Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2024

A total of nineteen manuscripts were digitized this week, perhaps quiet due to the lead-up to Pentecost. Of those eleven came from Vat.lat, five from Ott.lat and one each from Barb.lat, Capp.sist, and Chig.

To the right is f.2r from Ott.lat.113, the first book of the City of God (the one by St. Augustine, not the 2002 Movie, or the novel, by Michael Jahn). This 15th C copy was decorated in a Humanist style, with full white vine borders enhabited by birds and putti. The large initial G has Augustine himself seeing a vision of the celestial city.

At the bottom is a line of polyphonic music from f.20v of Capp.Sist.99, which was written in 1689. This page opening contains the start of a six-voice setting of the "Te Deum"

Barb.lat.1573, Index Antiquorum Instrumentorum (17th C)

Incipit: Permutatio terrarum in Via Julia inter

Capp.Sist.99 (Upgraded to HQ), Dominici del Pane Motectum Sancta Maria succurre miseris, Hymnus Te Deum Laudamus, Motectum Congregati sunt (1689)

Incipit: (f.2v) Sancta Maria succurre miseris succurre miseris

Restored in 1721, scribe: Jacobus Tartanus

Chig.Q.IV.13, Pietro Simone Agostini, Luigi Rossi, Alessandro Stradella, Bernardo Pasquini, Antonio Cesti, Francesco Cavalli Arie, ariette, canti, e madrigali (17th C)

Incipit: Del Sig[nore] Pier Simone Augustini. Per belta d'una Rosa, che ne suoi preggi

Ott.lat.113, St. Augustine City of God (15th C)

Incipit: Incipiunt Capitula libri primi doctoris Avgvstini de civi-tate dei. De aduersarus nominis chr[ist]i quibus

Ott.lat.437, Bartholomei de Pisis Tractatus de arbore seu vita beate Maria Virginis

Incipit: Quoniam ad obl[e]e[ct]amentum le gencium p[ro]s[an]c[tu]m et utilitatem

Ott.lat.565, Pontificale (16th C)

Incipit: (f.Iv) Incipit ordo q[ua]liter presbiter ad Missam se preparare debet

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Ott.lat.861, Guiberti de Tornaco Sermons

Incipit: Exequtis d[omi]no inspi-rante sex p[er]tib[us]

Ott.lat.977, St. Augustine Sermons de Paschate, Book III

Incipit: (f.1r) tis de inferni carcare crui et de tenebris

Vat.lat.10699, Vincent of Beauvais Speculum Historiale, Books XXV-XXXI (14th C)

Begins with an index, ff.1r-3ra

Vat.lat.10895, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Ovilto Berenteatico, et al Compendio di Instituzioni di Botanica, Trattato di Notomia, Merope: Tragedia (18th C)

Incipit: (f.5r) Al Lettore. Sappi Amico lettore, che le presenti Opere manoscritte

Vat.lat.11009, Notata ascetica a Patre Timotheo, etc (c. 1739-1754)

Incipit: Ex R. P. Paulo Barii S. J. Januarius 1.

Vat.lat.11029

Vat.lat.11032, Register (1505)

Vat.lat.11033, Arnsteiner Tithe Register (1635)

Vat.lat.11052, Notizie storiche e statistiche sulle Diocesi nel Archiducato di Austrica

Vat.lat.11053, Carl Rutta, Anton Huland Exercitienieden für seine Alumnen Mit Fragmente zu seiner Biographie heraurgegeben (1857)

Incipit: (f.2r) Nicht leight wird der Name eine

Vat.lat.11080

Vat.lat.11086, Historica Imprimis Wirceburgica et Kitzmiaca Incipiunt a Seculo Mellesimo post natum Christum

Incipit: (f.1v) Cornelius de Judæis Anwerpanu in Speculo suo geo-graphicorbis terne

Vat.lat.11089