New BAV Portal

The Vatican's launch of a new portal for the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana reached maturity July 4 when the portal, which had been slowly filling since May, finally surpassed the old site in its posted total of content, reaching 4,724 items with the addition of thirty Hebrew manuscripts.

The numbers may still by slightly out of whack, with some subtotals not up to the old site's levels, but I would say that now is the time to change your links, begin using the new portal, and grin and bear its inadequacies. I have already built a whole new suite of searches with scripts to monitor it, and will no longer be monitoring the old site from now on.

Here is the full list of novelties, with notes taken from Malachi Beit-Arié's codicological descriptions:

1. Neofiti.4, Details
2. Neofiti.7, Details
3. Neofiti.9, Details
4. Neofiti.11, Details
5. Neofiti.14, Details
6. Neofiti.15, Details
7. Neofiti.22, Details
8. Neofiti.23, Details
9. Neofiti.24, Details
10. Neofiti.30, Details
11. Neofiti.31, Details
12. Neofiti.32, Details
13. Neofiti.34, Details
14. Neofiti.36, Details
15. Neofiti.40, Details
16. Neofiti.41, Details
17. Neofiti.43, Details
18. Neofiti.44, Details
19. Neofiti.45, Details
20. Neofiti.46, Details
21. Ross.328, Hebrew Details
22. Ross.359, Hebrew Details
23. Ross.362, Hebrew Details
24. Ross.363, Hebrew Details
25. Ross.436, Mahzor, Roman rite. Italy, about 1400. Details
26. Ross.477, Canon (Book II, Fens 1–2) by Avicenna, in the translation of Nathan ha-Meati. Details
27. Ross.599, Sefer Mizvot Gadol by Moses b. Jacob of Coucy. Incomplete. Details
28. Ross.601, Pentateuch, Former Prophets and treatises in Hebrew, written out by scribe Joseph b. Jacob ibn Janah in Huesca, Spain in 1275. Details
29. Ross.883, Hayyim b. Joseph Vital's kabbalistic work Ozerot Hayyim in an 18th-century Italian manuscript with this concentric diagram at fol. 1v. Details
    
30. Ross.1015, Genesis i:1–xxvi:32. Probably copied by a Christian hand. Details

This is Piggin's Unofficial List 57. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to Digita Vaticana.