Only eighteen manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the pattern of last week, the largest contributor was nine manuscripts from Barb.lat. The rest of the work consisted of eight manuscripts from Ott.lat and a lone manuscript from Vat.gr To the right is f.65r from Ott.lat.2879, a late 14th, or early 15th, century manuscript containing the writin...

A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, the bulk of them coming in on Friday. Surprisingly the largest contributor, adding sixteen, was Barb.lat. This has been an active Fond for the last few months, but rarely the highest contributor. As might be expected, the second contributor was Ott.lat, adding eight. The final manuscript cam...

This week completes the first half of the year, and the library digitized only twenty manuscripts. Returning to recent patterns, most of these, fourteen in total, came from the Ott.lat collection. The remainder consisted of five Barb.lat volumes and a single icon from the Comb collection. To the right is the verso of the front flyleaf from Barb.lat.216...

Twenty-five manuscripts were digitized the past week, unusually for the Vatican, the majority of these were uploaded on Sunday. Most of the manuscripts this week, twenty-two, came from Borg.Copt. The last three manuscripts came from. Barb.lat, giving two, and one volume only from Ott.lat. It is not clear if this is the start of a new pattern in digitiz...

A total of thirty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, most of them being uploaded on Friday. Of these the vast majority, twenty-three of them, were from the Ott.lat collection. The remainder consisted of two each from Barb.lat and Comb, one each from Ott.gr and Vat.gr. To the right is f.14r from Ott.lat.2813. This is the start of a work e...

Only eighteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As seems to be the current pattern, the vast majority of those, sixteen, were from the Ott.lat collection. The remaining two were from the Vat.gr collection. To the right is f.1r from Vat.gr.1264, a manuscript written between 1566 and 1567 by Ἰωάννης Μαυρομάτης. The contents are particularly i...

After a week with no manuscripts digitized, probably due to Pentecost, the library was back at full strength, digitizing ninety manuscripts. The vast majority, seventy-five, came from the Ott.lat collection, with a further eleven from Barb.lat. Of the remaining, three came from Vat.gr, and a single volume from Comb. The work on that fond seems to have ...

After two weeks of no digitizations, work recommenced with thirty-four manuscripts added this week. The vast majority of those, twenty-eight, were from the Ott.lat fond. The remainder were split, four from Comb and two from Vat.gr. To the right is title page f.6r from Ott.lat.2541, part of a multi-volume catalogue of the manuscript collection of Piet...

This week concludes with twenty-four manuscripts digitized. Of these, a full three-quarters, eighteen volumes, came from the Ott.lat collection. Of the remaining, five were from the Pal.lat, and a single volume from Vat.lat. To the right is p.117 from Ott.lat.2159. This late 17th C manuscript is a heavily illustrated book on the fortresses and guard...

Only ten manuscripts in total were digitized this week. Nine were from the Ott.lat collection and the last one was a 12th C glossed Gospel of Luke from Vat.lat. An interesting note, all of these manuscripts were uploaded on Friday. To the right is f.14r from Vat.lat.10680, the previously mentioned 12th c glossed Gospel of Luke. This page has the start...

A total of twenty-seven manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. As with recent weeks, the vast majority, twenty-two, came from Ott.lat. The remainder, also as expected, were three from Comb, and one each from Barb.lat ant Vat.lat. As an interesting note, there was not a single illuminated, or otherwise decorated, manuscript scanned this we...

A total of nineteen manuscripts were digitized this week. The vast majority, thirteen, were from the Ott.lat collection, with the remaining contributions being three from Comb, and one each from Barb.lat and Vat.gr. Despite the ratios being somewhat skewed, this stays in-line with the pattern of recent weeks. To the right is p.1 from Vat.gr.649. This ...

Due to Holy Week observances, uploads were only done on Monday, containing seven manuscripts. These followed recent patterns for distribution: three for Ott.lat, two each for Comb and Barb.lat To the right is Pope Leo XIV carrying the cross for the stations procession on Good Friday Below a line of lovely 16th C script from f.4r Ott.lat.2533, a work ag...

A total of forty-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week. The largest set, twenty-three, were from Ott.lat, as has been the recent trend. The second largest group was from one of the cassettes (cases) of fragments in the Borg.copt collection, fifteen separate items this week. The rest were small in number, five from Comb, four from Vat.lat, a...

Only ten manuscripts were digitized this past week, six from Ott.lat, four from Comb. This follows the recent pattern of relatively small output weeks consisting mainly of those two fonds. This brings the Comb fond to 166 of 281 digitized, and Ott.lat 20 1,797 of 3,379. To the right is a drawing of a cameo found on f.77r of Ott.lat.2391, part of a multi...

The pace picked up this week with a total of sixty-six manuscripts digitized. Following recent trends, the largest contingent, forty-eight, came from Ott.lat, with the 13 of Comb filling in the next largest set. The remaining were in small units, two each from Ferr and Barb.lat, and a single volume upgraded from microfilm in Pal.lat. To the right is f....

Another moderately quiet week with twenty-eight manuscripts digitized and uploaded to the Vatican archives. As has been the recent pattern, they consisted of Ott.lat with twenty manuscripts and Comb with the remaining eight. Working with the Comboniani collection is less difficult than might be expected, for someone with minimal working knowledge of Ge'ez...

Ten manuscripts in total were added to the online repositories this week. These consisted of six manuscripts from Ott.lat, three from Comb, and a single volume from Barb.lat. To the right is p.7 from Comb.F.6, a 19th C Mashafa Sa'atat(pdf). This is translated as Book of Hours, but is more like a Breviary, the liturgy of the Hours for a Monastic or other...

Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As is the current pattern, the vast majority, thirteen, were from Ott.lat. The rest consisted of a single manuscript from each of Barb.lat, Bar.or, Comb, and Vat.lat. The final one being another item from the set of Italian religious house library inventories that are shelved as Vat.lat.11266-...

A solid showing this week, with fifty-five manuscripts digitized, forty-six of those were uploaded on Friday. The vast majority, forty-four, came from the Ott.lat fond. The bulk of the remaining came from Barberini fonds, with five from Barb.lat, two from Barb.or and one from Barb.ar. All of the remaining contributions were single volumes, one each from...

On Friday of this week eighteen manuscripts were digitized, the only day of activity. Of those, sixteen were from Ott.lat, and one each from Chig and Vat.lat. At the right is f.121r from Ott.lat.2150, a glossed copy of Porphyry's Isagoge dated to the 13th C. This text is roughly an introduction to Aristotle's Categories and formed the basic textbook on ...

Only six manuscripts were digitized last week, all from the Ott.lat collection. At the right is f.33v from Ott.lat.2071, a composite manuscript of the 14th C. The first part, which includes this folio, is the Summa of William of Ockham, probably the most well known name of any of the 14th C English philosophers due to his Razor. This manuscript has a ...

A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this past week. They came entirely from the Ott.lat, with twenty-five, and Barb.lat, with the remaining eight manuscripts. To the right is a page from Ott.lat.1410, a copy of the works of Virgil with glosses by Servius. This is f.49r, which contains the start of the Aeneid, starting "Arma virumq[ue] can...

A total of thirty-seven manuscripts were digitized this week. These were split between Ott.lat, which added twenty-four, and Barb.lat which added thirteen. This brings the total number of manuscripts digitized from the Ott.lat collection to more than 1600, or about a half of the total collection, with a further 200 digitized from microfilm. To the rig...

Only five manuscripts were digitized this week, all from the Ott.lat collection. To the right is f.288v from Ott.lat.644, one of the approximately thirteen surviving manuscripts of the Dux neutrorum, a Latin translation, mostly from the Hebrew, of Maimonides's Guide to the Perplexed. This manuscript is French in origin, and was held by the Benedictine Ab...

No manuscripts were digitized in the first week of 2026 due to the holidays, so this week there will be a look back at the digitization work of 2025 in numbers. To start, some summary numbers covering the entire year: Total Manuscripts Digitized1: 1632 Manuscripts with at least one point of Metadata2: 1618 Fonds Represented: 28 Largest Fond: Barb.lat ...