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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 1 of 2026

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 Abbey of St. Vaast, Arras as per an almost effaced ex-libris on f.292v


Ott.lat.644 (Upgraded to HQ), Maimonides Dux neutrorum (c. 1300)
Incipit: (f.1r) Incipit rabimoy-ses. Dixit rabimoy-ses egyptius in ap[er]-to[n]e libri sui

Translation of The Guide to the Perplexed into Latin. See Diana Di Segni Moses Maimonides Dux Neutrorum Vel Dubiorum, Pars I in "Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales Bibliotheca 17.1" 2019. Inside front cover is manuscript waste from a copy of the Libri de Judiciorum Ordine by Tancred of Bologna, H/T Pieter Beullens


Ott.lat.2024, Virgil, et al Georgics, Epitaph Virgil, Aeneias (15th C)
Incipit: Qvid faciat letas segetes, quo sede[re] s[er]uet

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.2043, Livy Ab Urbe Condita (15th C)
Incipit: [F]Acturus ne sim opere pretium si a primordio urbis res popula

See Biblissima,


Ott.lat.2370, Discorsi sopra la Grammatica, Rettorica, Logica, Poetica ed altre arti liberali (17th C)
Incipit: Discorsi sopra la Gram[matica], Rettorica, Logica, Poetica ed altra Arti Liberali, etingenue

Ott.lat.2459.pt.1, Avvisi manoscritti e stampati da varie citta (c. 1650)
Incipit: Di Venetia li p[rim]o Genaro 1649