Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 7 of 2026

Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As is the current pattern, the vast majority, thirteen, were from Ott.lat. The rest consisted of a single manuscript from each of Barb.lat, Bar.or, Comb, and Vat.lat. The final one being another item from the set of Italian religious house library inventories that are shelved as Vat.lat.11266-11326

To the right is the front flyleaf from Ott.lat.1950, a 15th C copy of Sallust's The Cataline Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War. This leaf, however was just scribal pen trials, including a manicule, some decorative letters and what appear to be practice notary signs.

At the bottom is a line of text from p.23 of Comb.F.26, a Ge'ez liturgical manuscript.

Barb.lat.2331, Conjuratio Venefica in Urbanum VIII, P.O.M. (17th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Vrbano VIII Pont. Opt. Max. Auctor Sumillimus felicitatem. Veritati ut plurimum, B[eatissime] P[ate]r, in mortalium animis

Barb.or.80, Shihabaddin Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad Ibn al-'Imad b. Muhammad al-Aqfahsi Muhtasar as-sira an-nabawiyya nazm wa-sharh (1395)

Dated Jumada 14, 797 AH (March 7, 1395)

Comb.F.26, Effigie of Jesus (19th C)

Ott.lat.1510 (Upgraded to HQ), Livy, Ovid, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Bartolomeo Roverella, et al Miscellany, mostly Orations (1475-1500)

Incipit: Or[ati]o Scipionis af ap[ud] milites seditiosos

See Biblissima, thought to be by Pomponio Leto or his circle

Ott.lat.1665 (Upgraded to HQ), Francesco Filfelfo Commentationes Florentinae de Exilio (15th C)

Incipit: Francisci philelfi ad Vitalianum Borhomæum com-mentationum Florentinar[um] de exilio liber ~~primus~~ se[cun]d[u]s Summatim

Ott.lat.1697, Plautus Comedies: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Captiui, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, Menaechmi (15th C)

Incipit: [I]n faciem uersus anphitrionis iupiter

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1700, Columella De re rustica, De arboribus (15th C)

Incipit: Livni Moderati Collv-mellæ rei rvsticæ liber primvs incipit. Præcpta quae sequantur qui rusticari velint

See Biblissima, The work De re rustica is split into two parts, books 1-2 at the beginning, interrupted by De arboribus, and then back to Rustica books 3-12

Ott.lat.1934, Phalaridis, St. Augustine, Xenephon, Leonardo Bruni (tr), et al Epistles (tr), De Negotiatione mercatorum, Epistles, Tyrannus (tr), etc (15th C)

Incipit: Franciscus Aretinus C. atq[ue] p[re]stantissimo juris

Ott.lat.1949, Indicem in Varro, Columella, Palladium, etc (15th C)

Incipit: (f.1r) Nuptiarum initio

Ott.lat.1950, Sallust The Cataline Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War (15th C)

Incipit: Fecvndissimi Crispi qve liber disertissimi ante catelinam ro incipit. Omnes homines

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1953, Terence, et al Epitaphium Terentii, Comedies: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio, (15th C)

Incipit: Terentius afer ciuis uero cartagine[n]sis fuit

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.1973, Aeschines, Demosthenes, Leonardo Bruni (tr) Orations (tr), Oratio contra Ctesiphontem (tr), etc (15th C)

Incipit: Qvanti conatvs parentur uiri athenienses ad hoc iudici-um

Ott.lat.2042, Livy Ab Urbe Condita (15th C)

Incipit: Tit liuii patavini histo-rici ab urbe condita de gestis romanorvm pr-efatio incipit feliciter

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2074 (Upgraded to HQ), Hermes Trismegistus, Marsilio Ficino (tr), ps-Apuleius, Albertus Magnus Pimander (tr), Asclepius, Panegyrici latini, De natura locorum, De causis et proprietatibus elementorum, De nutrimento et nutritio, etc (15th C)

Incipit: Aronmetitu[m] Marsilii ficini floren-tinr[ur] in librum mercurii trisinegisti ad Cosimi medicu[m]

See Biblissima,

Ott.lat.2203, Compendio delle ragioni del Signor Conte Palatino [Filippo Guglielmo] di Neoburgo sopra la controversia con la Sig.ra Duchessa [Carlotta Elisabetta] di Orleans per il Ducato di Simeren, Contea di Sponheim e Terre di Oppenheim e Lauteren. etc (1676-1725)

Incipit: Compendio Delle Ragioni del Sig[nor] Conte Palatino di Neoburgo sopra la contro-uersia con la Sig[nora] Duchessa di Orelans

Ott.lat.2242, ps-Aristotle, George Trapezuntius (tr) Rhetoric (tr), Relazione di quanto è successo doppo li 29 agosto sin li 4 settembre [1638] inclusive dell'attacco del forte de Lago Scuro [Pontelagoscuro] fatto dal S. della Valletta [Jean-Louis de Nogaret de la Vallette] verso la parte de' Francolino (1517)

Incipit: Libri Rhetoricor[um] Aristotelis a clarissimo uiro Georgio Trabezuntio traducti quod ac eiusdem Rhetorica & dialectica

Assembled from two unrelated manuscripts, foliation gap between 63 and 141

Vat.lat.11324 (Upgraded to HQ), (c. 1598-1603)

Incipit: Index libror[um] qui sunt ad usum fratrum Capuccenor[um] Prouintiæ Mediolane. Abbas decreta,

Part of a large set of library catalogues from religious houses, Vat.lat.11266-11326