Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 18 of 2025

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 added three. Both Capp.Giulia and Capp.Sist.Diari added two, and a single volume was added from the main Capp.Sist collection, Barb.gr, and Comb.

To the right is f.16v of Vat.lat.11153, a copy of Justinian's Codex Repetitae Praelectionis written in the early 14th C, with glosses by Franciscus Accursius. These glossed books of Roman law often come in this format, two column pages, with each column split into an inner section of main text, and an outer frame of commentary. The commentary is linked to the relevant text with small letters and symbols.

At the bottom is the section title line from f.2r of Vat.lat.11286. This is one of a large set of books listing all of the books, held in Italian collections, that were on the Index. Despite being written around 1600, this scribe used a lovely form of ct ligature

Barb.gr.466, Theodorus Prodromus Exposition canonum Cosmae et Joannis Damasceni

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry,

Barb.lat.359, Psalter, Hymnal, etc (1487)

Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit ordo monachuii s[ecu]n[d]a ordinum montis oliueti

See Iter liturgicum italicum, from S. Bartolomeo in Florence. Calendar on ff.IIr-Xv

Barb.lat.499, Thomas Aquinas, Alphonsi, et al De rege et regno, Tabula sermonum de Tempore et Festis Sanctorum, De signis originis in divinit, etc (14th C)

Incipit: (f.9r) Incipit tractatus fratris Thome de re-ge et regno. Coguta[n]ti michi quid

Barb.lat.522, Distinctiones Super Psalterium (14th C)

Incipit: Incipiunt disti[n]xiones sup[er] psalterium. p[ro]logus

Barb.lat.2216, Bussula (1634-1635)

Incipit: (f.1r) Bvssvla Nomina Imbussulator[um]. R[everentissimus] D. Hippolytus Car[dina]lis Aldobran-dinus Camerarius

Barb.lat.2218, Bussula (1636-1637)

Incipit: Bvssvla Nomina Imbussulatorum. Emin[tissimus] et R[eveerentissimus] D. Hyppolitvs Card[inalis] Aldobrandinvs Camerarius

Barb.lat.2540, Pietro Paolo Gualtieri Diary (1532-1544)

Incipit: Diarium Petri Pauli Gualteri Aetini de Breuibus ab anno 1532 ad anni 1544

Barb.lat.5552, L'Amicizia politica, Risposta del Caimecan al Visire (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) L'Amicitia Politica Risposta dela Caimecadi Costantinopoli

Capp.Giulia.IV.18, Vincenzo Bona Eia Ergo ad avocata nostra, for 8

Incipit: (f.1v) Primo coro. Kyrie eleyson

Capp.Giulia.V.37, Orazio Benevoli Messa a 12 Voci, Onde tosse Amore (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Messa a 12 Voci Tresori. Primocoro

Capp.Sist.666, Giovanni Ricchi Registro delle paghe ai loro dipendenti. (c. 1676-1683)

Incipit: (f.1v) Nomi, e Cognomi dell sig[noro] Cantori, et altri loro Ministri della Cap[pella]

Capp.Sist.Diari.253, Francesco Castrucci Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1837)

Incipit: (f.Vr) Cappellani Cantori

Capp.Sist.Diari.258, Felice da Cantalice Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1842)

Incipit: (f.3r) Catalago dei Cognomi, Nomi, Patria, e Voci, ed Epoca dell'Aggregazione dei Sig[nori] Cappellani Cantori della Cappella

Comb.E.4, Lectionary (19th C)

Ott.lat.897, Gasparis Contareni De Officio Episcopi

Incipit: Reuerendissimo In christo Patri domino Petro Lippomano Episcopo Bergomati electo, Gaspar Co[n]tarenus Fælicitatem

Ott.lat.1172, Louis Lieutaud L'Italie, Chorographque, Topographique, et Historique

Incipit: (f.IXr) Luoyque La Vertu ne se soit iamais choisi quelque Pontrée Particuliere pour êtablir le trône de son Empire

Ott.lat.1177 (Upgraded to HQ), Priscian Institutiones (14th C)

Incipit: Quoniam in ante ex positis li-bris de par-tib[us]

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1225, Memorie Istoriche massimam delle Guene dello Stato Ecclesiastico del Pontificato di Alessandro VI, fino a Paolo IV

Incipit: (f.1r) Cose successe in Roma pri-ma della venuta di Carlo VIII. Auicinandosi la uenuta di Carlo VIII.

Ott.lat.1227, Constantini Monachi, Isaac Israeli, Constantine the Arab (tr) et al Dicte particulares, siue de Naturis Ciborum, liber de Urinis (tr)

Incipit: (f.2r) Quod in p[ri]mis coegit antiq[uo]s dispu-tare de u[ar]is cibor[um].

Ott.lat.1300, Antonio di Pietro Averlino Architecture

Incipit: Antonii Auerulini Architectura ab Antonio Asculano e materna lingua in latinum conuersa

Ott.lat.1476, Nicolai Datiarii De Sphera (1463)

Incipit: Tractatvm de sphera Quatuor ca-pitulis distinguimus

Ott.lat.1524, Demosthenes, Leonardo Bruni (tr) Oratio pro Ctesiphonte (1401-1450)

Incipit: [A]duersus Philippum macedonie regem græcie dominatum sibi

Bruni signed in the colophon, dated to April 25, no year given

Ott.lat.1527, Tibullus, Domitus Marsus Elegiae, Epitaphium Tibulli, Vita Tibulli (15th C)

Incipit: [D]ivitias alivs fv-lvo sibi congerat

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1532, Petrarch Epistola cum postillis illius manuscriptis (1429)

Incipit: Cum semper odiosa fue[r]it

Scribe: Perefrinus de Plebesacci, see colophon on f.37v

Ott.lat.1536, Aesop Vita et fabulae (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Reuerendissimo in chr[ist]o p[at]ri & d[omi]no suo precipuo d[omi]no

Vat.lat.10238, Dirk van Ameyden Elogia summorum pontificum et S.R.E. Cardinalium suo aevo defunctorum ad Philippum nepotem. (17th C)

Incipit: Gabriel Teessins Cardinalis Pancenqua[m]

Vat.lat.11153, Justinian, Franciscus Accursius Codex Justiniani, Apparatus in Novellas, Novellae constitutiones (1301-1325)

Incipit: Codicis .d. ursti. repetite p[re]lector[i]s Explic[it]. li. ix incip[it] .s. de iure fi[a]sci

Vat.lat.11286 (Upgraded to HQ), Bibliothecae Regulares et Saeculares (c. 1598-1603)

Incipit: Puncta deprop[si]ta ex lib. Henryci Bulli[n]geri Maledicti

Part of a large set of library catalogues from religious houses, Vat.lat.11266-11326