Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 48 of 2025

A total of twenty-three manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually Capp.Sist contributed the most, with eight manuscripts digitized. Following that were the expected fonds, Ott.lat with six, Comb with five and Barb.lat with two. The week concluded with a single volume each from Chig and S.Maria.Magg

To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat.1908, a manuscript of the writings of Petrarch. This page has the beginnings of De vita solitaria, a defense of the solitary life.

At the bottom is a line of music in square neumes from f.28v of Capp.Sist.377. This is a mid 18th C manuscript mostly of lections (readings) for Holy Saturday in plain text, but it ends with a litany, which includes music.

Barb.lat.756, Leonardi de Rubeis de Ghifono dicti, vel de Giffono Ordorum Minorum. Sermones in Similitudines (14th C)

Incipit: tra[n]sear, & ad futuru[m] p[er]tra[n]seat motu celerrimo

Barb.lat.2180, Letters (17th C)

Incipit: Reverend[iddime] D[omi]ne Holsteini Patrone

Capp.Sist.377, Prophets for Holy Saturday, Litany (1730)

Incipit: (f.3r) Prophetia prima. In principio creavit De-us cœlum, & terram.

Scribe: Giovanni Blondi

Capp.Sist.407, Philippi Ceciliani Antiphones, Second Alto Choir (1805)

Incipit: (f.2r) Altus. Antiph. Mandatu[m] novu[m] do vobis

Part of a set, Capp.Sist.402-409, scribe: Paolo Mei

Capp.Sist.409, Philippi Ceciliani Antiphones, Second Bass Choir (1805)

Incipit: (f.2r) Bassus. Antiph. Mandatum novum do vobis

Part of a set, Capp.Sist.402-409, scribe: Paolo Mei

Capp.Sist.411, Giovanni Biordi Sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Hymn Ave Maria Stella (1736)

Incipit: Cantus 2 primi ch 8 voc. Jo: Biordi. Lauda Sion Salvatorem

Capp.Sist.422, Johannis Biordi, Laurentii Ratti, Francisci Foggia, Motets, Sequences, Hymns, etc (1736, 1767)

Incipit: (f.2r) Lauda Syon tac. Cant. fec 8 voc. 2 chori. Quantum po-test tantum aude tantum

Scribe: Leonardo Testa

Capp.Sist.427, Processions: for the Purification, for Palm Sunday (1867)

Incipit: (f.2v) In die Purificationis B. Mariæ V. ad Processiunem. Adorna thala-mu[m] tuu[m] Sion

Scribe: Marcus Cecchi

Capp.Sist.438, Lectionary: Lections for Matins of the Office of the Dead (1745)

Incipit: (f.2v) Lectio Prima. Parce mihi Domine, nihil enim funt dies mei

Scribe: Francesco Biondini

Capp.Sist.448, Lections for the Office of the Dead, Nones (1673)

Incipit: (f.1v) Pro Mortuis. Lectio Prima. Parce mihi Domi-ne, nihil enim

Scribe: Nicola Porta

Chig.L.IV.92, Letters (17th C)

Incipit: Al lettore. Per infomatione de'

Volume 37

Comb.H.4, Sermon for St. Michael (19th-20th C)

Incipit: Io, che gia foi di

Comb.H.7, Miscellany (19th-20th C)

Comb.O.18, Ḥassaba Dawit (18th-19th C)

Comb.O.20, Prayer against the tongue of men (19th C)

Comb.S.10, Baptismal Ritual (1962)

Ott.lat.1896, Arnaldi de Villanova, Thomas Aquinas, et al Astronomia sive potius de Sphera, de 4 Virtutibus, etc

Incipit: Qvoniam ut ait tholomeus inp[ri]n[cipio] almag[esti]

Ott.lat.1898, Suetonius Lives of the Caesars (1475-1500)

Incipit: Svetonivs. Annum agens cæsare sextum decimu[m]

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1908, Petrarch De vita solitaria, De conflictu Secreto curarum suarum, Epistola ad Ioannes Boccatium contra oblocutores (14th C)

Incipit: Vite solitaria Laureati petrarce ad Philipum Ep[istolar]um. Liber primus incipit. Paucos Ho[m]i[n]es noui quibus opu[us] di-lorum meor[um]

Ott.lat.1944, Cicero De natura deorum, De legibus, Lucullus seu Academica priora, Topica, Partitiones oratoriae, Somnium Scipionis, De diuinatione (15th C)

Incipit: Marci Tvllii Ciceronis de Natvra deorvm liber primvs incipit. Cvm Mvlteres in Ph[losoph]ia nequaq[uam] satis ad huc

See Biblissima, illuminations by Giuliano di Amadei

Ott.lat.1976, Aristotle, Franciscus Philelphus (tr) Rhetoric (tr) (15th C)

Incipit: Ad Virum CL Al francisci filelphi Epistola. Cvm Sup[er]iore anno bonome do-cerem clarissime pater

Ott.lat.1991, Cicero, ps-Cicero Orations (15th C)

Incipit: [D]iuturni silentii patres conscripti, quo eram

See Biblissima,

S.Maria.Magg.97, Missal Fransiscan Use, Rituale (13th-14th C)

Incipit: Incipit ordo mis-salis fratrum mi-norum s[e]c[un]d[u]m consuetu-dinem romanie curie