Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2024

Only thirty-five manuscripts were digitized this week, a quiet one for the Vatican. The majority were from Vat.lat, contributing twenty-three, distantly followed by Barb.lat with seven. The week wrapped up with three from Ott.lat and two from P.I.O.

At the right is the opening containing f.19v and f.20r from Vat.lat.10700. This is a 17th or 18th C manuscript containing illustrations and descriptions of the various fortifications of the Papal States. The page here depicts the fortifications and harbor of Civitavecchia, now the major port of Rome.

At the bottom is a line of text from p.38 of Vat.lat.6715. This is an unusual text, it is the Hebrew text of the book of Tobit, an apocyphal book in the Catholic, but not Jewish canon. Here the Hebrew text has interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin. These were, if the title page can be trusted, taken from the "Rabbinical Commentaries"

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Barb.lat.939, Lelio Balleoneo Enchiridion de divinae gratiae auxiliis et libro arbitrii viribus (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) S[anctissimo] D. N. Pavlo Qvinto Pont. Max. Romæ per aliquot dies commoratus B[eatissimæ] P[ate]r de diuinæ gratiæ auxiliis

Barb.lat.1219, Oratio Ecclesiae pro summo pontifice (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Synopsis Eorvm Quæ in oratione Ecclesia pro summo pontifice continentur

Barb.lat.1276, Rubricus de Legatis primo (1613)
Incipit: Rvbr[icus] de Legatis primo. dir 19 [octo]bris 1613. Materia legatis

Barb.lat.1287, Johannis Francisci de Pavinis Tractatus visitationum reverendi patrii (15th C)
Incipit: Tractatus visitationu[m] reuerendi patris domini Joha[n]nis fra[n]cisci de pauinis Juris vtriusq[ue] et sacre theologie docto-ris et causarum sacri palatii apostolici auditoris

Barb.lat.1338, Sforza d'Oddi Repetitio L Tertiae quae Incipit si delegatio C. de novat (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sfortiæ Oddi Repeti-tio L. tertiae C dello nouatinibus

Barb.lat.1339, Sforza d'Oddi Lectionum ad Titulo secundum de verborum obligationibus summarium parmae, anno 1601-1602 (c. 1602)

Barb.lat.1351, Sforza d'Oddi Summae sive cursus legalis methodus et partitio quo tuplex (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Partitio primæ In qua totius legalis scientiæ fam Ciuilis quam Canonicæ

Ott.lat.642, De diversis antiquis caeremoniis
Incipit: (f.1r) De diversis cæremoniis antequessimi

Ott.lat.647, Jacobum Albertonii de Bononia, et al Summa de contratietatibus et diversitatibus inter jus canonicum et civile, etc.
Incipit: Quoniam ut ait a-ristotiles

Ott.lat.651, Pharetra Sacramenti
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit prologus in librllu editu contra lollardos qui dicit[ur] pharetra sacramenti. Quis dabit capiti meo aquam et oculis meis

P.I.O.slav.25, Sinodik (1675-1700)

P.I.O.slav.49, Demestvennik pevčii (19th C)

Includes musical notation


Vat.lat.6629, Decisiones (16th C)
Incipit: Decisiones R. P. D. Arrigo-niis. Zamora Testamenti Lune 9 Martii 1392

Includes an index at back


Vat.lat.6712, Registro di Tratte (c. 1576-1580)
Incipit: qui comincia il registro dille he, che

Vat.lat.6715, D. Julio Bartoloccio גברא דשפיר חוי Vir Pulvhre Videns (17th C)
Incipit: (p.V) Eminentiss[imo] Principi Aloysio S. R. E. Card. Capponio. Ivlivs Bartoloccivs Cillenen Cisterciensiu[m] Reformator[um] Monachus S. P. D. Tobiæ librum sacris in codicibus Hebra-ica

The book of Tobias in Hebrew with interlinear Latin, with commentary


Vat.lat.6787, Pars Chronicae Sozomeni Presbyteri Pistoriensis (17th C)
Incipit: Anni mundi Imp[er]ator[um] cesar .I. Ab Vrbe Ro[mana] condita. Cum u[er]o magna pars

Starts f.11r


Vat.lat.6869, Del Governo di Genova (18th C)
Incipit: La Citta di Genoua come molte altre da deboli principii

Vat.lat.6871, Cicero Brutus (15th C)
Incipit: M. T. C. de illustribus viris liber p[ri]m[us] incipit. Quom ecilicia decedens rhodvm venis[s]em

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.6882.pt.2, Martial, Diodorus Siculus, Plinii, et al Epigrams, Fragments, etc (17th C)
Incipit: Trogvs pompei

Starts f.189r


Vat.lat.6890, Gaufridus de Vinosalvo, Ovid, ps-Cato, et al. = Poetria nova, Sentences, Amores, Disticha (14th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Exodrium. Pap[a] stupor m[un]di si

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.6913, Simon of Thessalonica De Septem Sacramentis (17th C)
Incipit: (f.VIr) Simeonis Archiepiscopi Thessalonicensis de Sacramentis Ecclesiae Clericus. Avio me pater

Part 2 from Vat.lat.6912


Vat.lat.10656 (Upgraded to HQ), Boccaccio La Tedcide with Gloss (15th C)
Incipit: [C]irca la expolic-cione de lo p[rese]nte libro si tomo i[n] uel prinicipio deli altii libri

Vat.lat.10659, Walfrid Strabo, Anselm, et al Epistles of Paul with gloss (1175-1200)
Incipit: Ep[istu]la p[rim]a pauli Ad Ro[m]anos. Romani sunt inpartibus italiæ

Vat.lat.10660, Cicero, ps-Sallust Orationes, Invectiva in Ciceronem (15th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) M. Tvllii Ciceronis pro M. Marcello. Divitvrni silentii P. C. Qvo eram his temporibus vsus non timore aliquo

See Biblissima, table of contents on f.1r


Vat.lat.10664, St. Augustine De Trinitate, etc (1215)
Incipit: Liber primus s[an]c[t]i aug[ustin]i de t[ri]ni[tate]. Domino beatissimo & sincerissima

Dated on f.219r


Vat.lat.10681 (Upgraded to HQ), Alexandri Braccesi Carmina (15th C)
Incipit: Soneti Ecanzone di Alesandro Brac-cio Magna signore giovanni conte di carpigna. Magnifico si-gnore in cvi appare

Vat.lat.10682, Javobi Spanochio Relazioni mercantili di varii passi, tratatello sulle pietre preziose e sulla presunta loro influenza (15th C)
Incipit: Avinecia si fanno i pagamenti a lib[ri] s[oldi] d[enari] de frossi

Vat.lat.10689, Sallust, Virgil, et al The Catilinae Conspiricy, the Jugurthine War, Songs, Aeneid (14th C)
Incipit: Liber Crispi Salustii Catilinarii Incipit. O[mn]is ho[mi]n[e]s q[ue] se se

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.10693, Inventarium Sacrarii Apostolici (c. 1643-1644)
Incipit: (f.5v) Un regno di lama d'argento stamnata contre corone d'oro

Vat.lat.10697, Repertorio generale di tutti gli documenti esistenti nell'Archivio della Casa Nicelli (19th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Testamenti Codicilii ed'altro relat[ivo] all' ultime Volonta.

Part one of two with Vat.lat.10698


Vat.lat.10700 (Upgraded to HQ), Disegni e descrittioni della fortezze e piazze d'armi artiglierrie armi monizioni da guerra, etc (17th-18th C)
Incipit: (f.9r) Castel S. Angelo Il Castello S. Angelo antica Mole di Adriano Impe-radore

Vat.lat.10712, Francisci Xaverii Zelada Epistula (c. 1790-1795)
Incipit: Roma 19 guig[lo] 1790. Non pio esrere indifferen-tr

Vat.lat.10713, S. Congregationis Concilii littererae ad diversos episcopos (1733-1736)
Incipit: (f.1r) Die 4 Februarii 1533

Vat.lat.10724, Mediolanem Inter Omnium Archiepiscopum
Incipit: (f.2r) Mediolanem. Votum super omnibus Articu-lis controuersis 1510.

Vat.lat.10726 (Upgraded to HQ), *** Diversorum iuris consultorum consilia, quaestiones, allegationes, tractatus, repetitiones, etc. (15th C)
Incipit: Nono si non potuit per Michictum dicta

Catalogue has extensive contents, 217 named items