Part of a 10 volume set
See Biblissima,
This week completes the first half of the year, and the library digitized only twenty manuscripts. Returning to recent patterns, most of these, fourteen in total, came from the Ott.lat collection. The remainder consisted of five Barb.lat volumes and a single icon from the Comb collection.
To the right is the verso of the front flyleaf from Barb.lat.2164. This is the elaborate 18th C title page for the Papal bull that is the main contents of the volume, Bulla Reformationis Canonicorum Regularium SS. Saluatoris. In this text Benedict XIII is attempting to reform the Canons Regular of the Lateran, who were Augustinian Canons. This sort of elaborate title, imitating the style of steel or copper-plate engraving, is seen in 18th C Bulls.
At the bottom is a line(?) of text from Ott.lat.2885, a heavily-annotated 15th C copy of Juvenal's Satires. It's not visible in this snippet, but in the corners of the page there are little semi-circular arcs of text in the glosses.
Part of a 10 volume set
See Biblissima,