Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2026

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, and a single volume from Barb.lat.

To the right is f.2v from Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIV.fasc.101, a fragment of a Coptic lectionary containing the Gospel of John. In the left margin are two elaborate decorated Π. This manuscript is alternating pages of Greek and Coptic, but it seems only the Greek text has the elaborate letters

At the bottom is a line of text from f.1v of Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.98. This is a bilingual lectionary in Coptic and Arabic. This particular line appears to be a rubric for the following reading, which begins in the middle of Luke 22:22 "ⲠⲖⲎⲚ ⲞⲨⲞⲒ ⲘⲠⲢⲰⲘⲈ ⲈⲦⲘⲘⲀⲨ ⲠⲈⲦⲈⲢⲈ" .

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Barb.lat.2342, Vita Martini V Ex eiusdem Bullis, et Brevibus et Ex publicis documentis (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Publica Documenta ex quibus Vita Martini V[i] compacta est

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.90, Bible Fragments: Luke, Psalm, Reading from Hebrews

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.91, Fragment of Luke 2 (9th-11th C)

See SMR

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.92, Bible Fragments: Luke 18, Psalm 88, Timothy II 3 (9th-12th C)

See SMR

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.93, Bible fragments, Luke 19, 7, 11; John 12, 4, 6 (10th-11th C)

See SMR

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.95, James 2, Acts 5, Psalm 14, Matthew 4-5 (11th-13th C)

See SMR

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIV.fasc.100, Liturgical Fragments from Thebes

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIV.fasc.101, Fragment of John

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIV.fasc.110

Borg.copt.109.cass.V.fasc.13 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible Fragments: Daniel 8-10 (10th C)

Borg.copt.109.cass.V.fasc.14 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible Fragment Judges 1-2 (11th C)

Borg.copt.109.cass.V.fasc.15 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible Fragments: I Kings 6-10, 22-23, 24-25; II Kings 2-3, 6-10, 11-15, 18, 21-22

Borg.copt.109.cass.V.fasc.16 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible Fragments I Kings 17-19 (10th C)

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.94 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible Fragments, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 19, Psalm 34, etc (11th-12th C)

See SMR,

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.96 (Upgraded to HQ), Bible Fragments: John 19, Psalm 131, Matthew 16, Mark 12 (7th-11th C)

See Biblissima, part of the same MS as BnF Copt 129, 19. Aland l 962, See SMR

Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.98 (Upgraded to HQ), Lectionary fragments (13th-15th C)

See SMR

Comb.F.32, Prayers to the Virgin of Golgotha, Doctrine of the Arcane (18th-19th C)

Comb.F.35, Effigy of Mary, Effigy of Jesus (19th-20th C)

Comb.F.41, Hail Mary (19th C)

Comb.O.21, Solomon's Net, Effigy of Fanuel (19th C)

Comb.O.23, Prayers againstthe tongue of men (20th C)

Ott.lat.1560, Cicero De oratore (15th C)

Incipit: Marci Tvllii Ciceronis ad Q. Fra-trem De oratore liber 1 Incipit. Cogitanti mihi saepenv-mero & memoria

See Biblissima, Scribe: Pietro Ursuleo (†1483)

Ott.lat.1928 (Upgraded to HQ), Giovanni Battista Caccialupi, Johannes Andreae Commentary on the Digests (15th C)

Incipit: De verbor[um] obligationib[us] R. Non p[ri]mo ex ista ru[brica]

Ott.lat.1940, Gratian de Casibus Virorum Illustrium

Incipit: (f.1r) De Casus Virorum Illustrium. Rerum gestarum memoria

Ott.lat.1946, Seneca Tragedies

Incipit: (f.4r) Ercole Fvrente. Persone del Drama. Givnone, Lico, Testi, Ercole, Megara, Anfitrione, Choro di Te-bani

Ott.lat.2018, Gellus Attic Nights (1466)

Incipit: A. Gellii noctivm atticarvm com-mentarii incipivnt et primo capi-tvla primi com[m]entarii feliciter

See Biblissima, dated and localized to Naples in colophon on f.208v

Ott.lat.2022, Terence, et al Prefatio Monacensis ad Terentium, Epitaphium Terentii, Comedies: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio (15th C)

Incipit: Terentius afer genere extitit ciuis kartaginensis

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2165, Alexander of Aphrodisius, William of Moerbeke(tr), William Burley, Jacobus de Duaco Commentarium in Aristotelis (14th C)

Incipit: Alexandri afrodisiei exp[osit]o libri met[op]h[ysic]or[um] logicor[um]

Ott.lat.2199, Giovanni Francesco Peranda Lettere di Gio, Francesco Peranda, non Stampate, scritte a monsignor Patrarcha caetano divise in doi tomi, Book 1 (1576-1625)

Incipit: (p.1) Lettere del Peranda a Mons[ignor] patriarcha caetano. Questa sera haueremo in Roma

Ott.lat.2216, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini De bello italico adversus Gothos, Liber facetiarum (1450)

Incipit: Leonardi Aretini de bello Italico adversvs Gothos gesto libri Qvattvor incipiv[n]t ad R.P.D. Ivlianv[m] Cardinalem. Esti longe mihi iocundius

Scribe: Iohannes de Ariminis

Ott.lat.2289, Arnaldo de Villanueva Nova Aphorismi (15th C)

Incipit: Sohis deus sanat langorus sua mira[bili]

Ott.lat.2304, Statutorum Civilium & Secondum Distinctionis (17th C)

Ott.lat.2328.pt.3, Monumenta spectantia ad Abbatiam S. Mariae de Vangaditia (17th C)

Starts on f.389r

Ott.lat.2330, Diverse Inscriptiones Antique (16th C)

Incipit: L. Avrelio Marciano Avg. Lib Exceptori Avximates D. D.

Ott.lat.2376, Gulielmi Labentii de rebus Petri Enrique Arevedii comitis de Fuentes in Mediolanem (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Ill[ustrissimis] Mediolani papuli Decurionibus Gulielmus Labentius perpetuam felicitatem

Ott.lat.2380, Repertorium de Nominum et Cognominum impositione, ac mutatione

Ott.lat.2381, Repertorium de communione Ecclesiastica Vol. 1

Incipit: (p.1) Lettere diminorial

Ott.lat.2395, De unctionibus Sacris et Propranis Repertorium, Book II

Incipit: (f.1r) De Vnctione Episcopali et Presbyterali

Ott.lat.2397, In S. S. Commentarium Repertor: Tomus Primus qui continet Literas A-F, cum indice Primi et Secundi Tomi

Incipit: (p.1) Triplex doctrinæ genus ex Marco Varrone apud

Ott.lat.2407, Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum Beatissime Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo. 1660-1666 (17th C)

Incipit: (p.1) Constitutiones Fratrum Ordinis Beatissime Dei Genitrici Mariæ De Monte Carmeli. Caput. Primum. De instituto, Antiquitate

Ott.lat.2414, (16th C)

Incipit: Nota Rescriptorum Signaturæ Jus[e] ordine alphabetico digesta. In Materia Attentator[um]

Ott.lat.2488.pt.2, Fabio Oliva Vita di Caterina Sforza de Medici (17th C)

Incipit: (f.155r) Poiche fu sisto Quarto di tal no-me assunto al sommo grado del Pon-tificato

Starts on f.154r

Ott.lat.2633.pt.3, Amplissima collectio descriptionum quatuor monarchiarum (17th C)

Incipit: De Regno et Rege Hispaniorum.

Starts f.580r

Ott.lat.2737, Registro di ettere del Cardinale Mazzarino dell' Anno 1647, Book II (17th C)

Incipit: Lettere di Luglio 1647. Memoria al Sig[nor] Duca di Modena. Qui non s'e' pretese impegnar mai il

Vat.lat.10653, Stato Dei Patrimonii che si amministrano nella Intendenza Generale dei Reali Stati Allodiali di S. M. Siciliano (c. 1794)

Incipit: (p.1) Patrimonio Mediceo. Principato di Capestrano, e Baronia di Carapelle

Vat.lat.10661 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero, ps-Cicero Orations: De Imperio Cn. Pompei, Pro T. Annio Milone, Pro Cn. Plancio, Pro P. Sulla, Pro. A Licinio Archia poeta, etc (15th C)

Incipit: M. T. Ciceronis Oratio Pro Magno Pompeio. Qvanqvam mihi semper

See Biblissima,

Vat.lat.10662, Bede Commentary on St. Mark

Incipit: In no[min]e chr[ist]i Incip[it] p[ro]logu[s] Bede P[res]b[ite]ri Lib[er] Co[m]m[en]tarior[um] sup[er] marcu[m]

Vat.lat.10663, John Chrysostom de providentia Dei, etc (15th C)

Incipit: Beati Iohannis Crisostomi ad Stagirivm Monachvm Arrepticivm de consolatione liber pimvs incipit feliciter. Oportuerat quidem o mihi amantissi-me omniu[m]