Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 30 of 2025

Another week of digitizing concludes with twenty-nine new manuscripts, which seems to be the current pace. The largest collection continues to be Barb.lat, with eleven added. Following that was Ott.lat, a less common large contributor, with nine. Six came from Chig, two from Comb and a lone manuscript from Capp.Sist.

To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat.1585, a manuscript containing ten plays of Seneca. Unusually for 14th C manuscripts, we know the name of the scribe, Peter Theotunicus, and the exact year, 1373, and day, the Vigil of St. Katherine, of completion; that is November 24, 1373. The script and decoration point to a northern Italian, perhaps Bologna, origin. The page layout is designed for marginal glossing, with the principle text in the middle and glosses like brackets on boths sides, but this was only completed through f.41r.

At the bottom are some of the geometric diagrams found in the margin of f.21r of Ott.lat.1551. This is a copy of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath and commentated by Campanus de Novara.

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Barb.lat.196, Receptaculum medicinale (15th C)

Barb.lat.407 (Upgraded to HQ), Raymund de Peñafort Summa de casibus poenitentiae (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit sum-ma de casib[us] Qvoniam ut ait

Barb.lat.513, Joanne de Sancto Geminiano Sermons de Festivitatibus Sanctorum (14th C)
Incipit: (f.11r) Incipiu[n]t s[er]mones de festiuitatib[us] s[an]c[t]or[um] p[er] c[ir]culum a[n]ni [com]pilati

Detailed table of contents on ff.1r-9r


Barb.lat.557, St. Ambrose Hexameron, De Officiis (c. 1453)
Incipit: Sancti Ambrosii archiepiscopi ac doctoris eximii hexameron. Tantvm ne opinionis assvmpsisse homnes

Barb.lat.558, Isidore of Seville Etymologies (14th C)
Incipit: Domino meo dei s[er]uo Braulioni spis-copo ysodorus. Omni desiderio desideraui

Barb.lat.2700, Peregrini Prisciani Historia Ferraniensis (17th C)
Incipit: Peregrinus Priscianius Ill[ustrissimo] Principi Ex[cellentissimo] D[omi]no D[omi]no

Barb.lat.2737, Vita Domini Nostri Jesu Christi et Romanorum Pontificum a S. Petro ad Gregorium XV (c. 1622)
Incipit: Lib[ri] I. Cristiani Imperii id e[st] que religionis fundator [Jesus] Christus patre

Barb.lat.2755, Chronologia Horatii Onuphrii (17th C)
Incipit: Annalibus a Mundo condito ad Christum natum absolutis

Barb.lat.2810, Giovanni Paolo Mucanzio Diarium sub Clemente VIII annorum 1601 et 1602. (17th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Clemens Papa VIIIs 1601. Reseratis Portis sanetis, et Anno Jubilei 1600

Barb.lat.2817, Paolo Ataleone de Branca Diarium ab anno 1612 ad 1622. (c. 1612-1622)
Incipit: 1612 Pont. S. D. N. Pauli Papæ Quinti An VIII.

Barb.lat.2870 (Upgraded to HQ), Francesco Giovanni Gambara Acta sacri concistorii sub Pio PP. IV, a die I Ianuarii 1563 ad 7 novembris 1565 inclusive (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Consistorialia Pii IV Pont. Max. Anno 1563. Tertio Nonas Januarii habita est Congregatio

Massive index on ff.IIr-XXXIIIr


Capp.Sist.358, Pietro Paolo Bencini, Giovanni Battista Constanzi, Pasquale Pisari, Properzio Zappini, et al Settings of Psalm 109 Dixit Dominus (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Largo Maestoso

Chig.L.IV.87, Sebastiano Baldini Poems (18th C)
Incipit: Indice Delle materie contonulo nell' Opera

Chig.L.IV.91, Sebastiano Baldini La Speranza (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) La Speranza, ouero Li 20 Fiaschi di Vino di Montepulciano

Chig.L.V.150, Sebastiano Baldini La Gigantomachia (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) La Gigantomachia ouero acclamationi douute alle Glorie della Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Innocentio Vndecimo

Chig.L.VIII.272, Sebastiano Baldini Il Filippo, a Tragedy (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Argomento. Racconta Tito Liuio nel lib. XL delle Sui Historie qual fone

Chig.L.VIII.273, Sebastiano Baldini Otho III, a Tragedy (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Otho III Imperator, Tragedia. Argomentum. Imperatrix dignissimi, et Othoni acceptissimi Comi-tis

Chig.M.IV.a, Sebastiano Baldini Il Zodiaco ouero Il Sole (18th C)
Incipit: (f.7r) Sereniss[ima] Diua. A voi Ser[enissima] P[ri]n[ci]pessa, benche non co-nosciuta da Monarchi

Comb.E.8, Lectionary (19th C)

Comb.E.15, Book of Hours, Prayers for Matins, etc (1855-1868)

Ott.lat.1320, De Civilibus Galliae (16th C)
Incipit: De Ciuilibus Galliæ dissensionibus Commentariorum liber Primus. Francisco Primo Galliarum Rege mortuo Henricus secundus

Ott.lat.1341, Basil of Caesarea, Leonardo Bruni (tr) Epistula ad adolescentes (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: Ego tibi hu[n]c librum coluci ex media ut auint

Ott.lat.1409, Virgil Aeneid (15th C)
Incipit: Pvblii Virgilii Maronis Eneidar[um] liber primvs incipit. Arma uirumq[ue] cano troye qui primus ab oris

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1551, Euclid, Campanus de Novara (commentary), Adelard of Bath (tr), Boethius Geometria, Arithmatica (13th C)
Incipit: Pvnctus e[st] cuius pars no[n] e[st]

Ott.lat.1563, Pius II Epistula ad Iohannem Vitez de Zredna, ep. Varadiensem. (15th C)
Incipit: Doctissimo ac Reuerendissimo, patri domino Johanni

Ott.lat.1567, Columella De re rustica I-II, De arboribus, De re rustica III-XII (1401-1425)
Incipit: Lucii Julii Moderati Columelle rei rustice liber primus Incipit feliciter. Sepe numero

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1569, Petri de Crescentiis Opus de ruralibus commodis et Agricultura in XII libros
Incipit: Ep[isto]la missa mag[ist[ro ordinis f[ra]tru[m] p[re]dicator[um]. Venerabili i[n] chr[ist]o pat[ri] & d[omi]no

Ott.lat.1571, Spicilegium seu collectio variarum dicisionem juxta regulam juris
Incipit: Habentes priuilegium nimis largum

Ott.lat.1585, Seneca Hercules furens, Thyestes, Phoenissae, Phaedra, Oedipus, Troades, Medea, Agamemno, Octauia, Hercules Oetaeus (1373)
Incipit: In prima tragedia senece cui[us] mat[er]ia e[st]

See Biblissima, scribe: Petrus Theotunicus