Vatican Manuscripts from the Barberiniani Orientali/Asian Fond

The Barberiniani Orientali collection contains 165 signatures, with 73 digitized so far. These include works in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Chinese and Japanese. It includes the amazing Barb.or.2, a 5-language psalter in Ethiopic, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic and Armenian. To the right is f.155r, which contains the start of Psalm 14.

Sources

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (2011). Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. pp. 348-351


Barb.or.1, Bible (1227)

Known as " Barberini Triglot", contains Samaritan text, Hebrew text in Samaritan letters, and Arabic text



Barb.or.4 (Low Quality)




Barb.or.16, Arabic/Turkish Prayers, Quran (16th-17th C)

with "magical characters"



Barb.or.20, Quran (16th-17th C)

Barb.or.22, Quran (16th-17th C)

Suras 6, 36, 48, 56, 67, and 78, preface in Turkish



Barb.or.26, Quran (17th C)

Volumes 16-20 of 30


Barb.or.28, Quran (16th C)

Turkish style


Barb.or.33, Quran (16th C)

Volume 11 of 30









Barb.or.70, Quran (16th C)

From Spain(?), in Maghrebi script


Barb.or.71, Quran (16th C)

Barb.or.72, Quran (16th C)

Barb.or.79 (Low Quality)


Barb.or.83 (Low Quality)




Barb.or.93 (Low Quality)


Barb.or.100, Rituale in Armenian for Roman Use (13th C)

ff.4r-6v contain a table of contents in Latin. For more details see Arlen, J. S. (2018). Armenian Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research , 62(1), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.MSS.5.116007






Barb.or.117, Gospels in Armenian (1580)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis pp. 353-354


Barb.or.118 (Low Quality)


Barb.or.120 (Low Quality)



Barb.or.130, Miscellany (17th-18th C)

Album of unrelated fragments, assembled in the 18th C. 55 folios, all but f.49 are paper. See a full description in Fontana, M. V. (2004). "A 17th/18th-Century Manuscript (Vatican Library, ms.\ Barb. or. 130) Reproducing the Inscription on Roger’s Mantle and the Roundels of the 'Veil of st Anne'", Oriente Moderno, 84(2), 427-448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22138617-08402007










Barb.or.152 (Low Quality)

Incipit: Beatissime Pater. Post fælicium pedum oscula. Sanctatis vestrae humanissimas litteras septima

Incipit: Beatissime Pater. Post felicium pedum oscula. Sanctatis

Incipit: Beatissime Pater. Post felicium pedum oscula. Benedictionis Apostolicæ litteras Sanctitatis uestræ

Incipit: Beatissime Pater. Post fælicium pedum oscula. In medio ærumnarum nostratum



Barb.or.152.pt.7, Christiani Arimenses in Japonia Litterae Scriptae (c. 1620)

This was the original binding with notes. The texts that were originally in this album are now Barb.org.152.pt.1-6


Barb.or.152.pt.5bis, (c. 1621)
Incipit: (f.2r) Beatissime Pater. Post felicium pedum oscula. Benedictionis Apostolicæ Sanctitatis

Barb.or.153.pt.A, Japanese Dictionary, Christian Doctrine as a dialogue (c. 1592-1599)

ff.1r-12v is the appendix to the longer Guia do pecador, entitled ぎやどぺかどるの字集 in the original, and "Dictionarium Iapponicum" in Latin. There are several flyleaves before the second part, which is renumbered ff.1r-80v. f.IIr describes the contents of this second part in Italian as "Dotrina Christiana fata a modo di dialogi fra il discepolo e Maestro in Lengua Giaponese". These were printed as seperate works in Japan by Jesuits around 1600 before the expulsion of all Christians in 1632.


Barb.or.153.pt.B, (17th C)

Appears to date to the pontificate of Urban VIII








Barb.or.161, Bible (1295-7)

Part of a 4-volume Hebrew Bible(Barb.or.161-164),


Barb.or.162, Bible (1295-7)

Part of a 4-volume Hebrew Bible(Barb.or.161-164),


Barb.or.163, Bible (1295-7)

Part of a 4-volume Hebrew Bible(Barb.or.161-164), this one contains Ruth, Psalms, Canticles, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Job, Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah, Chronicles.


Barb.or.164, Bible (1295-7)
Incipit: וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַשֹּׁפְטִ֔ים וַיְהִ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּאָ֑רֶץ

Part of a 4-volume Hebrew Bible(Barb.or.161-164),