2016-07-27

Surpassing 5,000

With an enormous and unexpected display of energy, the Vatican Library released 253 new digitizations online on July 26, 2016 to surpass the bar of 5,000.

Only philanthropy can make this happen. The key assistance appears to be coming from NTT Data, the Japanese software company, which this month put some pepper in the fund-raising programme by announcing an attractive incentive for large donors: an ultra-close facsimile of a page from the Vatican Vergil (to be made by Canon). Contribute if you can: it will take immense resources and years of work to bring all 80,000 Vatican codices, rolls, papyri and sheafs of letters online.

Remarkable in this surge is the sudden arrival of 166 manuscripts from the great Renaissance library of Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482), duke of Urbino, whose Italian library was perhaps the most costly cultural institution of his age. A new collection where digitization has just started is the Pergamene di Terracina.

The posted total of 5,131 continues to understate the true extent of the digitizations, as it does not include the many Pal.lat. manuscripts now online in an ancillary programme or isolated cases such as the Vatican's Bodmer Papyrus VIII. Here is the list of new arrivals:
  1. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.B.56 - Details
  2. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.C.116 - Details
  3. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.G.33 - Details
  4. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.G.41 - Details
  5. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIX.fasc.70 - Details
  6. Borg.copt.109.cass.XIX.fasc.72 - Details
  7. Borg.ebr.16 - Details
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  9. Borg.turc.6 - Details
  10. Borgh.338 - Details
  11. Cappon.131 - Details
  12. Cappon.306 - Details
  13. Ferr.562 - Details
  14. Ott.lat.1210 - Details
  15. Ott.lat.1368 - Details
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  17. Perg.Terracina.1 - Details
  18. Perg.Terracina.2 - Details
  19. Perg.Terracina.3 - Details
  20. Perg.Terracina.4 - Details
  21. Perg.Terracina.5 - Details
  22. Perg.Terracina.6 - Details
  23. Reg.lat.1500 - Details
  24. Urb.gr.83 - Geography by Ptolemy. Full discussion in my separate blog post. Details
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  104. Urb.lat.632 - the sole surviving copy of a treatise on 3D geometry, De quinque corporibus regularibus by Piero della Francesca, one of the card-carrying Renaissance men. Francesca is now known as a notable painter only, but in his time he was also an eminent mathematician. Here is a drawing (apparently by his own hand) from fol. 13r:
    More details in English. This featured in the Rome Reborn exhibition. More on the BAV details page.
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  160. Urb.lat.716 - same content at Urb.lat.717 below - Details
  161. Urb.lat.717 - A book of esotericist poetry, De Gentilium Deorum Imaginibus by Lodovico Lazzarelli, from about 1475. Details in English at SLU. This also featured in Rome Reborn.
    This rather stoned person is Melponeme. It contains 27 full-page miniatures of personifications, including the planets, the muses, gods and goddesses, based on an educational prints series current at the time, the Mantegna Tarocchi. See also the BAV details.
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  190. Vat.ar.136 - Details
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  234. Vat.estr.or.111 - Japanese calligraphic roll: gold ink on dark blue paper
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  237. Vat.lat.624 - with this extraordinary revision of a (classical?) Roman arbor juris (kinship diagram) in pyramidal form at fol. 105r:
    Note how the number of circles increases by one with each row as you follow it downwards. The scheme is a medieval revision of the so-called Type 4 arbor consanguinatis, as defined by  Hermann Schadt - see my Missing Manual (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4283.8002) for more information about this - Manuscript Details
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This is Piggin's Unofficial List 62. 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.

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