In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The rest consisted of five from Comb, two from S.Maria.Magg, and a single Vat.lat volume. To thee right is f.32r from S.Maria.Magg.4 part of a monumental 12th C Bi...

A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized during the past week. In a statistical anomaly, two fonds, Barb.lat and Ott.lat, brought in the same number of manuscripts, twenty-six for each. The remaining manuscripts came in small quantities, three from Ross and one from Comb. To the right is a page of Valerius Maximus's Factorum et dictorum memora...

An extremely quiet week, with only five manuscripts digitized. Of these four are from the Ott.lat collection, and the final one is from Comb. To the right is f.3r from Ott.lat.1713, a 14th C manuscript of some of Seneca's tragedies, glossed, together with several pieces about Seneca. This page is one of the later, a text about reading Seneca, _Accessu...

Only sixteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually the largest number, fully half, came from the Comb collection This collection of primarily Ethiopic liturgical manuscripts came from the personal collection of Daniele Comboni, founder of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. Of the remaining manuscripts, seven came from Ott.lat a...

A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts, a full thirty-three volumes, came from Ott.lat. A further six came from Barb.lat, four from Vat.lat, and two from Ross. One manuscript each was added fro...

Concluding the end of almost the quietest possible week where anything happened, three manuscripts, all part of the Vat.lat collection, are newly online. To the right is f.329r of Vat.lat.10843, which is one of a series of Miscellanies in this section of the Vat.lat collection. This manuscript was written on paper, with an acidic ink which has eroded t...

Another week done, another thirty-three manuscripts digitized. As is becoming the current pattern, the majority of these, twenty-one, came from the Ott.lat collection. An interesting detail is that in the last few weeks, the slow work on this fond has progressed past shelfmark Ott.lat.1676, which moves to the second volume of the inventory. The second v...

A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, to conclude summer. Following recent patterns, the largest contributor was Ott.lat, with thirteen, followed by Comb and S.Maria.Magg, each with seven. The remaining volumes came from Barb.lat, three, Vat.lat, two, and Barb.gr, a single manuscipt. To the right is f.135r from S.Maria.Magg.92, a...

No manuscripts were digitized last week and only twelve this week, due to the summer holidays. The overwhelming majority of them, nine or 75%, are from Ott.lat. The rest are one each from Barb.lat, Comb, and S.Maria.Magg. To the right is f.174v of S.Maria.Magg.43, a copy of Gregory the Great's Regula Pastorale dated to about 861. There is significant p...

A much more active week brings seventy-five new manuscripts online. Breaking the pattern of recent weeks, Ott.lat contributed thirty-two this week, the most active fond. Both Barb.lat and S.Maria.Magg added eleven, and both Comb and Vat.lat gave seven. Three came from Chig, and one each from Reg.lat and Sire. One interesting development this week was ...

A quiet week, even by the recent pattern of quiet weeks, brings only ten digitized manuscripts online. These included three each from Barb.lat and Capp.Sist, two from Ott.lat, and one each from S.Maria.Magg and Vat.lat In a Missal, even when there are very few illuminations, as in the 14th C manuscript S.Maria.Magg.98, the passage Te Igitur, which starts...

Another week of digitizing concludes with twenty-nine new manuscripts, which seems to be the current pace. The largest collection continues to be Barb.lat, with eleven added. Following that was Ott.lat, a less common large contributor, with nine. Six came from Chig, two from Comb and a lone manuscript from Capp.Sist. To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat....

Only twenty-eight manuscripts were digitized this past week. We are back to the recent pattern, with eighteen of the manuscripts coming from Barb.lat. Four each came from Capp.Sist.Diari and Ott.lat, and one each from Capp.sist and S.Maria.Magg. The last one is of note as it was a higher-quality scan of S.Maria.Magg.1, and tracking shelfmark 1 was the ...

Only four manuscripts were digitized this week, and all on Friday. Although far too small a sample to prove a pattern, two of the manuscripts were from Barb.lat, and one each from Capp.Sist and Ott.lat. To the right is f.8v from Barb.lat.2666, a collection of letters and documents relating to the church in Hungary during the time of Pope Leo X. It is ...

The 27th week of the year, this week, is when I learned in 2018 of the passing of Jean-Baptiste Piggin (@jbpiggin), who started the work of tracking the BAV digitizations, and continued it, by hand, for over four years. This week brought a total of thirty-four manuscripts digitized. Though, as in recent weeks, there are a large number of musical volume...

For the first full week of summer, forty-nine manuscripts were digitized. As one might have expected, the largest contributors were Capp.Sist, adding twenty-three, and it's subcollection Capp.Sist.Diari with twelve. This brings the Diari collection to 80% complete, 241 out of a listed 299 in total. Further manuscripts this week came from Barb.lat with ...

An extremely quiet week this week, with only thirteen manuscripts digitized. With such a small number discerning patterns is more fraught, but the top collections were Barb.lat and Capp.Sist, contributing five each. Two came from Vat.lat, and one from Capp.Sist.Diari. To the right is f.47r from Vat.lat.11446, a 15th c sammelband. This particular page c...

A total of thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the recent pattern, the vast majority were from Capp.Sist, which added twenty-one, and a further eight from it's sub collection, Capp.Sist.Diari. For the rest, four came from Cerrulli.pers, and one each from P.I.O, P.I.O.slav, Barb.lat, and Vat.ebr. The final volume, actually a comb...

The library picked up the pace this week with sixty-seven manuscripts digitized, fifty in a single day. Unsurprisingly, given recent weeks, the bulk of those came from the Cappella Sistine collections: forty-six from Capp.Sist with a further 13 from Capp.Sist.Diari. The remaining collections were small, three each from Cerulli.pers and Barb.lat, and one...

A total of twenty-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week, the bulk being uploaded on Friday. Following the pattern of the last few weeks, the vast majority of the codices, seventeen, came from the Capp.Sist fond, with a further five from Capp.Sist.Diari. Three more came from Vat.lat, and one each from Ott.lat, Vat.ar, and Vat.gr. To the right ...

Only eleven manuscripts were digitized in the past week by the Vatican. In what is starting to be a pattern, Capp.Sist was the primary fond, contributing a full nine manuscripts. The remaining objects were one each from Capp.Sist.Diari and P.I.O.slav. As an interesting bit of trivia, this distribution of manuscripts means that the oldest volume is no...

Mostly coming on Friday, a total of forty-eight manuscripts were added this week. More than half of these, twenty-six in total, came from the Capp.Sist archives, with ten more from Barb.lat. The rest of the manuscripts represent a wide spread of smaller groupings, with three each from Comb and Ott.lat, and two each from Capp.Sist.Diari, Cerulli.pers, an...

A total of fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized for the conclave/elevation week. Leading the pack this week was Capp.Sist with nineteen manuscripts, many being single volumes of multi-volume musical works. Following that were Barb.lat and Capp.Sist.Diari, each with ten. This brings the total from Capp.Sist.Diari collection to 199, or almost 2/3 of the...

Although the Vatican is still sede vacante, with the conclave not scheduled to start until the 7th of May, the library was working this week, adding twenty-eight manuscripts to their repositories. These came from a wide range of collections, with the most, still only eleven, coming from Ott.lat. Following that, Barb.lat contributed seven and Vat.lat adde...

Due to the Easter vacation and the death of Pope Francis, the digitization workshops were closed this week To the right is a photo of his late Holiness at the opening of a new exhibition space at the BAV in November 2021.

Due to it being Holy Week, the Vatican was not as busy doing digitizations, with only twenty-seven added to the online repositories. Both Barb.lat and Capp.Sist contributed seven, Ott.lat added five and Vat.lat added four. One each was added from Bonc, Borg.lat, Capp.Giulia, and Comb. To the right is f.1r, unfolded, from Vat.lat.11144, a collection of ...

Another somewhat quiet week with a total of thirty-six manuscripts digitized. Unexpectedly Ott.lat contributed the largest fraction with twelve, followed by Barb.lat with ten and Capp.Sist.Diari with eight. Wrapping up the week were three from Vat.lat, two from Comb, and a single volume from Barb.gr To the right is f.74v from Barb.lat.524, which is a 1...

In total sixty-three manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this past week. The top contributor, as in recent weeks, was Barb.lat with twenty-six manuscripts. Unusually it was very closely followed by Ott.lat with twenty-four. The rest of the additions were smaller, with three each from Capp.Sist.Diari and Comb, two from Capp.Sist and Vat.lat, and on...

Due to the Feast of the Annunciation on the 23th, the Vatican only digitized thirteen manuscripts this week. As per recent trends, the bulk of these, nine in total, came from the Barb.lat collection. The rest were evenly split, two each, between Comb and Ott.lat To the right is f.1r from Barb.lat.709, a 14th C copy of several works by St. Augustine(of ...

Only twenty-two manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican. Following the recent pattern, the largest fraction of those, eleven, came from the Barb.lat collection. Five each were added from Comb and Ott.lat, and a single volume from Capp.Sist.Diari. To the right is f.2r from Ott.lat.1169, a 15th C copy of the Horace's works, including letter...

The Vatican added eighty-five manuscripts this week to their online repository, including two each on both Saturday and Sunday. Per recent trends, the largest number came from Barb.lat, which contributed a massive forty-two volumes. Following that was Ott.lat with sixteen and Capp.Sist.Diari with fifteen. Another eight Ethiopic books from Comb were dig...

A total of fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Continuing recent trends Barb.lat contributed the most, a full thirty manuscripts. Twelve came from Ott.lat, five from Comb, and three each from S.Maria.Magg, Vat.gr, and Vat.lat. One lone manuscript came from each of Vat.ar and Vat.ebr to complete the week. To the right is f.1r from O...

Continuing the pace of recent weeks, the Vatican added forty manuscripts to the online repositories this week. Additionally continuing the trends, Barb.lat, in the 2000-2300 range, contributed twenty-one volumes, with two more coming from an earlier section of the Barberini collection. Beyond that, work continues slowly on the Ott.lat, with seven digiti...

A meagre total of twenty-four manuscripts were added this past week. Following the pattern of recent weeks, the bulk of these manuscripts, sixteen in fact, were from the Barb.lat collection. Additional manuscripts came from Capp.Sist.Diari with four, Comb with two, and one each from Vat.gr and Vat.lat To the right is the highly elaborate start of a Pap...

Only thirty-six manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. As with recent weeks, the bulk came from the Barb.lat fond, a full twenty this week. Following that was Vat.lat, contributing six, Capp.Sist.Diari with three, and one each from Ott.lat, P.I.O. and Vat.gr. Four manuscripts were added from the Comboniani, a collection of 281 manuscripts...

A respectable forty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican Libraries. In what is becoming the current pattern, the largest number of manuscripts came from Barb.lat, thirty-three in total, all from the 1600-2100 block. Other fonds contributing manuscripts were Capp.Sist.Diari, with six, Vat.gr, with four, and Vat.lat with three. One s...

The Vatican closed this week with an acceptable, if not dramatic, forty-five manuscripts digitized into their repositories. Decisively leading the volumes digitized was Barb.lat, contributing twenty. Seven came from Ott.lat, and six from Capp.Sist.Diari, where work seems to be slowing down. The week closes with three each from Vat.gr and Vat.lat To th...

A total of thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican teams. These all came from four collections, ten from Ott.lat, nine from Barb.lat, and four from Vat.lat. The remaining fifteen came from Capp.Sist.Diari, which brings the total digitized from that fond to 139, approaching the 1/2 way mark. To the right is f.2r from Barb.lat.173...

A total of thrty-two manuscripts were added in the past week to the Vatican repositories. The largest contributor was the Vat.lat collection, with thirteen, followed with Capp.Sist.Diari with nine and Ott.lat with five. Two manuscripts came from Barb.lat, and a single addition each from Borg.lat, Chig, and the Slav subsection of P.I.O. To the right is ...

Although this is the second week of the year, no manuscripts were added in the last week, and so this becomes the first entry for 2025. A total of forty manuscripts were added, the majority, twenty-two, from the Capp.Sist.Diari collection. Four more of the Bulla Ineffabilis volumes of the Sire collection were digitized, as two each from Borg.cin and Vat...