Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 31 of 2024

Another quiet week brings sixteen more manuscripts online as work winds down for the August vacation. The set was pretty evenly split between Barb.lat, with eight, and Vat.lat with seven. The lone remaining manuscript came from Ott.lat, a 15th C Lucretius that was once owned by Pope Alexander VIII

One of the ongoing projects of late has been the digitization of 17th and 18th C musical volumes in the 4xxx range of the Barb.lat fond. Often these are minimally decorated, some have a black ink decorated initial for the first song, or some cadels. to the right is f.1r of Barb.lat.4206, a rare example with full-color illumination in a very late 17th C style.

At the bottom is a line of highly-abbreviated text from one of the flyleaves of Vat.lat.11157, currently foliated as f.2v. This leaf bears no obvious connection to the main text, the Institutiones and Digests of Justinian, with gloss

Barb.lat.1636, Michaelis Rabardei Probabilis defensio auctoritatis Regiae pro legibus connubialibus constutuendis (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Dissertatio. Vebementur soleo

Barb.lat.1714, Artis Rhetorica, Book II (1631)

Incipit: (f.1r) Carolo Spinulæ Triumphali Flammaru Curru Coelum inuesto Humanistatis Acclamatis. Virtutis monumenta tuæ

Barb.lat.4188, Lotti Giovanni (Text) Cantata per oratorio. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Prima Introductione della Cantata a S. Disperar di se tsesso

Composers name is unknown

Barb.lat.4205 (Upgraded to HQ), Marcantonio Pasqualini Stracciafogli di un Amante che non Ama (17th C)

Incipit: È gentilezza Amar bellezza, che

Some works are only falsely attributed to Pasqualini

Barb.lat.4206 (Upgraded to HQ), Carlo Francesco Cesarini, Giovanni Bononcini, Alessandro Scarlatti, Dionigio, Antonio Giannettini, Francesco Mancini, et al. Raccolta di arie, canzoni e cantate (c. 1692)

Incipit: Lascia Febo le selve e torna

Barb.lat.4228, Pietro Paolo Bencini Le Gare festive in applauso alla real casa di Francia (c. 1704)

Incipit: Introdutione Serenata à 3. Con violini Trombe e Oboe

See Early modern festival books database

Barb.lat.4364, Giacomo De Totis Cantata ad Romam ut Deum precetur pro incolumitatis Urbani Octavi. (17th C)

Incipit: Ad Romam ut Deum precetur pro incolumitati[o] Vrbani Octaui Pont. Opt. Max. Roma Imperatrix orbis ac potentium

Barb.lat.9860, Domenico Milanta, Frederico Borromeo, Maffeo Barberini, Pantaleone Marulli, et al Letters, Avvisi di Madrid 1670, etc (17th C)

Ott.lat.1136, Lucretius De natura rerum (15th C)

Incipit: Lucretius poeta. Aeneadum genitrix hominum diuu[m]q[ue] uoluptas

See Biblissima,

Vat.lat.11087, Kizingensia

Vat.lat.11126, Berschiedene Rechnungen deer Stadt Arnstein (16th-17th C)

Vat.lat.11157, Justinian Institutiones, Digests (glossed) (13th C)

Incipit: (f.5r) N[oster] Solut[i]o mat[ri]mo[n]io que[m] ad mo-dum dos pec[c]atur in unu[m]

Main text preceeded with several unrelated leaves, ff.1r-3v, Table of Contents on f.4r

Vat.lat.11186, (c. 1661)

Incipit: Leopoldvs Diuinatianente Clementia electris Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus

Several printed books with annotations and manuscript pages bound in

Vat.lat.11225

Incipit: Codices præstantiores insignis Bibliothecæ Capituli Vercellenis

Vat.lat.11226

Incipit: Acta Apostolorum, Epistolae Catholicae, Epistolae Pauli

Vat.lat.11231, Tomus V Codicum Mss. Bibliothecæ Vaticanæ et Laurentii Zacagnii signatus numero 107, Incipit a pag. 2297 et continuat usque ad pag. 2810