Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 43 of 2025

Another extremely quiet week with only five manuscripts digitized. Four of them were from Ott.lat, and the remaining one was another Bussula, a type of election record, from Barb.lat.

To the right is f.15r from Ott.lat.1822, a volume of Virgil containing both the Bucolics, and the Georgics, from which this page is taken. The manuscript is heavily annotated throughout, including a number of notes in Greek, some of which can be seen on this page in a pale red ink.

At the bottom is a line of text from f.176r of Ott.lat.1929, a collection of several legal texts, probably written in the 17th C

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Barb.lat.2222, Bussula (1640-1641)
Incipit: Omnipotentis Dei, eivsq[ue] gloriosae Virginis matris Mariae, ac beatorvm Pe-tri, et Pavli apostolorv[m] invocato praesidio Bvssvla. Officialium Populi Romani tempore Pontificatus Vrba-ni VIII Anno eius XVII

Ott.lat.1822, Virgil Bucolica, Georgica (15th C)
Incipit: [T]ityre tu patule recubans s[u]b tegmine fagi

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Ott.lat.1854, Cesare della Riviera The Magical World of the Heroes (17th C)
Incipit: Trattato di Cesare della Riuiera Intitolato il Mondo Magico. Dopo che l'altiss[imo], e liberaliss[imo]

Ott.lat.1859, Herodiani, Angelo Politiano(tr) Historiarum de Imperiis post Marcum (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: Angeli Politiani ad In-nocentivm octavvm pon-tificem max. præfatio in-herodiani historianm E greco in Latinvm conversam

Ott.lat.1929, Legal texts
Incipit: (f.6r) Lecturæ Canonicæ et Civiles A. Abbas Antiquus super Decretali

Table of contents on ff.1r-4r