Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 46 of 2025

A total of forty-six manuscripts were completed in week 46 of the calendar year. The distribution is not quite what we have seen recently, Barb.lat continues to be the largest collection, adding seventeen, but it was followed by Comb with eleven. Capp.Sist and Ott.lat each contributed eight, and one each came from Chig and Vat.lat.

To the right is f.29v of Ott.lat.1925, an undated Spanish manuscript entitled Macchine da alzarpesi, Molini e disegnati e spiegati consisting principally of machine diagrams, some with minimal captions. The manuscript was never completed. Only about one half of the images were ever completed with colored wash, and the example here seems to have been stopped in process.

Over the last few weeks many manuscripts from the Comboniani have been digitized, bringing more than 1/3 of the entire Fond online. One of these was Comb.O.10, a late 19th C or early 20th C work on divination. At the bottom is a fragment of the border of the full page cross found on p.4

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Barb.lat.714 (Upgraded to HQ), Petri Kali Vita Sanctorum (14th C)
Incipit: Domi-nicus dicit[ur] primo q[u]i d[omi]ni

Barb.lat.1767, Poggio Bracciolini Historia disceptativa tripartita convivalis. (1452)
Incipit: Ad reverendissimvm prem. d. prosper Cardinalem de Colvmna Poggii prohe-mivm feliciter incipit. Svperiorem Catonem

Dated in Colophon on f.30r


Barb.lat.1828, Francisci Carducci Carmina. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Emin[tissimo] Prinicipi Francisco Barberino S.R.E. Cardin[ale] Ampliss[imo] Franciscus Carducius F. Tibi (Emin[tissime] Princips) cui me totum

Barb.lat.1839, Felix Verducciolus In obitum Ioannis Thomae Gilioli. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Emintissimo ac R[everentissimo] Principi Francisco Cardinali Barberino Felix Verducciolus F. Dolor nescit ornatum, nec aliis colo-ratur pigmentis quam suis lachrymæ

Barb.lat.1840, Fragmenta gaudii, laetitiae et exultationis. (17th C)
Incipit: Fragmenta Gavdii, Lætitiæ, ex Exvltatio-nis Domini Antbimi Marcellii Abbatis Sancti Laurentii Cultusboni. De noui Seminarii Fesulani

Barb.lat.1844, Giulio Roscio Veterum fabularum collectio. (17th C)
Incipit: Fabula I. De Muse in cista nato

Barb.lat.1845, Miscellanea di testi poetici.
Incipit: ... iupiter acrius ardeto

Barb.lat.1855, Teodoro Zameoni Apum religio exhibita in erigendo templo Ereti ab apibus Barberinis sub auspicio D. Mariae Magdalenae. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IVr) Excell[entissimo] Principi Thadæo Bar-berino Vrbis Præfecto Digniss[imo] Theodorvs Zameonvs F. En ipsa in paginae fronto Apes Tuæ quadu[m]

Barb.lat.1856, Gloria et felicitas Urbani VIII Pont. Opt. Max. (17th C)
Incipit: Illa ego diuine soboles de germine Mentis, Et famæ germana soror, cui lustra triumphus

Barb.lat.1865, Teodoro Zameoni Apum religio exhibita in erigendo templo Ereti ab apibus Barberinis sub auspicio D. Mariae Magdalenae. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.IVr) Eminentissimo Principi Francisco Car. Barberino S.R.E. Vicec. Theodorvs Zameonvs F. Altervm te nvnc Gerculem veneratur

Barb.lat.1872, De ratione et methodo studendi. (17th C)
Incipit: De Ratione & Methodo Studendi. Quid quid ab hominibus in hac uita geritur aut naturales functiones spectat

Barb.lat.1874, Epigrammi anonimi dedicati a Urbano VIII e Francesco Barberini. (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Vrbano VIII Pont. Max. Die Dominicæ Transfiguratio[nis] Integra ualetudine pro-deunti Epig. Sol orbem urbano Vrbanus ful-gore beabat. Cum morbi nubes condidit atra Jubar

Barb.lat.1892, De divi Francisci stygmatibus. (17th C)
Incipit: De Divi Francisci Stygmatibus. Felices montis latebræ memorumq[ue] tenebræ

Barb.lat.1904, Michael Capellarius Carmina (17th C)
Incipit: Diui Petri Chalcathedrothriambus. Qvæ procul extremo templi de Cardine moles

Barb.lat.1913, Gasparis Murtolae Urbano VIII Foelix Anni illius pontificatus secundi inauguratio, sive Tripudium secundum (17th C)
Incipit: Ecce dies redit ecce dies qua Vrbanvs in Vrbe Tempora sublimi

Barb.lat.1923, Silverster Petra-Sancta (17th C)
Incipit: Ser[enissimo] D[omi]no Federico Mauritio a Turre Duci Bullonio Principi Sedani et Raucurtii

Barb.lat.2237, Franciscus Ciarpius De Origine Cardinalium Disquisitio (17th C)
Incipit: De origine Cardinaliu[m] disquititio. Emin[tissimo] et R[everentissimo] D[omi]ne. Vt signum aliquod obsequii ac grati anim

Capp.Sist.370, Dominici Mustafa Benedictus for 6 voices and a chorus of 4 (1859)

Capp.Sist.375, Thomas Baj, Gregorii Allegri Psalm 50 Miserere (1892)

Capp.Sist.398, In coena Domini ad Matutinum Lectio Tertia Lamentationum (1783)

Capp.Sist.404, Philippi Ceciliani Antophonae Mandatum novum, Postquam surrexit Dominus, Dominus Iesus, etc. For first Tenor Chorus (1805)

Capp.Sist.414, Johannis Biordi, Laurentii Ratti, Francisci Foggia, et al Motet O salutaris Hostia, Sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, etc. Cantus I Secundi Chori (1736)

Capp.Sist.415, Johannis Biordi, Laurentii Ratti, Francisci Foggia, et al Motet O salutaris Hostia, Sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, etc. Cantus II Secundi Chori (1736)

Capp.Sist.466, Joannes Petro Aloysio Praenestino Masses, Book VII (19th C)

Capp.Sist.661, Gaspare Bondietti Principi di Canto Ecclesiastico fermo, misto, figurato da forme si usa in tutte le Funzioni della Cappella Pontificia (1791)
Incipit: (f.3r) Protesta. Non e intentione di chi ha fatta quest' opera

Scribe: Giuseppe Baini


Chig.L.VIII.274, Baldini Sebastiano da Roma Poetry (17th C)
Incipit: Prologo. Silua di palme, e di alliu, nella

Part of a 37 volume set, this is #27


Comb.C.8, Ritual of Baptism (19th C)

Comb.B.24, Ritual for the Baptism of Penitents (19th-20th C)

Comb.E.11, Lectionary (19th C)

Comb.E.30, Doctrine of the Arcane, Sword of Divinity, Lord of the Lights (20th C)

Comb.H.2, Acts of the Martyrs (15th C)

Comb.H.9, Vision of Mary (19th C)

Comb.O.2, Icons/Miniatures (20th C)

Comb.O.7, Icons/Miniatures (20th C)

Comb.O.8, Icons/Miniatures (20th C)

Comb.O.9, Icons/Miniatures (20th C)

Comb.O.10, Work on Divination (19th-20th C)

Ott.lat.544, Breviary, Use of Augustin Hermits (1445)
Incipit: (f.8r) Hy[m]n[us] iste d[icitu]r i[n] ... dieb[us] a ka[lend]is octobris usq[ue] ad ad-ue[n]tu[m] d[e]i

See Iter liturgicum italicum, possibly from Venice. Calendar on ff.1r-6v, ff.7r-v are blank


Ott.lat.1866, Guglielmo da Piacenza Chirurgia diversa in Trattati Quatro
Incipit: si rachonci al

Ott.lat.1872 (Upgraded to HQ), Index librorum Bibliothecae Altaempsianae et totius Palatii Altaempiani in Urbis
Incipit: D. Augustini opera omnia

Ott.lat.1873, Aristotle, Leonardo Bruni (tr) Politics (tr) (15th C)
Incipit: Libros politicorum multis ame uigi-lus multq[ue] opera in Latinum traduc-tos donare tibi beatissime pater

Ott.lat.1876, Valerius Maximus Facta et Dicta Memorabilia (1406)
Incipit: Primus liber valerii agit de cultu diuino-r[um] p[ri]mo

See Biblissima, dated in colophon f.39v


Ott.lat.1881, Lucan De bello Civili (1421)
Incipit: (f.3r) Bella p[er] emathios plus q[uod] ciuilia campos

See Biblissima, different text of Lucan gloss as ff.1-2, main text dated in colophon on f.183v


Ott.lat.1925, Macchine da alzarpesi, Molini e disegnati e spiegati

Mostly diagrams, captions in Spanish


Ott.lat.1936, Albertus Magnus Politica
Incipit: Ptolomeus in almagesti dicit q[uod] n[on] est mortuus q[ui] sci[enti]am uiuificauit nec fuit paup[er]

Vat.lat.10460, Thomas Aquinas Opus Contra Gentiles (1467)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipiu[n]t capitula p[ri]me p[re]tis su[m]me b[ea]ti Thome de aq[ui]no cont[ra] ge[n]tiles