A much more active week brings seventy-five new manuscripts online. Breaking the pattern of recent weeks, Ott.lat contributed thirty-two this week, the most active fond. Both Barb.lat and S.Maria.Magg added eleven, and both Comb and Vat.lat gave seven. Three came from Chig, and one each from Reg.lat and Sire.

One interesting development this week was that several hybrid print/manuscript volumes, that had already been online in the Incunabula section, were added to the manuscript section. One of these was Ott.lat.1850, a collection of scientific works with a bilingual printed dedicatory letter at front. To the right is f.15r, from a 13th C text of De quampluribus theorematibus by Archimedes, translated by William Morbeke. Apart from being a particularly old manuscript of this translation, each of the nine sections ends with a dated colophon. This lets one determine exactly how long the scribe spend on the pages, which is extremely rare data for the time. As example, De spera et cylindro, found on ff.34r-44v, was started after Sept 25, 1269 (see colophon on f.33v) and finished by October 23, 1269 (Dated 10 KL November on f.44v).

At the bottom is a fragment of the illuminated border from f.1r of Vat.lat.3586. This is a printed book of letters and orations from Cardinal Bessarion. This particular volume was heavily decorated for presentation to King Edward IV, and the full-page miniature on f.1r shows the presentation of the book to the sovereign.