Another week done, another thirty-three manuscripts digitized. As is becoming the current pattern, the majority of these, twenty-one, came from the Ott.lat collection. An interesting detail is that in the last few weeks, the slow work on this fond has progressed past shelfmark Ott.lat.1676, which moves to the second volume of the inventory. The second volume is much more detailed, with dates and additional description information. Other fonds active this week included three manuscripts from S.Maria.Magg, two from Comb and Vat.lat, and a single volume from Barb.lat.

To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat.1505, a late 15th C copy of Cicero's De Officiis. The illuminations are identified as the work of a student of Franco de' Russi, and the rubrication might be the work of Bartolomeo Sanvito.

At the bottom is a bit of the edge from f.1r of Ott.lat.1746, a copy of the various Histories of Julius Caesar. This is from roughly the same time period as the image to the right, but has suffered significantly from the depredations of time and was, even when new, "clumsily executed" (Virginia Brown. "Portraits of Julius Caesar in Latin Manuscripts of the Commentaries". VIATOR. vol. 12. 1981. pp. 319-354)