Submission

In publishing and academia, one speaks of submitting a manuscript to the editor or professor, but there was a time when submitting really was submissive. A common frontispiece in papal medieval manuscripts symbolically depicts the author kneeling before the pope and humbly holding out his book to be blessed:

This author is Laurentius Pisanus, a rather obscure author of philosophical dialogues. The codex is among 44 items placed online September 23 by the Vatican Library. Here is the full list:

1. Borg.et.3: this Ethiopian manuscript opens with some interesting sketches:
   
2. Borg.et.24, narrow charter (previously rolled?)
3. Borgh.164, Godfrey of Fontaines' Disputed Questions (1r-24r: Tabula quaestionum variarum de re theologica et philosophica), 13th-14th century ms
4. Neofiti.37,
5. Vat.ebr.43
6. Vat.ebr.399
7. Vat.ebr.400
8. Vat.ebr.401
9. Vat.ebr.402
10. Vat.ebr.403
11. Vat.ebr.406
12. Vat.ebr.408
13. Vat.ebr.412.pt.1
14. Vat.ebr.415
15. Vat.ebr.416
16. Vat.ebr.417
17. Vat.ebr.418
18. Vat.ebr.419
19. Vat.ebr.421
20. Vat.ebr.422
21. Vat.ebr.425
22. Vat.ebr.426
23. Vat.ebr.427
24. Vat.ebr.434
25. Vat.ebr.436
26. Vat.ebr.437
27. Vat.ebr.439
28. Vat.ebr.441
29. Vat.ebr.446
30. Vat.ebr.447
31. Vat.ebr.451
32. Vat.ebr.451
33. Vat.lat.342
34. Vat.lat.808
35. Vat.lat.814
36. Vat.lat.879
37. Vat.lat.886
38. Vat.lat.894
39. Vat.lat.899
40. Vat.lat.908, Bonaventura, Commentary
41. Vat.lat.930, Pope Innocent, 1215-76
42. Vat.lat.961, Laurentius of Pisa, Dialogus Humilitatis, with a fine opening miniature (above)
43. Vat.lat.986
44. Vat.lat.991, Albertanus of Brescia, 13th century

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