Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 6 of 2025

A respectable forty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican Libraries. In what is becoming the current pattern, the largest number of manuscripts came from Barb.lat, thirty-three in total, all from the 1600-2100 block. Other fonds contributing manuscripts were Capp.Sist.Diari, with six, Vat.gr, with four, and Vat.lat with three. One sole manuscript came from each of Chig and Ott.lat.

To the right is f.1r of Vat.lat.11473, a heavily annotated copy of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. It has marginal notes and interlinear notes, both of which seem later than the original text.

At the bottom is a piece of the border from f.3r of Capp.Sist.Diari.229, the 1808 Diari of actions of the Cappella Pontificia.

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Barb.lat.1697, Naevio Feliciano Exilium Otiantium (17th C)

Incipit: (f.IIIr) Illvstriss., et R[everentissimo] D. D. Maphæo Barberino S.R.E. Card. Ampliss[imo] et Spoleti Eposco[po] Nævivs felicianvs salvte[m]

Barb.lat.1699, Leonardo Novello Brevis Tractatus de Justitia Romana Romanorumque, Pontificum, et Praecipue Pauli V (17th C)

Incipit: (f.VIr) Beatissimo D. N. Pavlo Qvinto Pont. Opt. Max. Leonardvs Novellvs Reatin[s] sacræ theologiæ magister

Barb.lat.1718, Joannis Summaiae De Laudibus Palmae (17th C)

Incipit: (f.IIr) Sanct[issimo] P[at]ri Vrbano octauo Pont. opt. Maximo Jo. a Summaia foelic.

Barb.lat.1754, De Conscribendis Epistolis (17th C)

Incipit: De conscribendis Epistolis breue compendium Quid sit Epistola. Epistolam qua nihil

Barb.lat.1755, Nicolai de Malpas Thyara Pontificalis (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Thyara Pontificialis Vrbano Octavo Pont. Opt. Max. ELonginquis Burgundiæ fi-nibus Romam

Barb.lat.1756, Joannis Pagani Sacerdotis Carmen in Laudem Urbani VIII (17th C)

Incipit: Sanct[issimo] ac B[eatissimo] P. et D. N. Papae Vrbano .VIII. Pontifici Maximo S.P. Optime Pontificum, sacrorum maxime

Barb.lat.1958, Joanne Baptista Carducio In Solemniis Beatae Mariae Semper Virginis ad Nives. Oratio Habita in Sacrosancta Vaticana Basilica Principis Apostolorum in Sacello Gregoriano (1663)

Incipit: (f.1r) In Solemnitate Beatæ Mariæ Virginis ad Niues Oratio. Optanem l'Em[intissimo] Princeps

Barb.lat.1963, Hieronymi Bartholomei In Nuptias DD. Thadaei Barberini, et Anna Columnae Epithalamium (17th C)

Incipit: In Nuptias DD. Thadaei Barberini, et Annæ Columnae Epithalamium Hieronymi Bartholomei. Dilectum beneri sydus consurgit

Barb.lat.2002, Georgius Sabinus Epistles (17th C)

Incipit: Cardinali Jacobo Sadeleto. S.P.D. Etsi iis ornamentis in quibus uera dignitas

Barb.lat.2003 (Upgraded to HQ), Orations and other works related to Gregory Nazianzenus (16th C)

Incipit: Oratio in translatione corporis D. Gregorii Nazianzeni, Fr. Francisci Panicarolii Latine conuersa

Barb.lat.2006, Hieronymi Aleandri Works (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Bononiensis Ecclesia quo tempore fidei ac tutolæ nostræ

Barb.lat.2008, Inscriptiones variae ambulationis Gregorianae in Vaticano Palatio (1631)

Incipit: (f.1r) Inscrittioni sopra la Porta della Galleria dalla part[io] delle stanze di N[ost]ro Sig[noro]. Vrbanus Viii Pont. Max. Ambulationis Gregorianæ fundamentum ab aquæ sublabentis

Barb.lat.2014, Pompeii Ugonii Sequentem orationem habuit Pompeius Ugonius in Gymasio (1574)

Incipit: Sequentem Orationem Habuit Pompeius Vgonius in Gymnasio Societatis Jesu Romæ, quo die post Theologica Theoramata

Barb.lat.2018, Nicolai Alemanni Inscriptiones, obseruationesque variae ad Archeologicam Spectantes (17th C)

Incipit: S[ixt]us V Pont. Max. Colonea Saec signa temporis ui

Barb.lat.2022, Orations (17th C)

Incipit: oratione, del padre More da

Barb.lat.2031 (Upgraded to HQ), Philippi Bonacarsii Works (16th C)

Incipit: Calimaci Ad Fanniam Sven-thocham elegiacon carme[n]. [F]annia formar[um]

See Pieniądz, A., Kaliszuk, J., Skwierczyński, K., & Węcowski, P. (2019). Clavis scriptorum et operum Medii Aevi Poloniae. Homini, Tyniec Wydawnictwo Benedyktynów. http://otwartehistorie.pl/books/clavis-scriptorum-et-operum-medii-aevi-poloniae/

Barb.lat.2042, Petri Aloysii Carafae Epistles (1645-1655)

Barb.lat.2044, Paridis de Grassis Epistola ad Leonem X (17th C)

Incipit: De libro Ceremoniali stampatone uenderetus. Hodie cum dictum mihi fuisset libru[m]

Barb.lat.2046, Donati Argentonii Epistles (16th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Donatus Argentonus S.P.D. Marino Frecciæ Juris consulto, et Regis consiliario

Barb.lat.2050, Leonardo Bruni, et al index epistolarum Jacobi Piccolomini, Epistolarium Book VIII (17th C)

Barb.lat.2051, Guillielmo Appuliensis Rerum in Italia ac regno Neapolitano Normanicarum, Book I (16th C)

Incipit: Nobiliss[imo] ac Doctiss[imo] Lodoico Balliolo Lontelii ac Silleii coenobiarche digniss[imo]

Barb.lat.2052, Quinto Sectani Satyrae XIV (18th C)

Incipit: Itam forte sacri Nemoris visurus Asylum Arcadiæ

Barb.lat.2054, Eliae, Patriarch of Babylonia, et al Epistola ad Paulum V, etc (17th C)

Incipit: In nomine Patri, et filii, et Spiritus sanctitatis Sanct[issime] Pater Papa Paule Quinte. A minimo filiorum tuor[um] Humili elia per gratiam

Barb.lat.2056, Inscriptiones, quae gesta et obitum virorum, qui saeculo XVI et XVII floruerunt, referunt, in rerum collectae (17th C)

Incipit: Sixtus V. Pont. Max. Pontem via Flaminia supra fluuium Tiberim Publicae commoditat

Barb.lat.2060, Ad Urbanum VIII Pontificem Maximum carmen (17th C)

Incipit: Ad. Vrbanvm .VIII. Pont. Max. Carmen ֶέυχωμιασιχόν. Dicebam quoties, senium quoa[ue] sidera norunt.

Barb.lat.2081, Carmina Variorum in laudem Urbani VIII (17h C)

Incipit: R. P. D. A. P. F. R. Sab. Aeneani molem qua Vaticana

Barb.lat.2091, Carmina Latina (c. 1668)

Incipit: (f.1r) Nauis Marmorea Romanæ Aulæ Typus. Aspice marmorea manantia flumina Naui

Barb.lat.2101, Letters between French Kings Louis and Charles, and Emperor Sigismund, Supplication to anti-pope Clement VII (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Marris ignoumiam filii

Barb.lat.2105, Matthiae Casimiri Sarbieschi Aureum Saeculum Urbano VIII (1623)

Incipit: (f.1r) Avrevm Secvlvm Vrbano .VIII. Pont. Opt. Max. Orbi Invectvm. Aurea Romanis redeuntia SEcula fastis

Barb.lat.2106, Joannis Gualterii Epistola Pastoralis (c. 1615)

Incipit: (f.1r) Epistola Pastoralis D. Joannis Gualterii Epi[iscop]i Burgi S[ancti] Sepulcri Ad se ipsum In assumptione dignitatis ep[isto]lis dio. Cum ego sim alter tu

Barb.lat.2107, Henricus Dormalius Epicedia in obitum Nicolai Fabritii Perescii (17th C)

Barb.lat.2110, Petrarch De vita solitaria, De Otio Religioso (14th C)

Incipit: Incipit liber ven[erabili] Fran[cisca] Petrarche poete laureate de vita solitaria. Paucos homines noui suibus

Barb.lat.2111 (Upgraded to HQ), Petrarch Works (14th C)

Incipit: Clarissimi Latis francisci petrarco Testament[um]. Sepe de eo mecu[m] cogitans de quo nemo minus nimis

Capp.Sist.Diari.166, Giovanni Battista de Prunetti Diario de Cantori della Cappella Pontificia (1749)

Incipit: (f.2r) Offiziali del presente Anno 1749. Il Sig[nor] Paolo Mariani MAestro di Cappella

Capp.Sist.Diari.171, Pietro Leoni Diario De Cantori della Cappella Pontificia (1754)

Incipit: (f.2v) Officiali Del presente Anno 1754. Il Sig. D. Franc[esco] Antonio Giouenali Maestro

Capp.Sist.Diari.194, Fabrizio Caropanelli Diario del Ando Collegio de Cappellani Cantori della Cappella Pontificia (1771)

Incipit: (f.4r) Officiali Del presente Anno 1771. A. D. Crescenzio Colantonii Maestro

Capp.Sist.Diari.209, Andrea Cianchetti Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1786)

Incipit: (f.2r) Catalogo. De Nomi, e Cognomi, Patria, Tempo dell' Ingresso, e voci de Sig[nori]

Capp.Sist.Diari.229, Giorgio Niccoletti Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1808)

Incipit: (f.4v) Pivs VII. P. M. Gregorio Barnaba Chiaramonti Casinense nato in Cesena li XIV Agosto MDCCXLII

Capp.Sist.Diari.281, Domenico Carmusici Diario della Cappella Pontificia (1866)

Incipit: (f.3r) Elenco De Signori Cappellani Cantori della Cappella Pontificia

Chig.A.II.30 (Upgraded to HQ), Letters related to the Bishopric of Nardo (c. 1634-1637)

Ott.lat.1229, Cicero De legibus (15th C)

Incipit: M. Tvllii Ciceronis de Legibvs liber pri-mvs incipit feliciter

See Biblissima,

Vat.gr.174, Strabo Geographia (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Δημήτριος Ῥαοὺλ Καβάκης (ff.1r-211v), Ἰσίδωρος καρδινάλιος (ff.212r-end)

Vat.gr.1002, Georgius Codinus, Georgius Gemistus Pletho, Cardinal Bessarion, Aristotle De officiis, Contra Scholarii defensionem Aristotelis, De legibus, etc (1451-1500)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Διονύσιος Σινάτης (ff.1r-135r)

Vat.gr.1698, Heliodorus, Claudius Ptolomaeus, Polybius, et al In Apotelesmatica Pauli Alexandrini, etc (15th C)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribe: Ἰσίδωρος καρδινάλιος

Vat.gr.2239, Georgius Gemistus Pletho, Joasaph protosyncellus, Demetrius Magister, Manuel Paleologus II, Theophrastus Works, De charactere orationis funebris Manueli Pal. etc (1401-1417)

See Biblissima, Pinakes Entry, scribes: Ἰσίδωρος καρδινάλιος (majority), Λέων Ἀτράπης (f.69r)

Vat.lat.10231, l'Isabella (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1v) Personaggi. Isabella figlia del Duca di Cardona, innamorata di Rajmundo

Vat.lat.11473, Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (14th C)

Incipit: Carmina q[ui] [con]da[m] studio

Vat.lat.11484, Ioannis Angeli Terçoni de Leonissa Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (1475-1500)

Incipit: R[everendo] D Orla[ndo] de Vrsinis Ep[iscop]o Nolae, Romani stvdil presidi