poi Aristea. Edancor della pugna l'esito non si sa?

Performed at the Teatro Argentina in 1768


Ott.lat.774, Alberti Pighii Campensis de nostra salutis et redemptionis mysterio
Incipit: (f.3r) Alberti Pighii ad Lectorem præfatio. []in librum de nostræ redemptionis

Ott.lat.777, De Sacramentis Poenitentis, etc (c. 1545)
Incipit: (f.1r) Vt Artculi, qui subiicientur circa Pænitentiæ sacr[u]m clarius

Ott.lat.779, Petrus de Palude De potestatio Petri, Apostolorum, Discipulorum, summi Pontificis, Episcoporum et curatorum
Incipit: [C]irca potenate[m] a chr[ist]o colatam p[re]latis

Ott.lat.791 (Upgraded to HQ), De signis Complexionum
Incipit: De signis complexionum Caput Primum Quid sit complex. Quanti cuique est uita, santi deveret esse

Ott.lat.805, Joannis de Arzes Theologi Pallentini De novo Brevario Romano tollendo
Incipit: (f.1r) Illvstriss ac Reverendiss Domino Domino Mar[c]ello Crescentio, t[u]t[ti] sancti Marcelli, Presbytero Cardinali, et sedis ap[osto]lica Ad sacram synodum Tridentina[m] alatere Legato Ioannes de Arze, Præsbyter Pallantinus, Prodessione Theologus, S. D.

Ott.lat.810, Honorato Fabri De questione facti ab Ecclesia definiti
Incipit: (f.2r) Eruditio Lectori. Lustrata oculis prima huius opusculi fronte

Ott.lat.813, Raphaelis Brandolini Oratio ad Lateranense Concilium
Incipit: (f.2r) Raphael Bra[n]dolinus Junior Lippus dominico Grimanno Ep[iscop]o Perturnsi

Ott.lat.822, Angeli Sangrini De Institutione et cause, Orationis XL Horarum (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ad Ill[ustrimum] et R[everendissimum] D[omi]num d[omi]num Gulielmum Sirletium Cardinalem amplissimu[m] Angelus Sang[rinus] Monachus Casinas. Quosq[ue] potest auiepi

See Iter liturgicum italicum perhaps from Montecassino


Ott.lat.825, Innocent III, Petri de Allyaco, Hugh de Saint Victoire Libri II de Vilitate Humane conditionis, etc
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipiunt cap[itu]la libri lotharii de vilitate conditionis humane, Capitula primi libri

Ott.lat.826, Boniti Mombritii, Sixtus IV Ad Sixtum IV Pontificem de Dominica Passione opus carmine elegiaco ex aratum, etc, Bulla ad Guilielmum Marchionem Montisferati
Incipit: Hoc est tempus

Ott.lat.832, Raymund Llull Tractatus de Experientia realitatis artis generalis

Vat.gr.2667, Codices olim Basiliani seu Collegii S. Basilii de Urbe, nunc Vat.gr.1963-2123 (1697-1699)
Incipit: (f.1v) Hos codices majora ex parte notauit P. Mondauconius in suo Diario Italico