Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 34 of 2025

No manuscripts were digitized last week and only twelve this week, due to the summer holidays. The overwhelming majority of them, nine or 75%, are from Ott.lat. The rest are one each from Barb.lat, Comb, and S.Maria.Magg.

To the right is f.174v of S.Maria.Magg.43, a copy of Gregory the Great's Regula Pastorale dated to about 861. There is significant purple mold damage throughout, sadly including on the full-page miniature which starts the work. The page to the right, beginning "Ostendunt Sequenda" is from Book 3, and has some lovely 9th century Caroline detailing. The scribe simply works around holes and defects in the parchment and hasn't yet decided to use - when words break at line endings. There is a lovely, and rare, example of an NT ligature at the end of the penultimate line.

At the bottom is a line of text from f.6r of Ott.lat.1337, a theological miscellany containing the works of St. Augustine, Justin Martyr, Eusebius, and more. This page has excerpts from book 2 of The City of God.

Barb.lat.2808, Clement VIII Ceremoniale and Diary, January-April 1595 (1595)

Incipit: (p.1) MD.L XXXXV Anno a Circuncisione Domini N[ostri Jesu Chr[ist]i Millesimo Quingentessimo Nonagesimo quinto

Comb.E.13, Book of Disciples (18th-19th C)

Ott.lat.1330, Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae (13th C, 15th C)

Incipit: Qvoniam in ante expositis libri[s] de partib[us] orationis

See Biblissima, main text is 13th C, glosses are in a 15th C Humanist hand

Ott.lat.1331, Pier Paolo Vergerio De principibus carrariensibus et gestis eorum liber (16th C)

Incipit: Petri Pauli Vergerii de Iustinopoli Liber de Prin-cipibus Cararentibus et gestis eorum Incipit feliciter.

Ott.lat.1337, St. Augustine, Justin Martyr, Eusebius, Hermetis, et al De Civitas Dei, Contra Judeos, Emisseni homiliae, centiloquium. etc. (16th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) D. Augustinus D. Aurelii Augustini libri 22 de civitate dei

Ott.lat.1338, Hippocrates, Galen, Johannis Manardi De natura humana, de elementem et temperam, Epistola medicinales (16th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) Hippocrates, Hippocrates de natura human a liber cum Galeni co[m]mentario

Ott.lat.1550 (Upgraded to HQ), Beneventus Campesanus, Catullus, Propertius Epigramma de ressurectione Catulli, Carmina, Elegies (15th C)

Incipit: Catvlli Veronensis Liber Incipit. [Ad] p[at]riam vonio longis afinibus

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1564 (Upgraded to HQ), Tractatus de electione Petri de Luna ad summum Pontificatum et eius actis

Incipit: Nos om[ne]s et sing[u]li

Ott.lat.1565, Richard of Middleton On Book 3 of the Sentences (13th-14th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) sum. si quid tale euen[er]it et ante

Ott.lat.1566, Martin von Troppau Alphabetum super Decretalibus

Incipit: [Su]nt alia q[uae] ad Adelius chr[ist]i doct[ri]nam scripta su[n]t ius

Ott.lat.1597, Nikolaus Gotz Vocabolarius iuris utriusque. (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) [L]amberintus de hac materia siue de hoc verbo

See Biblissima, from the Dominican Convent of Toulouse. Flyleaves ff.IIr-IIIv seem to be pages from the Q section

S.Maria.Magg.43 (Upgraded to HQ), Gregory the Great Regula Pastoralis (c. 861)

Incipit: Ego M[] Episcopus s[an]c[t]ae pepernntis ecclesiae hunc librum pastoral[is] fieri. Institui do[m] auxiliante