Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 22 of 2025

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 is f.2r of Vat.lat.11158. This is a standard style of canon law text, containing the Decretals of Gregory IX and the Novels of Innocent IV, along with copious commentary. Although this style is associated with the Italian universities, particularly Bologna, this particular copy has an ex-libris connecting it to the Convent of St. Francis in Assisi

At the bottom is f.2r from Capp.Sist.Diari.199, the 1776 edition of the Cappella Sistina's puntatoreal diary. This one was more decorated than many, with a floral band at the start of each month and this panorama of ruins to start the list of choir members.

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Capp.Sist.215.pt.1, Johannis Biordi, Josephi Baini Hymnum Ave Maris Stella, In Canonizationibus concinendum Abbo Sanctorum Franciscum Caracciolo, Benedictum a S. Philadelphio, Angelam Merici, Coletam Boilet Hyacintham Mariscotti (1807)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ave Maris Stella Tacet A 4[o]. Cantus I

Part of an eight-volume set, Capp.Sist.215.pt1-8

Capp.Sist.215.pt.2, Johannis Biordi, Josephi Baini Hymnum Ave Maris Stella, In Canonizationibus concinendum Abbo Sanctorum Franciscum Caracciolo, Benedictum a S. Philadelphio, Angelam Merici, Coletam Boilet Hyacintham Mariscotti (1807)

Incipit: (f.2r) Altus Primus. Ave Maris stella. Tacet. A 4.

Part of an eight-volume set, Capp.Sist.215.pt1-8

Capp.Sist.215.pt.3, Johannis Biordi, Josephi Baini Hymnum Ave Maris Stella, In Canonizationibus concinendum Abbo Sanctorum Franciscum Caracciolo, Benedictum a S. Philadelphio, Angelam Merici, Coletam Boilet Hyacintham Mariscotti (1807)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ave Maris stella. Tacet. A. 4. Tenor I

Part of an eight-volume set, Capp.Sist.215.pt1-8

Capp.Sist.215.pt.4, Johannis Biordi, Josephi Baini Hymnum Ave Maris Stella, In Canonizationibus concinendum Abbo Sanctorum Franciscum Caracciolo, Benedictum a S. Philadelphio, Angelam Merici, Coletam Boilet Hyacintham Mariscotti (1807)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ave Maris Stella. Tacet. A 4. Bassus I

Part of an eight-volume set, Capp.Sist.215.pt1-8

Capp.Sist.215.pt.5, Johannis Biordi, Josephi Baini Hymnum Ave Maris Stella, In Canonizationibus concinendum Abbo Sanctorum Franciscum Caracciolo, Benedictum a S. Philadelphio, Angelam Merici, Coletam Boilet Hyacintham Mariscotti (1807)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ave maris stella. Tacet. Sumens illud ave. tacet. A 4. Cantus II

Part of an eight-volume set, Capp.Sist.215.pt1-8

Capp.Sist.215.pt.6, Johannis Biordi, Josephi Baini Hymnum Ave Maris Stella, In Canonizationibus concinendum Abbo Sanctorum Franciscum Caracciolo, Benedictum a S. Philadelphio, Angelam Merici, Coletam Boilet Hyacintham Mariscotti (1807)

Incipit: (f.2r) Altus Secundus. Ave maris stella. Sumens illud Ave. Tacet. A 4.

Part of an eight-volume set, Capp.Sist.215.pt1-8

Capp.Sist.451, O Gloriosa Virginum (for four), Veni, creator Spiritus (for six), Salve, Regina Mater misericordiae (for Four) (19th C)

Incipit: O gloriosa virginum

Capp.Sist.484 (Upgraded to HQ), Matteo Simonelli, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Camillo Orlandi, Giovanni Maria Nanino, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, et al. Motets for Four Voices: Cantus (18th C)

Incipit: (f.5r) Canto A 4. Matteo Simonelli. Comissa mea pavesco et ante

Capp.Sist.485 (Upgraded to HQ), Matteo Simonelli, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Camillo Orlandi, Giovanni Maria Nanino, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, et al. Motets for Four Voices: Alto (18th C)

Incipit: (f.5r) Alto a 4. Matteo Simonelli. Comissa mea pavesco et ante

Capp.Sist.532, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missarum Liber II, 4 voices. Alto (1748)

Incipit: (f.3r) a 4. Inviolata. Altus.

Capp.Sist.533, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missarum Liber II, 4 voices. Tenor (1748)

Incipit: (f.4r) Tenor Missa Inviolata. Kyrie elei-son

Capp.Sist.536, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missarum Liber VI, 5 voices. Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus, Quintus (1732)

Incipit: (f.2r) Altus Missa Repleatur os meu laude quinque vocibus Prænestini

Capp.Sist.628, Constitutiones atque Decreta Collegi Cantorum Cappellæ Pontificiæ (17th C)

Incipit: (p.1) Dilectis Filiis Magistro, et Cantoribus Cappellæ nostræ. Paulus P[ap]a V

Capp.Sist.641, Libro in cui si nota tutto ciò che viene estratto e riconsegnato all'Archivio dei Cappellani Cantori Pontifici. (c. 1863-1900)

Incipit: (f.2v) Consegna 2 Gennaio 1864

Capp.Sist.679, Ragguaglio dello Stato del Coro dei Cantori nella Cappella Pontificia, Nomina a custode delle pitture della Cappella Sistina, etc (17th C, 1737, 16th C)

Incipit: Ragguaglio dello stato del Choro de Cantori nella Cappella Ponteficia antico, e moderno, et auuisi per la sua Conseruatione

Multiple documents from different eras

Capp.Sist.680, Miscellany (16th-19th C)

Incipit: Lista expositorum per me Antonium Calasanz super

Capp.Sist.686, (18th-19th C)

Capp.Sist.Diari.167, Giuseppe Vizzardello Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1750)

Incipit: (f.1v) Offiziali SS[re]. D. Bernardino Saluati Maestro di Cappella

Capp.Sist.Diari.199, Francesco Palatta Diario de Cantori della Cappella Pontificia (1776)

Incipit: (f.1v) Officiali Del presente Anno 1776. D. Lorenzo del Vo Maestro

Capp.Sist.Diari.255, Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1839)

Incipit: (f.IVr) Catalogo dei Cognomi e Nomi, PAtria, Voci, ed epoca dell Aggregazione dei Sig[nori]

Capp.Sist.Diari.259, Antonio Pozzi Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1843)

Incipit: (f.4r) Catalogo dei Cog[no]mi, Nomi Patria, e Voce

Capp.Sist.Diari.277, Vincenzo Salvati Diario per L'anno 1862 (1862)

Incipit: (f.2r) Catalogo dei Nomi, Cognomi, Patria, Epoca dell' ingresso, e qualita di voce

Ott.lat.1534, Prosper of Aquitaine Carmina Sacra

Incipit: [I]ste prosper fuit equitanicus uir eruditissimus

Vat.ar.315, Hass al-Hawass, manafi al-insan wa'l-baha'im sa't-tayr (15th C)

Dated 9th C AH, which started September 1398. A book of magical formulas and recipes

Vat.gr.1126 (Upgraded to HQ), Theodor Prodromus Poetry (14th C)

See Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, See Pinakes Entry,

Vat.lat.10140, Thomas Aquinas Tertia pars Summa Theologiae (14th C)

Incipit: Qvia saluator nost[er] do[m]in[us]

See Iter liturgicum italicum, flyleaves contain a fragment of 14th C Hymnal. Includes two ex-libris marks from the Monastery of St. James, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 880[ Title: Hymnar, dopo il N｡ 563a, Folio: Iv, Century: 15, Provinance: Liegi],See Bannister, H. M. [Monume

Vat.lat.10993, Chronicon Beneventanum ab Ughello omissum

Incipit: Codex iste Vaticanus membranaceus in folio parvo

Noted as copied from Vat.lat.4939

Vat.lat.11158, Gregory IX, Bernard of Parma, Innocent IV Decretals with Gloss, Novellae constitutiones (13th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Gregorius Rex pacificus pia miseratione disposu-it