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 ...