Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2024

It looks like the Vatican has returned the the recent standard, with thirty-one manuscripts digitized in the past week. Following that pattern, the largest number of manuscripts, fifteen, came from Ott.lat, with Barb.lat following with seven. Both Capp.sist and Vat.gr contributed three, and one each came from Barb.gr, Vat.turc, and Chig, the last being another 17th C song book.

To the right is f.2r of Vat.gr.599. This is a 10th C manuscript of Cyril of Alexandria's On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, a dialogue based on passages from the Torah which provides instruction on how to live a Christian life.

To the bottom is part of the edge decoration from f.1r of Ott.lat.1736. This is a 15th C collection of Caesar's Wars, from Gallic to Hispanic, followed by an extract from Petrarch's Vita Caesaris.

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Barb.gr.337, Matthaeus Blastares Syntagma alphabeticum canonum, Poemata 3 de oficiis aulae et ecclesiae (1613)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Νεόφυτος Ῥοδινός


Barb.lat.424, Bible (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit p[re]fatio s[an]cti ieronimi. Desideri mei d[e]sid[er]itas accepi

Barb.lat.1209, Joannes Baptista Catumsyritus Halograeus rhegynus De proecessione Spiritu Sancti (17th C)
Incipit: Apologia Pro s[ancto] Jo[ann]e Damasceno

Barb.lat.1275, Bernard Tripodis (17th C)
Incipit: Dominus sit in corde meo, et in labiis meis. Quaritur an missus ab Henrico Barbonio quondam Rege nauarraeo

Barb.lat.1378, Repertorium anonymi iuris poenalis alphabetico ordine digestum. (17th C)
Incipit: A. Abbortus Abbortum faciens fata opera medicamentis

Book 1, covers letters A-I. Ends with "Infamis"


Barb.lat.1399, Baldus de Ubaldis Consilia (14th C)
Incipit: q[uod] o[mn]ib[us] honestis [con]ue[n]it

Barb.lat.1485, Statuto Populi et Communis Florentiae. (14th C)
Incipit: (f.4r) Prologus primi libri statutor[um] d[eu]m po[tes]tatis

Table of contents ff.1r-3v


Barb.lat.2999, Josephi Mariae Suaresii Adversaria, quae ipse scripsit vel quae ego inter Schedas eiopem inveni, et in volumen redegi (17th C)
Incipit: Apes mater eduxit. Apis exterisque subiecta sunt homini animantibus antecellit

Capp.Sist.86, Alessandro Scarlatti Missa Clementina (1707)
Incipit: Missa Clementina pro V. Voc. D. Alex. Scarlatti. Ky-rie eleison

Scribe: Thomas Altavilla


Capp.Sist.121, Psalmus Dixit Dominus (1772)
Incipit: (f.1v) Eminentissimo, e Reverendissimo Prinicipe. E gli e' stato sempre vero il detto del Poeta Giovenale

Scribe: J. Lorenzinus


Capp.Sist.301, Missale (1763)
Incipit: Dominica in Quinquagesima ad missam. Introitus. Esto mihi in Deum prote-ctorem

Scribe: Jo. Dominicus de Biondinis


Chig.Q.IV.42, Alessandro Scarlatti Arie da Camera, per voce sola e basso continuo (17th C)
Incipit: Lampo d'or che un is-tante di luce

Ott.lat.160, Bible: Pauline Epistles (12th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit ep[isto]la ad romanos. Romanis inpartes italis

See Iter liturgicum italicum, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 1062[f.114v, 15th C],


Ott.lat.241, Petrus Paulus Vergerius, Poggii Florentini, et al De ingenuis moribus ad Ubertinum Carariensem, De re Uxoria Guarino Veronem, De liberii educandii (15th C)
Incipit: Franciscus senior & auus tuus cuius ut extant

Ott.lat.438, Lippi Brandolini In sacram Hebrorum Historiam (15th C)
Incipit: Lippi Brandolini In sacram ebreorum historiam Ad Reue-rendissimum patrem & dominum d[omi]n[u]m Franciscum pitolomi-neum Cardinalem Senenseni prefatio

Ott.lat.742, Dinus de Mugello, Guillaume Durand, Oddone di Monferrato, et al De Regulis Juris in Sexto, Repertorium seu Breviarium aureum, Constitutiones legatinae, etc (1276-1325)
Incipit: Premissis casib[us] singularib[us] &

Ott.lat.787, Vita Urbani Papa Quinta
Incipit: (f.2r) Epytaphium beati Vrbani p[a]p[e] quinti in sacro suo c…nobio sancti Victoris Massiliæ sæpulti. Hic quieseit Vrbanus Pontifex in ordine quintus

Ott.lat.799, Constitutiones Sacti SRE Episcoporum Presbyteroum, et Diaconorum Cardinalium Collegii (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sodente Leonis X Pont. Max. cum sacrum R[everentissimo] DD. S. R. E. Cardinalium Collegium

Ott.lat.830, (17th C)
Incipit: Prologus. Vidi Impium Superexaliatum & eleuatum sicut Cedros Urbani. Personæ. Lucifer, Superbia, Pharao, Nemrod

Partially a printed work dated 1648


Ott.lat.831, Rampigolli De virtutibus et Vitiis
Incipit: Amicitia. Amico fideli nulla e[st] [con]parato

Ott.lat.866, Canones, et Decreta Sacrosancti oecumenici, et Generalis Concilii Tridentini (1586)

Printed followed by manuscript starting at f.233r


Ott.lat.879, Bible: Epistle to the Romans
Incipit: Cap. 1 Epistole ad Romanos. Paulus seruus Iesu Christi ad Apostolici muneris functionem uocatus a Deo,

Ott.lat.883, Instruzioni a Sacerdoti intorno alla cura dell' anime
Incipit: Questa ene lasomma delapenetenza utile emolto necessa-ria p[er]lipreti

In Italian


Ott.lat.887, Gerardi Rambaldi Adversus impios errores Erasmi et confessionem Augustanam Oratio
Incipit: Ill[istrisssimo] et R[evernetissimis] Rodulpho Pio, et Michaeli Giselerio S. R. E. Card. ampliss. Gerar-dus Rambaldus Ep[iscop]us Civitatensis. Cum multa, quæ in Augustini libris

Ott.lat.916, Petri de Candia Questiones in 4 libros Sententiarum
Incipit: (f.1r) Circa prologu[m] de

Ott.lat.917, Sebastiano Salelles Epitome omnium que pertinent ad Tribunal S. Oficii Extracta ex tribus tomis Patris Salelles (1665)
Incipit: Epithome. Omnium quæ pertinent ad Tribunal S. Officis extractum ex tribus tomis Patris Salelles. De origine Tribunalis sancti Officii Prol. 1.

Dated on p.260


Ott.lat.1736, Caesar, Petrarch De Bello Gallico, De bello civili, De bello Alexandrino, De bello Africano, De bello Hispaniensi, Vita Caesaris (15th C)
Incipit: Gallia est omnis diuisa i[n] p[er]tes tres.

See Biblissima,


Vat.gr.23, Lexical/Grammatical works (14th C)

Vat.gr.598 (Upgraded to HQ), Cyril of Alexandria De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Books I-XVII (12th C)

Vat.gr.599 (Upgraded to HQ), Cyril of Alexandria De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Books I-VIII (10th C)

Vat.turc.13, Devotional Work (17th C)

In both Turkish and Arabic, begins with Sura 1 of the Quran