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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 4 of 2026

Only six manuscripts were digitized last week, all from the Ott.lat collection.

At the right is f.33v from Ott.lat.2071, a composite manuscript of the 14th C. The first part, which includes this folio, is the Summa of William of Ockham, probably the most well known name of any of the 14th C English philosophers due to his Razor. This manuscript has a careful professional hand, none the less hard to read due to the copious abbreviations

At the bottom is a bit of the marginal decorations from f.1r of Ott.lat.2065, a late 15th C copy of Boccaccio's Libro delle donne illustri. This border has various all' antiqua design elements, including plants, pearls, gemstones, all on a shaded purple ground. The page is written in a very elegant, slightly flamboyant, Humanist hand

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Ott.lat.1535, Virgil, Ovid (scholia), Gaius Sulpicius Apollinaris (scholia) Aeneid (with scholia) (1375-1400)
Incipit: Ille ego qui quonda[m] gracili modulat[us] auena. Carmen et egressus siluis uicina

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Ott.lat.2063, Flavio Biondo Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decadii secundae libros XX (15th C)
Incipit: Decadis secu[n]de Liber primvs incipit. Blondi Flavii forliuiensis historia-rum Ab Inclinatione Romanor[um]

Ott.lat.2065 (Upgraded to HQ), Boccaccio Libro delle donne illustri (15th C)
Incipit: Ala Serenissima Signora Donna Helionora de Picol. honinibus Principessa di Bisignano, Petro Sum monte dice felicita. Hauendo Serenissima S. Principessa il facondo Poeta Messer Joan Boccaccio

Ott.lat.2071, William of Ockham, Adam di Anglia, Giles of Rome Summa, In Logicam, Tabulae, De regimine principum (14th C)
Incipit: Incipit p[ro]log[us] fr[atr]is & mag[ist]ri Ada[m] de anglia i[n] logica[m] sui mag[ist]ri fr[atr]is Gulie[l]mi de ocka[ham]

Ott.lat.2123, Informazione dello stato e governo delli Signori Grisoni (16th C)
Incipit: Informazione dello stato, de des gouerno delli S[ignori] Grisoni. Omnis Rhetia in duos partes diuisa est

Ott.lat.2582, Indice Delle Scritture circa l'essequzione de concordati in Pisa tra la Sede Apostolica et il Re di Francia (1662)
Incipit: (f.1r) Sommario delli Capitoli stabiliti nella concordia fra la Sede Apos-tolica nel Pontificato di Leone X[mo], e fran[sisco] Re di francia

Table of contents on ff.Vr-XVv