Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2024

A total of fifty-five manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. In a complete departure from recent weeks, the largest single grouping of these were the seventeen 17th C musical volumes from the Chigiani collection. This was followed by nine from Ott.lat, seven each from Vat.gr and Vat.lat, and six from Barb.gr. The week wraps up with four from the Capp.Sist, two from Barb.lat, and one each from Borg.mess, Capp.Giulia, and Pal.gr.

With this weeks addition, Borg.mess fond is now completely digitized. The fond only contains two items, the 16th C Nahuatl codex (Borg.mess.1) and this volume, which is a late 18th/early 19th C copy of the Cospiano Codex.

To the right is a page from Ott.lat.766, a copy of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Historiale, on third of his giant compendium, the Speculum Maius. This page, f.66r, is the start of book 4, which covers the Babylonian captivity through classical Greece and up to the Roman wars with Carthage.

At the bottom is the decorative initial "P" from the start of Pria ch'al mar Lusitano from f.2r of Chig.Q.IV.10. If you look very carefully at the boats in the background, you can see that one of them is labeled "Portv-gallo"

Barb.gr.282, ps-Constantine Donation of Constantine

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.291 (Upgraded to HQ), Patristic Miscellany (1351-1400)

See Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.330, John of Damascus Dialectica (951-1000)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.480, Maximus the Confessor, Anastasius of Sinai Quaestiones ad Thalassium, Quaestiones ad Theopemptum, Works, etc

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.gr.483, Troparium

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, with musical notation

Barb.gr.524, Metaphrasic Menologion, November II (12th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.lat.773, Aloysii Lippomani Catena in Psalmos XV-XVI ex Patribus graecis et latinis connexa (16th C)

Incipit: Interpretatio in Psalmvm Qvintvm Decimvm Titvlvs qvintidecimi psalmi Insigne, avreola davidi vel Titvli inscriptio davidi vel david. [Origenes et] Evsebivs. Dauidi quidem psalmus

Barb.lat.3821, Il Trionfo della Pieta (1656)

Incipit: (f.1v) Prologo. L'Aurora. i[a] Alla candida ueste, ai uaghi lampi

Subtitled: Musical drama

Borg.mess.2, Antonio Basoli Copy of Codex Cospi

Artist lived 1774-1848

Capp.Giulia.V.58 (Upgraded to HQ), Antonio Liberati Mass for 16 Voices, Omnis terra adoret te

Incipit: (f.1v) A 16. Voci. Primocoro. Kyrie e-le-ison

Capp.Sist.267, Ioannis Petri Aloysii Canon ad Unisonum (1792)

Incipit: (f.2r) Cantores Pontificii ne qvos vivos concors melodia ivnxit mortvos corporis discors resolvtio

Capp.Sist.317, Leandro Piazza Dixit Dominus for 8 voices (1806)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ex[altissi]mo & R[everentissi]mo Præsuli Josepho Gavotti Sacri Palatii Apostolici Præfecto, Leander Piazza Felicitatem. Dvabus potissimum de causis

Capp.Sist.381, Lectiones Majoris Hebromadae (1814)

Incipit: (f.2r) Feria Quinta in Cæna Domini In Secundo Noxturno Lectio IV. Ex Tractatu Sancti Augu-stini Episcopi super Psal-mos

Scribe: Leonardus Testa

Capp.Sist.383, Dominico Fabritio Hebdomadae Maioris Lectiones usui et commoditati Cappellae Pontificiae (1662)

Incipit: (f.2v) Feria Quinta. In Cæna Domini. In secun-do Nocturno. Lectio IIII. Ex tractatu Sancti Augustini Episcopi super psalmos.

Scribe: Justus Romanus

Chig.Q.IV.8 (Upgraded to HQ), Orazio Michi, Luigi Rossi, et al Raccolta di arie (17th C)

Incipit: d'Orazio dell' Arpa. Chi non dimanda aita quando

Chig.Q.IV.10 (Upgraded to HQ), Raccolta di arie anonime. (17th C)

Incipit: Pria ch'al mar Lusitano

Chig.Q.IV.11, Giacomo Carissimi, Atto Melani, Carlo Caproli, Antonio Cesti, Marco Marazzoli, Mario Savioni, Luigi Rossi, et al Raccolta di arie e cantate. (17th C)

Incipit: [D]eh memoria e che piu chie

Chig.Q.IV.12 (Upgraded to HQ), Alessandro Stradella, Filippo Colonese, Cosimo Bani, Giovanni Legnrenzi, Giovanni Domenico Freschi, Domenico Gabrielli, et al Arie e Canzoni (17th C)

Incipit: La speranza del mio

Chig.Q.IV.26 (Upgraded to HQ), Brani per organo (17th C)

Incipit: Aria di fiorenza

Chig.Q.IV.28 (Upgraded to HQ), Raccolta di brani per Strumenti ed Organo (17th C)

Incipit: Passagalli

Chig.Q.IV.30, Cosimo Bani Raccolta di arie (17th C)

Incipit: Del sig[nore] Abbate Bani

Chig.Q.V.55, Jacopo Melani (music), Andrea Moneglia (Liberetto) La Tancia (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Atto primo. Scena Prima. Isabella, Lisa. Son le piume acuti strali

Chig.Q.V.67, Carlo Borri Il Narciso (17th C)

Incipit: Atto Primo. Scena Prima. Leucippe Sola. Matu-tine Ruggiade Aure soa-ui alate

Opera in three acts

Chig.Q.V.70, Carlo Ambrogio Lonati L' Antioco (17th C)

Incipit: L'Antioco drama posto in musica dal Sig[nore] Carlo Ambroggio Lonati. Sinfonia prima dal Prologo.

Chig.Q.V.71, Pier Filippo Corsi (music), Domenico Filippo Contini (text) In amor vince chi fugge (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Lasciate fau a me Come non

Chig.Q.VI.78, Dionigio Fregiotti Risolviti Lucinda. (17th C)

Incipit: Cantata A 2 Sop[rini] con W. Lucinda, e Fille Del Sig[nore] Dionisio Fregiotti

Chig.Q.VI.84, Operina sacra in musica (1686)

Incipit: Operina Sacra in Musica a 3[e] co Wiolini, rappresentata in occasione che prende l'Abito Francescano Nel Venerab[ile] Monast[ario] di S. Girolamo detto Campanzi di Siena

Performed on the occasion of Olimpia Chigi joining a Fransiscan convent. The cast consisted of her sisters

Chig.Q.VII.129, Antonio Sacchini Il Cid (c. 1769)

Incipit: Argentina 1769. Il. Cidde Atto I Misuca del Sig[nore] D. Antonio Sacchini.

Chig.Q.VII.130, Antonio Sacchini Il Cid, Act II (c. 1769)

Incipit: Atto Secondo Scena I[a]. Rodrigo, e Duarte Indi Climene da parte

Part two of Chig.Q.VII.129

Chig.Q.VIII.192, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini Raccolta di Riduzioni per flauto, archi e pianoforte (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Serenata Presa dalla Lucrezia Borgia Ridotta per Flauto, e Piano Forte Dal Sig[nor] Luigi Moroni

Part of a 3-volume set Chig.Q.VIII.192-194

Chig.Q.VIII.193, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi Raccolta di Riduzioni per flauto, arpa, archi e pianoforte (19th C)

Incipit: (f.114r) Introduzione nel Mosé

Part of a 3-volume set Chig.Q.VIII.192-194

Ott.lat.649, Nicolai Laurentini Politiani, et al Poemation carmine Phaleucis, Liber Hetrusco carmine exarati

Incipit: Ego Jo. Jacobus Bassus Societatis Jesu Sacerdos, mandato

Ott.lat.668, Breviary (15th C)

See Iter liturgicum italicum from Subiaco. Calendar on ff.1r-9r (middle)

Ott.lat.728, Statuta Congregationis Bavaricae Ordinis S. Benedicti gratiam et authoritate Sanctissimi domini nostri Innocenti Papae XI (1684)

Incipit: (f.1v) Prologus. Finis Congregationis Bauaricæ or-dinis S. Benedicti, sub titulo San-ctorum Angelorum Custodum

Ott.lat.730, Lettere del sacro Collegio mandate a Principi nell'occasione della morte della sa. mem. di Papa Alesandro ottavo, etc (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Ser[enissimo] Principi Leopoldo Romanorum Regi in Imperatorem electo semper Augusto.

Ott.lat.731 (Upgraded to HQ), Maffaeus Vegius Laudensis De Rebus Antiquis memorabilibus Basilicae Vaticanae

Incipit: (p.1) Maffæi Vegii Laudensis De rebus antiquis memorabilibus Basilicæ Vaticanæ Liber Primus. Ex. Cod. MS insignis Bibliotyecæ Otthobonianæ sign. T. III. 22

Ott.lat.754, Jacques de Vitry Historia Hierosolymitana (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Historia Hierosolymitana. Incipit prologus. Postquam diuine propiciationis munificentia

Ott.lat.760 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible: Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Kings 1-4 (15th C)

Incipit: Exodus. Incipit liber hellesmoth que[m] nos exodi ti-cimus. Capitulum primum. [H]ec svnt nomina filiorum israel

Ott.lat.766, Vincent of Beauvais Speculum Historale

Incipit: Incipit spec[u]l[u]m hysto[ra]le fr[atr]ic ui[n]-ce[n]cu

Ott.lat.768, Acta Sexta Synodus Constantinopolitane

Incipit: [I]n hoc corpore continentvr sancta sexta synodvs qve in vrbe constantinopolitana congregata est

Pal.gr.216 (Upgraded to HQ), Basil of Caesarea, Metrophanes of Smyrna, Photius Adversus Eumonium, Anversus Manichaeos, etc (10th C)

Codices Palatini Entry, Sammelhandschrift; 10. Jh., See Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1740, Dionysius Thrax, Sophronius of Alexandria, Theodosius of Alexandria, Johannes Charax, et al Grammar Miscellany (16th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1963 (Upgraded to HQ), John Chrysostom, Leontius of Naples, Athanasius of Alexandria, John of Damascus On the Annunciation, Epistulae ad Olympiadem, Vita Symeonis Sali, Narratio de Cruce, etc (10th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1986, Hagiography (966-1000)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1987 (Upgraded to HQ), Hagiography (966-1000)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.1989 (Upgraded to HQ), Menologium: November-December (11th-12th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.2044, Hagiography (11th C)

See Biblissima, , Pinakes Entry,

Vat.gr.2081 (Upgraded to HQ), Ephraem the Greek, John of Damascus, Peter of Alexandria Sermones paraenetici ad monachos Aegypti, In Rormitionem, Didascalia (10th-11th C)

See Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.10748, Inventariun arcgivi domni Francisci Ferrantis Gonzaga ex Marchionibus Mantuae, ex condominis Vescovati et Portioli (18th C)

Incipit: (f.Vr) All'Ill[ustrissimo] et Ecc[elentissimo] Francesco Ferrante Gonzaga, de Marchesi di Mantoua

Vat.lat.10811, Josippi Dalliani, Philippi a Rovillasco, ps-Raymund Llull,Arnould de Villanov, et al Magiae Naturalis Variorum Authorum Tractatus (1602)

Incipit: (f.2r) Iosippi Dalliani De Lapidis Philosophorum Materia. Tractatvs.