Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 52 of 2025

Despite Christmas coming in the middle of the week, the Vatican got in two digitizing days and added seventeen manuscripts this week. It was an unusual distribution with eight, the largest fraction, coming from Ge'ez volumes out of Comb. The rest were small contributions, with three from Capp.Sist, two each from Ott.lat and Sbath, and a single volume from both Chig and Vat.lat

Capp.Sist.368, Johann Kaspar Aiblinger Conceptio tua Dei Genitrix Virgo, for 8 voices (19th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Hymnus 8 voc Concep[tione] B.M.V. Auth. Aiblinger

Capp.Sist.417, Giovanni Biordi, Lorenzo Ratti, Francesco Foggia, et al Motet O Salutaris Hostia, Sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, etc (1736, 1767)

Incipit: (f.3v) Bassus v. vov. O Salutaris Hostia

Only ff.18r-21r are from 1767

Capp.Sist.675, Diary of the Punti of the Cappella Pontificia (1602-1604)

Incipit: (f.1v) Nel nome de Dio et della Gloriosa Vergine Maria Amen. Anno 1602. Nota delli SS. Cantori che al presente seruono nella Cappella di N. S. Clemente VIII

Scribes: Hercole Ferruzzi (1602, ff.1r-45v), Diego Vasquez (ff.46r-77v)

Chig.L.V.152, Sabastiano Baldini Poems: Il Zodiaco, ouero Il Sole Corteggiato (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Leone Ringratiamento Per il regalo delle cinque

Comb.H.3, Life of St. John Chrysostom (14th-15th C)

Comb.H.5, Life of Kiros (19th-20th C)

Comb.H.6, Acts of Kiros (20th C)

Comb.H.8, Miracles of Mary, Anaphora of Mary, of Heryaqos, Effigy of Mary, Effigy of Jesus (19th C)

Comb.O.11, Prayers and Incantations against various threats (20th C)

Comb.O.15, Text on Divination (19th-20th C)

Comb.O.17, Prayers, Several to the BVM (19th-20th C)

Comb.O.19, Prayers to the Seven Archangels for Each Day of the Week (20th C)

Ott.lat.673, Casus Conscientia

Ott.lat.2055, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Pompeius Trogus, Justinus Historiae Alexandri Magni, Prologi Historiarum Philippicarum, Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi (13th-14th C)

Incipit: Inter h[ec] Alexander ad conducendu[m] ex polo-ponerso milite[m]

See Biblissima, Ex libris of the Cambridge Dominicans

Sbath.266, al-Ḥarīrī Maqāmāt (1236)

Dated 634 AH. MS contains 50 maqāmāt with notes explaining the difficult readings.

Sbath.704, Work on Medicine (13th C)

Vat.lat.10501, Venantii de Fabriano Vita et Miracula b. Iacobi Piceni seu de Marchia (1501-1525)

Incipit: Miraculi facti per li marciti et oratio ni del beato Iacobo de la Marchia com-pilati per frate Venanzo de fabriano Compagno del dicto Iacobo de la Ma[r]chia. Io frate venanzo

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