tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18074778287312247722024-03-02T18:28:47.815+01:00Macro-TypographyBrings news on research into the history of text presentation. Recent posts deal with my discovery of the world's oldest data visualization, the 5th-century Great Stemma. This blog also offers a way to comment on the <a href="http://www.piggin.net/plold.htm">www.piggin.net</a> website and communicate with the author, Jean-Baptiste Piggin.JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-53118344940958741842019-06-08T17:56:00.000+02:002019-06-10T13:58:20.953+02:00Festival of Visualization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A University of Bologna textbook precisely datable to 1430 contains key texts in mathematics and astronomy in Italian and Latin. The Vatican Library has just upgraded its digitization of this treasure, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4825" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4825</a>, to full color and high resolution, and you will see below how welcome this is.<br />
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This codex is a festival of visualization, including; mnemonic hands<br />
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stemmata<br />
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mathematical squares<br />
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and rotae: <br />
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There are also scatological illuminations of the sort long favoured by discerning male student customers:<br />
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See <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10213">Jordanus </a>for a full listing of the content.<br />
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It is one of the stars of a release over the past week of 67 new digitizations. My unofficial list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.126.pt.2" target="_blank">Ross.126.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.129" target="_blank">Ross.129</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.141" target="_blank">Ross.141</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.143" target="_blank">Ross.143</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.144" target="_blank">Ross.144</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.147" target="_blank">Ross.147</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.154" target="_blank">Ross.154</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.161" target="_blank">Ross.161</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.162" target="_blank">Ross.162</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.174" target="_blank">Ross.174</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.175" target="_blank">Ross.175</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.176" target="_blank">Ross.176</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2418" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2418</a> (Upgraded to HQ), no fewer than 155 works by leading Arab and western medical scientist in this compilation dating from the 14th century. See <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10053">summary in Jordanus</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2525" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2525</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2526" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2526</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2529" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2529</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2536" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2536</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2545" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2545</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2554" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2554</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4654.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4654.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4685" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4685</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4718" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4718</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4749" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4749</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4765" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4765</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4808" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4808</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4809" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4809</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4823" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4823</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4825" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4825</a> (Upgraded to HQ), mainly mathematical and astronomical texts in Italian and Latin (above). </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4827" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4827</a>, yet another mathematical codex, this one dating from 1470. See <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10215">Jordanus</a>. Among the curiosities here are contemporary exchange rates between Sicilian, Neapolitan and Venetian currency.</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4831" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4831</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4833" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4833</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4876" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4876</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4877" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4877</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4882" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4882</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4883" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4883</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Found in the most recent list of MSS <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a>: Boethius of Dacia, Questiones on Aristotle's Topica.<a href="https://t.co/Nd8NJSKlNc">https://t.co/Nd8NJSKlNc</a> <a href="https://t.co/LGTTJ3LLaU">pic.twitter.com/LGTTJ3LLaU</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1138009707757690882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4889" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4889</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4900" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4900</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4904" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4904</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4905" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4905</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4924" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4924</a>, This codex contains more binding strips from an old book written in Beneventan hand a torn apart to hold this new volume together. </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4925" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4925</a> (Upgraded to HQ), with reinforcing strips from the same Beneventan codex as was used to bind 4924 and 4923, of which am sample image was shown in a <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2019/05/bitumen-boat.html">previous blog post</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4928" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4928</a>, Breviarium Benedictinum, dated to about 1100, in a Beneventan hand. This is Beuron number 343 on account of its Vetus Latina texts of the Psalter Romanum and other biblical chants</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4931" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4931</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4937" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4937</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4961" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4961</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4967" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4967</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4969" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4969</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4971" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4971</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4974" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4974</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4975" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4975</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4976" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4976</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4977" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4977</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4980" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4980</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4981" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4981</a>, a 13th-century codex in Beneventan hand, termed a Collectio Canonum by Lowe. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vat Lat 4981 contains the text of the Decretum by Burchard of Worms, it is indeed a canonical collection!</p>— GlossaeIuris (@GlossaeIuris) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlossaeIuris/status/1137729240881934337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4982" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4982</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4990" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4990</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5001" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5001</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5006" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5006</a>, mathematical and astronomical texts in a compilation of the 15th century, of which <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10219">Jordanus</a> lists 14 titles.</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5018.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5018.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5033" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5033</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5047" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5047</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5051" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5051</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5055" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5055</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5058" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5058</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5059" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5059</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5086" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5086</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.15345" target="_blank">Vat.lat.15345</a>, </li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 212. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-87101811515685093502019-06-01T19:07:00.002+02:002019-06-02T16:36:00.892+02:00Ascension Week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ascension Week seems to have slowed the output of the Vatican Library's digitization programm. My unofficial list contains only 16 items for the past seven days:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.128" target="_blank">Ross.128</a>, an Old Testament, with upper headings mostly guillotined off in rebinding: notable initials<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_S.Maria.Magg.26" target="_blank">S.Maria.Magg.26</a> (reloaded, but still only in black and white), liturgical music</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2532" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2532</a>, Andrae's commentary of Decretals</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2550" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2550</a>, decretals text with space left for commentary still entirely empty</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4761" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4761</a>, Renaissance, book of hours? <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">vat lat 4761 is a Breviary. Northern Italy, maybe?</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1134999861479260160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4810" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4810</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4834" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4834</a> (Upgraded to HQ), contains text of Tommasuccio da Foligno</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4906" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4906</a>, catalog of letters of Pope Gregory VII</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4910" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4910</a>, Alfonso Ceccarelli 1532-83</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4911" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4911</a>, ditto</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4943" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4943</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4944" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4944</a>, legal</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4968" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4968</a>, historical writing by Giovanni Pietro Ferretti 1482- 1557</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5000" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5000</a>, seventeenth century manuscript of Chronicum Salernitanum, lists of Lombard kings, etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5018.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5018.pt.1</a>, work of Cristobal de Cabrera 1513-1598 </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5053" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5053</a>, works of Salvianus Massiliensis c.400-c.470</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 211. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-65355321622222462562019-05-25T18:24:00.000+02:002019-05-26T12:14:16.797+02:00Bitumen Boat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Two boats with sails and oars are depicted in the <a href="http://piggin.net/mm.svg">Madaba Mosaic Map</a>, a miraculously preserved sixth-century giant floor map of Palestine. One has a cargo of white stuff, the other of a vibrantly coloured substance being shipped over the Dead Sea. The tesserae depicting the boatmen have been smashed and replaced with a random red-and-yellow mix of mosaic pieces:<br />
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The boat at left carries salt, which is there for the digging on the Dead Sea coast. Recently I asked an archaeologist friend what he thought was aboard the boat at right and he promptly said: bitumen. This surprised me, but he explained that the Dead Sea used to be covered in floating globs of asphalt. It would have glistened, so perhaps that is why the mosaic shows it rainbow-fashion.<br />
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I have since learned that under the Romans, the asphalt or bitumen was so ample that it was harvested from the beaches or fished out of the water and exported. Hot work, but it was much in demand by the glue trade around the Mediterranean (and had earlier been used, it is said, for mummification in Egypt).<br />
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One of the most notable manuscripts to be digitized in the past week by the Vatican Library is the <i>Cartulary of the Chapter of the Holy Sepulchre</i>, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4947" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4947</a>, a set of records of land endowments and dealings by Christian priests in Crusader Jerusalem in the period 1162-1165. From a <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1988_num_146_1_450494_t1_0192_0000_001">review by Olivier Guyotjeannin</a>, I learn that the Cartulary contains a record dealing with salt and bitumen harvesting at the time of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.<br />
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I wonder how long the bitumen trade continued overall. Evidently for a good two thousand years! An account by George Frederick Wright in <a href="http://www.netours.com/content/view/66/29/">The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</a> (1915) quotes Josephus saying lumps of asphalt as big as an ox were common in his day. But by the 19th century, big asphalt seepages from the lake bottom were rare, coinciding with earthquakes, though lake dwellers still knew to harvest and sell the releases. Today the last remains are only pebble-sized.<br />
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In all, the library released 39 digitizations in the past week. My list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.813" target="_blank">Barb.lat.813</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.4400" target="_blank">Barb.lat.4400</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lat.577" target="_blank">Ott.lat.577</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IamNotAPaleographer?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IamNotAPaleographer</a> but... I think this MS might be German (Ott lat 577 f.3v)<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/medievaltwitter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#medievaltwitter</a> <br>(h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a>) <a href="https://t.co/Cc85NLSwrR">pic.twitter.com/Cc85NLSwrR</a></p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1132463423160238080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.49" target="_blank">Ross.49</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.125.pt.1" target="_blank">Ross.125.pt.1</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.126.pt.1" target="_blank">Ross.126.pt.1</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ross 126 - Breviary, Fransiscan<br>Ross 157 - Glossed Bible, starts at Romans, (12th c?)<br>Vat lat 4756 - Notated Office for the Cathedral of Chartres, the only surviving witness (see Fassler, M)</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1132462014993977345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.157" target="_blank">Ross.157</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.286" target="_blank">Ross.286</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1301" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1301</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2538" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2538</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2541" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2541</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4720" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4720</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4756" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4756</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4818" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4818</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4821" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4821</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4822" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4822</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4824" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4824</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4826" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4826</a>, a mathematics manuscript datable to 1450, by Iacobus de Florentia. See <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10214">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4829" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4829</a>, mathematics anthology in Italian, dated 1480, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10217">Jordanus</a>. The word algorithm was established in the West by this time: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Also tons of squiggly sums:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4832" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4832</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4856" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4856</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4884" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4884</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4885" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4885</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4892" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4892</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4893" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4893</a> (Upgraded to HQ), a decretum</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4907" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4907</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4919" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4919</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4923" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4923</a>, here, the small strips used for strengthening the binding formed part of the same manuscript of Gregory as is found in Vat.lat.4918 (Lowe):<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nice, 12th-century Beneventan</p>— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) <a href="https://twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/status/1132345812724281345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4926" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4926</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4927" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4927</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4930" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4930</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4935" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4935</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4941" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4941</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4947" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4947</a> (Upgraded to HQ), the <i>Cartulary of the Chapter of the Holy Sepulchre </i>(above, also discussed in a <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2017/02/crusader-kingdom.html">blog post two years ago</a>).</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4956.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4956.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4956.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4956.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4957" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4957</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4959" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4959</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.pers.31" target="_blank">Vat.pers.31</a>, </li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 210. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.<br />
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Nissenbaum, Arie (1978). 'Dead Sea Asphalts — Historical Aspects', <i>Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists</i>, 62, 837–44. <a href="http://archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1977-79/data/pg/0062/0005/0800/0837.htm?doi=10.1306%2FC1EA4E5F-16C9-11D7-8645000102C1865D">Online</a></div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-67576360126427291542019-05-18T17:55:00.002+02:002019-05-20T15:35:45.554+02:00Crusader Elite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2017/02/crusader-kingdom.html">post</a> two years ago highlighted records in the Vatican Library illuminating the doomed attempt to establish a Christian kingdom in Palestine after the Crusades, the finale of a conflict many Muslims angrily remember to this day.<br />
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One of those manuscripts is a book of genealogies containing the <i>Lignages d'Outremer</i>, a French-language compilation describing the leading settler families and their descents. This week that work, at folios 276-296 of <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4789">Vat.lat.4789</a>, has been re-released in high resolution and full color after only a microfilm in black and white had been available.<br />
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<a href="https://www.arlima.net/il/lignages_doutremer.html">Arlima</a> informs us this is the second recension of the <i>Lignages</i>. For a quick introduction to its scope, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignages_d%27Outremer">Wikipedia</a>.</div>
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In all, 39 manuscripts arrived online over the past week. My list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.960.pt.A" target="_blank">Reg.lat.960.pt.A</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.2121" target="_blank">Reg.lat.2121</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.50" target="_blank">Ross.50</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.107" target="_blank">Ross.107</a> (Upgraded to HQ), book of hours, see tweet below </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.116" target="_blank">Ross.116</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.117" target="_blank">Ross.117</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="it" dir="ltr">Ross .117 - Benedictine Breviary w/ calendar, c. 1300 (per Baroffio)<br>Ross .107 - Parisian BoH, late (c. 1500?)</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1130457109580140544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.131" target="_blank">Ross.131</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.142" target="_blank">Ross.142</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.266" target="_blank">Ross.266</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Sbath.243" target="_blank">Sbath.243</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1622" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1622</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.estr.or.127" target="_blank">Vat.estr.or.127</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.estr.or.41.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.estr.or.41.pt.A</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2514" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2514</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2516" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2516</a>, in which Dominique Gatté discovers a depiction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_de_Fauvel">Fauvel</a>, a fictitious horse which rises to prominence in the French royal court, and is here depicted in a royal crown: <br />Merci <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a> pour la nouvelle liste !<a href="https://t.co/CGMBOijGdD">https://t.co/CGMBOijGdD</a><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
— MusicologieMédiévale (@MusicologieMdiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/MusicologieMdiv/status/1129807586788892672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2519" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2519</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2521" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2521</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2530" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2530</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2531" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2531</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3493" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3493</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4688" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4688</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4698" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4698</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4700" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4700</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4705" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4705</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4760.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4760.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4789" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4789</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <i>Lignages d'Outremer</i> (above)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4811" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4811</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4828" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4828</a>, a compilation of merchant arithmetic from 1453 in Italian and Latin. See <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10216">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4844" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4844</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4855" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4855</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4864" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4864</a>, works by Albertus Magnus on alchemy and other scientific topics, see <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4873" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4873</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4888" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4888</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4898" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4898</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.13489.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.13489.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.13489.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.13489.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.14402.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.lat.14402.pt.A</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.15344" target="_blank">Vat.lat.15344</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.turc.373" target="_blank">Vat.turc.373</a>, </li>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-64377620631081546142019-05-11T14:33:00.002+02:002019-05-15T16:16:10.747+02:00Rosy-cheeked bishop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the Vatican's finest manuscripts of the Decretrum Gratiani, a great collection of laws, has just been digitized. The high resolution lets you zoom in close to figures like this rosy-cheeked bishop:<br />
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Here's a king from the copious initials, and I wondered if the gold-blue-red tiles were a throne, and got a reply from @GlossaeIuris:<br />
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To me it looks certainly like a king on his throne! Maria Alessandra Bilotta (<a href="https://twitter.com/ManuscritsMidi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ManuscritsMidi</a>) has studied this manuscript, her 2014 article is available online in the Ascheri Festschrift, <a href="https://t.co/ZJ97ww0mot">https://t.co/ZJ97ww0mot</a></div>
— GlossaeIuris (@GlossaeIuris) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlossaeIuris/status/1128633887314280449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This 14th century codex from Toulouse is made up of 404 folios and contains the commentary of Bartholomew of Brixen in the margins. <a href="http://sip.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manuscript/168344">Mirabile</a> has details on its former owners.<br />
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My full list of new digitizations:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Chig.A.VIII.231" target="_blank">Chig.A.VIII.231</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.130" target="_blank">Ross.130</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.581" target="_blank">Urb.lat.581</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1029.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1029.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.estr.or.124" target="_blank">Vat.estr.or.124</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2493" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2493</a>, Decretum Gratiani (above)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2523" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2523</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3557" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3557</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4638" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4638</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4719" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4719</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4721" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4721</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4748.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4748.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4786" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4786</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Petrarch's <i>Trionfi</i>?</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4797" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4797</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4802" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4802</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4812" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4812</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4814" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4814</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4835" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4835</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4836" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4836</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4840" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4840</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4845" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4845</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4852" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4852</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4853" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4853</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4854" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4854</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4858" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4858</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4862" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4862</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4865" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4865</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4867" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4867</a>, about magic, witchcraft and demons, among other subjects. See the entry on this codex in the <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a>; from the catalog, indications of Seneca here too</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4869" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4869</a>, </li>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-41501915755108639122019-05-04T17:29:00.003+02:002019-05-04T18:33:28.337+02:00Fortuna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The fortunes of some manuscripts take them to the very brink of destruction, as we see with a Neapolitan part-bible, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.8183" target="_blank">Vat.lat.8183</a>, digitized in the past week by the Vatican Library.<br />
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The miniaturist is believed to have been Matteo Planisio. This codex containing Prophets and Psalms once contained gorgeous colourful 14th-century miniatures, but many were snipped out by a "collector". Check it out, because the vandal did not get them all.<br />
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This week 26 manuscripts were scanned and put online for all the world to enjoy. My list:
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.118" target="_blank">Ross.118</a> (Upgraded to HQ), an exquisite book of hours in mint condition <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.301" target="_blank">Ross.301</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2650" target="_blank">Vat.gr.2650</a>, from Byzantine southern Italy, a copy of a seventh-century legal deed</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2399" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2399</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2400" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2400</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2482" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2482</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Avicenna, Eugubinus de Montecatino, Albertus Magnus and Petrus de Abano in a 300-folio, mainly medical anthology from the 15th century: see <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a>. There's a librarian's handy table of contents at the front.</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2503" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2503</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2505" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2505</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2513" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2513</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3500" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3500</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4710" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4710</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4711" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4711</a> (Upgraded to HQ), with an Aristotle commentary</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4760.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4760.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4764" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4764</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4791" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4791</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4792" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4792</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4813" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4813</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4816" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4816</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4837" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4837</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4841" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4841</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4842" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4842</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4846" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4846</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dedication of the 'Bonum universale de apibus' to Humbertus of Romans, head of the Dominican Order, by the author Thomas of Cantimpré, 'frater humilis cuius nomen ad presens non urget necessitas nominari.' H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a> <a href="https://t.co/MZWmHEDt8t">https://t.co/MZWmHEDt8t</a> <a href="https://t.co/3j86gPS2bZ">pic.twitter.com/3j86gPS2bZ</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1124710340665724928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4848" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4848</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4860" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4860</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4871" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4871</a> (Upgraded to HQ), philosophical, with a text by Franciscus de Marchia on univocal concepts</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.8183" target="_blank">Vat.lat.8183</a>, Italian part bible which begins with Isaiah (above)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-72909876861760018232019-04-27T20:32:00.002+02:002019-05-18T18:00:22.012+02:00At Full Tilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Among the well-loved old books digitized in the past week by the Vatican Library is a missale plenum of the late 10th or early 11th century from somewhere in central Italy.<br />
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<a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4770" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4770</a> provided a bishop, or abbot or senior priest with liturgical rites for most occasions including for dedication of a church. Although it has a loose appearance, it is well planned in layout, with space set aside for initials and the text spaced where required for the necessary musical notation:<br />
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It has one particular curiosity: a sudden change in script from the ordinary Carolingian minuscule of the period to Beneventan in a passage over the turn at fols. 216r-216v. Presumably the scribe knew both, and was deft enough to swap script and revert while working at full tilt.<br />
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Dominique Gatté has written <a href="http://gregorian-chant.ning.com/group/les-neumes/forum/topics/un-missel-note-du-centre-de-l-italie-du-debut-xie-siecle">a detailed post</a> about the manuscript.<br />
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Here is the full unofficial list of 42 new releases:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.88" target="_blank">Ross.88</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.312" target="_blank">Ross.312</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.404" target="_blank">Ross.404</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.406" target="_blank">Ross.406</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.408" target="_blank">Ross.408</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.409" target="_blank">Ross.409</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.412" target="_blank">Ross.412</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.414" target="_blank">Ross.414</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.415" target="_blank">Ross.415</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.416" target="_blank">Ross.416</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.417" target="_blank">Ross.417</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.419" target="_blank">Ross.419</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.420" target="_blank">Ross.420</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.749" target="_blank">Urb.lat.749</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.838" target="_blank">Urb.lat.838</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1114.pt.3" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1114.pt.3</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1352" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1352</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1453" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1453</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1499" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1499</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1620" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1620</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1657" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1657</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2506" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2506</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2512" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2512</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3464" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3464</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3506" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3506</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3508" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3508</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4672" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4672</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4702" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4702</a> (Upgraded to HQ), 16th-century commentary on Aristotle?</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4745" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4745</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4748.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4748.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4750" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4750</a> (Upgraded to HQ), church music, high medieval <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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As per Baroffio, vat lat 4750 is a 12th C (middle) processional, possibly from Ravenna</div>
— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1122600714189070337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4770" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4770</a>, missale plenum (see above)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4774" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4774</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4783" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4783</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4785" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4785</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4793" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4793</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4799" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4799</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4801" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4801</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Spanish</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4804" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4804</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4805" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4805</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4815" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4815</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.7597" target="_blank">Vat.lat.7597</a>, pontificale</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 206. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-52786768480254476182019-04-23T19:16:00.002+02:002019-04-27T20:44:32.842+02:00Holy Mountain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the many curious features of the Tabula Peutingeriana is a depiction of Monte Tifata, a holy mountain in Campania, Italy. Tifata is a strong point, a ridge 600 metres high with steep slopes. From the top you get a view both ways along the Via Appia, and also to Vesuvius to the south and the River Volturno below (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Corryx&action=edit&redlink=1">Corryx</a>, Wikipedia, 2016).<br />
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The Tabula depicts <i>Tifata Mons</i> with two notable temples and a sacred spring:</div>
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From left to right (west to east) these places are the Baths of Sulla, a Temple of Diana (Diana Tifatina) and a Temple of Jove (Iovis Tifatinus). The whole drawing seems to be fairly accurate, as it is now accepted that the temple to Diana was at the western foot of the mountain and its stone is probably incorporated within the walls of the splendid Benedictine basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis. Note how the temple at right seems to be drawn in a perspective suggesting it is on a height.</div>
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Stefania Quilici Gigli hypothesizes that the Baths of Sulla were close by. Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 138 BC – 78 BC) had won a victory at Caio Norbano near here on his 83 BC March on Rome. The Roman historian Velleius states that Sulla made a foundation of land and waters here to celebrate this, reading thus in the <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#25">Shipley translation</a>: </div>
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It was while Sulla was ascending Mount Tifata that he had encountered Gaius Norbanus. After his victory over him he paid a vow of gratitude to Diana, to whom that region is sacred, and consecrated to the goddess the waters renowned for their salubrity and water to heal, as well as all the lands in the vicinity. The record of this pleasing act of piety is witnessed to this day by an inscription on the door of the temple, and a bronze tablet within the edifice. </blockquote>
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This does not explicitly say there were baths, but <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/stefaniagigli">Stefania Quilici Gigli</a> <a href="https://www.academia.edu/14917165/Il_Monte_Tifata_in_Lungo_lAppia_">thinks </a>nearby land-marker inscriptions of a later period refer to this land use and both custom and the Tabula would indicate the “waters” were utilized as baths. The purpose of bathing would have been healing rather than play.</div>
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The temple of Jove is thought to have been at the summit, near today’s illuminated cross, the Croce del Tifata:<br />
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A hiking trail to this is shown on an <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sentieritifatini/san-leucio---monte-tifata">Italian trails site, Sentieri dei Colli Tifatini</a>.<br />
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Knowing all this, the illustrations in the Tabula are most interesting. The two pictures of temples are of a type, but with different fronts. One (Diana) shows a rose window in the front, the other (Jove) shows a high doorway, and I realize after seeing a picture of Sant'Angelo that this probably represents an arch added at the front:<br />
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The third image shows an expansive building of two storeys with a tower and a similar arched entrance at left. The usual Tabula icon for a baths lacks such a tower, so perhaps the extra element is a distinctive feature of the Tifata site.<br />
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As I note above, I am sceptical of the view (forever associated with the Levis) that baths on the Tabula denote places of recreation. I suggest the primary connotation of such buildings for pre-Christian readers was as ritual sites, and thus the focus would be on the magic rather than the purely pleasurable quality of the waters.</div>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-76151521777184169692019-04-21T18:25:00.000+02:002019-04-23T19:25:25.142+02:00Easter List<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here we have the 24 Easter releases from the Vatican Library's digital portal:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.398" target="_blank">Ross.398</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.425" target="_blank">Ross.425</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1292" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1292</a>, commentary on Aristotle</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1500" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1500</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1505" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1505</a>, life of Andres Avelino of Basilicata</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1621" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1621</a>, printed newsletters, 1641-43</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1762" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1762</a>, <strike>missal </strike><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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I disagree on your ID of urb lat 1762, it's a Book of Hours, missing the calendar (probably) and the beginning of the Hours of the virgin, it begins part way through Matins for the Hours of the BVM</div>
— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1120066454794199042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2345" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2345</a>, legal, Egidius de Bellamera</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2509" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2509</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Compilation 1 with Apparatus of Tancred [original version] (1-93); Compilation 2 with Apparatus of Tancred [original version] (94-139); Compilation 3 [French rec.] with Apparatus of Tancred [final version] (140-275v); Compilation 4 with Apparatus of Johannes Teutonicus (276-310) (from the list of Brendan McManus).</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2515" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2515</a>, Digest of Justinian, with commentary</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3431" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3431</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3482" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3482</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4703" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4703</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4715" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4715</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4730" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4730</a>, pontifical</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4732" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4732</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4736" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4736</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4737" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4737</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4740" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4740</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4752.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4752.pt.1</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vat lat <a href="https://t.co/dpNMXXWMQ7">https://t.co/dpNMXXWMQ7</a>.1 - first 1/2 of a Franciscan Breviary</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1120126035079630848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4784" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4784</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Petrarch</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4787" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4787</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Florentine poetry</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4921" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4921</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.7594" target="_blank">Vat.lat.7594</a>, pontifical mass</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 205. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-12827893088333673222019-04-13T20:23:00.002+02:002019-04-14T10:37:31.633+02:00Martellus draws Ptolemy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A de luxe Renaissance atlas containing Ptolemy's Geography in Latin translation has just shown up online. The maps are as beautiful as any from the period. Here's Cyprus, Palestine and Syria:<br />
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These hand-drawn illuminations are believed to be the earliest surviving maps from the cartographer Heinrich Martellus Germanus and although the manuscript is not explicitly dated, are thought to have been drawn in 1480 in Florence. The Latin translation is by Iacopo d'Angelo da Scarperia.<br />
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The codex dates from the period when the West was rediscovering the 2nd-century scientist Ptolemy. <br />
Curiously, Ptolemy's work had impressed his contemporaries with its detail, but failed to trigger any cartographical revolution at the time, perhaps because his ideas were too difficult for antique or late antique students to fully grasp. My <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38754306/Map_Orientation_in_the_World_of_the_Tabula_Peutingeriana">forthcoming paper</a> in Amsterdam in July will be touching on that topic.<br />
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In all, 41 manuscripts came online over the past week at the Vatican Library. Here is the full list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.62" target="_blank">Barb.lat.62</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.115" target="_blank">Ross.115</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.299" target="_blank">Ross.299</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.307" target="_blank">Ross.307</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Decretum</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.308" target="_blank">Ross.308</a>, Decretum</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.317" target="_blank">Ross.317</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.339" target="_blank">Ross.339</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.366" target="_blank">Ross.366</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.373" target="_blank">Ross.373</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.375" target="_blank">Ross.375</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.381" target="_blank">Ross.381</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.382" target="_blank">Ross.382</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.383" target="_blank">Ross.383</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.387" target="_blank">Ross.387</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.397" target="_blank">Ross.397</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.423" target="_blank">Ross.423</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1291" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1291</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1522" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1522</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1577" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1577</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1685.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1685.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1685.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1685.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2475" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2475</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2489" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2489</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4114" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4114</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4665" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4665</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4694" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4694</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4699" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4699</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4716" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4716</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4717" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4717</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4724" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4724</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4728" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4728</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4731" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4731</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4739" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4739</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4744" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4744</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4746" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4746</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4757" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4757</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4763" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4763</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC">https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC</a>.4763 is digitized! It's an extremely early Book of Hours, probably mid 13th C, and of German origin. There are both obits in the calendar and vernacular prayers towards the back</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1117245846960128000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4768" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4768</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4771" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4771</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4773" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4773</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.7289" target="_blank">Vat.lat.7289</a>, beautiful Renaissance codex, Latin translation of Ptolemy's <i>Geography</i>, see above</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 204. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-22697140502581292362019-04-06T22:38:00.001+02:002019-04-08T11:18:46.379+02:00Illuminations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the past week, 60 Vatican manuscripts arrived online, many of them with fine illuminated initials. Here is my unofficial list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.127" target="_blank">Ross.127</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.297" target="_blank">Ross.297</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ross.297 - A couple of Beneventan fragments, including one with music<a href="https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC">https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC</a>.12946.A - diagrams of the Farnese Planisphere clock, 18th C</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1115046027130699776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.298" target="_blank">Ross.298</a> (Upgraded to HQ), music manuscript, Dominican liturgy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.315" target="_blank">Ross.315</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.318" target="_blank">Ross.318</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.319" target="_blank">Ross.319</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.320" target="_blank">Ross.320</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.329" target="_blank">Ross.329</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.347" target="_blank">Ross.347</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.354" target="_blank">Ross.354</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.391" target="_blank">Ross.391</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.392" target="_blank">Ross.392</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.394" target="_blank">Ross.394</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.395" target="_blank">Ross.395</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.396" target="_blank">Ross.396</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.498.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.498.pt.2</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.610" target="_blank">Urb.lat.610</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.895" target="_blank">Urb.lat.895</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.968" target="_blank">Urb.lat.968</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1099.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1099.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1224" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1224</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1232" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1232</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1257" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1257</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1259" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1259</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1332" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1332</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1334" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1334</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1373" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1373</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1382" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1382</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1511" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1511</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1653" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1653</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1660" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1660</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1662" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1662</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1758" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1758</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.estr.or.35" target="_blank">Vat.estr.or.35</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2421.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.gr.2421.pt.A</a> (Upgraded to HQ), charter</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2440.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.gr.2440.pt.A</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2442.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.gr.2442.pt.A</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2458.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.gr.2458.pt.A</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2464" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2464</a>, Jacobus de Forlivio, commentary on Hippocrates, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10061">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4238" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4238</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4649" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4649</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4683" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4683</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4686" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4686</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4691" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4691</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4701" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4701</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4734" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4734</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4741" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4741</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4742" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4742</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4743" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4743</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4752.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4752.pt.2</a>, Franciscan breviary, 15th century, with this fine miniature of the Presentation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4753" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4753</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4762" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4762</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4769" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4769</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4778" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4778</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.9820.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.lat.9820.pt.A</a>, notes by H. M. Bannister on the condition of an exultet roll, 10th century or a little later. The roll itself, pt.B presumably, does not yet seem to be online</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.12936" target="_blank">Vat.lat.12936</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.12946.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.lat.12946.pt.A</a>, @gundormr (above) flags this as containing diagrams of the Farnese planisphere clock, 18th century</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.12946.pt.B" target="_blank">Vat.lat.12946.pt.B</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.13118" target="_blank">Vat.lat.13118</a>, bundle of charters, some Greek?</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.13488.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.13488.pt.1</a>, scraps and charters</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 203. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-61798556180129962472019-03-31T19:04:00.001+02:002019-04-08T14:35:43.410+02:00Decretals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Three legal books with fine Renaissance illumination are among stars of this week's release of digitized codices at the Vatican Library. Here is the full list of 40 items:
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.99" target="_blank">Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIII.fasc.99</a>, codex with parallel texts in Greek and Arabic of propetical books</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.241" target="_blank">Ross.241</a>, Augustine</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.335" target="_blank">Ross.335</a>,<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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Ross 335 starts with Tibullus</div>
— Just As It Was (@noah_nonsense) <a href="https://twitter.com/noah_nonsense/status/1112402060354510849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.336" target="_blank">Ross.336</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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Ross 336 starts with Latin translation of Lucian, de Amicitia.</div>
— Just As It Was (@noah_nonsense) <a href="https://twitter.com/noah_nonsense/status/1112417887136944129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.775" target="_blank">Urb.lat.775</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.929" target="_blank">Urb.lat.929</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1029.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1029.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1098.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1098.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1099.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1099.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1129" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1129</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1131" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1131</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1133" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1133</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1161" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1161</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1188" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1188</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1509.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1509.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1509.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1509.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1667" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1667</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1668" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1668</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1669" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1669</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1670" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1670</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1672" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1672</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1673" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1673</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1674" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1674</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1760" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1760</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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<a href="https://t.co/0UMwJBejV6">https://t.co/0UMwJBejV6</a>.1760 appears to be an album of marbled papers</div>
— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1113451129260711937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2443" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2443</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2491" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2491</a>, Decretals
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medievalilluminators</b> retweeted: <span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "segoe ui" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many thanks! I have been waiting for this Decretum for a long time! </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jf_illuminator/status/1113342206914510851">https://twitter.com/jf_illuminator/status/1113342206914510851</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2499" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2499</a>, Decretals, note illuminations</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2502" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2502</a>, Decretals</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4647" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4647</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4668" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4668</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4697" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4697</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4706" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4706</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4707" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4707</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4712" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4712</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4714" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4714</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4727" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4727</a>, ceremonial, after 1415</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4729" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4729</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4733" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4733</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4735" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4735</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4747" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4747</a>, missal, illuminated initials</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 202. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-35841948478587455962019-03-23T23:20:00.000+01:002019-03-24T18:32:02.517+01:00His Master's Voice?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For centuries, the <i>Treatise on Painting</i> attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) has been regarded as the greatest book on technique in the history of western art. It was compiled posthumously by Leonardo’s faithful pupil Francesco Melzi from the master's notes and drawings.<br />
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Melzi's 1540 compilation was not published until 1651, and then only in an abbreviated version with illustrations by Nicholas Poussin. The full Melzi compilation was published for the first time by Guglielmo Manzi in Rome in 1817. In the 200 years since, Leonardo scholars have compared the text with what remains of Leonardo's own notes and contended that it does not reflect Leonardo's views accurately.</div>
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The manuscript at the center of this controversy about authenticity is in the Vatican Library. <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1270" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1270</a> has just been digitized in color after only being online in black and white.</div>
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Read it to see how Melzi put the book together. One of the mysteries is how this text even survived. There is no documentation of the Melzi manuscript's whereabouts until 1626. Francesca Fiorani has compiled a whole <a href="http://www.treatiseonpainting.org/cocoon/leonardo/mssFront/vu">website</a> about the treatise and its turbulent and troubled history.</div>
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Last week 29 manuscripts were brought online by the library in Rome. My list:</div>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.778" target="_blank">Urb.lat.778</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.801" target="_blank">Urb.lat.801</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.985" target="_blank">Urb.lat.985</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1098.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1098.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1209" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1209</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1212" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1212</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1215.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1215.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1270" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1270</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Melzi's original 1540 compilation of Leonardo's da Vinci's treatise on painting (above)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1450" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1450</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1523" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1523</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1556" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1556</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1594.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1594.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1650" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1650</a> (Upgraded to HQ): records of the conclave which elected Pope Innocent X</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1659" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1659</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1665" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1665</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1666" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1666</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2497" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2497</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3975" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3975</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4646" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4646</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4654.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4654.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4677" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4677</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4679" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4679</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4681" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4681</a> (Upgraded to HQ), a Renaissance manuscript of Caesar's <i>Gallic War</i>, with this curious initial where the rump of Caesar's horse is adorned with a very Germanic double-headed eagle: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4682" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4682</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4684" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4684</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4693" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4693</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">From <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a>'s list of new MSS <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a>: Ludovicus Buccaferreus (1482-1545) from Bologna, devoted commentator of Aristotle. Copies of his work on book II of De celo & book III of the Physica.<a href="https://t.co/0J9QBlygbO">https://t.co/0J9QBlygbO</a><a href="https://t.co/tifEX09wPZ">https://t.co/tifEX09wPZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/y4z4dSl51c">pic.twitter.com/y4z4dSl51c</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1109843659598544896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4695" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4695</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4696" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4696</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.turc.30" target="_blank">Vat.turc.30</a>, </li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 201. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-28905535552168739052019-03-16T19:14:00.000+01:002019-03-18T15:29:49.882+01:00Let's Keep Going<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is number 200 in a series of blog posts known as "Piggin's Unofficial Lists". The idea from the beginning was to pass on the news when I saw that some of the Vatican Library's most famous manuscripts had arrived online. There is no official list of weekly releases, so software help was needed for a mere user to detect changes in the published index of available manuscripts.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr">@gundormr</a> has kindly provide the software to pick the changes and I compare these with a hand-list of 2,500 notable manuscripts which I drew up. With time, there are naturally fewer unfound items on that list (currently down to 1,600), since most of the very old and the very famous manuscripts are by now already up on the web for the whole world to read. The librarians fast-forwarded their greatest treasures into the digitization process.<br />
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My cancer is continuing its ravages (and so is the cut-poison-burn protocol used to fight it) and my health will soon undoubtedly decline to the point where Piggin's Unofficial Lists cannot go on.<br />
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But not just yet please! We are still waiting for some notable Vatican releases including William of Moerbeke's holograph Latin translation of Archimedes, Ott.lat.1850, and the Vatican Beatus, Vat.lat.7621. And I have talks to deliver at the <a href="https://ichc2019.amsterdam/">International Conference on the History of Cartography</a> in Amsterdam in July and <a href="https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-39026">Die Tabula Peutingeriana: Aktuelle Forschungsansätze und neue Ergebnisse</a> in Vienna in September.<br />
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Four years ago, <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-this-worlds-oldest-bound-book.html">the first PUL issue, <i>Is This the World's Oldest Bound Book?</i></a> noted there were 1,626 manuscripts online by then. Today there are 17,413, more than ten times as many, but still only about one fifth of the amazing manuscript holdings at the Vatican.<br />
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Sometimes, when I look through the releases now, it is a challenge to find any codex in the weekly crop that is worth describing in words of excitement. It is pleasing that <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana">@DigitaVaticana</a> has been issuing more frequent <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash">#LatestDigitizedManuscript</a>s tweets recently, but PUL will keep appearing for a while yet.<br />
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Here is this week's list of 54 items:
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.300" target="_blank">Barb.gr.300</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.446" target="_blank">Barb.gr.446</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.471" target="_blank">Barb.gr.471</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.565.pt.1" target="_blank">Barb.gr.565.pt.1</a>, lectionary (Evangelistarion) Gregory-Aland ℓ 134 of the 13th century, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_lectionaries">Wikipedia</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.565.pt.2" target="_blank">Barb.gr.565.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.579" target="_blank">Barb.gr.579</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.593" target="_blank">Barb.gr.593</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.33" target="_blank">Barb.lat.33</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Borg.copt.109.fasc.24" target="_blank">Borg.copt.109.fasc.24</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.87" target="_blank">Ross.87</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="it" dir="ltr">Ross.87 - Augustinian Brevary, 3/4 15th C, Novara (Per Baroffio)</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1107451304207679489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.237" target="_blank">Ross.237</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.563" target="_blank">Urb.lat.563</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.606" target="_blank">Urb.lat.606</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.619" target="_blank">Urb.lat.619</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.905" target="_blank">Urb.lat.905</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.967" target="_blank">Urb.lat.967</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1288" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1288</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1464.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1464.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1481.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1481.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1481.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1481.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1515" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1515</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1527" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1527</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1535" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1535</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1537" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1537</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1594.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1594.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1651" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1651</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1654" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1654</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1658" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1658</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.estr.or.57" target="_blank">Vat.estr.or.57</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2485" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2485</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2490" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2490</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3364" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3364</a>, a book of draft papal letters scribed (and full of scratchings and amendments) by papal secretary Pietro Bembo: <i>Epistulae nomine Leonis X scriptae</i> (letters written for Leo X), When this was shown in the <a href="http://libguides.slu.edu/c.php?g=185813&p=1228294">Rome Reborn</a> exhibition, Anthony Grafton noted: "Bembo's autograph letters ... provide a good sample of "chancery italic," a script developed by Roman humanists in the late fifteenth century from the humanist cursive minuscule invented by the Florentine humanist Niccolo Niccoli in the 1420s." Today's lovely typeface Bembo is named after Pietro, but not because of his handwriting. Rather, the typographers' inspiration was a book of Pietro Bembo's verse in a font cut in 1495 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Griffo">Francesco Griffo</a> for Venetian printer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius">Aldus Manutius</a>.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4046" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4046</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4186" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4186</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4192" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4192</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4194" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4194</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4472" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4472</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4591" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4591</a>, see also in <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10207">Jordanus </a><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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New <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a>: <br />
Walter Burley's Expositio on Aristotle's Physica (version II). <br />
"Completus est iste liber per me fratrem Gabrielem de Papia", anno Domini 1411.<a href="https://t.co/7RUDc9khqU">https://t.co/7RUDc9khqU</a><a href="https://t.co/Nslkq8IXIg">https://t.co/Nslkq8IXIg</a> <a href="https://t.co/G0o8oi3wme">pic.twitter.com/G0o8oi3wme</a></div>
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1106138247904837632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4592" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4592</a>, Ptolemaic astronomical tables for emperor Frederick III, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10208">Jordanus</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4635" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4635</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4648" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4648</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4656" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4656</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4657" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4657</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4664" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4664</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4670" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4670</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4675" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4675</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4676" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4676</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4687" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4687</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4690" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4690</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4692" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4692</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4704" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4704</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5604" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5604</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.13488.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.13488.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.14740" target="_blank">Vat.lat.14740</a>, </li>
</ol>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-68969766622253605742019-03-09T18:34:00.001+01:002019-03-18T15:33:51.588+01:00Wire Diagram<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Three dimensional diagrams provided one of the greatest challenges for medieval scriptoria. We all know how hard it sometimes can be to "get" a wire diagram which lacks context and perspective. Are we looking at the front or back? Isidore of Seville passed on a diagram of the Platonic theory of the four elements which seems not to be correctly reproduced in any medieval manuscript.<br />
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John Murdoch's Album of Science, section 247, explains that the diagram in <i>De natura rerum</i> was meant to show a cube (<i>cybus</i>) with the note: <i>haec figura solida est secundum geometricam rationem</i>. But in <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.247" target="_blank">Ross.247</a>, a Vatican manuscript just updated online to full color, it becomes quite weird.<br />
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The scribes decided the best way to present a diagram of elements was to present it as the whole of matter, hence the diagonal which a label tells us is the north-south axis of the universe. Go figure. This codex, believed to be the work of monks of the Benedictine abbey of Monastier-Saint-Chaffre in central France in around 1020, is packed with fine colored diagrams.<br />
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It is one of 30 items new online in the past week at the Vatican Library digital portal. My full list:<br />
<ol>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.98" target="_blank">Ross.98</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Three Italian Books of Hours!<br>* Ross.98 - c. 1550 per Baroffio<br>* Ross.99 - Florence Humanist c. 1450 gold/silver on purple. Probably not Sanvito, but style-of<br>* Ross.110 - 15th C Naples per Baroffio</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1104533798836936704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.99" target="_blank">Ross.99</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.110" target="_blank">Ross.110</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.247" target="_blank">Ross.247</a> (Upgraded to HQ), (above)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.287" target="_blank">Ross.287</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.178" target="_blank">Urb.lat.178</a>, containing the <i>compilatio prima</i> of canon law by Bernard of Pavia and the <i>compilatio secunda</i> of John of Wales: <a href="http://faculty.bemidjistate.edu/bmcmanus/Research/lawmss_t-va.html">McManus List</a>: Comp. 1 w/Apparatus of Tancred [original version] (1-77v); Comp. 2 w/Apparatus of Tancred [original version] (78-117)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.568" target="_blank">Urb.lat.568</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.599.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.599.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.604" target="_blank">Urb.lat.604</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1114.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1114.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1114.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1114.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1285" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1285</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1286" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1286</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1287" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1287</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1289" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1289</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1444" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1444</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1464.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1464.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1536" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1536</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1541" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1541</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1566" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1566</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2487" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2487</a>, 11 entries in <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> relating to astronomy, science and Avicenna; flyleaf lists contents <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3903" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3903</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4110" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4110</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4297" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4297</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4372.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4372.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4372.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4372.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4598" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4598</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4639" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4639</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4659" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4659</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4678" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4678</a>, </li>
</ol>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-12777165436940503772019-03-02T18:51:00.002+01:002019-03-18T15:52:00.088+01:00Got Birds?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
An Italian, Teseo Pini, wrote between 1484 and 1486 a book claiming to expose the tricks practised by organized beggars of various types. From what we know, there was fierce competition on the streets of Renaissance Europe for the attention of charity givers. Among the players were not just panhandlers and scammers, but also Franciscan friars and unemployed university graduates.<br />
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Pini's book, <i>De Ceretanorum Origine Eorumque Fallaciis</i>, became something of a best-seller and the Vatican Library has just digitized a late copy, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1217" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1217</a>. It describes about about 40 types of alleged "cerretani" (charlatans, impostors) and their Italian jargon (instead of the Mafia term <i>capo</i>, they said <i>imperatore </i>for the boss of a gang, fol. 64r).<br />
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From <a href="https://books.google.de/books?id=RTUugDNpMzYC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235">Roberto Rusconi</a> I read that one group, the Acconi, carried round images painted on wood of a boy, Simon of Trent, allegedly murdered by Jews. They sang anti-Jewish songs and hymns to the Virgin Mary. When the punters fell for this (usually when coming out of church) and the take in donations was good, the Acconi's Italian phrase for success translated as: "We seized our birds."<br />
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In the past week, 18 manuscripts were digitized and put online. The full list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lat.2836" target="_blank">Ott.lat.2836</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.90" target="_blank">Ross.90</a>, book of hours? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.105" target="_blank">Ross.105</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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Ross.105 is another 15th C Book of Hours, probably Lombardy<br />Ross.90 is a German BoH according to Morello, 15th C, no other info</div>
— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1102308489899241472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.613" target="_blank">Urb.lat.613</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.977" target="_blank">Urb.lat.977</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1112" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1112</a> (Upgraded to HQ), dated 1648</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1118" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1118</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1217" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1217</a>, above<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Dai sedicenti medici ai falsi profeti, descrizione di circa 40 tipi di "cerretani" (ciarlatani, impostori) e delle loro frodi e inganni nel "De Ceretanorum Origine Eorumque Fallaciis” di Teseo Pini (c. 1484) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a>🧙🏻♂️🧞♂️ <a href="https://t.co/cdY3WXTEBQ">https://t.co/cdY3WXTEBQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/pLW4la8wTz">pic.twitter.com/pLW4la8wTz</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1100402011806195712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1231" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1231</a> (Upgraded to HQ), on fencing, sadly no illustrations.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Urb. Lat. 1231, early 1600s: Discorso del gioco di spada dell'Orafo di Cremona. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Italian?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Italian</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/manuscript?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#manuscript</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fencing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#fencing</a>: teachings on rapier, rapier and dagger, rapier and cloak, rapier and shield, additional teachings ⚔🤺⚔ <a href="https://t.co/psSQuCSGpm">https://t.co/psSQuCSGpm</a> <a href="https://t.co/2o86E1L0ud">pic.twitter.com/2o86E1L0ud</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1100730252991574016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1274" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1274</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1441" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1441</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1452" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1452</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4058" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4058</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4146" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4146</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4605" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4605</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4640" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4640</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4708" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4708</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4713" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4713</a>, </li>
</ol>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-13281994452791250462019-02-23T16:07:00.003+01:002019-02-25T14:52:42.960+01:00To Conquer a Castle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Whacko military techniques star in a codex, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1397" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1397</a>, just re-digitized in color at the Vatican Library, including a few hints about how to conquer a castle: drain its cisterns, blow it up from below with a barrel of gunpowder or sneak a platoon in by tunnel:<br />
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There is also a wonderful galley-ship you can dismantle and take anywhere by truck:<br />
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@DigitaVaticana says the artist is Siennese but otherwise anonymous. These illustrated handbooks of (easier said than done) military methods were a genre that began in late antiquity. Often the ideas were hand-me-downs from the past: rarely effective, but always delightful to dreamy inventors.<br />
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In the past week, 36 manuscripts were digitized in Rome. My unofficial full list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.2157" target="_blank">Barb.lat.2157</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lat.1261" target="_blank">Ott.lat.1261</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.103" target="_blank">Ross.103</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">
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Ross.103 - Florentine Book of Hours, 2nd half of 15th C</div>
— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1099508663860056064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.165" target="_blank">Ross.165</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.180" target="_blank">Ross.180</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Ross.180 (Missale Romanum, 14th cent.) among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> - <a href="https://t.co/XHZrHEf9cT">https://t.co/XHZrHEf9cT</a> <a href="https://t.co/8ZjFHnvQ50">pic.twitter.com/8ZjFHnvQ50</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1097928499891982336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.260" target="_blank">Ross.260</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.551" target="_blank">Urb.lat.551</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.552" target="_blank">Urb.lat.552</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.580" target="_blank">Urb.lat.580</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.853.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.853.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.970" target="_blank">Urb.lat.970</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.974" target="_blank">Urb.lat.974</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1038.pt.A" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1038.pt.A</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1126" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1126</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1213" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1213</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1227" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1227</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1349" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1349</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1397" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1397</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Eighty-four folios with spectacular <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/drawings?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#drawings</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/machines?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#machines</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/military?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#military</a> devices by an Anonymous Sienese Artist among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> 🏰⛲🛠🔩⚙⛓🧱⚔🛡🔗 <a href="https://t.co/SMSuEmFOud">https://t.co/SMSuEmFOud</a> <a href="https://t.co/Dj15vLZdpf">pic.twitter.com/Dj15vLZdpf</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1098651933227790336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1424" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1424</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1438" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1438</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1448" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1448</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1463.pt.A" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1463.pt.A</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.ebr.202" target="_blank">Vat.ebr.202</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2484" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2484</a> (Upgraded to HQ), eTK: Anticipans natus vel partus decem diebus a nono mense</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2486" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2486</a> (Upgraded to HQ), eTK: Dubitatur utrum diffinitio medicine sit bona et arguitur Haly et; Turisanus et alii quod non (15c)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3217" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3217</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3976" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3976</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4459" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4459</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4486" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4486</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Food, hygiene, activity and rest for the personal physical and mental well-being in the Tacuinum Sanitatis: medieval handbook on wellness, based on the 11th cent. Arab medical treatise by Elluchasem Elimithar🍉🧼☀🧘🏻♀️💕<a href="https://t.co/YA0qLr4AQP">https://t.co/YA0qLr4AQP</a> (14th c.) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> <a href="https://t.co/10cleM3h1D">pic.twitter.com/10cleM3h1D</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1098949218046304256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4596" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4596</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4608" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4608</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4609" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4609</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4611" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4611</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4614" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4614</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4627" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4627</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4637" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4637</a>, </li>
</ol>
This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 197. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-79989968823359216962019-02-16T13:27:00.001+01:002019-02-16T21:31:11.947+01:00Green Parrots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Around 1450, a talented young German painter showed up in Italy and got work as a miniaturist. We know him solely as Gioacchino di Giovanni, although he seems to have been born in Rottenburg an der Laaber, Bavaria (not Rothenburg ob der Tauber as claimed by the <a href="http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000032351">Grove Dictionary</a>).<br />
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He must have been a big fellow, as he also went by the name Gigantibus. He also evidently had a thing about green parrots (I'm not making this up). Here's one that flew into his work in ms. King's 2 at the British Library:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAySZC04yrw6oPhz2JBYs_qQQGH24Uy_UMmmOhK8SrRd0z-Sa6ogOYdvAh0eW9ZPHGrsC3RyQk5kUNlLnsDac0C6k1o4c7GqskGWSFU4poItu0HJUUbm9QbImJxtNJ57MlQ-jvUPsBd3o/s1600/parrot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="506" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAySZC04yrw6oPhz2JBYs_qQQGH24Uy_UMmmOhK8SrRd0z-Sa6ogOYdvAh0eW9ZPHGrsC3RyQk5kUNlLnsDac0C6k1o4c7GqskGWSFU4poItu0HJUUbm9QbImJxtNJ57MlQ-jvUPsBd3o/s320/parrot.png" width="320" /></a></div>
The Vatican Library has just digitized his work in a Nicholas de Lyra manuscript, and of course there is a signature green parrot in there:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOSmF3qdT-jP_NQ5Wg7MaQ0zjpz1nMzBG6r4RrEHCaklmvBrZti1veKbMUvDvxe1K8leW-QDmRAXpv73CflgWZJG_adm4KjqBfgCcJlhmbFuY0G60t5MlEAGaiyxkKB_qC01RJfAQWdE/s1600/lyraparrot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="506" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOSmF3qdT-jP_NQ5Wg7MaQ0zjpz1nMzBG6r4RrEHCaklmvBrZti1veKbMUvDvxe1K8leW-QDmRAXpv73CflgWZJG_adm4KjqBfgCcJlhmbFuY0G60t5MlEAGaiyxkKB_qC01RJfAQWdE/s320/lyraparrot.png" width="320" /></a></div>It's one of just six manuscripts digitized in the past week. The list:
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Chig.L.VI.210" target="_blank">Chig.L.VI.210</a>, an Italian translation of the <i>Treasury</i> of <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/112276">Brunetto Latini,</a> with several fine diagrams:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.125.pt.2" target="_blank">Ross.125.pt.2</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Breviary with this throne of heaven: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03fGdNwylsBQ75aoaLtnIy4vWKK5Gc54fVfCxjMkGfrbBlr0OamGGKAGaI10VqLViti9tRdGq1safQjEsxtJfRZgVXowYbhLh6Z4itjy6TP5T1F4wH1h7nQx11U6PyrbAi9qd-nMZVEM/s1600/heaven.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="506" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03fGdNwylsBQ75aoaLtnIy4vWKK5Gc54fVfCxjMkGfrbBlr0OamGGKAGaI10VqLViti9tRdGq1safQjEsxtJfRZgVXowYbhLh6Z4itjy6TP5T1F4wH1h7nQx11U6PyrbAi9qd-nMZVEM/s320/heaven.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1150" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1150</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have been indexing the Latin translation of Aristotle's Historia Animalium over the last six months, so kudos to the brave indexer of Quintilian - 70 pages remained blank, but I understand why he did not start a new project. H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a> <a href="https://t.co/DNpC09H2xu">https://t.co/DNpC09H2xu</a> <a href="https://t.co/V6qfglDZiB">pic.twitter.com/V6qfglDZiB</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1096820614432727040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2415" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2415</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4215" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4215</a>, Nicholas of Lyra: here is God making the trees:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJpa7MgivifZUAwAAwX0jUStOHbis_71IoboNz1SASDs5lbYl-Z3FKK08FqYtc97Jzkzibj044z49_dl68ZR3_u4o0LHxB1dQpC-MMjmOIGvalUB1FMUe9oWbhuCThi7RkR1m_bim-mM/s1600/trees.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="506" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJpa7MgivifZUAwAAwX0jUStOHbis_71IoboNz1SASDs5lbYl-Z3FKK08FqYtc97Jzkzibj044z49_dl68ZR3_u4o0LHxB1dQpC-MMjmOIGvalUB1FMUe9oWbhuCThi7RkR1m_bim-mM/s320/trees.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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Postilla super Biblia by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270 -1349) with amazing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/illuminations?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#illuminations</a> by Gioacchino di Giovanni (also known as Gigantibus or De Gigante, Rottenburg an der Laaber, 15th cent.) among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> - <a href="https://t.co/7hTAWF7EhB">https://t.co/7hTAWF7EhB</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/miniatures?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#miniatures</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/manuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#manuscripts</a> <a href="https://t.co/3Z8f7EtSy6">pic.twitter.com/3Z8f7EtSy6</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1095658642270048256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4650" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4650</a>, </li>
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<br />This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 196. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-86644748833283651082019-02-09T17:19:00.002+01:002019-02-09T17:38:19.487+01:00Herb Dictionary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Fabio Chigi collection's Greek Dioscorides, a stunning Renaissance copy of the most famous herbal reference of antiquity, is the star turn of last week's digitizations at the Vatican Library.<br />
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The work itself is known as <i>De materia medica</i>. This non-text variant is termed a <i>herbarius alphabeticus</i> and is a picture dictionary of the medicinal plants in Greek alphabetical order. This copy, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Chig.F.VII.159">Chig.F.VII.159</a>, is believed to be by the scriptorium of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in mid-15th-century Constantinople, modelled on a 6th-century Dioscorides which is now in Vienna.<br />
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One of the finest miniatures shows an artist painting the plants at the instructions of Dioscorides:<br />
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Seemingly it had no text at all when first made. Some glosses added are said to be in the hand of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Kiev">Isidore of Kiev</a> (c.1385- 1463), a Greek theologian who was for a time patriarch of all Russia, unsuccessfully sought the reunion of the Orthodox and Catholic churches and escaped death by a ruse in the 1453 fall of Constantinople. Five other hands, two Greek and three Latin, added plant names.<br />
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John Murdoch's <i>Album of Science</i> glosses 224v (above) as follows: Each flask is meant to contain the oil or balm specified, the plant from which the oil in question is derived being depicted to one side. Thus beginning at the left of the top row, we have oil of walnut (caryinum), oil of quince (melinum) and radish seed oil (raphaninum). The second row presents us with oil of roses (rosaceum) and some kind of resin oil (retininum).<br />
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Chigi's other herbal, the <i>Dioscorides Latino</i>, <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2019/01/rose-by-any-other-name.html">arrived online a couple of weeks ago</a>. Chigi ended his life as pope Alexander VII. His heirs sold his books to the Vatican in 1923.<br />
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In all, 32 codices have just been digitized. The unofficial list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.331" target="_blank">Barb.gr.331</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.2158" target="_blank">Barb.lat.2158</a>, which contains an account of the eruption of Mount Aetna on Sicily:<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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"Aetna tremoribus, tonitruisque ingentibus editis horrendas eructavit flammas, fastigii pars corruit introrsum." Maurolico, maggio 1536. 'Ad Petrum Bembum de aethneo incendio'.<br />
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Barb. Lat. 2158: Ad Bembum Epistolae <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> - <a href="https://t.co/hn1Auudw9B">https://t.co/hn1Auudw9B</a> <a href="https://t.co/pXQffVCJ0c">pic.twitter.com/pXQffVCJ0c</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1093600113434546176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Capp.Sist.588" target="_blank">Capp.Sist.588</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Chig.F.VII.159">Chig.F.VII.159</a> (Upgraded to HQ) (above)<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Stunning and realistic pictures with notes in the Pope Alexander VII's 'Greek Latin Dioscurides ' among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a>.<br />
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Chig.F.VII.159 (15th cent.): Dictionary of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/herbs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#herbs</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Medicine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Medicine</a> book 🌱🌿🌷🍒🌳 <a href="https://t.co/9zuey1et6o">https://t.co/9zuey1et6o</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/botany?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#botany</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/plants?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#plants</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/minerals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#minerals</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/animals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#animals</a> <a href="https://t.co/xxDvjFWQtq">pic.twitter.com/xxDvjFWQtq</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1093838032745177088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lat.352" target="_blank">Ott.lat.352</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.Pio.II.37" target="_blank">Reg.gr.Pio.II.37</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.289" target="_blank">Ross.289</a>, </li><li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.599.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.599.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.605" target="_blank">Urb.lat.605</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.759" target="_blank">Urb.lat.759</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.896" target="_blank">Urb.lat.896</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1017" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1017</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1038.pt.B" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1038.pt.B</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1122" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1122</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1215.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1215.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1218" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1218</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2479" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2479</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2483" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2483</a>, with incipit (see eTK): Medicina artium preclarissima hec verba ... Quoniam ut ars medicorum princeps</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4183" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4183</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4332" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4332</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4336" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4336</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4443" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4443</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4544" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4544</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4599" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4599</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4600" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4600</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4602" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4602</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4604" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4604</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4606" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4606</a> (Upgraded to HQ), see Jordanus</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4631" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4631</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4633" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4633</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.15126" target="_blank">Vat.lat.15126</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.turc.340" target="_blank">Vat.turc.340</a>, </li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 195. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-35512181979764463662019-02-02T17:56:00.001+01:002019-02-03T10:22:17.354+01:00Midget Minstrels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Maximilian I, the German emperor, is famous for adopting print as a means to increase his propaganda reach. His <i>Ehrenpforte</i>, a monumental printed frieze to be glued together, figures as a proto family tree in my book <i>Mind's Eye</i>. He wrote a chivalric novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisskunig"><i>Weisskunig</i></a> (about "me" of course) with his secretary between 1505 and 1516 and commissioned illustrations.<br />
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The sketchbook, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.8570">Vat.lat.8570</a>, has just been digitized by the Vatican Library and is a feast of silliness to be enjoyed page by page: here are some midget minstrels at fol. 107r:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOxCNIOsJwRxp_ynImzXQHUtq7rB2VdzTUI7TvHmmZctlMRrcNPUtgVmRplirIy1zyE8jN6vS0Aa_wo9KJC6FIVn9AiYYNTp0FWz-yC6zYe7ZwUaHSdKtZqztlsGwk0nyooFQ_3vql_WM/s1600/minstrels.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="506" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOxCNIOsJwRxp_ynImzXQHUtq7rB2VdzTUI7TvHmmZctlMRrcNPUtgVmRplirIy1zyE8jN6vS0Aa_wo9KJC6FIVn9AiYYNTp0FWz-yC6zYe7ZwUaHSdKtZqztlsGwk0nyooFQ_3vql_WM/s320/minstrels.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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The drawings, which served the engravers who made the wooden plates under the supervision of Konrad Peutinger in Augsburg, were later pasted into the scrapbook which ended up in the Vatican.<br />
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In all, 29 digitizations went online in the past week. My unofficial list:<br />
<ol>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.106" target="_blank">Ross.106</a>, book of hours</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.148" target="_blank">Urb.lat.148</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.183" target="_blank">Urb.lat.183</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.615" target="_blank">Urb.lat.615</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.733" target="_blank">Urb.lat.733</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.760" target="_blank">Urb.lat.760</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.765" target="_blank">Urb.lat.765</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.776" target="_blank">Urb.lat.776</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.811" target="_blank">Urb.lat.811</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.846" target="_blank">Urb.lat.846</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.853.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.853.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1088.pt.2" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1088.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1088.pt.3" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1088.pt.3</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2473" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2473</a>, commentaries on Avicenna</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2477" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2477</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2481" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2481</a>, date 1385, by the Italian surgeon Gentile da Foligno </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4555" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4555</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a>: Vat. lat. 4555 contains the first book of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's De caelo in Moerbeke's translation.<br>H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a><br>Copied from Vat. lat. 2067, in which I like the initial better. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rubberstamp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rubberstamp</a><a href="https://t.co/Nh6bpWDzEb">https://t.co/Nh6bpWDzEb</a><a href="https://t.co/PUtHv2Ak0m">https://t.co/PUtHv2Ak0m</a> <a href="https://t.co/i3wWugRjFD">pic.twitter.com/i3wWugRjFD</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1091789975048413184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4575" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4575</a> (Upgraded to HQ), humanist historian Flavio Biondo (1392 - 1463): <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/title/de-verbis-romanae-locutionis-title/3296">De verbis Romanae locutionis</a> [ad Leonardum Brunum]</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4576" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4576</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4577" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4577</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4580" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4580</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4581" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4581</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4588" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4588</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4607" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4607</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4612" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4612</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4615" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4615</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4628" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4628</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.8570" target="_blank">Vat.lat.8570</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Adventures, hunting, jousts, battles and love: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/drawings?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#drawings</a> for the autobiographical poem composed by Emperor Maximilian I. <br />
Vat. lat. 8570 (c. 1512) - "Disegni dell'antico poema tedesco il Theuerdank" among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> 🏰⚔🛡 🐎 <a href="https://t.co/1FJGjObTFu">https://t.co/1FJGjObTFu</a> <a href="https://t.co/4y3r3M3Xuq">pic.twitter.com/4y3r3M3Xuq</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1091041220309200898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.turc.314" target="_blank">Vat.turc.314</a>, flyleaf note in German dates this to 985, author Isqi Munsaat</li>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 194. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-1017215410749377992019-01-26T16:04:00.001+01:002019-01-26T18:48:09.494+01:00Rose by any Other Name<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Among the most glorious picture books in the Vatican Library is the so-called <i>Dioscorides Latino</i>, a bound collection of images of medicinal plants.
<a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Chig.F.VII.158" target="_blank">Chig.F.VII.158</a> belonged to Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII) and was acquired by the Vatican in 1923.<br />
Despite the name, it is not the complete dictionary of medicinal herbs written in Greek by Dioscorides Pedanius between 50 and 70 CE. It contains only Latin-name captions and a few lists.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4W7N-c64cDC06HGJCnvasP8LtHFViNijQlB9JjvV0w-_LW2HcS9syq5mxZpTaVEHcLcDxBx0ZBiycZpp9pcFdv9zzgaF4ApXDWxg50OYZFJaVUIvIBEz1JSUMgCvNE_8_FhQKTAKdVNc/s1600/Diosco.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="506" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4W7N-c64cDC06HGJCnvasP8LtHFViNijQlB9JjvV0w-_LW2HcS9syq5mxZpTaVEHcLcDxBx0ZBiycZpp9pcFdv9zzgaF4ApXDWxg50OYZFJaVUIvIBEz1JSUMgCvNE_8_FhQKTAKdVNc/s320/Diosco.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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The Vatican portal has just digitized this treasure for everyone to enjoy. It seems to date from the start of the 15th century, and is therefore much younger than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Dioscurides">Vienna Dioscorides</a>.</div>
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Its charm includes line drawings that let one see outlines amid the color swatches, as here with a rose:</div>
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When it was exhibited in the United States in the Rome Reborn exhibition, Anthony Grafton <a href="http://libguides.slu.edu/c.php?g=185813&p=1228297">wrote in the catalog</a> that it was probably associated with a Salernitan herbal known as the <i>Circa instans</i>, with plants, animals, and minerals arranged in alphabetical order with plant lists and captions in Latin. A <a href="https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16638830q">BnF catalogue writer</a> suggests the <i>Dioscorides Latino</i> is a misnomer for what would be better termed a <i>Tractatus de herbis</i>.</div>
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The connection with the <i>Materia Medica</i> of Dioscorides seems therefore to be doubtful. Just enjoy it for the splendour of the images. It is one of 36 items new online in the past week:</div>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Borg.sir.162" target="_blank">Borg.sir.162</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Borg.sir.24" target="_blank">Borg.sir.24</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Chig.F.VII.158" target="_blank">Chig.F.VII.158</a>, so-called <i>Dioscorides Latino</i>, (above). See also the description in the <a href="http://libcat.slu.edu/record=b3707827~S5">St Louis catalog</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Patetta.2060" target="_blank">Patetta.2060</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.73" target="_blank">Ross.73</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.85" target="_blank">Ross.85</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.542" target="_blank">Urb.lat.542</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.575" target="_blank">Urb.lat.575</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.584" target="_blank">Urb.lat.584</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.592" target="_blank">Urb.lat.592</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.625" target="_blank">Urb.lat.625</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.700" target="_blank">Urb.lat.700</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.722" target="_blank">Urb.lat.722</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.723" target="_blank">Urb.lat.723</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.771" target="_blank">Urb.lat.771</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.792" target="_blank">Urb.lat.792</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.795" target="_blank">Urb.lat.795</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.796" target="_blank">Urb.lat.796</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.932" target="_blank">Urb.lat.932</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.962" target="_blank">Urb.lat.962</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.965" target="_blank">Urb.lat.965</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.969" target="_blank">Urb.lat.969</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1088.pt.1" target="_blank">Urb.lat.1088.pt.1</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2437" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2437</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Latin translation of Averroes' commentary on "De anima". Beautiful initial retrieved thanks to the list of new MSS <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a> published by <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a>.<a href="https://t.co/XiqJLSOCcX">https://t.co/XiqJLSOCcX</a> <a href="https://t.co/SwWIVJUbaM">pic.twitter.com/SwWIVJUbaM</a></div>
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1089187290461687808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2439" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2439</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4106" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4106</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4280" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4280</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4388" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4388</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4438" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4438</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4449" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4449</a>, 15th-century, works by Sigismundus de Polcastris, see <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> with the incipits <i>Cum sepe me exhortatus et deprecatus</i> and <i>Utrum medicine dicte tales</i></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4558" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4558</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4567" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4567</a> William of Moerbeke translation of <i>Elementatio Theologica</i> of Proclus (upgraded to HQ), <a href="https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/GdeMorbecca/gui_pthe.html">translation online</a> at Augsburg; <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Vat. lat. 4567 is highlighted by <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a> as an important MS of William of Moerbeke's translation of Proclus's Elementatio Theologica. Helmut Boese's standard edition is still in print <a href="https://twitter.com/UPLeuven?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UPLeuven</a>, modestly priced at € 18.<a href="https://t.co/BwFNYgJ09J">https://t.co/BwFNYgJ09J</a></div>
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1089188407534854145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4570" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4570</a>, Latin translation of <i>Harmonics</i> of Ptolemy, once owned by the Italian music theorist Franchinus Gaffurius, featured in <a href="http://libguides.slu.edu/c.php?g=185813&p=1228298">Rome Reborn</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4574" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4574</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4584" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4584</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5590" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5590</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a>: The 4th volume of the 5 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Missals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Missals</a> of Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo by Vincent Raymond and Apollonio Bonfratelli (1541-1557).<br />
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Vat. lat. 3805/5591 and Barb. lat. 609 are already online. We look forward for Vat. lat. 3807! - <a href="https://t.co/FcaH3EYmKq">https://t.co/FcaH3EYmKq</a> <a href="https://t.co/FnTU5hy5zj">pic.twitter.com/FnTU5hy5zj</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1087772694500777984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 193. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.</div>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-75026140188320018242019-01-20T19:18:00.001+01:002019-02-04T18:28:10.818+01:00Pair of Compasses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Spare a thought for the hundred generations of people who were taught at school to draw circles with a pair of compasses. With computers to do it quicker and smarter, it's a bit pointless nowadays, but in its time it was an essential skill. Recently I noticed Calcidius, writing about 400 CE, <a href="http://piggin.net/plold/calcidiusSet.htm">boasting</a> he could even draw spirals with his compasses by slowly moving the legs during the turns.<br />
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Among the codices just digitized at the Vatican Library is <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4571" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4571</a>, Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation from Arabic of what appears to be the lost Greek textbook on spheres by Menelaus of Alexandria. This includes several pages of very fine drawings like this, all done by see hand:<br />
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Go admire. It is one of 66 new items online in the last week:
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.5" target="_blank">Ross.5</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.81" target="_blank">Ross.81</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.84" target="_blank">Ross.84</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.91" target="_blank">Ross.91</a> (Upgraded to HQ), book of hours?</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.109" target="_blank">Ross.109</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.113" target="_blank">Ross.113</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.178" target="_blank">Ross.178</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> - Smiling Mary with the Three Wise Men and Job with leprosy in Ross.178: Breviarium Romanum, 14th cent. - <a href="https://t.co/SiJAUSCcK9">https://t.co/SiJAUSCcK9</a> <a href="https://t.co/qx5EWBdIBX">pic.twitter.com/qx5EWBdIBX</a></p>— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1085233316046008321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.257" target="_blank">Ross.257</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.272" target="_blank">Ross.272</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.296" target="_blank">Ross.296</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.339" target="_blank">Urb.lat.339</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.428" target="_blank">Urb.lat.428</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.435" target="_blank">Urb.lat.435</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.477" target="_blank">Urb.lat.477</a>, Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.516" target="_blank">Urb.lat.516</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.522" target="_blank">Urb.lat.522</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.523" target="_blank">Urb.lat.523</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.550" target="_blank">Urb.lat.550</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.571" target="_blank">Urb.lat.571</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.576" target="_blank">Urb.lat.576</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.577" target="_blank">Urb.lat.577</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.617" target="_blank">Urb.lat.617</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.618" target="_blank">Urb.lat.618</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.620" target="_blank">Urb.lat.620</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.621" target="_blank">Urb.lat.621</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.764" target="_blank">Urb.lat.764</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.862" target="_blank">Urb.lat.862</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2395" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2395</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2444.pt.1" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2444.pt.1</a>, Nicolai Florentini</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4082" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4082</a> (Upgraded to HQ), dated 1401, compilation of 23 works on mathematics and astronomy, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10177#0_6">Jordanus</a> and <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">eTK</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4171" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4171</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4435" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4435</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4446" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4446</a>, medical texts including an item by <span style="background-color: white;">Bertrucius of Bologna, see</span> <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">eTK</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4456" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4456</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Gentile da Foligno on science, see <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">eTK</a> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gentile da Foligno (end of 13th c.-1348), Italian professor and doctor of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/medicine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#medicine</a>, was one of the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being. Some of his works in Vat. lat. 4456 (14th cent.) among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a>👨🏻⚕️<a href="https://t.co/OhK7ZnPGC8">https://t.co/OhK7ZnPGC8</a> <a href="https://t.co/DHfyts0lgO">pic.twitter.com/DHfyts0lgO</a></p>— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1085510357127434246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4462" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4462</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4468" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4468</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Guglielmo da Saliceto, the ablest Italian surgeon of the 13th century, was the pioneer for the amalgamation of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/surgery?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#surgery</a> and clinical <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/medicine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#medicine</a>. <br><br>Vat. lat. 4468 (14th c.): Chirurgia, Guillelmus de Saliceto (c. 1210 - c. 1280). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> - <a href="https://t.co/nHHhNmCxEC">https://t.co/nHHhNmCxEC</a> <a href="https://t.co/pMA8ItLiBx">pic.twitter.com/pMA8ItLiBx</a></p>— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1086225852235427840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4481" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4481</a> (Upgraded to HQ), mid 13th century, Latin translations of Avicenna (<a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/113715">Mirabile</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4484" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4484</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4492" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4492</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4500" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4500</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4520" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4520</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4521" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4521</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4525" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4525</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4531" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4531</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4532" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4532</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4534" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4534</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Trabezon's translations of Aristotle, see <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/94284">Mirabile</a> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Table of content in the hand of George of Trebizond. He did not carry his project to the end, as translations of De celo and De anima are absent from this autograph working copy. H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a> <a href="https://t.co/223bNH2BL6">https://t.co/223bNH2BL6</a> <a href="https://t.co/X3aZ5vIA71">pic.twitter.com/X3aZ5vIA71</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1087074274500923394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4536" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4536</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4537" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4537</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4549" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4549</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Averroes on Aristotle, see <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/11459">Mirabile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4550" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4550</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Averroes on Aristotle's <i>Meteorology</i>, from Hebrew. See <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/11460">Mirabile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4551" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4551</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4554" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4554</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4556" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4556</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4557" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4557</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4559" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4559</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4562" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4562</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4564" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4564</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4565" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4565</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4568" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4568</a> (Upgraded to HQ), about 1500, William of Morebeke's translation of Proclus.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now in HQ <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a>. Important humanist MS of three treatises by Proclus translated in 1280 by William of Moerbeke. The Greek was lost, except for the few words that the scribe copied from his model, probably remains from William's autograph MS.<a href="https://t.co/3SgCD4n6We">https://t.co/3SgCD4n6We</a> <a href="https://t.co/x4uIra2g5F">pic.twitter.com/x4uIra2g5F</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1085902925585678337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Colophon of 2 Proclus translations by William of Moerbeke. Original Greek was lost except for some words in margins.<a href="https://t.co/ksfczLiUlb">https://t.co/ksfczLiUlb</a> <a href="https://t.co/iteXnaNoyC">pic.twitter.com/iteXnaNoyC</a></p>— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/884308451425484800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4571" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4571</a>, Menelaus? (above), however <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10203#0_6">Jordanus</a> gives the work and author as <i>De figuris spericus</i> by Mileus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4572" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4572</a>, Almanach Planetarum ab anno Domini 1243 usque ad 1303, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10204#0_6">Jordanus</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4573" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4573</a>, continuation: almanac from 1306 on, and astronomy, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10205#0_6">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4578" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4578</a> (Upgraded to HQ), apocryphal texts, 14th century, with Evangelium Nicodemi, ff. 35v-37v
Evangelium Thomae de infantia Salvatoris, ff. 37v-44r
Liber de ortu beatae Mariae et infantia Salvatoris, ff. 32r-35r (see <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/123000">Mirabile</a>);
also includes a mathematical text, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10206#0_6">Jordanus</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4587" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4587</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4589" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4589</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.8193.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.8193.pt.2</a> (Upgraded to HQ), notes from 1655 in Innocent X's court on papabile</li>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-38816392780999393512019-01-12T15:55:00.000+01:002019-01-13T11:34:54.823+01:00I know that handwriting ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now that most of us have almost given up writing by hand, one's admiration grows for those who can recognize from the faults the handwriting of people long dead. It is one of the scholarship's more recherché specialities.<br />
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From the clever people at <a href="http://www.autografi.net/it/progetto/">Autografi dei Letterati Italiani</a> we <a href="http://www.autografi.net/dl/resource/3718">discover</a> that several jottings in a Vatican Library copy of Cicero, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3246" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3246</a>, were put there by one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Beccadelli_(poet)">Antonio Beccadelli</a> (1394-1471), a humanist poet and diplomat. Beccadelli, nicknamed Il Panormita, had an income as a courtier that allowed him to acquire his own library.<br />
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The codex is one of six put online this week in the first working week of the library's digitizations for 2019.<br />
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Before starting the list, I'd like to announce a private achievement: This week I published <i>The Great Stemma: A Graphic History in the Fifth Century</i> as <a href="http://www.piggin.net/gsEdition/gs00TOC.htm">an open-source edition</a>. It's the scholarly counterpart to my recently published book <a href="http://www.books2read.com/PigginMindsEye">Mind's Eye</a> which tells the discovery story of a neglected Latin chart of history. Spread the word: I am depending on friends to enlarge the readership of both.<br />
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And now for the list:<br />
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.259" target="_blank">Ross.259</a>, a de luxe manuscript from Paris of Augustine of Hippo's letters. Beautiful filigree work by Jacquet Maci in the illumination (see <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/143826">Mirabile</a>):<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2476" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2476</a>, Gentilis de Fulgineo on Avicenna's medical writings, 15th century</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3246" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3246</a> (Upgraded to HQ), ninth-century copy in a Caroline hand (thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/gundormr">@gundormr</a> for correcting this) of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, formerly owned by <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/search-person/antonius-beccadellus-person/1044/8610">Antonius Beccadellus</a> (1394-1471), and <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/search-person/fulvio-orsini-person/1044/7772">Fulvio Orsini</a> (1529-1600), according to Mirabile. In binding paper with some Beneventan writing. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I don’t think <a href="https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC">https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC</a>.3246 is in a Beneventan hand. The text is a nice Caroline, there seems to be just a Beneventan binding fragment (see the edges of the guard leaves, front and back)</p>— AaronM (@gundormr) <a href="https://twitter.com/gundormr/status/1084298589478834177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4116" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4116</a> (Upgraded to HQ), a 15th century manuscript of <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/title/defensorium-ecclesiasticae-potestatis-title/4458">Defensorium ecclesiasticae potestatis</a> by <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/author/adam-de-eston-n-1330-ca-m-20-9-1397-author/23125">Adam de Eston (1330-1397</a>) (thanks Mirabile) with these amazing border designs: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4354" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4354</a>, a compilation of Franciscan Order resources from about 1430, see <a href="http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/citt%C3%A0-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manoscript/96052">Mirabile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4517" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4517</a>, with an anonymous Latin grammar from fol 22, incipit <i>Coelum et terra sunt plena </i>(listing by G. L. Bursill-Hall)</li>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-50001973995707996072019-01-05T19:01:00.001+01:002019-02-04T18:45:41.713+01:00All the Isidorian Bibles Online<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A very special set of medieval bibles is complete at last, thanks to the recent digitization of the Foigny Bible in the French National Library, some of the best news of last year for codicologists.<br />
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These rare Vulgate bibles, one from Burgos in Spain and three from the Meuse Valley on the Franco-Belgian border, offer the sole surviving evidence of a shadowy struggle over belief in seventh-century Visigothic Spain.<br />
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Four years ago, I <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2014/11/floreffe-bible-now-online.html">celebrated the arrival online of the Floreffe Bible</a> (now in the British Library). Now the fourth and last is there to appreciate, the Foigny Bible, thanks to the Polonsky Foundation funding a project to virtually unite treasures of London and Paris that belong together. The illuminations in the Foigny Bible (here the Nativity) are wonderful:<br />
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Here are links to the whole set of four:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.parkabdij.be/">Parc Abbey</a> Bible , London, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts">British Library</a> <a href="http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000154">Add.Ms. 14788</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.abbaye-de-floreffe.be/">Floreffe Abbey</a> Bible, London, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourBib3.asp">British Library</a> <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17737&index=0">Add.Ms. 17737</a></li>
<li>Burgos Romanesque Bible, Burgos, <a href="http://www.jcyl.es/web/jcyl/pr/es/Bibliotecas/Page/BibliotecasPlantillaHomeBPPColumnaDcha/1190354143995/_/_/_?asm=jcyl">Biblioteca Pública deL Estado</a> MS 173</li>
<li>Foigny Abbey Bible, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10544541n/f14.item">lat. 15177</a></li>
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The Foigny Bible starts off with a prologue set which is found in the others too, a fairly sure sign that all these 11th and 12th century bibles derive from a much earlier model:</div>
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<li>an arbor consanguinatis;</li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.piggin.net/stemmahistoryTOC.htm">Great Stemma</a>, with a 6,000-word <a href="http://piggin.net/stemmahist/codicoFoigny.htm">epitome of exegesis by Isidore</a> in the blank spaces;</li>
<li>the Prologus Theodulfi</li>
<li>a second Prologus (Stegmüller, Rep. Biblicum, n° 284).</li>
<li>a second Prologus (Stegmüller, Rep. Biblicum, n° 285).</li>
<li>a capitula</li>
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And what were the Visigothic Christians arguing about? Whether St. Joachim, the supposed grandfather of Jesus existed! </div>
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A late-antique "family tree" of Jesus, the <a href="http://www.piggin.net/stemmahistoryTOC.htm">Great Stemma</a> (above), had been spreading through Iberia in the seventh century and it showed a legendary sheep-farmer, Joachim, in pride of place. Isidore of Seville thought this claim was nonsense. We don't know if Isidore himself altered the chart, but someone very smart and aligned with Isidore's thought took pen and rewired the "tree", cutting out poor Jo like a gastric bypass.</div>
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As for the 6,000 words of <a href="http://www.academia.edu/24298783/The_Isidorian_Stemma_in_the_Foigny_Bible">Isidorian Exegesis</a> written in the gaps, you'll have to make up your own mind who wrote it. Maybe that was Isidore too? Since it had never been identified or published previously, I <a href="http://piggin.net/stemmahist/codicoFoigny.htm">edited the text</a> some years ago.</div>
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JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-80378285088847099032018-12-22T18:04:00.000+01:002019-01-20T18:06:44.417+01:00Under the Knife<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Medieval surgery was, by all accounts, painful for the patient. One of the newest Vatican manuscripts online contains Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of the Arabic handbook of surgery by the famed Andalusian doctor Abulcasis or Albucasis (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Zahrawi">Wikipedia</a>). Consider these instruments:<br />
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I'm not going to tell you what they were used for. But anesthetic procedures were crude, so you felt the cut.<br />
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This manuscript of the 13th or 14th century is among more than 30 extant according to Monica H Green's <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monica_H_Green/publication/279286906_Moving_from_Philology_to_Social_History_The_Circulation_and_Uses_of_Albucasis's_Latin_Surgery_in_the_Middle_Ages/links/55a02ca608aef92d04ce3137/Moving-from-Philology-to-Social-History-The-Circulation-and-Uses-of-Albucasiss-Latin-Surgery-in-the-Middle-Ages.pdf">count in 2011</a>.<br />
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It seems the book was read by non-doctors too, as indicated by the luxury colors in this copy. She adds: "Whereas other surgical texts circulated quite widely in western
Europe, up until the fifteenth century Albucasis's work was copied only in
Italy and, to a lesser extent, in southern France." See too an earlier <a href="http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/47451/ALMA_2001_59_181.pdf?sequence=1p">article online</a> by David Trotter on the Latin mss.<br />
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In the past week, 112 manuscripts came online. The Vatican Library's newsletter adds some good news, indicating the digitization program remains open-ended.<br />
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The Japan-based company which is the main funder of the project, NTT Data, previously told media its support was <a href="https://macrotypography.blogspot.com/2016/09/cost-exorbitant.html">limited to 3,000 manuscripts</a> up to 2019, but the <a href="https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/newsletter/201812EN.pdf">December newsletter</a> says Katsuichi Sonoda, an NTT Data VP, offered November 30 to continue the collaboration with the Library “indefinitely”. Sounds great!
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.47" target="_blank">Ross.47</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.60" target="_blank">Ross.60</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.67" target="_blank">Ross.67</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.71" target="_blank">Ross.71</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.83" target="_blank">Ross.83</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.86.pt.2" target="_blank">Ross.86.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.102" target="_blank">Ross.102</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.104" target="_blank">Ross.104</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.132" target="_blank">Ross.132</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.133" target="_blank">Ross.133</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.134" target="_blank">Ross.134</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.139" target="_blank">Ross.139</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.148" target="_blank">Ross.148</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.166" target="_blank">Ross.166</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.169" target="_blank">Ross.169</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.200" target="_blank">Ross.200</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.205" target="_blank">Ross.205</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.221" target="_blank">Ross.221</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.229" target="_blank">Ross.229</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.233" target="_blank">Ross.233</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.250" target="_blank">Ross.250</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.256" target="_blank">Ross.256</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.267" target="_blank">Ross.267</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.270" target="_blank">Ross.270</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.271" target="_blank">Ross.271</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2389" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2389</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2392" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2392</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> incipit: Gerard of Cremona translations of Arabic medical works, and the De cibariis attributed to Petrus de Musanda</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2403" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2403</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> in<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">cipit: </span></span>Desideranti tibi scribi a me mysteria lapidum omnium</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2408" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2408</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2431" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2431</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2440" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2440</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2445.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2445.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2445.pt.3" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2445.pt.3</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2465" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2465</a>, Jacobus de Forlivio, on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates; see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10062">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.2478" target="_blank">Vat.lat.2478</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3219" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3219</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3367" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3367</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3369" target="_blank">Vat.lat.3369</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4020" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4020</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4021" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4021</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4022" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4022</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4083" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4083</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> i<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">ncipit: </span></span>Interrogatio nobilis viri domini Uberti marchionis; (Gerard of Cremona)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4098" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4098</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4112.pt.2" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4112.pt.2</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4251" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4251</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4276" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4276</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4347" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4347</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4368" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4368</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4375" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4375</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4379" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4379</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4389" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4389</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4403" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4403</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4404" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4404</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4405" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4405</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4408" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4408</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4420" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4420</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">incipit: </span></span>Non solum cum scripserunt rememoratores; </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4421" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4421</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4422" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4422</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> i<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">ncipit: </span></span>Cum natura non minus indigeat aquis fisicalibus (14c); John of Parma</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4428" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4428</a>, Avicenna's <i>Terra Pura </i>and other works; <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> incipit: Corpora mineralia in quatuor dividuntur</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4432" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4432</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> incipits: Quia sentire quidem (early 14th century); De virtutibus naturalibus</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4434" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4434</a>, Jacobus de Forlivio, <i>De intentione et remissione formarum</i>, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10194">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4436" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4436</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4441" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4441</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4448" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4448</a>, Antonius de Scarparia, 14th century Italian physician, on Galen's <i>Ars Parva</i>, with a diagram discussed by John Murdoch's <i>Album of Science</i> showing the continuum by latitudes from completely well (at top) to completely sick (below): <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4451" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4451</a> (Upgraded to HQ), medical etc, Thadeus of Florence and others, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17.8px;" target="_blank">eTK</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"> incipit: </span>Impossibile est eundem incipere et finire (14th century)</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4454" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4454</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> incipit: Averroes in commento xv de animalibus sicut illa; See also Jordanus</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4455" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4455</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Jordanus, <i>Arithmetic</i>. See <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10197">Jordanus database</a>. <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> i<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">ncipit: </span></span>Convenerunt in hoc antiqui; by Petrus Hispanus</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4457" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4457</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4463" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4463</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4464" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4464</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> i<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">ncipit: </span></span>Consuevit dubitari de titulo huius libri; by Dino del Garbo</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4467" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4467</a>, Abulcasis/Albucasis (above)
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Chirurgia [opus Albucasis; translatio ex arabico], Gerhardus Cremonensis (1114 - 1187) ff. 1r-32r; De locis affectis, Galenus, ff. 33r-59v (translatio anonyma). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/surgery?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#surgery</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/medicine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#medicine</a><br />
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Vat. Lat. 4467 (14th cent.) among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> 👨⚕️💉🔪<a href="https://t.co/jMWdZXaiby">https://t.co/jMWdZXaiby</a> <a href="https://t.co/yoLJsN1str">pic.twitter.com/yoLJsN1str</a></blockquote>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1075108959776849920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2018</a>
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What a great present for <a href="https://twitter.com/EgoConstantinus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EgoConstantinus</a>'s obit day. Sure, the al-Zahrawi/Abulcasis part of <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a> Vat. lat. 4467 is fascinating, but check out what follows it: Constantine's translation of Galen's De interioribus!</blockquote>
<a href="https://twitter.com/EgoConstantinus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"> — (@EgoConstantinus)</a>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4469" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4469</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4470" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4470</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4471" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4471</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4473" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4473</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4474" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4474</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4475" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4475</a> (Upgraded to HQ), <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> incipit: Sciendum est quod humores quidam sunt in capite (13c-14c); also: De limphis oculorum qui dicitur paralymenon</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4477" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4477</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> inci<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">pit: </span></span>Cum omne corpus animatum; Glossulae aphorismorum Hippocratis</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4478" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4478</a>, <a href="https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/">eTK</a> in<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.8px;">cipit: </span></span>Celi enarrant gloriam dei triplici via aq modo mirabili celi; author Jean Ganivet</li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4483" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4483</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4485" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4485</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4487" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4487</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4490" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4490</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4493" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4493</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4494" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4494</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4495" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4495</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4496" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4496</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4498" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4498</a> (Upgraded to HQ), Frontinus, Seneca and other classical authors, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10198">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4502" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4502</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4503" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4503</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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So even when the phone didn't exist people used to doodle the same way we do when we're on the phone... <br />
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Vat. lat. 4503 among the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LatestDigitizedManuscripts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LatestDigitizedManuscripts</a> ☎✍🏻 <a href="https://t.co/Ck3OQgyYFr">https://t.co/Ck3OQgyYFr</a> <a href="https://t.co/sbkxS6oi1u">pic.twitter.com/sbkxS6oi1u</a></div>
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana/status/1075774925896470528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4504" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4504</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4505" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4505</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4506" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4506</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4507" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4507</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4509" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4509</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4513" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4513</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4514" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4514</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4515" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4515</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4518" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4518</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4522" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4522</a> (Upgraded to HQ), </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4523" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4523</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4524" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4524</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4526" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4526</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4527" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4527</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4528" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4528</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4529" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4529</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4530" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4530</a>, Jamblichus, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10199">Jordanus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4535" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4535</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4538" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4538</a>, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Richard Rufus of Cornwall's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics now available <a href="https://twitter.com/DigitaVaticana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DigitaVaticana</a> and found in the list by <a href="https://twitter.com/JBPiggin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBPiggin</a>.<a href="https://t.co/AQ7uGjH7a7">https://t.co/AQ7uGjH7a7</a> <a href="https://t.co/JjRTbunbK4">pic.twitter.com/JjRTbunbK4</a></div>
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) <a href="https://twitter.com/LatinAristotle/status/1076567604792344582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4539" target="_blank">Vat.lat.4539</a>, Bernelinus, Gerbert and others on arithmetic, see <a href="https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jordanus/ms/10201">Jordanus</a>. With this bull's eye by the Dennis the Menace of the Vatican rubber stamp:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5754.pt.A" target="_blank">Vat.lat.5754.pt.A</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.9055" target="_blank">Vat.lat.9055</a>, </li>
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