Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 35 of 2025

A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, to conclude summer. Following recent patterns, the largest contributor was Ott.lat, with thirteen, followed by Comb and S.Maria.Magg, each with seven. The remaining volumes came from Barb.lat, three, Vat.lat, two, and Barb.gr, a single manuscipt.

To the right is f.135r from S.Maria.Magg.92, an Epistolary for Roman Use made in the 14th C. This page has an illuminated K, a letter rarely found in latin texts, to start the word "Karissimae", introducing a reading from II Timothy 4

At the bottom is a line of text from f.7v of Vat.lat.10674. This is a glossed copy of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, which was written in 1396, per comment on f.108v. This particular line is a quote from the Iliad (XXIV, 527) left untranslated in the original. Here the Greek, δύο πίθους, τὸν μὲν ἕνα κακῶν τὸν δεͅ ἕτερον ἑάων, has not been translated, but transliterated, poorly it seems, into Latin characters

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Barb.gr.473, John of Damascus Expositio fidei, De Haeresibus, Dialectica

Barb.lat.571, Petri de Tarantasia Expositio notabiis super epistopa Pauli (14th C)
Incipit: Dedi te i[n] luce[m] ge[n]ciu[m] ut sis sa-lus mea us[que]

Barb.lat.768, Gabrii de Zamorens Sermones morales (15th C)
Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ih[es]u ch[risti] et gloriosse b[ea]te marie semp[er] uirgi[ni]s n[ost]ris eius et b[ea]ti bernabe

Barb.lat.1758, Adversaria, sive Notae variae historicae. (17th C)
Incipit: Vetus inscriptio est Romae apud

Comb.D.9, Catechism (19th C)

Comb.E.6, Lectionary (18th-19th C)

Comb.E.9, Prayers for Matins and Evening, etc (18th C)

Comb.E.10, Prayers for the Hours, etc (18th-19th C)

Comb.E.18, Anaphora for Mary, etc (1881-1889)

Comb.E.20, Liturgical Miscellany (1874-1889)

Comb.E.29, Prayers to the Virgin at Golgotha, etc (18th-19th C)

Ott.lat.1514, Propertius Elegies (15th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Properti Avr Lii n[a]v[i]ta vmb[r]i

See Biblissima. Title incomplete or faded on specific letters


Ott.lat.1515, Valerius Flaccus Argonautica (1463)
Incipit: Prima Devm magnis canim-vs freta per-uia nautis

See Biblissima, dated on f.108v


Ott.lat.1586 (Upgraded to HQ), Pliny the Elder, Gellius, Dictys Cretensis, et al Natural History, Attic Nights, Ephemeris belli Troiani, etc (15th C)
Incipit: M. Naseam affrice lovu[m] scicione appelat & cratia amne[m] in occeanu[m] elffluente[m]

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1633, ps-Cicero Rhetorica ad Herennium (15th C)
Incipit: Marci Tulii Ciceronis liber p[ri]mus ad h[erennium]. Incipit

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1669, Guarinus Veronensis, Plutarch , Francesco Barberino (tr) Vita Platonis, Vita Aristidis, Catonis vita, etc (15th C)
Incipit: Q. Varini veron[ensis] ad clarvm phisicvm phi-lippvm medioianensem Plato incipit feliciter. Mvltvm Divqve ani moverti

Ott.lat.1680, Cardinal Delfino Il Creso, A Tragedy, La Lucrezia, a Tragedy (18th C)
Incipit: (f,2r) Interlocutori. Creso Re di Lidia

Ott.lat.1685, Benedicti de Plumbino, et al Legal Commentary (14th C)
Incipit: [T]raditionibus post

Ott.lat.1690, Aurelio Amalteo Rime, Part 5 (1686)
Incipit: (f.4r) Strigonia ricuperata dall' Armi Imperiali, e Polacche

Ott.lat.1693, Aurelio Amalteo Rime, Part 8 (1688)
Incipit: (f.4r) La Simplicita. Candida, pura, bella, immacolata

Ott.lat.1695, Aurelio Amalteo Rime, part 10 (1689)
Incipit: (f.4r) Belgrado, detto anco Taverino, et Alba-greca, espugnato dall' Armi dell' Invitiss[imo] Imperatore

Ott.lat.1703, La Vita di M. Vincentio di Poggio Nobil Lvc-chese (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Al Capit[ano] Bartolomeo di Poggio. Quello ardente ualor, che nel in uitto

Ott.lat.1715, Jacobi Bonfadii Annalium Genuensis (17th C)
Incipit: Mes. Alessandro piccolomini a M. Giacomo Bonfadio per l' historie ch' egli de Genouesi

Ott.lat.1718, Xenophonis commentariorum de memorabilibus dictis et factiis socratis libros IV (tr) (16th C)
Incipit: Xenophontis socratici co[m]mentarios de uita ac moribus su[m]mi uiri ac philosophi magistri sui pulcherrimos

S.Maria.Magg.44, Ritual (13th C)
Incipit: Ordo ad facie[n]dum cathecuminu[m], Cu[m] uenerit i[n]faris ad baptismu[m]

S.Maria.Magg.92, Epistolary, Use of Rome (14th-15th C)
Incipit: Incipit liber ep[isto]lar[um] p[er] totu[m] annu[m] s[e]c[un]d[u]m consuetudine[m] romane ecc[lesi]e.

S.Maria.Magg.107, Tract on the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, a Charles Borromeo (17th C)
Incipit: Trattato di Mons. Sirletti, sopra la chiesa di S[ancta] Maria Maggiori di Roma. Ragioando hieri con V. S. F.

S.Maria.Magg.125.pt.1, Prove di nobilita vita e costume del Conte Nicolo Vasco per la Croce ed Habito da Cavagliere di Giustizia della Sacra Religione ed Ordine Militare de... (18th C)
Incipit: (f.2v) Dal masso Vasio Vassalo, e Senatore

S.Maria.Magg.125.pt.2, Vita di Ludovico di Castelvetro Anno 1571 (16th C)
Incipit: Vita di Lodouico Casseluetro da Modena Scritta da. Lodouico Casteluetro nacque in Modena l'anno 1505 di Giacom[o] Casteluetro, e della Bartolomea dalla Porta honoreuoli Cittadini

S.Maria.Magg.125.pt.4, Vita Francesco Barberini (17th C)
Incipit: Vita di Messer Francesco Barberino. Essendo Vrbano iiii sommo Pontefice, nacque

S.Maria.Magg.125.pt.9, Vita de Virginio Cesarini (1624)
Incipit: (f.1r) Virginii Caesarini Vita. Quæ de Virginii Cesarini ingenio, moribus, studii

Vat.lat.10674, Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy, glossed (1396)
Incipit: Carmina q[ui] [con]da[m] studio flore[n]te p[er]egi

Vat.lat.14462, Regestum Sacristiæ Pontificæ