Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 28 of 2025

Only four manuscripts were digitized this week, and all on Friday. Although far too small a sample to prove a pattern, two of the manuscripts were from Barb.lat, and one each from Capp.Sist and Ott.lat.

To the right is f.8v from Barb.lat.2666, a collection of letters and documents relating to the church in Hungary during the time of Pope Leo X. It is written in a hand that is beautiful from a distance, and on closer inspection resolves into almost incoherence.

At the bottom is a line of music, complete with scribal correction, from f.2r of Capp.Sist.357. This is an 18th C volume of music by multiple composers, but the main part, ff.1r-91r, is a motet setting of Psalm 149 by Rinaldo di Capua.

Barb.lat.2666, Processus instructus coram Episcopo quinque ecclesianses in Ungaria inter Reverendissimum D. Tomam cardinalem strigoniensis et Priorem ac connetum S. Azaria de Kermes Vapricenses (1517)

Incipit: (f.1v) Beatissimi pater ac domini Clementissime

Barb.lat.2783, Pro canonizatione B. Philippi Benitii ordinis servorum B.mae Virginis. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Florentina Canonizationis Beati Philippi Benitii

Capp.Sist.357, Rinaldo di Capua, Giovanni Biordi, Felice Anerio, Francesco Saverio Bianchini, Giuseppe Jannacconi, et al Motets and Psalm Settings, Organ and Violoncello (18th C)

Ott.lat.1286, Joannis Vignoli De Columna Imperatoris Antonini Pii Dissertatio Accedunt Antiquae Inscriptiones &c. (1705)

Incipit: (f.2r) Joannes Vignolius F. Compertum satis est omnibus Sanctissime tum