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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2026

Ten manuscripts in total were added to the online repositories this week. These consisted of six manuscripts from Ott.lat, three from Comb, and a single volume from Barb.lat.

To the right is p.7 from Comb.F.6, a 19th C Mashafa Sa'atat(pdf). This is translated as Book of Hours, but is more like a Breviary, the liturgy of the Hours for a Monastic or other institutional use, written in the Ethiopian liturgical language Ge'ez. This manuscript is unusual among the Comboniani manuscripts that have been digitized for including musical notation, the small dots and Ethiopic letters written interlinearly.

At the bottom is a fragment of p.7, the first non-flyleaf page, of Comb.F.2, a Ge'ez manuscript containing various sermons and other religious texts. This is manuscript is dated internally 1958, making it one of the youngest manuscripts in the Vatican. Last week a cataloging mistake led to misidentifying Comb.F.26 as the 1958 volume, this has been corrected in the notes

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Barb.lat.2332, (17th C)
Incipit: (f.2r) Instrumentum publicum translationis sac, Capitum SS. Petri et Pauli Apostolarum

Comb.F.2, Sermon on the Redeemer, Miracles of the Redeemer, Effigie of the Redeemer, Effigie of the Trinity (1958)

Comb.F.4, Commentary on "Praises of Mary" (20th C)

Comb.F.6, Book of Hours, Effigie of Mary, etc (19th C)

Includes musical notation


Ott.lat.2187, Arbor Philosophiae (14th C)
Incipit: De[us] in u[ri]tute tue t[ri]nitatis Incipit hec arbor philosoffie desid[er]ata de prologo

Ott.lat.2262, Tertiam partem de ricordi del marretti (17th C)
Incipit: Ricordi Politici di Lelio Marretti Gentil' huomo Sanese Parte Terza Guerra et Capitano. Quanto sin nociua ne fatti l'armi l'auidita dil rubbar

Ott.lat.2268, Formularium variarum provisionum (15th C)
Incipit: Districtius in hibendo

Ott.lat.2272, Heliae Capreoli de rebus Brixiensis (15th C)
Incipit: Heliae capreoli de rebvs brix. lib[ro] XIII Ad Altobellvm averoldvm polae antistitem Romandiolaeq[ue] vicelegatvm

Ott.lat.2273 (Upgraded to HQ), Euclid, Georgio Valla (tr) Hypsiclis (tr), Elements (16th C)
Incipit: Georgius Valla placenti-nus illustri principi Al-berto pio Carpensi salute[m]

Ott.lat.2366, (16th C)
Incipit: (f.1r) Ennodius Apollinari. Quantum cura mea, quæ affectus vestro per