Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 39 of 2025

Only sixteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually the largest number, fully half, came from the Comb collection This collection of primarily Ethiopic liturgical manuscripts came from the personal collection of Daniele Comboni, founder of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. Of the remaining manuscripts, seven came from Ott.lat and a single volume from S.Maria.Magg.

To the right is f.3r from Ott.lat.1757, a 13th C copy of Papias's Elementarium, considered one of the first true dictionaries. This manuscript is incomplete, the main text was finished, but none of the larger capitol letters were added in. Still visible are the small letters in the open spaces, all 'a's on this page, which were left as indications for the rubricator, to be erased when the larger letters were completed.

At the bottom is a bit of the header decoration from f.5r of Comb.G1, a 19th C manuscript containing an Ethiopic translation of a sermon by Ya'qub za-Serug

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Comb.E.24, Prayers to Mary of Golgotha, etc (19th C)

Comb.E.25, Discourse on the Twelve Apostles (19th-20th C)

Comb.E.26, Song of the Flowers, Lament of the Virgin, etc (19th-20th C)

Comb.E.28, Hymn to the Trinity, etc (19th C)

Comb.E.31, Prayers for Mary of Golgotha, etc (19th-20th C)

Comb.G.1, Sermon for the Sunday of Ya'qub za-Serug (19th C)

Comb.G.4, Prayers (19th-20th C)

Comb.G.9, Passion, Way of Heaven, etc (17th-18th C)

Ott.lat.1691, Aurelio Amalteo Rime, Part 6 (c. 1685)
Incipit: (f.4r) Alcone. Mentre il piccioli suo Figlio addormentato

Ott.lat.1692, Aurelio Amalteo Rime, Part 7 (1687)
Incipit: (f.4r) Vescovo di Ceneda. O'del Veneto Mar Astro eminente

Ott.lat.1694, Aurelio Amalteo Rime, Part 9 (1689)
Incipit: (f.4r) L'Intenzione. Cardizion essenziali, ed importante

Ott.lat.1708, Cicero De finibus (15th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) M. Tvllii Ciceronis ad Brvtvm de fi-nibvs bonorv[m] malor[um] liber i[n]cipit. Non eram nescuis Brute

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.1719, Bernardus Compostellanus, Joannes Andreae, et al Summarium sive Margarita ad apparatum in Decretales Innocentii IV, etc (14th C)
Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni amen. Incipit mar-garita super apparatu domi-ni Innocentii quarti de di-uersis l[ite]ris et b[e]n[e]ficiis

Ott.lat.1757, Papias Elementarium (13th C)
Incipit: Incipit elem[en]tari-um papie [con]g[]niti doctrine erudie[n]di. [F]ili uterque k[arissi]me debui si

Ott.lat.1763 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible: Prophets (15th C)
Incipit: Incipit prologus in ysaiam prophetam. [N]emo cu[m] prophetas uersibus uiderit

S.Maria.Magg.111, Rapport sur l'ambassade extrordinaire du Cav. Baptiste Nani, envoyé de la Sérénissime République de Venise, à la Cour de France a l'occasion de la paix conclue entre les deux Puissances (1662)
Incipit: Sereniss[imo] Principe. La Monaschia Francese cocctanea di questa