Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2025

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 mandates for the Prince/Bishop of Würzburg. This section of the volume is dated 1458, though later documents are from the 16th and 17th centuries. This page depicts various important members of the city, including the Bishop, the Dean, the Nuns of St. Stephens (possibly), and the scene of a hanging.

At the bottom is a fragment of the colophon from f.229v of Vat.lat.11487. This is a late 15th C manuscript of the Epigrams of Martial, written by Guido Bonacti of Forli. In the line above the one presented here, he clearly signs his name in purple. The heavily damaged/erased line in red, however tantalizes with hints of more information. Did it contain date and location information, or did it cite the scribe of the large rubric on f.1r, Bartolomeo Sanvito....

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Barb.lat.793, Johannes Lector Liber de quaestionibus casualibus, sive Summa confessorum (15th C)
Incipit: Prologus fr[atri]s Iohannis lectoris in libellum

Barb.lat.2256, Caroli Sigonii De Romanae Historiae Scriptoribus (17th C)
Incipit: Caroli Sigonii De Romanae Historiæ scriptorib[us] pro ut quisq[us] eorum vixit

Barb.lat.2539, Miscellany (17th C)
Incipit: Factum is fuo, quod orator Venetonum

Barb.lat.2582, Miscellany (17th C)
Incipit: Instructio data R[everentissimo] Cardinali

Barb.lat.3171, Catalogi Bibliothecae Barberinae Secundum materiarum Seriem. Book I (17th C)
Incipit: Bibliothecæ Barberinæ Catalogus, in generaliota rerum, Seu materiarum [8o] capita distributus ex quibus singulis

Barb.lat.3660, Boethius Consolation of Philosophy (tr) (15th C)

Note inside the cover, "bound in 1826", translated into Italian


Barb.lat.5159, Instruttione breve et succinta del modo da servare nel governo di Casa Alto Illustrissimo S. Duca d'Urbino (16th C)
Incipit: Non e cosa nseeuna nilla Vita de mortali

Bonc.D.43 (Upgraded to HQ), Di principio fabricio allusioni et imprese sopra l'arme di Gregorio Papa XIII co' I titoli, motti, figure et sonetti (1579)
Incipit: (f.5r) Al S[acntissimo] P. & S. N. Gregorio PP. XIII. La natural Semplicita dell' humil Villanello

Borg.lat.531, Boethius
Incipit: Cap[itulo] p[ri]mo de lo p[ri]mo libro

Capp.Giulia.IV.16 (Upgraded to HQ), Oratio Benevoli Missa Bosca a 8, Missa La Cristiniana a 8, Missa Marsilia a 9, Missa Angelus Domini a 12 (1650-1700)
Incipit: (f.1v) Organo a 8

Capp.Sist.559, Hymns for St. Andrew: Alto (19th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Exultet orbis orbis

Part of a set Capp.Sist.558-564


Capp.Sist.561, Hymns for St. Andrew: Tenor (19th C)
Incipit: f.2r) Exultet orbis orbis

Part of a set Capp.Sist.558-564


Capp.Sist.565, Hymn and Antiphon for St. Andrew: Cantus (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Andreas Christi famulus Andreas

Part of a set Capp.Sist.565-577


Capp.Sist.567, Hymn and Antiphon for St. Andrew: Tenor (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Andreas Christi famulus Andreas

Part of a set Capp.Sist.565-577


Capp.Sist.569, Hymn and Antiphon for St. Andrew: Bass (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Andreas Christi famulus Andreas

Part of a set Capp.Sist.565-577


Capp.Sist.570, Hymn and Antiphon for St. Andrew: Cantus (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Andreas Christi famulus Andreas

Part of a set Capp.Sist.565-577


Capp.Sist.572, Hymn and Antiphon for St. Andrew: Alto (19th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Andreas Christi famulus Andreas

Part of a set Capp.Sist.565-577


Comb.D.10, Prayers to the Virgin of Mercy (19th C)

Ott.lat.838, Tabula Martiniana super decretum et decretales cum prologo
Incipit: 1. Aaron 2. abbas

Ott.lat.1178, Pauli Veneti Logica
Incipit: Conspiciens in circuitu libroru[m]

Ott.lat.1185, Francesco Marcalori Relazione del Regno di Napoli
Incipit: Copiosa Narratione delle cose piu importanti del Regno di Napoli

Ott.lat.1399, Virgil Aeneid, glossed (15th C)
Incipit: Eneas p[ri]mo libye depellitur oris

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1509, George Trapezuntius, Franciscus Patricius De quatuor orationis partibus declinabilibs, de quatuor orationis partibus indeclinabilibus (16th C)
Incipit: Georgii Trapezuntii in o[mn]i liberali arte clarissimi de quatuor partibus

Vat.lat.10047, Gasparino Barzizza Epistles (1472)
Incipit: Gasparini p[er]damensis clarissimi orator[um]

Vat.lat.11144, Sammlung verschiedener Mandate der Fürstbischöse von Würzburg (1458, 15th-17th C)
Incipit: Byschoff zu Wurzpurg

Incipit: (f.1r) Ordinationu[m] seu co[n]stitutionu[m] co[n]gregatio[n]is saluatoris

Vat.lat.11487, Martial Epigrams (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton Liber Primvs Incipit Feliciter. Marcvs Valerius Marcialis lectori

See Biblissima, scribe: Guido Bonatti, rubric on f.1r: Bartolomeo Sanvito