Back to the recent pace with a total of thirty-five manuscripts digitized this week. The largest number of these, fifteen, were 17th and 18th C musical volumes from the Chigiani collection. These have been coming in small numbers over the last few months, but never this many at once. Following that was Vat.lat with seven, Ott.lat with five, Barb.lat with four, and Urb.lat with three. A lone volume came from the Bonbompagni Ludovisi (Bonc) collection.

A note about cataloging and identification, the Vat.lat volumes above 11000 are not in any published or online catalogue, and seem to be a block in German. My usual toolset doesn't really include German sources, and I don't have enough knowledge to translate on my own, so many of these will be unidentified. If any readers know details on these sources, I would be happy to update the pages

To the right is f.1r from Urb.lat.589, a slightly larger than average "pocket bible". As is common with these, it contains the entire Vulgate text, a dictionary of names, and a preface from Jerome. It is this prefatory letter, technically to a Paulinus but which begins "Frater Ambrosius" that is on this page. At the bottom the red/blue penwork descending from the large F has morphed into a rather sullen animal, perhaps Jerome's pal, the lion.

At the bottom is a line of music from f.1v of Chig.Q.VII.169, one of the 18th C musical volumes scanned this week. This contains the second violin part from Carlo Franchi's Il Siroe, which premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1770. The first violin part, in Chig.Q.VII.168 was also scanned this week.