Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2025

In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The rest consisted of five from Comb, two from S.Maria.Magg, and a single Vat.lat volume.

To thee right is f.32r from S.Maria.Magg.4 part of a monumental 12th C Bible. Often called Atlantic Bibles(in reference to Atlas, not to the ocean), these massive Romanesque Bibles, sometimes even in a single volume, were produced in Italy in the 12th C. This page has the end of the preface from Jerome, and a large capitol A to start the name of Adam, in the list of generations that begins the book of Chronicles.

At the bottom is a bit of the top band decoration from f.1r from Barb.lat.1910, a oration by Francesco Ubaldi. Because this manuscript was written on paper with a caustic ink, the text on the verso has burned the paper enough to be nearly legible here on the recto.

Barb.lat.669, John Cassian De institutionibus Monachorum (14th C)

Incipit: In no[m]i[n]e patris & filii et sp[iritu]s s[an]c[t]i am[en]. In cipit p[re]fatio in libru[m] de institutis & uita & [con]u[er]sato[n]e mo[n]achor[um] egyptior[um]

Barb.lat.698, Breviary, Use of Augustin Hermits (14th C)

Incipit: In nomine d[omi]ni am[en] incipit ordo breuiarii s[e]c[un][u]m co[n]su-etudine romane curie. In p[ri]mo sabb[ad]o de aduentu

See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 761[ Title: Ordo Breviarii, Missalis Romani, Folio: passim, Century: 16, Notation: quadrata]

Barb.lat.866, Diario del Concilio di Trento (7th C)

Incipit: Diario del Concilio di Trento. Giulio Secondo attese piu all'armi

Barb.lat.1785, Petrus Jacobus Favilla Epithalamium: In Nuptiis Excellentissimi Principis Maffaei Barberini et Excellentiæ Olympiæ Pamphiliæ Justianæ (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Eminentiss[imo] et R[everentissimo] Principi Francisco Card. Barberino S.R.E. Vicecancell[erio]. Petrvs Iacobvs Favilla Felicitatem: Avgvstissimas Nvptias inter Excellentissimos Innocentii X

Barb.lat.1899, Joseph Vulpuis (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Peregrinus Quid ergo a Joseph uidentur tibi hæc quæ audisti omnia, et uidisti?

Barb.lat.1910, Francisci Ubaldi Oratio de Laudibus, et Utilitate Conciliorum (17th C)

Incipit: Francisci Vbaldi oratio de Lavdibvs, et Vtilita-te Conciliorum, habita in Æde D. Laurentii in Synodo Diœcesana Die XVI Maii Anno M.DLXXIII

Barb.lat.1921, Panegyric: In Festo S. Maria ad Nives (17th C)

Incipit: In Festo S. Mariæ ad niues Panegyrieus. Divini rerum omnium opificis

Barb.lat.2224, Bussula (1642)

Incipit: Omnipotentis Dei, eiusq[ue] Glo-riosæ Virginis Matris Mariæ ac Beatorum Petri, & Pauli Apostolorum inuocato præsidio. Bvssvla Officialivm Pop. Rom tempore Pontificatus Vrbani VIII Anno eius XIX

Barb.lat.2232, Relatio Ecclesiae Cavallicensis Venayssino In Comitatu (1631)

Incipit: Relatio Ecclesiae Cauallieen[sis] Venazssino In Comitatu Anno 1631. Fabritius Episcopus Cauallicensis Allenta Temporum ac pestis

Barb.lat.2270, (1587)

Incipit: De Eleemosinis, ad quas ex obligatio-ne astrictus fuit Illustrissimus Cardinalis Farnesius Anno 1587. Quia non defuerunt uiri grauissimi id a me postulan-tes

Comb.C.9, Pentitential Prayers (20th C)

Comb.E.27, Effigie delle Lodi di Maria (19th-20th C)

Comb.G.14, Benda di Giustificazione (19th C)

Comb.G.16, Liturgical Calendar (19th C)

Comb.G.17, Prayers to the Virgin of Golgotha (1874-1889)

Ott.lat.99, Anselm of Canterbury Cur deus homo (13th C)

Incipit: (f.3r) Incipit p[re]facio libri anselmi cantuariensis archiepiscopi tur deus homo. Opus subditimi etiam

Ott.lat.1657, Il Perfetto Capitano

Incipit: (f.2r) Sire. Io dedico a voi

Ott.lat.1675, Johannes de Sacrobosco, et al Miscellany: Algorismus, etc (15th C)

Incipit: (f.Ir) [T]ractatu[s] de spera. q[ua]tuor cap[ito]lis

See Jordanus #10296

Ott.lat.1750, (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Signor Mio. Fvinsin da principio (come per altre mie ne feci consapendle) da me Conce-pita la Piazza di Portolongone Seo-glio

Ott.lat.1766 (Upgraded to HQ), Lacerba del Maestro Ceccho di Arcoli (14th C)

Incipit: (f.4r) In comicia lacerba del maesteo ceccho discoli laquale compilo essendo col ducha di Calausa. Incipit

Ott.lat.1780, Augustini de Anchona Liber de medicinis, Expositio Oratonis dominicae

Incipit: Aqua solutiua mi[r]abilis i[n] casib[us] opo[r]-tunis

Ott.lat.1783, Nicolai Montani Documenta seu Prcepta de Stuio Rhetoricæ (15th C)

Incipit: Hæ sunt exornationes ac constructiones aeditae per me Micholaum montanum, Ut in icendo exorna-tiones esse ualeamus.

Ott.lat.1805, Hippocrates, Francisci Philelphi (tr) De flatibus (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Francisci Philelfi praefatio in Hippocratis librvm de flatibvs ad Philippvm Mariam Angelv[m]

Ott.lat.1806, Juvenal Satires (15th C)

Incipit: Lutii lunii Juuenalis aquinatis satyria li[ber] [premier] Incipit. Semper ego auditor t-antvm nunq[ue]

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1810, L'Aquila Otthobona Attione Accademica Recitata Nel Collegio de Nobili De Padri della Congregatione di Somasca in Brescia (1659)

Incipit: (f.1r) Nel presentare li frori a sua Eminenza Madrigale. Agricoltor diuino che in defesso bramate

Ott.lat.1821, Statuta Bobatteriorum Urbis

Incipit: [A]d Reprimendum insolentias transgressor[um] prospiciens e[st] cælo Justitia solia regonantium

Ott.lat.1831, Collectio Casuam in Jure (15th C)

Incipit: Uerbum omnino intelligitur ipso iure

Ott.lat.1832, Polybus, Don Giovan Bernardo Fiorentino (tr) Della Prima Guerra Carthaginese (tr) (c. 1532)

Incipit: (f.3r) Al excellentiss. et Ill. Signore Alexandro de Medici dvca di Civita di Penna don Giovan Bern-ardo Monacho Cisterciense sa-lvte et perpetva felicita

Translated into Italian from the Latin of Leonardo Bruni

Ott.lat.1836, Herodian, Angeli Politiani (tr) De Vitti imperatorum Libri IIII (tr) (15th C)

Incipit: Angeli Politiani ad Innocentium VIII Pontificem maximum praefatio in herodiani hitoriani e Graeco in Latinum conversam

Ott.lat.1842, Juvenal, Persius Satire (15th C)

Incipit: Semper ego auditor t[a]m[en] nu[n]q[uam] ne repona[m]

See Biblissima, Scribe: Student of Pomponio Leto

Ott.lat.1844, Cicero, et al Fragment: Logic and Grammar

Ott.lat.1847, Arnold de Villanova, Hippocrates, Avicenna, et al Tabula, Commentary on Aphorisms, Canon (15th C)

Incipit: Incipiu[n]t medica[mis] parabole 2[um] instinctvm veritatis eter-ne qve

Ott.lat.1858, ps-Cicero Rhetorica ad Herennium (1462)

Incipit: Et si in ne-gociis fami-liaribus im-pediti une fatis

See Biblissima, scribe: Josse de Brabant

Ott.lat.1878, Nicolai Medici Liber de Compositione Medicamentorum ordine alphabetico

Incipit: (f.1r) Ego nicho-laus ro-gatus a quib[us]-dam i-practi-ca me[dicine] studere uolentib[us]

Ott.lat.1902, Nicholas Copernicus, Paul Wittich De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (c. 1543)

Includes Wittich's personal notes in the margins and bound in at the end of the printed book. After his death in 1586, this copy was owned by Tycho Brahe. See Gingerich, O. (20 May. 2022). An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004502611 pp.105-8

S.Maria.Magg.2, Legendary (13th C)

Incipit: Mense Julii ... passio S[an]c[t]orum processi & martiniani

Part of a two volume set with S.Maria.Magg.1

S.Maria.Magg.4, Bible: Proverbs-Hebrews (12th C)

Incipit: Incip[it] p[re]ph[ati]o libri salmonis

A fragment of an "Atlantic Bible"

Vat.lat.10850

Incipit: (f.1r) Copia di una lettera nella quale manifestano gli l'eccellenze e perfettioni della