Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 14 of 2025

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 one each from Barb.gr, Ross, and Vat.ar.

To the right is f.4v of Ott.lat.1297, a 14th C volume containing, among other things, the the Dittochæon of Prudentius. On this page, following the rubric, starts the poems on the New Testament, beginning with Mariae Angelus Gabriel mittitur. This copy of the text starts out fully glossed, with both significant marginal commentaries as well as interlinear comments, but by this page they are almost entirely lacking. There are some of interlinear explainations, but none of the large commentary blocks that should surround the text, despite the the page layout including blocks of space for them.

At the bottom is one line of Kufic script from Vat.ar.2063, which is a collection of loose Quran pages from before the year 1000. The collection is confusingly foliated, but this is the recto of the second folio numbered 1 (they are all numbered 1).

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Barb.gr.481, Hagiography (13th-15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry. Flyleaves are from a liturgical manuscript, include Middle-Byzantine musical notation


Barb.lat.1455, Boniface VIII Liber sextus Decretalium (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit liber vi[us] Dec[re]talium

Barb.lat.1461, Justinian Digestum novum (14th C)
Incipit: Domini iust[ini] sacratissimi prin-cipis peroetu aug[ust] uiris enuel-eati

Barb.lat.1462, Justinian Code, with Gloss (14th C)
Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ie[s]u [x] incipit p[ro]emi-u[m] codicis

Barb.lat.1502, Decreta generalia Sancti Officii et non nulla literae Apostolicae (17th C)
Incipit: Index dictionum in sequenti Tabula contintarum

Barb.lat.1533 (Upgraded to HQ), Formularium litterarum, quas mittit sacra Poenitentiaria Apostolica pro absolucione casuum, quos sibi reservavit. (15th C)
Incipit: Nota quot mo[d]is & quib[us] soluitur

Written in a chancery hand


Barb.lat.1665, Francisco Antonio Christaldo Flores Dicendi formularum (1610)
Incipit: (f.3r) A. Argo

Barb.lat.1788, Julio Caesare Recupito Saberius, a Tragoedia (17th C)
Incipit: Vrbano VIII. Pont. Max. Audet, Beatissime Pa-tir, incultum

Barb.lat.1794, Aurelii Ursii Epigrammatis illustrata. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ad hospitem Ingredere hu[n]c hospes, domus est hæc hospita

Barb.lat.1800, Iani Pelusii Crotoniatae poemata. (16th C)
Incipit: Ranutio Farnesio Parmae et Placentiae Duci

Barb.lat.2150, Ambrosius Catharinus, Olaus Magnus, et al Epistles (16th C)
Incipit: R[everentissime] et Ill[ustrissime]. Et ei te in longe grauioribus fuis studiis

Barb.lat.2166, Epistolae ad Franciscum Cardinal Barberinum ab anno 1624 ad annum 1667 (c. 1624-1667)
Incipit: Illustrissime ac Reuerendissime Domine, Domine colendissime. Scripsi his elapsis diebus

Barb.lat.2170, Franciscum Barberinum Epistles (c. 1630-1677)
Incipit: Apud Salmanticensem vniuersitatem primariam

Barb.lat.2202, Urban VIII Epistolae ad Principes viros et alios, anno pont. suo nono (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sanctissimi D.N.D. Vrbani P. VIII epistolae Ad Principes viros & alios. Dilecto filio n[ost]ro Antonio S. Mariæ in Aequiro

Barb.lat.2203, Urban VIII Ista novem Brevia, anno decimo (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Charissimo in Chr[ist]o Filio n[ost]ro Philioop Hispaniar[um] Regi Catholico

Copied by Joanne Ciampolo


Barb.lat.2211, Bussula, Officialium Populi Romani tempore Pontificatus Urbani VIII (1624-1625)
Incipit: Bvssvla nomina Imbussulatorum. Ill[ustrissimus] et R[everentissimus] D. Hippolytus

Barb.lat.2380, Abbot Hugh, et al Texts on the Monestary of Farfa (17th C)
Incipit: Incipit Prologus destructionis Mon[esta]rii farfensis editæ a Venerando patre D. Hugone abbate pralibati

Barb.lat.2382, Felice Contelori De Comitissae Mathildis, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Lectori Egregiam Mathildis indolem, inorum integri

Barb.lat.2428, Felice Contelori Quaedam historica quae ad notitiam temporum pertinent pontificatuum Leonis X Adriani VI et Clementis V (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IIr) Ill[ustrissimo] et Reu[erentissimo] Principi francesco Barberino S.R.E. Card[inali] Bibliothecario

Barb.lat.2497, Vita Bonifacii VIII (17th C)
Incipit: (f.3r) Ad Lectorem. Lectorem id volo meum quod suum

Barb.lat.2517 (Upgraded to HQ), Miscellaneous Documents (16th C)
Incipit: Ricercatosi nella piccolissima

Barb.lat.2586, Raccolta di documenti pertinenti ai cardinali della famiglia Carafa. (16th C)
Incipit: li principali aggraiui e li nella causa di

Barb.lat.2606, Monumenta varia collegii anglorum. (17th C)
Incipit: De Missarium Obligatione. Cum ferme quotidiana Sacra

Barb.lat.2611, Gervasio Tilleberiensi Descriptio historica totius mundi ab eius principio et de mirabilibus cuiusque provincie. (14th C)
Incipit: Octoui quarto Romano Imp[er]atori ssemp[er] Augusto

Barb.lat.2629, Papal Miscellany (17th C)
Incipit: In Consist[orio] secreto die 29 Marti 1632. Venerabiles fratres. Vos non latere

Barb.lat.3172, Catalogi Bibliothecae Barberinae, Book II (17th C)
Incipit: Historia sacra. Vide opera Adami Bremensis canonici

Barb.lat.3618, Letters (16th C)
Incipit: Don Phelippe. Por lagracia de dios Rey de Inglaterra

Some are originals, some are copies


Capp.Sist.116, Sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus, Motet Benedictamus Patrem et Filium, Motet Exultate Deo adiutori nostro (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Veni Pa-ter pauperum .ii. veni dator munerum

Scribe: Horatii Felix


Capp.Sist.134, Rogerii Giovanelli, Johannis Petraloysii Praenestini Motets (1621)
Incipit: (f.2r) Gregorio .XV. Pont. Opt. Max. Existente Magistro Cappelle Pontificiæ Hieronymo

Capp.Sist.Diari.173, Antonio Vellucci Diario De Cantori della Cappella Pontificia (1756)
Incipit: (f.2v) Officiali Dell'Anno 1756

Capp.Sist.Diari.240, Bernardo Valenzi Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1824)
Incipit: (f.6r) Elenco Dei Signori Cappellani della Cappella Ponti-ficia viventi nell'Anno 1824

Capp.Sist.Diari.248, Giovanni Belli Diario Della Cappella Pontificia (1832)
Incipit: Diario Della Cappella Pontificia Per l'Anno 1832 secondo del sagro Principato del Sommo Pontefice Gregorio XVI

Comb.C.3, Gospel of John, etc (16th-17th C)

Comb.C.5, Prayers over Incense (19th-20th C)

Comb.D.1, Five Columns of Mystery, Miracle of Gabra Manfas Qeddus (20th C)

Ott.lat.18, Notae variae de argumentis ecclesiasticis (15th C)
Incipit: Non mediocriter errant qui magno bono

Ott.lat.500, Pontificale (1662)
Incipit: (p.2) Confirma hoc De-us quod operatus es in nobis a tem-plo sancto tuo

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from Brescia, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 777[ Title: Pontificale Romanum, Folio: passim, Century: 1662, Notation: quadrata]


Ott.lat.529, Bible: New Testament, Calendar (Ambrosian) (12th-13th C)
Incipit: Incipit lib[er] s[ecund]a[m] mathei Euang[e]liste. Liber g[e]n[er]ationis

Ott.lat.594, Giulio Antonio Santorio Acta Sacri Concistorii sub diversis summis pontificibus. (17th C)

Ott.lat.648, Hippolyti Portuensii Tabulae Paschales
Incipit: Tavole Pasqvali Di. S. Hippolyto Vescovo Portvense. Nelle quali si troua la Pasqua legale

Ott.lat.1173, Louis Lieutaud La France Chorographique, Topographique, Chronologique, et Historique
Incipit: (p.IX). Ce n'est pas touiôurs ce qu'on donne qui est le plus estimé

Ott.lat.1174, Phalaridis Agrigentinorum, Francisco Aretino (tr) Epistolae (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: Francisci aretum in phalaridis tyranni Agrigintum

Ott.lat.1175, Leonardo Bruni De primo bello Punico (1451)
Incipit: Leonardi arretini viri patricii i[n] come[n]-tariis belli Gallici post primum bellum punicum Liber primus Incipit

Scribe: Gentilis Valerii


Ott.lat.1179, Pomponio Mela, Nicodemo Tagli (tr) Del sito del Mondo (tr) (1552)
Incipit: (f.IIv) Nicodemo Tagli al lettore. Chibra[]a [di] saper come stia' l mo[n]do

Ott.lat.1196 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero, Franciscus Philelphus, Matthaeus Bossus, ps-Virgil, et al De legibus, Lucullus seu Academica priora, Topica, etc (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) [L]ucus quidem ille & hæc

See Biblissima, traces of a rubric on f.1r, entirely faded


Ott.lat.1201, Martial Epigrams (15th C)
Incipit: M. Valerii Martialis celtibert επιγραμματων liber Primus ad Domitianu[m] cesarem

See Biblissima, same scribe as Vat.lat.3296


Ott.lat.1221, Martial Epigrams (15th C)
Incipit: M. Valerii Martialis epigra[m]-maton liber primvs hic est ad caesarem de amphitheatro

See Biblissima, scribe: Pietro di Girolamo di Bernardo Ciacchi


Ott.lat.1249, Consilia et Responsa diversorum, ut Bartoli, Baldi, Jacobi de Arenas
Incipit: (f.3r) Incipit tractatus fidei co[m]missarior[um]

Has some illuminated manuscript fragments inset on ff.1-2


Ott.lat.1254, De Demonstratione et Syllogismo tractatus imperfectus
Incipit: Logicai Paraphrasis. Postremus

Ott.lat.1297, Prudentius, Avianus, Cicero, Lucan, et al Dittochaeon, Fables, De oficiis, De bello civili, etc (1301-1425)
Incipit: Incipit liber prudencii .i. columba noui Et ueteris testamenti

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1298, Gratian Decretum
Incipit: Incipiu[n]t discordantium g[e]n[er]alium [con]-cordantia que uulgo brocarda

Ott.lat.1335, Poetae Jussu Johannis Angeli Ducis Ab Altaemps selecti
Incipit: (f.3r) Homerus Ilias Homeri. Ilia. Lib. I.

Ott.lat.1465 (Upgraded to HQ), Virgil Bucolica, Georgica with scholia (1375-1500)
Incipit: Dux ego uester eram. uidi cum marte legentem

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1468, Terence Comedies: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Phormio, Hecyra (1375-1400)
Incipit: (f.2r) Andria. Terentii Affri poete comici Andria feliciter incip[it] Enlogium terentii

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1480, Antonii Panormitae Epistles, Volume 5
Incipit: Antonii Panhormite: Qvintvm epis-tolarvm volvmen adoliverivm neapoliti

Ott.lat.1481 (Upgraded to HQ), Leon Battiste Alberti Dialogi della Famiglia (c. 1550)
Incipit: (f.2v) Verse di Leon Bap. Alberti recitati nel primo

Ott.lat.1504, Cicero, Demosthenes De amicitia, Paradoxa ad Brutum, Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem, Oratio pro Sex. Roscio Amerino, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Qvintvs Mutius sceuola augur

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1506, Cicero Tusculane Disputations (15th C)
Incipit: M.T. C. Q.T. Ad. Brvtvm Li-ber primvs incipit De contempnenda morte

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1512, Cicero Epistulae ad familiares (15th C)
Incipit: [E]Go mnii offitio ac potuis

See Biblissima, traces of a rubric on f.1r


Ross.854, Bene Medicus (15th C)
Incipit: Ego maestro bene medico dellom perado-re federigo sifa asapere

In Italian


Vat.ar.2063, Quran (7th-9th C)

See Corpus Coranicum. Contains 8 fragments of different manuscripts, all in Kufic, previously part of Vat.ar.1605.


Incipit: Grauamina sedis Appostolicæ no ferenda Ger-manis

Vat.lat.11474, Priscian Institutiones with Scholia (12th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) In-cipit liber p[ri]mus prisciani &c. Cum om[n]is eloqven-tie doctrinam

See Biblissima,