Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2025

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 letters, Sermones seu Saturae and songs. There are several sets of commentary, probably made early in the manuscript's life by an owner. Although there are traces of a colophon on f.74r, it has been erased and without UV photography cannot be read.

At the bottom is a section of text from p.8 of Comb.B.18, a Ethiopic Antiphonary. Ethiopian christian practice still insists on the use of manuscript books for services, so this is one of the few manuscripts at the Vatican written in the 20th C. The text in this volume is very wavy, and this line is no exception.

Barb.lat.1827, Francisci Cardinali Barberini: Adversana Rhetorica, physica, historica, ante Cardinalatum (c. 1621)

Incipit: Hnc mouet Euphrates

Barb.lat.2274, Oporini Grubinii Medica ac Philosophi Amphotides Scioppianae (17th C)

Starts f.230r

Barb.lat.2286, Erectio et Constitutiones Collegii Sabrati (17th C)

Incipit: In solidum Cum D Antonio Mainardo Audi-toris Cameræ Notario, et mei Augustini

Barb.lat.2290 (Upgraded to HQ), Michael Lonigus, et al Ex libro primo Diariorum Johannes Bruchardi, Sixto IV Pape, De coronatione Imperatoris, etc (17th C)

Barb.lat.2320, Jacob de Vitriaco Historia orientalis, seu Terrae Sanctae (15th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Incipit p[ro]logus. Postq[uam] diuine p[ro]pitatio[n]is mu[n]ifice[n]tia

Barb.lat.2360, Riflessioni fatte dal Canonico Testa sopra le costituzioni della Basilica Lateranense (18th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) Riflessioni fatte dal Canonico Testa sopra le Costituzioni della Basilica Lateranen-se presentemente compilate, et esibite da un Canonico della medesima Basilica

Barb.lat.2457, Instructiones imperatorum varia (1601-1625)

Incipit: Bvlla Avrea Eiusque explicatio, ac forma eligendi Imperatorum. In Nomine Sanctæ, et indiuiduæ Trinitatis

Barb.lat.2503, Praefatio Petri Malli in opusculum historiae sacrae ad beatiss. patrum Alexandrum III. (17th C)

Incipit: Prefatio Petri Mallii in opusculum Historiæ sacræ ad Beatiss. Patrem Alexandrum iii. Pont. Max.

Barb.lat.2506, Ioannis Baptistae Confalonerii Epistola ad Urbanum VIII. (17th C)

Incipit: Sanct[issimo] D[omi]no N[ost]ro D[omi]no Vrbani Diuina Prouidentia Papæ VIII. Retvli tandem Pater Beatiss. in duo volumina

Barb.lat.2542, Andreas Victorellus de rebus gestis ab Urbano VIII, Vita Cardinalis Prosperi Sanctacrucii, Vita abbatis D. Ferdinandi Ughelli, etc (17th C)

Incipit: Vrbanus VIII Pont ccxxxix Anno D[omi]ni MDCXXIII. Florentia Princeps Hatrutiæ Ciuitas

Barb.lat.2567 (Upgraded to HQ), Juridical Miscellany (17th C)

Incipit: Testamentvm egregii et magnifici viri Nicolai

Capp.Sist.Diari.202, Mauro Putignani Diario de Cantori della Cappella Pontificia (1779)

Incipit: (f.3r) Officiali Del presente Anno 1779. Signor Giuseppe de Angelis Maestro Signor

Comb.B.9, Lectionary (18th-19th C)

Comb.B.14, Responsory (19th-20th C)

Comb.B.18, Antiphonary (20th C)

Comb.B.21, Antiphonary (19th C)

Comb.C.2, Rituale - Marriage (1872-1889)

Ott.lat.1169, Horace Epistles, Sermones seu Saturae, Carmen (15th C)

Incipit: Quinti horatii flacti ep[isto]lar[um] liber prim[us] i[n]cipit. Ad mecenate[m]

See Biblissima, traces of a Colophon on f.74r

Ott.lat.1176, Cicero, Gellius, ps-Sallust, ps-Cicero Epistulae ad familiares, Attic Nights, De amicitia, Invectiva in Ciceronem, etc (1469)

See Biblissima, scribe: Pacifico Massimo, colophons on f.198v, f.217r, f.228r, and f.244v

Ott.lat.1484, Tractatus de proportionibus numerorum, Liber numeralis, etc (16th C)

Incipit: Quinq[ue] sunt g[e]n[e]r[a] proportionu[m]

See Jordanus #10288

Ott.lat.1485, Tommaso Inghirami Works on Rhetoric (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Jesus christus Dei filius et & patris et Maria Virginis matris sit nobis propituis et clemens in aternu[m]. Amen.

Ott.lat.1495, Vaticana lucubratio de oratoribus vulgo ambasciatoribus (17th-18th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) De Oratoribus, Vulgo Ambas[c]iatoribus Principum Cap. I. Proemiale