The Vatican has returned to the slow pace of earlier April with only thirteen manuscripts getting digitized in the course of the week. Most of these, nine in total, came from the Barb.lat fond, and two each came from Ott.lat and Borg.ar.

To the right is f.23r from Barb.lat.1441, a 14th C copy of the Instutions of Justinian, a foundational text of civil law in the middle ages. Like many copies of this text, it is heavily glossed, with interlinear and marginal glosses visible on this page. At least one reader annotated this copy with manicules, and then a later owner tried to darken some of those with some sort of reagent, leaving the dark brown blots that partially obscure some of them.

The two Borg.ar manuscripts that were digitized this week are part of a much larger multi-volume Quran. Fourteen volumes are held by the Vatican, but even together these do not make a complete Quran. The line at bottom comes from f.4r of Borg.ar.190, one of these volumes.