Vatican Manuscripts from the P.I.O Fond

The Pontificio Istituto Orientale is a section of the education consortium containting the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute devoted to the study of Eastern Christianity. Though the idea was proposed originally by Pope Leo XIII, it was finally founded by Benedict the XV in 1917 and is managed by the Jesuits.

The collection is split into two sub-sections, those shelved as P.I.O and then a secondary sub-fond for Slavic languages under the shelfmark P.I.O.slav. In the online systems these are presented as one collection, so I have continued. In the main P.I.O there are 40 signatues, in the Slav subfond there are an additional 54. From this total, 95 have so-far been digitized.

Sources

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (2011). Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. p. 499

P.I.O.1

See Biblissima, in Greek

P.I.O.2

See Biblissima,

P.I.O.3

See Biblissima, In Greek

P.I.O.4, Logos Panagyricos and Epitafio (1788)

See Biblissima, Greek, printed with sparse annotations. Flyleaves are greek liturgy(?)

P.I.O.7, Stichirarion

See Biblissima, Greek, has musical notation

P.I.O.8

See Biblissima,

P.I.O.9

See Biblissima,

P.I.O.10

See Biblissima, in Greek

P.I.O.11

See Biblissima, in Greek

P.I.O.12, Ακολουθια του αγιου ιερομαρτυροσ χαραλαμπουσ

See Biblissima,

P.I.O.13

See Biblissima, in Greek

P.I.O.14

See Biblissima, in Greek

P.I.O.16, Delle Missioni Cattoliche di Oriente Per Agositino Romani da Terni dell'Ordine de Minori Osservanti

P.I.O.17, Regulae sive Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae in Sancta Orthodoxa Rossicum ecclesia Concinnatae Typis aliquoties Repetitae ex Rossicci linguci in Latinam in Monasterio Sancti Cyrilli (1732)

Incipit: (f.2r) Dei Gratia nus Petrus primus rex et autocrator totus rossiae ete caetera et caesera & caetera

P.I.O.18, Biografia lui Beniamin Pop Densusianee, canonic lector in Lugorie (1907)

Title and date from front cover

P.I.O.19, Metoda per fare le cerimonie Greche (1827)

Incipit: (f.1r) Funzione da farsi nella mattina di Pasqua di Resurrezione

P.I.O.20

Incipit: La Dominica di Pasqua all'Alba si va in Chiesa

P.I.O.21

Incipit: Demonstratio Juris patronatus Portugalliæ Regu[m]

P.I.O.22, Typikon, Greek Orthodox Use

Translated from Greek to Arabic and Syriac by Youhouua, ibn Hajj George de Blarrani of Tripoli

P.I.O.23

In Arabic

P.I.O.24

In Syriac

P.I.O.25, Filippo Farbat, Sciak Besciara, Eben Alhageb Il Triade poema sopra la Madonnae, Utilissima racolta di tutti gli autori della lingua Araba, Casiat

P.I.O.26

P.I.O.27, Prayerbook (19th C)

In Arabic

P.I.O.28, Resume des Exercices spirituels pour les jours de la semain, par un carmelite en 1761 (1853)

In Syriac through f.66v, Arabic after. The Resume de Exercices... is the Arabic text

P.I.O.29, Psalter

in Ethiopic

P.I.O.30, Magical Roll

In Ethiopic

P.I.O.31, Psalter

In Ethiopic

P.I.O.32

In Syriac

P.I.O.33

Syriac

P.I.O.34

In Turkish

P.I.O.35

Greek

P.I.O.36

In Turkish

P.I.O.37

In Greek

P.I.O.38, (1775-1799)

Greek

P.I.O.39, (18th C)

In Greek

P.I.O.40

P.I.O.41

Added to the collection in 1988, Ethiopic

P.I.O.42

Bilingual, Coptic and Arabic

P.I.O.43

In Arabic with French rubrication

P.I.O.slav.1, Bible: Gospels (16th C)

P.I.O.slav.2, Gospels (16th C)

P.I.O.slav.3, Typikon, Use of Jerusalem (16th C)

P.I.O.slav.4, Liturgy, Hagiography, Rhymed Psalter (17th C, 18th C)

P.I.O.slav.5, Synaxarium for March-April (1501-1525)

P.I.O.slav.6, Canons and Songs (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.7, Sbomaja rukopis': Kanony, stichi duchovnye, molitvy (17th-18th C)

P.I.O.slav.8, Canons and Prayers to Saints (17th C)

P.I.O.slav.9, Oktoich (c. 1820-1830)

With musical notation

P.I.O.slav.10, Oktoich and Penitential Psalms (c. 1840-1860)

With musical notation

P.I.O.slav.11, Ottoeco (1840-1850)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.12, Hymnal (c. 1815)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.13, Triodus for Lent through Pentecost (1850s)

P.I.O.slav.14, Prazdniki na krjukovych (19th C)

Liturgy with musical notation

P.I.O.slav.15, Trezvony (Peal of Bells) (1850-1860)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.16, Sluzebnik (1869-1870)

Office with musical notation

P.I.O.slav.17, Oktoich na krjukovych notach i azbuka notnogo penija (c. 1843)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.18, Octoëchos (19th C)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.19, Ustav o Christijanskom Zitt (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.20, Sbornik (19th C)

Pennance and cannons for hermits

P.I.O.slav.21, Alfa i Omega (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.22, Pharmacopoeia (1675-1725)

P.I.O.slav.23, Syntegma of Matteo Vlastari (17th-18th C)

P.I.O.slav.24, Kormčaja Kniga (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.25, Sinodik (1675-1700)

P.I.O.slav.26, Toržestvennik Triodnyj/Sermons for Lent and Easter (17th C)

P.I.O.slav.27, Kratkija istorièeskija svedenija o svjatejsem vserossijskom sinode (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.28, Geneology of the Grand Princes of Moscow (c. 1682)

P.I.O.slav.29, Spiridon Potemkin, et al Three Starovian Works (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.30, History of the Conception and Birth of Tsar Peter I (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.31, Catechism (1768)

P.I.O.slav.32, Monastic Liturgical Miscellany, Horologion (17th C)

P.I.O.slav.33, Triodio (1801-1825)

P.I.O.slav.34, Služebnik na krjukovych notach (19th C)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.35, O(t)raznych bozestvennych' pisanii skazanie (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.36, Ustav o brakach (19th C)

Wedding Ordinal

P.I.O.slav.37, Akty soborov rossijskich staroobrjadceskich episkopov avgusta i oktjabrja (1898)

Acts of the Starovian Episcopal Synod of Aug-Oct 1898

P.I.O.slav.38, Ustav o Brakach (Marriage Canons) (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.39, Old Believers Apologetica (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.40, Sbornik Staroobrjadčeskii (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.41, Typikon (19th C)

From the Soloveckij monastery

P.I.O.slav.42, F. A. Baryškova Otvety na pjat' voprosov gospodina (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.43, Psalter (18th C)

Part of a 4 volume set P.I.O.slav.43-46

P.I.O.slav.44, Psalter (18th C)

Volume 2 of 4

P.I.O.slav.45, Psalter (18th C)

Volume 3 of 4

P.I.O.slav.46, Psalter (18th C)

Volume 4 of 4

P.I.O.slav.48, Evangeliary (16th C)

P.I.O.slav.49, Demestvennik pevčii (19th C)

Includes musical notation

P.I.O.slav.50, Hymnal (19th C)

Has musical notation

P.I.O.slav.51, Kanonnik s dopolnenijami (Canons with supplemental texts) (18th C)

P.I.O.slav.52, Obščij kanon bogorodice (19th C)

P.I.O.slav.53, Liturgical Music (c. 1680-1690)

See Dzurova Aksinija, Krasimir Stancev Catalogo dei Manoscritti Slavi del Pontificio Istituto Orientale di Roma. Orientalia Christiana Analecta vol. 255. 1997 pp. 126-129. It notes "old church Slavonic with some southwestern Russian features"

P.I.O.slav.54, Kanuny sluiebnie (c. 1870-1890)

Canon of the Mass

P.I.O.5

P.I.O.6

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