Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 44 of 2025

Eleven total manuscripts were digitized in the past week. These consisted of six from Barb.lat, four from Ott.lat, and a single volume, a 17th C catalogue of printed books, from Vat.lat.

To the right is f.1r of Barb.lat.2750, a 15th C collection of papal decrees. The page here starts a text to the people of Venice from Pope Clement, though which of the seventeen, fourteen popes and three more declared antipope, is unclear. This page has borders in a particularly nice and colorful version of bianchi girari/white vine, a decorative style popular alongside Humanist hands in manuscripts.

At the bottom is a line of swoopy text from f.9r of Barb.lat.1897, Giovanni Battista Doni's work entitled Lyra barberina αμφιχορδος. Unlike the later printed edition of this work, the manuscript includes a careful and accurate drawing of the lyre on f.1r. One of the interesting features of this era of paper manuscript is how much the ink bleeds/eats through. The text is often visible 2 leaves away

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Barb.lat.1879, Matteo Maria Boiardo Pastoralia; Epigrammata (15th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) [S]vm deus & nemorum custos, mea

Barb.lat.1897, Giovanni Battista Doni Lyra barberina αμφιχορδος (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Lyra Barberina αμφιχορδοσ A Ioanne Baptista Donio inuenta & S.D.N. Vrbano viii Pont. Max. dicta. Antiquorum Lyram, Beatissime Pater longa sæcu-lorum

Barb.lat.1902, Antonius Galateus Gelasio De Nobilitate (17th C)
Incipit: Antonius Galateus Gelasio suo salutem De Nobilitare. Non putabam, Gelasi uir optime, adeo me offendisse animos istorum nobilium

Barb.lat.2233, Scipionis Amati Laconismus Politicus pro Pace ad Hispaniarum Regem ad Sabaudiae Ducem ad Italiae principes, etc (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Ex Laconismo insurgunt Politicæ Quæstiones fere sep-tuaginta satis attice

Barb.lat.2364, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IIr) A. Altuilla habet familias, seu lares, uel ut uulgo focularia

Barb.lat.2750, Decretals (15th C)
Incipit: Cleme[n]s Ep[iscopu]s seruus seruor[um] dei, Dilectis filiis Du-ci Consilio &

Ott.lat.584, Officium (17th C)
Incipit: (p.3) Illustrissimo, et R[everentissimo] D.D. Marcello Lantes S.R.E. Cardinali, ac ord. min conuent. s. fran. Protectori vigilantiss[imum]

Ott.lat.1837, Claudius Ptolomey Cosmographia (15th C)
Incipit: Beatissimo Patri Alexandro V Pon-tifici Maximo Iacobvs Angelvs. Ad tempora claudii ptolomei uiri alexandrini co-gitanti mihi

Ott.lat.1839, Sebastiano Biancardi Sonetti e Satire (18th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) All Eminentissimo Padrone Sonetto. Signor ben inalzar uovvej le rime

Pagination restarts after f.3r, the first ff.1r-2v are a table of contents


Ott.lat.1963, Suetonius, Julius Caesar Lives of the Caesars (extract), De bello Gallico, De bello Civili, Se bello Alexandrino, De bello Africano, De bello Hispaniensi (15th C)
Incipit: Commentariorvm C. Iulii Cæsaris de bello Gal-lico liber primus incipit feliciter. Iulius celsus constantinus V.C. emendauit

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Vat.lat.14748, Codicum Typis Editorum Vaticanae Bibliothecae Inventarium (1686)
Incipit: (f.5r) Inventarii Pars I. Quatuor Euangelia Arabice Romæ ty-pis mediceis 1591 fol.