The Vatican closed this week with an acceptable, if not dramatic, forty-five manuscripts digitized into their repositories. Decisively leading the volumes digitized was Barb.lat, contributing twenty. Seven came from Ott.lat, and six from Capp.Sist.Diari, where work seems to be slowing down. The week closes with three each from Vat.gr and Vat.lat

To the right is f.24v from Barb.lat.2057, a 13th C manuscript of Peter of Riga's Aurora. This was a verse retelling of, and commentary on, the Bible. It was extremely popular, per the surviving manuscript witnesses, in the 13th C. There are twelve copies identified, so far, in the BAV digitized manuscripts. This page is interested as it contains examples of two different scribal corrections. The first is midway through the second stanza where an entire couplet has been dropped and was written into the margin, a double slash in red indicating where it should go.

The second correction is in the large rubric towards the bottom of the page. It appears that the scribe copied the black text, and then didn't leave enough space for when he went back with the red pen. What would have been the last line of the rubric drops vertically out of the end of the main text block, like a leaky inkwell oozing red ink

At the bottom is a penwork dragon from f.1r of the same manuscript. This sort of red and blue flourishing is common on late 13th C manuscripts, even turning into fantastic animals