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

There's something delightful about the tall, thin manuscripts that were made, though infrequently, through the era of manuscript production. To the right is one of these, f.11v from Vat.lat.10501, an early 16th C manuscript containing the Vita et Miracula b. Iacobi Piceni seu de Marchia by Venantii de Fabriano, in Italian. Jacobus de Marchia, whose vita this is, was an Italian friar of the 15th C. Although it was likely written to advance the cause of his canonization, he was not made a saint until 1726.

At the bottom is a line of music from the 18th C composed by Giovanni Domenico Biondini It was written for the Cappella Pontifica, and still held in there Capp.Sist.417. This line is from the very top of f.15r, starting "Quibus sub bina specie"