Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 2 of 2026

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 right is f.1r from Ott.lat.2028, a 15th C copy of some of the comedic plays of Plautus. The "gold initials and white vines" style of decoration seen here is quite common on mid to late 15th C manuscripts, but it is not common to see three illuminated initials on the same page. This page has the start of the play Amphitruo, Plautus' only mythological play. The manuscript has about fourteen plays, including Curculio, Miles Glorioso, Mostellaria, and Pseudolus, which provided most of the basis for the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. It was at one time owned by Lelio Della Valle and his arms can be seen at the bottom of the folio.

At the bottom is a fragment of the border from f.1r of Ott.lat.920. This is manuscript containing Constitutions and Statues from Pope Eugene IV (probably, it's not indicated which Eugene is referenced, but the fourth is the most likely)

Barb.lat.1591, Statuta et ordinationes Congregationis seu confraternitatis sub nomine et vocabulo beati Petri apostolorum Principis in civitate Ragusina (c. 1499)

Incipit: Ad laudem Su[m]me trinitatis ex qua omnis creatura sumpsit

Barb.lat.2019, Gaetano Marini Inscriptiones antiquae, graecae et latinae a Torrigio Suares, Morone, Aleandro juniore aliisque ex marmoribus quae sunt Romae... (17th C)

Incipit: M.ex.H.L. Capere Gerere Licebit. S

Barb.lat.2277, (15th C)

Incipit: Basileen[sis] consilii g[e]n[er]al[is] cepti 3[a] die martii

Texts related to the Council of Basel

Barb.lat.2278, Celestini Quinti Vita (15th C)

Incipit: Ad sum[m]um Pontificem Eugenium Quartum. Laudo animu[m] tuu[m] beatissime pater qui Celesti-ni Quinti uita[m] in epte hactenus

Barb.lat.2292, Vita Joannis Caloritae (16th C)

Incipit: [B]eatus igitur Ioannes clarus genere sed clarior fide, parentibus nobilis sed nobilior extitit sanctitate

Barb.lat.2296, Franciscus Paulus Celeberrima ecclesiae, et domus austriacae in utriusque hostes victoria (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Cecidit tandem infestus ho-stis, Cardinalis Emin[tissime] terram mordet

Barb.lat.2300 (Upgraded to HQ), Bartholomew of Trent Epilogum in gesta sanctorum (14th C)

Incipit: Incip[it] p[ro]log[us] sup[er] lib[ro] Epilogor[um] ingesta s[an]c[t]or[um] edita a fr[atr]e Bartholomeo t[ri[dentino de ordi[n]e[m] fr[atr]um p[re]dicator[um]. Avgustino professio[n]is mee legisero

Barb.lat.2304, Costantino Gaetano (17th C)

Incipit: Ad All[ustrissimum] & R[everentissimum] D[omi]num D[omi]num Franciscum S.R.E. Card[inalem] Barberinum, Principem gene-rosissimum D[omi]num meum Clementissimum. De Abbatia & Monasterio S. Mariæ & S. Erasmi in Insula Pontiæ Ordinis S. Benedicti. D[o]m[i]ni C

Barb.lat.2305, Lucae Holstenio (17th C)

Incipit: Horativs Monaldvs V.I.D. Nobilis Pervsinvs Ecclesiæ Cathesralis Perusinæ Archipre-sbyter

Barb.lat.2306, Matthaei Palmerio Historia de captivitate Pisarum (17th C)

Incipit: Magno & spectato Viro Nerio Capponio Mattheus Palmerius salutem plurima[m] dicit

Barb.lat.2310, Alfonso Ceccarelli De origine ac primordiis oppidi de Boschi [Bosco Marengo] et Ill.marum Familiarum de Ghisleriis et de Bonellis (16th C)

Incipit: Ad Ill[ustrissime] et R[everendissime] D. Michaelem Bonellam Alexandri S.R.C. Card. Amplissimum. Alphonsus Ciccarellus meuanas S.D. Accipe (Cardinalis Amplissime) primordia

Barb.lat.2317, Hieronymi Tetu Barberinarum Aedium brevis descriptio (17th C)

Incipit: Em[intissimo] Principi Car[dinali] Antonio Hieronymus Tetius f. Vt Amicissimi mihi capitis dolotum aliqua

Barb.lat.2319, Insignia Nomi-na et Cognomina Illvstriss. DD. S.R. Ecclesiæ Cardinalivm Ciuitatis Florentiæ (1619)

Incipit: (f.1r) Del fvoco aldora[n]dini. D. Petrus Igneus Aldograndinus

Ott.lat.847, Johannes de Deo Causes decretalium, Books I-V (13th C)

Incipit: Ad honorem summae t[ri]nitatis & i[n]-diuidue unitatis p[at]ris & filii & sp[iritu]s s[an]c[t]i & gl[or]iose uirginis marie

Ott.lat.869 (Upgraded to HQ), Questiones Theologicae

Incipit: [A]bstract[i]o

Ott.lat.871, Processus in Concilio Constansiensi contra Haereticus

Incipit: Seq[uetur] Colla[cto] fr[atr]a in p[ro]cessib[us]

Ott.lat.920 (Upgraded to HQ), Constitutiones et Statuta fr Eugenii Papae

Incipit: Constitutiones et Statuta Offitii d[omi]nor[um] Scriptor[um] litterar[um] ap[osto]licar[um]. Quilibet Scriptor tenetur habere

Ott.lat.1454

Incipit: Queste sono le nobili, et antique Case delli Tribuni uenuti a Venetia, et come antigamente se chiama-uano con li soi Cognomi

Ott.lat.1507 (Upgraded to HQ), Dictys Cretensis, Lucii Septemii (tr), ps-Aurelius Victor, Pompeius, Plutarch, Johannes de Sacrobosco, et al Historia de Bello Troiano(tr), Libellus de uita et moribus imperatorum breuiatus ex libris Sexti Aurelii Victoris, Algorismus, etc (15)

Incipit: Belli troiani hystoria a gnosio cretensi descripta qui fuit comes Idomenei traducta per septim[i]um & primo prologus

See Biblissima, See Jordanus #10289. See Mirabile for the Cretensis work

Ott.lat.2003 (Upgraded to HQ), Propertius Elegiae (15th C)

Incipit: Primvs. Qvid iuuat o[r]nato p[ro]cede[re] uita capillo

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2004, Ovid Heroides (1375-1425)

Incipit: Hanc tua penelope le[n]tot mictit ulixe

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2008, Suetonius Lives of the Caesars (1430)

Incipit: Tranquillus Suetonius Incipit et P[ri]mo de Julio Cæsare. Annvm Agens C-æsar sextum decimum patrem

See Biblissima, dated on f.203r

Ott.lat.2010, Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit prologus in libellu[m] de uita et moribus philosophor[um]. De uita et moribus philosophor[um] ueterum tractaturus

ff.IIIr-Vr is a table of contents

Ott.lat.2012, Juvenal Satires (c. 1450-1470)

Incipit: Semper ego avditor tantvm nvnqamne reponam

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2014, Valerius Flaccus Argonautica (1475-1500)

Incipit: P. Val. Flacci Argonavticon. Ad Imp. Caes. Vespasianvm Avg. Prima devm magnis canimvs freta pervia nvtis

See Biblissima, Titles are Bartolomeo San Vito, scribe probably Emilio Boccabella (aka Lelius Antonius, a student of Pomponio Leto)

Ott.lat.2021, Servius Commentarii in Virgilium (15th C)

Incipit: Famosissimi Comentat-otis Seruii super Buccolicor[um] libro incipit Explanatio, Egloga prima que dicitur Titirus

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2025, Plutarch, Leonardo Bruni (tr) Lives (tr) (1450-1475)

Incipit: Magni Alexandri Macedonis Vita per Leonardv[m] Aretinvm e greco plvtarco in Latinvm tradvcta foeliciter incipit. Regis elexandri Cacsansq[ue]

Ott.lat.2028, Plautus Comedies: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Captiui, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, Pseudolus, Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus, Mercator, Mostellaria, Rudens (15th C)

Incipit: Amphi. Plauti Comici clarissimi et facetissimi in Amphitrione Argumentu[m] feliciter Incipit

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2030, Seneca Tragedies: Hercules Furens, Thyestes, Phoenissae, Phaedra, Oedipus, Troades, Medea, Agamemno, Octavia, Hercules Oetaeus (1444)

Incipit: ...ensis illustris.... Tragedia que...

See Biblissima, scribe: Johann von Sobernheim, signed and dated on f.148v

Ott.lat.2034, Cicero De Officiis (14th C)

Incipit: Marci Tulii Ciceronis ad Marcinn Ciceronem filius officior[um] liber primus in-cipit

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2056 (Upgraded to HQ), Hyginus, Raymundus Marliani, et al Astronomica, Descriptio Asiae fratris minoris ad Paulum II papam, Index locorum in commentariis Caesaris descriptorum, etc (15th C)

Incipit: Higinvs M. Fabio Salvtem. Et si te studio grammaticæ

See Biblissima,