The Euripides, Vat.gr.909, is from just after 1250 and not the the oldest by any means, but is one of the sources of nine plays by the great Greek dramatist with scholia. There is a page-by-page listing of the contents at Pinakes. For a sound text of the plays along with English translations, consult Perseus. The scholia (that is to say the glosses and stage directions and other notes) are recorded by Donald Mastronarde on his remarkable electronic scholia site.
Here is the first line of Andromache, "Glory of Asia, city of Thebe!"
As for the rest, there are several maps. The portolan charts are scanned at too low a resolution to be of any use for scholarship, since the place-names remain illegible. The map of the lagoons at Comacchio, Barb.lat.4242.pt.A, is of some interest, and I always like those figurative maps of the Mediterranean which show the River Jordan in green and the Red Sea in red. I picked out one from Cappon.56 a few weeks ago where it illustrates a poem by the humanist Lorenzo Bonincontri (1486-1488). This new example is from Chig.M.VII.146
- Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.D.189,
- Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.D.190, letters of Pope Alexander to Bernard of Clairvaux
- Barb.gr.596, single sheet
- Barb.lat.1766, charter
- Barb.lat.4242.pt.A, fine map of the wetlands at Comacchio on the Adriatic coast, drawn by Domenico Castelli (the 17th century architect?)
- Barb.or.144, multiple printed books in one binding, the first of which is 治曆緣起, Chinese Missionary Books brought by Philippe Couplet from China
- Borg.Carte.naut.IV, portolan chart, scanned illegibly!
- Borg.Carte.naut.VI, ditto
- Borg.Carte.naut.VII, ditto, Campbell number 154, dated to 1497, Alexandria
- Borgh.221, Aldobrandinus de Toscanella, Scala fidei sive tractatus de symbolo apostolico
- Borgh.289, Opera aliqua de re iuridica et sermones
- Borgh.290, Bottoni, Bernardo, Summa super titulis decretalium
- Cappon.120,
- Cappon.247,
- Cappon.270,
- Cappon.282.pt.1,
- Cappon.282.pt.2,
- Cappon.283.pt.1,
- Cappon.285,
- Cappon.286,
- Cappon.289,
- Cappon.290,
- Cappon.308,
- Chig.G.IV.114, book of crests
- Chig.L.VI.196,
- Chig.M.VII.146, mixed codex with astronomy, Italian maps of Mediterranean coast, Hippocratic medical writings
- Ott.lat.234, Joannis Langiaci, Panegyricus
- Ott.lat.585, Summa de sufficienna sacramentorum
- Ott.lat.1676, Ovid, Epistula XV
- Reg.lat.1621, thin Renaissance manuscript of Pseudo-Ovid. This was once thought to be an important source of the poem Consolatio ad Liviam until Oldecop discovered that it was a copy on parchment (perhaps as a luxury present) taken from a printed Venetian edition of 1492. See Reeve's article in Revue d'Histoire des Textes. Here is "Ovid":
- Reg.lat.1756, contains works by Constantine the African including Liber chirurgiae, the Liber graduum, and De genitalibus membris which describes female reproductive organs. Also the De quattuor humoribus of Constantine's mentor, Alfanus, bishop of Salerno. See discussion by Monica Green
- Vat.gr.909, Euripides
- Vat.lat.2791, Ovid, Epistula XV
- Vat.lat.5005, Albertus Magnus, c.1193-1280 De Mineralibus libri quinque - 15th century ms
- Vat.lat.5644, music, Antifona solenne per i Vespri, a book from Coluccio Salutati's former library in Florence. Article by Bannister describes how its date can be established as 1160.
- Vat.lat.9134, Roman monumental epigraphs transcribed and decoded
- Vat.sir.495, Nicene creed, letter of Constantine the Great convening Council of Nicaea and other council documents in Syriac translation (Smelov)
- Vat.slav.7, eight sheets only
As always, if you can provide more details on these, use the comments box below. [This is Piggin's Unofficial List 23.]
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