Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 28 of 2026

Only eighteen manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the pattern of last week, the largest contributor was nine manuscripts from Barb.lat. The rest of the work consisted of eight manuscripts from Ott.lat and a lone manuscript from Vat.gr

To the right is f.65r from Ott.lat.2879, a late 14th, or early 15th, century manuscript containing the writings of several different authors. This page contains the start of Vita Scolastica by Bonvicinus de la Ripa. This copy of the text has both interlinear and marginal glosses that appear to be by an owner of the manuscript, not the original scribe

At the bottom is a three-line stanza from f.15r of Ott.lat.2877, a 17th C copy of an operetta entitled la Piatosa fonte, about the death of Petrarch.

Barb.lat.2396, Instrumentum in forma publica a Maphaeo Barberino. (17th C)

Incipit: In Nomine Domini Amen. Præsenti publico instrumento cunctis ubique pate-at euidenter, et sit notum, quod Anno

Barb.lat.2458, Jacopo Maffei Volaterrano Diarium ab anno 1479 ad annum 1481. (17th C)

Incipit: Huic codici praefigenda est uita Card. Ainanati quae extat in Cod. 1234

Barb.lat.2462, Acta Sanctorum Martyrium Nerei et Achillei (17th C)

Incipit: S[anctissimo] et B[eatissimo] Patri ac Domino Nostro D. Urbano VIII Pont. Max. Constantinus Caietanus, Abbas Benedictinus, Sempiternam Felicitatem

Barb.lat.2531, Summarium investiturae Regni Siciliae quam Iulius secundus Ferdinando Regi Catholico concessit. (17th C)

Incipit: Summ. Inuestituræ Regni Siciliæ Quam Julius 2[s] Ferdinando Regi Catt[olico] concessit. Proemium fol p[rimo]

Barb.lat.2557, Monumenta varia alumnorum Hospitalis Sanctae Brigittae. (17th C)

Incipit: Regi Poloniae. Adscriptus profecto nunc uideor obsequiis

Barb.lat.2587, Testo giudiziario inerente al cardinale Carlo Carafa. (17th C)

Incipit: Ill[ustrissimus] et Reu[erentissimus] D. Carolus Card[inali] Caraffa de infractis per fiscum S.D.N. Imputatus. In primis sunt 18 anni uel circa quod

Barb.lat.2596, Otto von Freising De mutatione rerum (15th C)

Incipit: Domi[n]o suo friderico victori inclito trium-phatori Romanor[um] Imperatori ac semp[er]

Barb.lat.2619, Girolamo Rossi Vita Nicolai papæ IV. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Sixto Quincto Pontifici Optimo Maximo. Beatissime Pater. Mei nuncus semper duxi de

Barb.lat.2623, Memoriae extractae ex diariis. (17th C)

Incipit: Julius 2[us] Die 20 Novembris 1507. Dominus Marcus Antonius Columna Nepos Cardinalis de Columna et affinis Papæ stetis in gradibus

Ott.lat.2840, Cicero, Guillelmus de Conchis De officiis, Moralium dogma philosophorum, Medical Recipes (c. 1422)

Incipit: Incipiu[n]t epithaphia Cicaro[n]is edita a xii sapientib[us] Basilio Asmenio Vomiano Euphorbio Juliano hilasyo palladio masimino Vitali.

See Biblissima. Per colophon on f.52r, the Cicero part was completed December 1, 1422, the remainder is in a different hand

Ott.lat.2877, Operetta chiamata la Piatosa fonte facta per Gelone da Pistoja per la morte dell' Illustrissimo poeta Laureato e parte della sua vita mester Francesco Petrarca (17th C)

Incipit: [Q]vouo p[ri]ncipio renda anticho fine Alalta fantasia

Ott.lat.2879 (Upgraded to HQ), ps-Cato, Prosper of Aquitane, Gualterus Anglicus, Bonivicinus de Ripa Disticha, Epigrammata ex sententiis Augustini, Ad coniugem, Fabulae, Vita scolastica (14th-15th C)

Incipit: Cum ai[n]i[m]adeurterem q[uam] plu-rimos ho[m]i[n]es grauiter erra-re in uia morum

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2946, De consilio quatuorumilium Civitatis Bononis ab anno 1458 ad annum 1584 (c. 1584)

Incipit: Reperit in Volumine Itatutum nouom Papali

Ott.lat.2971, Johannis Baptistae Guazzeronii Veterum Notarum Interpretatio: De Notis Romanorum Interpretands In Lapidum ac Metallorum Inscriptionibus et aliis locis proret uerta pagella docetes (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Ad benignum Lectorem Prefatio. Qvae quondam ad proprium sensum, ac commodum

Ott.lat.2989 (Upgraded to HQ), Pomponius Letus, Sallust Letter to Agostino Maffei, The Cataline Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Orationes, Vita Sallustii (15th C)

Incipit: Avgvstino Magaeore-rvm ro. thesavro. Pompo-nivs laetvs. M. Valerius Probus vnice uetustatis

See Biblissima, scribe: Jakob Aurel Questenberg

Ott.lat.2991 (Upgraded to HQ), Cicero, ps-Sallust Oration for T. Annio Milone, Invectiva in Ciceronem, Orations, The dream of Scipio (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) M. T. Ciceronis pro t. An-nio Milone oratio Incipit aduides. Et si vereor

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.3333, Lorenzo Magalotti Lettere Familiari in Materia di Religione, Part 1

Incipit: (f.IIr) Indice Delle Lettere Della Prima Parte Lettera I

Vat.gr.1029.pt.2, Plato Dialogues, Definitiones, Republic, etc