Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 13 of 2026

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 against the "heresies" of the Eastern Church. As they are quoting and arguing against Eastern practices, there are often Greek words sprinkled throughout the Latin text

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Barb.lat.2020, Carmina (16th C)
Incipit: Ad Alex[andro] Farnes[simi] Card. Ampliss. Jo. Antonius Vulpiu[s]

Barb.lat.2347, Papal Documents, Clement VII-VIII (17th C)
Incipit: Instructio per Congregationem Germanicam Sanct[issimi] D. N. Clementis VIII, mandato D. Comiti de Portia Suæ San[ctis] ac Sedis Ap[ostolicæ] in quibusdam

Comb.F.40, Effigy of the Trinity (20th C)

Comb.F.44, Effigy of Emmanuel (20th C)

Ott.lat.1556, Agricoltura
Incipit: Uole-ndo-be s-tud-iar-e co-ntucto ilmio

In Italian


Ott.lat.2403, Tractato dell' Agape
Incipit: (p.1) Del nome, et Ethimologia dell' Agape

Ott.lat.2533, Censura Orientalis Ecclesia De Haereticorum dogmatibus (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1v) Johannis V. Vos misistis ad Johannem, et testimonium perhibuit veritati