Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 36 of 2026

Only twelve manuscripts were digitized the past week, all on monday. Work continues to favor the Ott.lat fond, contributing nine of those volumes. The rest consisted of two from Barb.lat and a single codex from Vat.lat

To the right is f.LXXVIIr (it's foliated in roman numerals, I don't know why) from Vat.lat.1194. This is a mid-to-late 12th C manuscript of saints' lives from Rome. The page seen here has a prolog to, and the start of the main Vita of St. Thomas, the Apostle. The style of the brightly painted initials is distinctively Italian of this period.

At the bottom is a fragment of the border, rotated, from f.1r of Ott.lat.3292. This is a 15th C manuscript of the Vita Pontificum Romae traditionally attributed to the 9th C papal librarian called Anastasius Bibliothecarius.

Barb.lat.2777, Iaponi seu ordinis beati Francisci fratrum Discalceatorum canonizationis viginti sex martyrum relatio. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.2r) Beatissime Pater. Ex vltimis terræ finibus in tuum conspectum prodeunt hodie

Barb.lat.2778, Iaponi seu ordinis beati Francisci fratrum Discalceatorum canonizationis viginti sex martyrum relatio. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Beat[issime] P[ate]r. Ex ultimis Terræ finibus in tuum conspectum prodeunt hodie

Ott.lat.3240, Lettere discifrate del Card. Padrone al Ninzuo di Venezi dal 1640-1643 (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Suscita una stampa in Ilngua Alemanna per aggiungere i sospecti

Ott.lat.3245.pt.2, Lettere familiari scritte a monsignore Octoboni il quale fu poi Alessandro VIII (17th C)

Starts f.201

Ott.lat.3283, Notated Office of the BVM (17th C)

Incipit: Officium Paruum Beatæ Mariæ Ante Anuentum Ad MAtutinum. Ave Maria. Domine labia mea aperies

See Iter liturgicum italicum, See Bannister, H. M. Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina ID# 786[ Title: Officium parvum BVM, Folio: passim, Century: 17, Notation: quadrata]

Ott.lat.3292, Anastasius Bibliothecarius Vita Pontificum Romae (15th C)

Incipit: Incipit Prefatio ana[sta]sii Byblio-thecarii svmmæ ac Apostolicæ sedis. Ecclesiasticam Karissime frater et digne

Ott.lat.3299, Honorius of Autun Jewel of the Soul (13th C)

Incipit: (f.10r) Solitario. Amen incastris et[er]ni regnis exeubans

Table of Contents on ff.1v-9v

Ott.lat.3302 (Upgraded to HQ), Peter John Olivi Postilla in Euangelia (15th C)

Incipit: Qvoniam ex dictis sup[er] matthæi Euangeliu[m]

Ott.lat.3304, Alanus ab Insulis Anticlaudianus (13th C)

Incipit: Incipit liber alani anteclaudiani. Avtoris m[en]dico stilu[m] falerasq[ue] poete

Ott.lat.3305, Pliny the Younger Letters (c. 1400-1458)

Incipit: Epostilae Plinii Secvndi. Plinivs

See Biblissima, scribe: Sozomenus Pistoriensis

Ott.lat.3312, Horace Sermones seu Saturae, Carmina seu Odae, Epodon liber, Carmen saeculare, De arte poetica, Epistulae (1460)

Incipit: (f.3r) Qvi fit merenas ut nemo di sibi sorte

See Biblissima,

Vat.lat.1194, Hagiography: S. Andrea, John, deacon of Naples, Benedictus, St. Anastasius, Isidore of Seville, etc (1151-1175)

Incipit: (f.Ir) Primum passionarium. Incipit p[ro]logus s[an]c[t]i Andrea Apostoli. Andreas frater pet[ri] carne & coheres

See Iter liturgicum italicum

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 36 of 2026

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