Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 19 of 2024

There were a total of thirty-three manuscripts digitized this week, which has probably been the pattern for the last month or so, taking into consideration the issues noted last week. The largest fond this week is Vat.lat, with twelve, followed by Ott.lat with seven, and Barb.lat with six. One of the less common collections, Capp.Sist, contributes five, all from the later volumes in the fond. Two more of the 17th C part books from Chigiani were digitized this, and a single Greek volume from P.I.O rounds out the week

Glossed bibles, where small sections of the Vulgate text are surrounded by the glossa ordinaria commentary for that text in a complex page layout, are not uncommon manuscripts. Many of the pandect Bibles of the 13th and later centuries have illuminated initials to start the various books. It is less common, however, to find those with elaborate decorative programs. To the right is f.2r from Ott.lat.115, just such a illuminated and glossed Bible. This page has the start of Genesis, with an enormous initial "I" splitting the text in half.

At the bottom is a bit of the border from f.2r of Capp.sist.632. This is a 19th C manuscript catalogue describing the first 269 volumes of the Cappella Sistina library, now shelved with the very manuscripts it describes. Although this segment of border is well enough executed, the rest of the manuscript is ... very 19th C in style

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Barb.lat.1208, Johannes Baptista Catumsyritus De processione Spiritus Sancti (17th C)
Incipit: Eminen[tissime] D[omi]ne Card[inalis] S P A D A apud s[anctum] Officium

Barb.lat.1429, Repertorium Juris (17th C)
Incipit: Actor que plone

Barb.lat.1467, Collectanea ad Jus Civile et Canonium (17th C)
Incipit: Ubi uim ff. de iustit[ia] et iure. tibi uim ui repellere licet

Barb.lat.1490, Commentaria in Decretales Gregorii IX (1439)
Incipit: [I]n nomine domini amen. Materiam libri et tituli p[ro]sequitur Gratianus

Barb.lat.1500, Miscellany (17th C)
Incipit: G[e]n[era]lis Rom. Curiæ Reformatio facta tempore Pii PP

Barb.lat.1516, Decisiones Sacrae Romanae Rotae (17th C)

Several years of printed pamphlets in a single binding


Capp.Sist.289, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina Missa Papa Marcelli (1796)
Incipit: Kyrie eleison

Scribe: Paulus Meo


Capp.Sist.386, Lectio III ad Matutinum. (1701)
Incipit: Feria Sexta in Parasc[e]ue. Lectio Tertia.

Scribe: Thomas Altavilla


Capp.Sist.632, Catalogo sei Diari e Camerlengato Sell'Archivio sella Cappella Sistina, Indice dei libri di musica, etc (1863-1920)

Scribe: Salvator Fondi. The larger part of this is a brief catalogue of Capp.Sist.1-269


Capp.Sist.633, Inventario per la custodia della Cappella Pontificia posto nel seguente metodo sotto il Pontificato di Papa Clemente XIII. (1768)
Incipit: (f.2r) Inventario Ofia descrizzione di tutto cio, ch'esiste nella Custodia della Cappella Pontificia al Quirinale per fervizio di tutto l'Anno

Capp.Sist.637, Angelo Battaglini Processo verbale e inventario di tutti i libri e carte trovate nell'Archivio del Collegio dei Cantori della Cappella Pontificia e nella stanza detta Custodia (1813)
Incipit: (f.2r) Il Nome di Sua Maesta l'Imperatore de'Francesi, Re d'Italia, e Protettore dellei Confederazione del Reno

Chig.Q.IV.44, Alessandro Scarlatti Arie da camera, per voce sola e basso continuo (17th C)
Incipit: Uiuer Lungi da chi s'ama

Chig.Q.IV.50, Severo De Luca, Giovanni Bononcini, Bernardo Sabadini, et al Arias (17th C)
Incipit: Sia chi m'ha ferito il cor ne

Ott.lat.115, Bible: Pentateuch (glossed)
Incipit: Cum omnes diuinos libros legimus

Ott.lat.684, Bible
Incipit: Incipit ep[istu]la s[an]c[t]i iheronimi p[res]b[ite]ri ad paulinum p[res]b[ite]r[u]m de om[n]ibus diuine ystorie libris. Testus. Frater ambrosius

Ott.lat.911 (Upgraded to HQ), Statuta jura et consuetudines que olim servabantur in Cancellaria Apostolica
Incipit: huismodo [] -qua sitteram p[ro]

Ott.lat.937, Regulæ Cancellariæ
Incipit: (f.1r) Regulæ Cancellariæ. Regulæ Cancellariæ expirant per monte[m] Pontificis

Ott.lat.949, St. Jerome, et al Concilium Nicenum, Commentarium in Isiam
Incipit: Nemo qui scruptura

Ott.lat.953, Anastasii Bibliothecarii Acta concilii Constantinopolitani IV, Book II
Incipit: quæ omina caratali stadreano

Starts f.323r


Ott.lat.975, Various Sermons, Book I (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Epistola Leonis Pape ad flauiani Constantino-politanum Episcopu[m] de Incarnatione Verbi


Vat.lat.10893, Pauli Antonii Olivazzo Disputationes Metaphysicae (1676)
Incipit: Dispvtatio vltima in libros Aristotelis de cælo. Qvæstio I. De Mundo in communi

Vat.lat.10930, Collezione di Monete fatta da S. E. il Cardinale Lorenzo Randi: Mistura (19th C)
Incipit: (f.7v) Benedetto XI. 1. Benedict.VN. Croce grande unghiata

Vat.lat.10942, Calendar, Usnard's Martyrology (14th C)

See Iter liturgicum italicum, the Calendar is from the end of the century, the martyrology is earlier


Vat.lat.11022, Kernsprüche und Gleichnisreden der deutschen Sprache (18th C)

Vat.lat.11023, Catalogo di autori greci
Incipit: (f.3r) Ach. Achilles Tatius.

Vat.lat.11026, Consilium Divo Imperator Ferdinando Contra Paulum IV PP Electionem (1559)
Incipit: (f.2r) Allerdurchleuchtigster Bros mechtigiter

Vat.lat.11045, Catalogo de Letterati Bavaresi
Incipit: Adrian Joh. Val.

Vat.lat.11050, Sul favore dei Principi di Germania per la religione (1565)

Date from f.2r


Vat.lat.11061, Catalogus Defunctorum Canonicorum Reg. Canoniæ (1790)

Vat.lat.11069.pt.1, Sammlung von Materialien zui einer Gelehrten Geschicte Frankens

Incipit: Heinrich von Aach ohr Aquensis

Vat.lat.11107, Fabritius Sceberas Testaferrate dei et apostolicae sedis gratia (19th C)