Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2025

A total of forty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, perhaps the last working week of 2025. This week's distribution was all over the place, Capp.Sist contributed the most with eleven. Following on was Barb.lat with nine, Ott.lat with seven and Comb with six. Smaller contributions came from Vat.lat with three, Ross with two, and one each from P.I.O. and S.Maria.Magg

To the right is f.35v, the last page, from Vat.lat.10673, an 11th C notated Graduale from Apulia. Despite being fragmentary, only 35 folios covering Lent through Holy Saturday, it has been extensively studied. This was aided, no doubt, by it's being published in full, and with an index, in Paleographie Musicale 14 in 1931. The image here is from the Exultet rite which, uniquely, is performed with a scroll in the south Italian/Beneventan zone. The scroll is written with the images facing in one direction and the text in the other so, as seen here, when it flips over the lectern the images are properly oriented. An example of this is the Barberini Exultet, Barb.lat.592.

At the bottom are a few lines, untranslated, of Ge'ez from one of the flyleaves of Comb.S.8. This is a seventeenth century miscellany, including a text on astrology, the Catholic Epistles, a text on Enoch and more

Barb.lat.1227, Dominicus de Dominicis Venetus Tractatus de sensibus interioribus, Super librum perierminyas aristotilis, Super librum divisionum boetii (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit liber desensib[us] Interio[r]ob[us]

Barb.lat.1908, Petro Joanne de Federighis Anagramma Purum a Franciscus Barberinus (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Carmen. Imperium terræ, cæliq[ue], vt Nobilis ales, Vrbano adepta est Principe

Barb.lat.1916, Ad Urbanum VIII Pontificem Maximum Allocutio Dramatica, In anniversaria gratulatione sacræ eius inaugurationis

Incipit: (f.1r) Nic. De tua Vrbane, Pontifi-cia inauguratione locuturus, minimus ego

Barb.lat.1924, Hieronymi Petruccii Ad novos Sacerdotes oratio (17th C)

Incipit: Ad novos sacerdotes Oratio. P. Hier[onymi] Petruccii e Societati[us] Jesu. Latentem æternitatis in sinu, tenebrisque den-sissimis immensælucis absconditum

Barb.lat.1925, Sommium de Magnæ Britanniæ cum Sacrosancta Ecclesia Romana Reconciliatione (17th C)

Incipit: Si sumpsero pennas meas dilucuo, & habitauero in extremis Maris

Barb.lat.1946

Incipit: Rudolphus Primus. Ex Habspurgensi Comite Romanus Caesar, Primus Austriam extulit in Solium, quod

Barb.lat.2266, (17th C)

Incipit: Baptista Poggii ad R. P. D. Card[inale] Papiensem D. Dominici de Capra-nica

Barb.lat.2271, De morte de Lippi Ghisilerii (16th C)

Incipit: De Morte d. Lippi Ghisilerii. Inter Rera novasque infandae imma-nitatis

Barb.lat.2273, Franciscum Novellum Vita Leonis X Max. Pont. (16th C)

Incipit: Clementi vii Pont. Max. Franc[iscus] novellus seruorum minimus atq[ue] deuotissimus Felicitatem. Vt quam Cardinei ordinis honore honestatus esses

Capp.Sist.215.pt.19

Incipit: (f.2v) Preces Dicendae in apertione portae sanctae vaticanae. Indutus Pontifex in Paramentorum Aula Paramentis albi coloris

Capp.Sist.215.pt.20, Hymns and Psalms, First Bass Choir (1724)

Incipit: (f.1v) Preces Dicendae in apertione portae sanctae vaticanae. Indutus Pontifex in Paramentorum Aula Paramentis albi coloris

Capp.Sist.372, Domenico Mustafà Hymnus, quem temperata septem vocibus harmonica (19th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Soprano [primo]

Capp.Sist.373, Juste Adrien Lenoir de La Fage Te Deum laudamus, 7 Voices, Dedicated to Pope Pius IX (1846)

Incipit: (f.2r) Te Deum lauda-mus

Capp.Sist.423, Giovanni Biordi Sequence: Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Motet O Salutaris Hostia, Second Alto Choir (1789)

Incipit: (f.2r) Lauda Syon tac Alt sec 8 voc 2 chori. Quantum po-tes tantum aude tantum au-de

Scribe: Leonardo Testa, part of a set Capp.Sist. 419-425

Capp.Sist.424, Giovanni Biordi Sequence: Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Motet O Salutaris Hostia, Second Tenor Choir (1789)

Incipit: (f.2r) Lauda Syon tac Ten sec 8 voc 2 chori. Quantum po-tes tantum aude tantu[m] au-de

Scribe: Leonardo Testa, part of a set Capp.Sist. 419-425

Capp.Sist.426, In die Purificationis beate Mariae Virginis ad Processionem, In die Palmarum ad Processionem (1673)

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

Capp.Sist.470, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina Mass Book XI 1-5: Descendit Angelus Domini, Regina coeli, Quando lieta sperai, Octavi toni, Alma Redemptoris (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Descendit Angelus Domini. Kyrie elaison

Capp.Sist.471, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina Masses Book 12, Nos. 1-6 (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Regina Cœli. Kyrie eleison

Capp.Sist.473, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina Works (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Audi benigne Conditor

Capp.Sist.479, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina Works (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Feria V. In Coena Domini

Comb.B.26, Psalmody (20th C)

Comb.G.24, Benda di giustificazione, Via del Cielo, Memorial of the Passion (20th C)

Comb.G.28

Comb.H.10, Text on Magic and Divination (19th C)

Comb.O.6, Calculation of the Stars, Calculation of Men and Women (19th C)

Comb.S.8, Book of the Stars in the Sky, Explaination of Enoch, Commentary on Kings, Epistles (17th C)

Ott.lat.542 (Upgraded to HQ), Theological work on the Seven Sacraments

Incipit: A honor del sey[n]or maior, e

In Catalan. See PhiloBiblon entry

Ott.lat.699, Sermons, etc

Incipit: Hora est iam nos de so[m]pno surg[er]e

Probably English in origin

Ott.lat.1343, Scholia in Libro 1 Georgics Virgilii

Incipit: (f.1r) Hinc incipiam] Propositio

Ott.lat.1911

Incipit: Calauria. R. alla mas reale Calla mas sinistra

Ott.lat.1972, Ovid Amores, Medicamina faciei femineae, ExPonto, Heroides XV (15th C)

Incipit: Publii Ouidii Nasonis De Sinetitulo liber primus Incipit Foeliciter. Qvimodo Nasonis

See Biblissima. This manuscript was used by Sweynheym and Pannartz to print the Roman Editio Princeps in 1471

Ott.lat.1995, Cicero De oficiis, De senectute, Paradoxa ad Brutum (1452)

Incipit: M. Tullii Ciceronis de officiis liber incipit. Qvamq[uam] te marte fili annum iam audientem cratippu[m]

See Biblissima, dated in colophon on f.118r

Ott.lat.1996, Cicero, Servius De optimo genere oratorum, Partitiones oratoriae, Topica, De centum metris, De littera, de syllaba (15th C)

Incipit: M. T. Ciceronis de perfe-cto genere dicendi liber. Oratorvm genera duo dicunt[ur] esse

See Biblissima,

P.I.O.15, (1637)

See Biblissima, in Greek

Ross.1131, Domenico Cavalca Specchio di Croce

Incipit: Nel nome del n[ost]ro signore yh[e]u chr[ist]o. In co-nme[n]ciasi el libro chiamato spechio de croce. Narra el s[an]cpt[o eua[n]gelio per similitudine

Ross.1204 (Upgraded to HQ), Marliani Urbis Romae Topographia (c. 1544)

Incipit: (f.2r) Francisco Regi Gallorvm vrbis Romae libe-ratori invicto B. Marlianvs S. D. Romani Illi prisci inuictiss. Rex cum maioribus, magisque necessariis rebus

Printed book dated 1544, with marginal notes

S.Maria.Magg.118, Code of Civil Law, glossed (15th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Incipit liber primus. So-luto m[atr]im[on]io quamadmo-dum

Vat.ar.1450, Diya'addin Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Demir d. Mustafa ar-Rumi ad-Diwirki al-Hanafi Ma'ani alfaz al-quran (1318)

Sated Sha'ban 19, 718 AH (October 10, 1318)

Vat.lat.10588, Petrus Aloysius Inscriptiones medii et infimi aevi omnium ecclesiarum urbis (1742)

Incipit: (f.2r) Benedicto XIV P. M. Iusti rectiqve adertori eximio pietatis cultori orthodoxae religionis vindici ecclesiasticae disciplinae restauratori

Vat.lat.10673, Graduale (11th C)

Incipit: qui sustinebit

See Iter liturgicum italicum, in Beneventan script with matching neumes, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 347, MMMO. This volume is printed in fascimile with index and notes in Paleographie Musicale 14.

Vat.lat.11409, Sebastiano Torello Vita di S. Gregorio Nazianzeno (1748)

Incipit: (p.1) Al S[erenissimo] in Chr[ist]o P. et S. N. Gregorio PP. XIII. Non éstato per certo Padre