Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 31 of 2025

A quiet week, even by the recent pattern of quiet weeks, brings only ten digitized manuscripts online. These included three each from Barb.lat and Capp.Sist, two from Ott.lat, and one each from S.Maria.Magg and Vat.lat

In a Missal, even when there are very few illuminations, as in the 14th C manuscript S.Maria.Magg.98, the passage Te Igitur, which starts the Canon of the Mass often gets a nice decoration. This is the case on f.160v to the right where a damaged, but still lovely crucifixion scene is found, the largest and most elaborate illumination in the manuscript

For historical reasons, the S.Maria.Magg collection includes both manuscripts and printed books shelved together. Capp.Sist.157 is one of those, a collection of Mass settings by Alphonsi Lobo de Borja printed in 1602. This is from the very elaborate portrait frontispiece on the title page, f.1r of the book.

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Barb.lat.2807, Diaria Caeremonialium Clement VIII (17th C)
Incipit: (p.1) Diarivm Anni 1593 Sub Clementi[s] Papa VIII. Anno a Circumis[ione] D. N. Jesu Christ millisimo quinti-gentesimo nonagesimo tertio

Barb.lat.2864, Regestum visitationis ecclesiae abbatialis. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IIIr) Regestrum Visitationis Ecclesiæ Abbatialis, cum eius cura animarum SS. Victoris, et Constantii Loci Villarii sitæ intra

Barb.lat.2879, Liber Cedularum Consistorialium tempore Sanctissimi D. Nostre Paulo III P.M. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Tabula De l[ette]ra A. Alexien[sis]

Capp.Sist.157, Alphonsi Lobo de Borja Liber Primus Missarum (1602)
Incipit: (f.A1r) In Lavdem. Magistri Iosephi de Valdiuielso

Printed


Capp.Sist.349, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Raccolta di Musica Sacra, Volume 1 (1876)
Incipit: (p.7) Constantino Patritio S.R.E. Card. Vice Sacra in Urbe Fungenti Augusti Senatus Patrum

Printed


Capp.Sist.350, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Raccolta di Musica Sacra, Volume 2 (1876)
Incipit: (p.7) Mottetti a Cinque Voci di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina pincipe della musica

Printed


Ott.lat.1324, Sonnets and Madrigals (17th C)
Incipit: Il Peloso Sonetto. Lilla con i suoi sguardi il con m'accende

Ott.lat.1329, In Nativitatis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi ecloga, etc
Incipit: Tirsis. Batte sub aeria quoniam consedimus ulmo

S.Maria.Magg.98, Missale, Use of Rome (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit ordo missalis s[e]cc[un]d[u]m [con]suetudine[m] romane curie

Vat.lat.11590 (Upgraded to HQ), Marcus Antonius Muretus, et al Orations, Letters, etc (16th C )
Incipit: (f.2r) Praeclare a uobis et ex dignitate