In total fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. It looks like several recent patterns are starting to stabilize, the largest fond represented was Vat.lat, with twenty-eight manuscripts in the 11xxx range, many from German sources. The second largest collection was Barb.lat, contributing seventeen manuscripts, both more of the 18th C musical volumes of recent week and more general Latin texts. Eleven manuscripts were added to the Ott.lat repository, one which has been growing over the last year, adding 699 manuscripts of the roughly 3000 since the start of 2023.

To the right is f.2r from Vat.lat.11071. This just the 11 plates, engraved by Jost Amman, and title page from Collectanea ex Historiis de Origine et Fundatione Omnium fere Monasticorum Ordinum in specie by Joannes Creccelius. This depicts the formal attire of various monastic and ecclesiastical ranks, from the Pope down to the various monastic orders.

Below is a line of text from f.2r of Vat.lat.11137, a calendar and obituary book from St. Afra's Convent in Würzburg. This line was January 11th listing the 1695 death of Father Benedict Knüttel who professed at St. Stephens, a connected Monastery,