Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2026

Due to a timeout hitting the Vatican servers for the Vat.lat collection, it was not properly counted from October 10 through October 18. The missing fourteen volumes have been included below, in addition to the seven manuscripts digitized during the last week. Those manuscripts are five more from the Vat.lat collection and two from Barb.lat.

To the right is f.1r from Vat.lat.11542. This is a late 15th C copy of some sermons by Ludovico d'Imola, also known as Ludovicus de Bagnariis. He was a Conventual Fransiscan, and a lector at Bologna, then a professor in Ferrara, as well as the Provincial of the province of Bologna. At the bottom of the page are the family arms of the Arcimboldi family, with a cardinal's hat. This probably connects the manuscript to Giovanni Arcimboldi, who's death in 1448 puts a terminus ante quem on the creation of the manuscript

At the bottom is one line of text from f.597v of Barb.lat.6380, an Avvisi from Brussels dated December 28, 1675. The Avvisi were hand written news reports, often focused on shipping, military movements, and trade, sent across Europe in the early modern period, before printing became efficient enough to enable printed newspapers.

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Barb.lat.2735, Paulo Parmensi Monumenta varia ordinis Minorum de Observantia, volventibus annis 1530-1531 (16th C)
Incipit: Ego Fr. Barth. de Brendulis or. min. reg. obs.

Barb.lat.6380, Avvisi di Roma e di altre citta del 1675 (c. 1675)
Incipit: Roma 5 Gennaro 1675. Voleuano gl'

Vat.lat.10982, Fabius Danzetta Observationes in Brevarium Romanum, Book I (1755)
Incipit: Dell' autore di queste "Observationes in Breuiarium

Part of a 4 volume set Vat.lat.10982-10985


Vat.lat.11523, Moral Miscellany (15th C)
Incipit: Uias tuas d[omi]ne notas fac m[ihi]

Vat.lat.11533, Collucius Pierus Salutati De fato et fortuna (1464)
Incipit: Colvtii pierii salvtati viri diss de fato et fortvna liber feliciter incipit prohemibm. [Q]votidianum e[ss]e indemus et co[m]muniter ab omnibus

Vat.lat.11540, Tract on Hermitism (1446)
Incipit: Comincia lalinea eordine della uita heremitica. Inp[er]cio che secondo

Vat.lat.11542, Ludovici de Bagnariis Sermons (15th C)
Incipit: Fratris Ludouici Imolensis exordine mi-norum theologie professoris Oratio de chri-sti passione in die parascene habita Coram pontifice et patrum senatu

Vat.lat.11544, Leonardo Bruni De primo bello Punico, Books I-III, De bello Gallico (15th C)
Incipit: Eloquentissimi viri L. Aretini p[ri]mi punici ... co[m]mentaria. Vereor ne qvi me pvtent

Vat.lat.11546, Alexandri de Villa-dei Doctrinale (14th-15th C)
Incipit: Recti dictong[us] dabit eu quinto q[uas]i

Vat.lat.11551, Alberti Paschalei Tractatus de potestate papae super concilium (1501-1550)
Incipit: (f.IIr) Frater albertus vtine[n]sis or. pre. Julio ii. pont. max. Bea-toru[m] pedu[m] de osculatione. Egit mecum proxima æstate assiduis prope

Vat.lat.11554, Tract on Virtues and Vices (15th C)
Incipit: Capitulo primo questo si e el prologo del libro chiamato Spina et Rosa.

Vat.lat.11556, Instrumentum quo Bartholomaeus de Marescotis, civitis Parmae praetor, recofnitionem a Iohanne Francisco Pico Mirandulano (1534)
Incipit: IN. no[m]i[n]e domini Amen. Nouerit uniuersi et singuli hoc

Vat.lat.11569, Plautus Comedies: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Captiui, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, Aulularia (1401-1425)
Incipit: Amphitrio. Plauti poete clarissumi Amphitrio comedia p[ri]ma felicit[ur] i[n]cipit. Postq[uam] est morte captus Plautus comedia luget

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.11570, Valerius Maximus Facta et dicta memorabilia (14th C)
Incipit: Valerii maximi dic[to]r[um] et f[a]c[t]or[um] memorabiliu[m] ad tiberiam

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.11581, Summa on the Breviloquium of Joachim de Floris (1488)
Incipit: Prologus. Incipit prologus seu breuiloquiu[m] de concordia Noui de vetis testamenti

Vat.lat.11583, Valerius Maximinus Factorum et dictorum memorabilium (14th C)
Incipit: Valerii maximi f[a]c[t]or[um] et d[i]c[t]or[um] me[m]orabiliu[m]

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.11594, Quintillianus Institutiones oratoriae (15th C)
Incipit: nec de patribus tantum loquor. Nam gracchor[um] eloquentie

See Biblissima,


Vat.lat.11604, Livy Ab Urbe Condita (1445)
Incipit: ad in qugurandum templa capiunt

See Biblissima, scribe: Giovanni de Gayrardis


Vat.lat.11631, Cicero Orationum pro M. Caelio, pro L. Cornelio Balbo, pro T. Annio Milone (18th C)
Incipit: Pro M. Coelio. M.R.C. Oratio pro Marco Celio Pro m. Celio

Vat.lat.11645, Cicero, Q. Tullii Ciceronis, et al De amicitia libri, De petitione consulatus epistulae ad M. fratrem, Dream of Scipio, etc (18th C)
Incipit: De off. lib. 1. M. Tul, Cic. officior. liber primus.

Vat.lat.11647, Pauli Manutii In M. Tullii Ciceronis epistularium ad familiares libros I-XVI (1717)
Incipit: M. Tullius Cic. lal. pl .D. P. Lentulo