Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 25 of 2025

An extremely quiet week this week, with only thirteen manuscripts digitized. With such a small number discerning patterns is more fraught, but the top collections were Barb.lat and Capp.Sist, contributing five each. Two came from Vat.lat, and one from Capp.Sist.Diari.

To the right is f.47r from Vat.lat.11446, a 15th c sammelband. This particular page comes from a section of sermons by an unknown author. Despite it being listed in Baroffio's Iter liturgicum italicum as an Italian(?) Breviary, it is not. The listing noting 402 folios, the volume actually has 165, including flyleaves, makes that clear without diving into the manuscript's contents. This page is written in a peculiar hand, it has elements of several styles, and shaded capitols that echo much earlier Irish manuscripts

At the bottom is a line of music from f.4v of Capp.Sist.440. This is an 18th C copy of standard Gregorian plainchant, in this case a Verse and respond from after the Litany of the BVM, also known as the Litany of Loreto. This particular composition was only added to the Office in 1587, making it a very late composition for plainchant.

Barb.lat.2125, Brevi e documenti relativi a papa Pio IV. (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Pivs PP. Qvartvs. Charissimo in Christo filio nostro

Barb.lat.2647 (Upgraded to HQ), Chronicon ab anonymo conscriptum (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) De Federico Imperatore, corrado et Manfredo eius filiis, de rebellione

Barb.lat.2649, Registro delle tasse che si pagavano alla Rev. Camera Apostolica per la collazione dei vescovati e delle abbazie. (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) In Cuntate Roman[um] sunt quinq[ue] eccl[es]ie que P[at]riarchales

Barb.lat.2659, Alessandro Geraldini Summorum Pontificum acta (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Sanctiss[imo] ac Beatiss[imo] Leoni Decimo svmmo christi-anor[um] pontifi[ci] alexan-der Geraldinvs episc-opvs

Barb.lat.2660, Bernard Gui Flores chronicorum (15th C)

Incipit: [S]anctissimo patri ac d[omi]no suo s[omi]no Johanni Munere

Capp.Sist.253, Paschalis Piseri Missa cum 8 vocibus organo concomitante (18th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Kyrie leison

Capp.Sist.440, Antiophon Sub tuum praesidium, Litany beatae Mariae virginis (18th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Sub tuum præsidium con-fugimus

Capp.Sist.446, In Nativitate Domini ad Matutinum inviatorium et psalmus, In Commemoratione Omnium Fidilium Defunctorum invitatorium et psalmus, etc (18th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Te Deum laudamus. Oremus. Deus, qui nobis sub Sacramento mirabili

Capp.Sist.461, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Masses, Book II (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Missa de Beata Virgine

Scribe Josephus Baini

Capp.Sist.503, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Masses for 4, 5, and 6. Book V. Alto (1591)

Incipit: (f.1v) Missa Aetena Christi munera

Part of a set, Capp.Sist.502-506

Capp.Sist.Diari.260, Chierico Carlo Sintoni Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1844)

Incipit: (f.4r) Catalogo dei Cognomi, Nomi, Partria, e Voce coll'epoca dell' Aggregazione dei

Vat.lat.10230, Clement IX L'Innocenza difesa nella rappresentazione di S. Bonifacio (17th C)

Incipit: San Bonifatio Dramma musicale Atto primo Scena prima. Aglae, Bonifatio, Asteria, farfallino

A musical drama in three acts

Vat.lat.11446, St. Augustine, et al De vita eremitica, Speculum Peccatorum (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit libeline Sancti Augustini ep[iscop]i de uita sancta u[e]l solitana distinctus p[er] s[er]mones

Misidentified as a Breviary, with 402 folios, in Iter liturgicum italicum. That must refer to another MS