Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 49 of 2025

Only nine manuscripts for the first week of December. They came solely from Ott.lat, with seven, and Barb.lat, with the remaining two.

To the right is f.6r from Ott.lat.1903, an autograph copy of Antonio da Rho's Three Dialogues against Lactantius. This is not the presentation copy made for Pope Eugenius IV, found in Vat.lat.227, but a slightly earlier copy in the author's own hand with some marginal corrections. A edition of this work based partially on this manuscript, with detailed introduction, was published in 2023:

Rutherford, D., & Schulten, P. (2023). Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004537668_002

At the bottom is a bit of the border from the title page, f.IIr, of Ott.lat.1900. This is a 16th C copy of Jean du Molinet's chronicle of Burgundy, covering 1575-1504.

Barb.lat.2648, Miscellany (16th-17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Secretissima Instructio Gallo Britanno Bataua Friderico Quinto Comiti Palatino Electori data

Barb.lat.2751, Liber ecclesiasticarum et civilium rerum historiarum. (17th C)

Incipit: Simonis Cavlerii Libri Decem. Ecclesiasticarum, et Ciuilium rerum historiaru[m] annorum viginti quinque, quibus tripartitum

Ott.lat.1788, Sonnets

Ott.lat.1885, Veneta Historia, sive Chronicon Venetum ab exordio Venetiarum ad Eugenii IV tempora

Incipit: Nui uedemo come Atila Flagellu[m] dei pasari

Ott.lat.1891, Giovanni Delfino La Cleopatra: A Tragedy (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) La scena si finge nella Reggia di Alessandria Citta Metropoli dell' Egitto

Ott.lat.1900, Jean Molinet Chroniques (16th C)

Incipit: Cable du premier liure de la cronique de Molinet. La prologue. Coniment Charles le trespuissant duc Bourgougne

See JONAS,

Ott.lat.1903, Antonio da Rho Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1442-1445)

Incipit: (f.2v) Lactantii firmiani errata quib[us] ip[e]s de reptus est hoc libra per Fratie[m] Anthonium raudensem theologu[m] collecta et exerata sunt.

Authors autograph copy

Ott.lat.1937, Azo Porcius, Valerius Maximus, Julius Paris Summa in Jus Civile, Facta et dicta memorabilia, Epitome de nominibus (1375-1450)

Incipit: Cum post Inuentionem scientie sup[er] venerit gratie plenitudo

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1985, Cicero De amicitia, Paradoxa ad Brutum, De senectute (15th C)

Incipit: Marcii tuli Cicero[n]is de amicicia incipit. Qvintus Mutius Augur

See Biblissima, scribe: Domenico Fanti