Astronomer from Merv

This week's batch of microfilms from the Vatican Library contains many treasures. One is the Greek translation of a book by the astronomer and scientist ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khāzinī of Merv, Iran, active 1121. Wikipedia. Rome Reborn: This short treatise, translated by Gregory Chioniades, describes Tusi's lunar theory. Here is a figure of the motion of the moon:

See SLU: Inscribed: Liber qui inscribitur Santzarēs
Here are the first 300 of the 609 new Vaticanus Graecus items. LQ indicates "low quality", and applies to them all. I have divided the list into two parts and will offer the rest in 24 hours. The 1,733 new Vaticanus Latinus items are a bigger challenge to be dealt with later. 

1. Vat.gr.2 , LQ
2. Vat.gr.7 , LQ
3. Vat.gr.9 , LQ
4. Vat.gr.20 , LQ
5. Vat.gr.21 , LQ
6. Vat.gr.22 , LQ
7. Vat.gr.28 , LQ
8. Vat.gr.32 , LQ
9. Vat.gr.33 , LQ
10. Vat.gr.35 , LQ
11. Vat.gr.38 , LQ
12. Vat.gr.40 , LQ
13. Vat.gr.42 , LQ
14. Vat.gr.44 , LQ
15. Vat.gr.57 , LQ
16. Vat.gr.59 , LQ
17. Vat.gr.60 , LQ
18. Vat.gr.64 , LQ, Letters of the Socratics. This is the source from which all the other manuscripts are copied. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Vaticanus_Graecus_64
19. Vat.gr.65.pt.2 , LQ
20. Vat.gr.66 , LQ
21. Vat.gr.67 , LQ
22. Vat.gr.74 , LQ
23. Vat.gr.75 , LQ
24. Vat.gr.76 , LQ
25. Vat.gr.77 , LQ
26. Vat.gr.78 , LQ
27. Vat.gr.82.pt.2 , LQ
28. Vat.gr.83.pt.1 , LQ
29. Vat.gr.83.pt.2 , LQ
30. Vat.gr.85 , LQ
31. Vat.gr.86 , LQ
32. Vat.gr.89 , LQ
33. Vat.gr.90 , LQ
34. Vat.gr.93 , LQ
35. Vat.gr.96 , LQ
36. Vat.gr.97 , LQ
37. Vat.gr.99 , LQ
38. Vat.gr.187 , LQ
39. Vat.gr.193 , LQ
40. Vat.gr.196 , LQ
41. Vat.gr.198 , LQ
42. Vat.gr.202.pt.1 , LQ
43. Vat.gr.202.pt.2 , LQ
44. Vat.gr.208 , LQ
45. Vat.gr.209 , LQ
46. Vat.gr.210 , LQ
47. Vat.gr.211 , LQ, Khazini on astronomy (see above)
48. Vat.gr.212 , LQ
49. Vat.gr.213 , LQ
50. Vat.gr.215 , LQ
51. Vat.gr.216 , LQ
52. Vat.gr.219 , LQ
53. Vat.gr.222 , LQ
54. Vat.gr.223 , LQ
55. Vat.gr.225 , LQ
56. Vat.gr.226 , LQ
57. Vat.gr.229 , LQ
58. Vat.gr.230 , LQ
59. Vat.gr.237 , LQ
60. Vat.gr.238 , LQ
61. Vat.gr.240 , LQ, Syllogae minores, a collection of erotic Greek epigrams, Appendix B.-V. or ABV (Appendix Barberino-Vaticana), 56 (or 54) erotic epigrams, transmitted via this and two other manuscripts: Barb. gr. 123 and Par. Suppl. gr. 1199 (16th century)
62. Vat.gr.242 , LQ
63. Vat.gr.243 , LQ
64. Vat.gr.246 , LQ
65. Vat.gr.248 , LQ
66. Vat.gr.249 , LQ
67. Vat.gr.255 , LQ
68. Vat.gr.258 , LQ
69. Vat.gr.267 , LQ
70. Vat.gr.276 , LQ: this is the Hippocrates used by Bartholomew of Messina and William Moerbeke to create Latin versions of Hippocrates. See 2009 paper by Burnett http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=ljsproceedings
71. Vat.gr.277 , LQ, Works by Hippocrates, http://libguides.slu.edu/c.php?g=185813&p=1228297
72. Vat.gr.278 , LQ, Works by Hippocrates, http://libguides.slu.edu/c.php?g=185813&p=1228297
73. Vat.gr.279 , LQ
74. Vat.gr.280 , LQ
75. Vat.gr.281 , LQ
76. Vat.gr.282 , LQ
77. Vat.gr.283 , LQ
78. Vat.gr.285 , LQ
79. Vat.gr.286 , LQ
80. Vat.gr.292 , LQ
81. Vat.gr.294 , LQ
82. Vat.gr.297 , LQ
83. Vat.gr.298 , LQ
84. Vat.gr.299 , LQ
85. Vat.gr.300 , LQ
86. Vat.gr.304 , LQ
87. Vat.gr.305 , LQ, contains scholia on the Iliad from the work of the scholar and philosopher Porphyry. Among his writings, many of which had to do with Platonic philosophy, was a treatise entitled 'Homeric Questions' (Ομηικα Ζητηματα, Homerika Zetemata, or in its more commonly given Latin translation, Quaestiones Homericae, which only survives in a fragmentary state in this one codex.
88. Vat.gr.306 , LQ
89. Vat.gr.317 , LQ
90. Vat.gr.321 , LQ
91. Vat.gr.322 , LQ
92. Vat.gr.324 , LQ
93. Vat.gr.325.pt.2 , LQ
94. Vat.gr.331 , LQ
95. Vat.gr.338 , LQ
96. Vat.gr.339.pt.1 , LQ
97. Vat.gr.339.pt.2 , LQ
98. Vat.gr.343 , LQ
99. Vat.gr.345 , LQ
100. Vat.gr.349 , LQ
101. Vat.gr.350 , LQ
102. Vat.gr.352 , LQ
103. Vat.gr.353 , LQ
104. Vat.gr.355 , LQ
105. Vat.gr.356 , LQ
106. Vat.gr.362 , LQ
107. Vat.gr.363 , LQ
108. Vat.gr.366 , LQ
109. Vat.gr.368 , LQ
110. Vat.gr.370 , LQ
111. Vat.gr.373 , LQ
112. Vat.gr.375 , LQ
113. Vat.gr.379 , LQ
114. Vat.gr.381 , LQ
115. Vat.gr.393 , LQ
116. Vat.gr.399 , LQ
117. Vat.gr.400.pt.1 , LQ
118. Vat.gr.400.pt.2 , LQ
119. Vat.gr.402 , LQ
120. Vat.gr.404 , LQ
121. Vat.gr.408 , LQ
122. Vat.gr.410 , LQ
123. Vat.gr.416 , LQ
124. Vat.gr.419 , LQ
125. Vat.gr.423.pt.1 , LQ
126. Vat.gr.423.pt.2 , LQ
127. Vat.gr.424 , LQ
128. Vat.gr.426.pt.1 , LQ
129. Vat.gr.426.pt.2 , LQ
130. Vat.gr.427 , LQ
131. Vat.gr.428 , LQ
132. Vat.gr.432 , LQ
133. Vat.gr.433 , LQ
134. Vat.gr.435 , LQ
135. Vat.gr.438 , LQ
136. Vat.gr.442 , LQ
137. Vat.gr.445 , LQ
138. Vat.gr.448 , LQ
139. Vat.gr.450 , LQ
140. Vat.gr.468 , LQ
141. Vat.gr.470 , LQ
142. Vat.gr.481 , LQ
143. Vat.gr.482 , LQ
144. Vat.gr.483 , LQ
145. Vat.gr.490 , LQ
146. Vat.gr.495 , LQ
147. Vat.gr.507.pt.1 , LQ
148. Vat.gr.508 , LQ
149. Vat.gr.511 , LQ
150. Vat.gr.516 , LQ
151. Vat.gr.520 , LQ
152. Vat.gr.544 , LQ
153. Vat.gr.552 , LQ
154. Vat.gr.554 , LQ
155. Vat.gr.561 , LQ
156. Vat.gr.562.pt.1 , LQ
157. Vat.gr.562.pt.2 , LQ
158. Vat.gr.573 , LQ
159. Vat.gr.578.pt.2 , LQ
160. Vat.gr.597 , LQ
161. Vat.gr.598 , LQ
162. Vat.gr.599 , LQ
163. Vat.gr.604 , LQ
164. Vat.gr.606 , LQ
165. Vat.gr.609 , LQ
166. Vat.gr.610 , LQ
167. Vat.gr.611 , LQ
168. Vat.gr.612 , LQ
169. Vat.gr.613 , LQ
170. Vat.gr.614 , LQ
171. Vat.gr.615 , LQ
172. Vat.gr.616 , LQ
173. Vat.gr.617 , LQ
174. Vat.gr.622 , LQ
175. Vat.gr.624 , LQ
176. Vat.gr.632 , LQ
177. Vat.gr.637 , LQ
178. Vat.gr.638 , LQ
179. Vat.gr.642 , LQ
180. Vat.gr.652 , LQ
181. Vat.gr.659 , LQ
182. Vat.gr.668 , LQ
183. Vat.gr.672 , LQ
184. Vat.gr.673 , LQ
185. Vat.gr.674 , LQ
186. Vat.gr.676 , LQ
187. Vat.gr.677 , LQ
188. Vat.gr.678 , LQ
189. Vat.gr.680.pt.1 , LQ
190. Vat.gr.680.pt.2 , LQ
191. Vat.gr.683 , LQ
192. Vat.gr.690 , LQ
193. Vat.gr.695 , LQ
194. Vat.gr.696 , LQ
195. Vat.gr.698 , LQ
196. Vat.gr.701 , LQ
197. Vat.gr.703 , LQ
198. Vat.gr.704 , LQ
199. Vat.gr.705 , LQ
200. Vat.gr.706 , LQ
201. Vat.gr.707 , LQ
202. Vat.gr.712 , LQ
203. Vat.gr.713 , LQ
204. Vat.gr.717 , LQ
205. Vat.gr.719 , LQ
206. Vat.gr.721 , LQ
207. Vat.gr.722 , LQ
208. Vat.gr.723 , LQ
209. Vat.gr.725 , LQ
210. Vat.gr.728 , LQ
211. Vat.gr.731 , LQ
212. Vat.gr.732 , LQ
213. Vat.gr.737 , LQ
214. Vat.gr.739 , LQ
215. Vat.gr.742 , LQ
216. Vat.gr.743 , LQ
217. Vat.gr.753 , LQ
218. Vat.gr.754 , LQ
219. Vat.gr.757 , LQ, contains the Letter to Aristides of Julius Africanus (Eccl. History)
220. Vat.gr.768 , LQ
221. Vat.gr.770 , LQ
222. Vat.gr.771 , LQ
223. Vat.gr.773 , LQ
224. Vat.gr.779 , LQ
225. Vat.gr.784 , LQ
226. Vat.gr.786 , LQ
227. Vat.gr.787 , LQ
228. Vat.gr.789 , LQ
229. Vat.gr.790.pt.2 , LQ
230. Vat.gr.794 , LQ
231. Vat.gr.803 , LQ
232. Vat.gr.808 , LQ
233. Vat.gr.809 , LQ
234. Vat.gr.820 , LQ
235. Vat.gr.822 , LQ
236. Vat.gr.823 , LQ
237. Vat.gr.827 , LQ
238. Vat.gr.840 , LQ
239. Vat.gr.845 , LQ, the famed Prochiron Legum,  a handbook of Byzantine law, which only survives in this single codex. It is drawn from the Ekloge ton nomon and the Epitome Legum. Compiled in 12th century Norman-ruled southern Italy, perhaps in Amalfi.  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochiron_legum
240. Vat.gr.849 , LQ
241. Vat.gr.854.pt.1 , LQ
242. Vat.gr.854.pt.2 , LQ
243. Vat.gr.856.pt.1 , LQ
244. Vat.gr.856.pt.2 , LQ
245. Vat.gr.858 , LQ
246. Vat.gr.859 , LQ
247. Vat.gr.865 , LQ
248. Vat.gr.870 , LQ
249. Vat.gr.871 , LQ
250. Vat.gr.872 , LQ
251. Vat.gr.874.pt.1 , LQ
252. Vat.gr.874.pt.2 , LQ
253. Vat.gr.875.pt.1 , LQ
254. Vat.gr.875.pt.2 , LQ
255. Vat.gr.877 , LQ
256. Vat.gr.878 , LQ
257. Vat.gr.883 , LQ
258. Vat.gr.895 , LQ
259. Vat.gr.904 , LQ
260. Vat.gr.905 , LQ
261. Vat.gr.910 , LQ
262. Vat.gr.913 , LQ
263. Vat.gr.914 , LQ
264. Vat.gr.915 , LQ
265. Vat.gr.917 , LQ
266. Vat.gr.918 , LQ
267. Vat.gr.919 , LQ
268. Vat.gr.923 , LQ
269. Vat.gr.924 , LQ
270. Vat.gr.926 , LQ
271. Vat.gr.928 , LQ
272. Vat.gr.929 , LQ
273. Vat.gr.932 , LQ
274. Vat.gr.933 , LQ
275. Vat.gr.934 , LQ
276. Vat.gr.935 , LQ
277. Vat.gr.936 , LQ
278. Vat.gr.937.pt.1 , LQ
279. Vat.gr.937.pt.2 , LQ
280. Vat.gr.938 , LQ
281. Vat.gr.939 , LQ
282. Vat.gr.940 , LQ
283. Vat.gr.941 , LQ
284. Vat.gr.942 , LQ
285. Vat.gr.943 , LQ
286. Vat.gr.944 , LQ
287. Vat.gr.945 , LQ
288. Vat.gr.952 , LQ
289. Vat.gr.977 , LQ
290. Vat.gr.981 , LQ
291. Vat.gr.984 , LQ
292. Vat.gr.985 , LQ
293. Vat.gr.986 , LQ
294. Vat.gr.987 , LQ
295. Vat.gr.988 , LQ
296. Vat.gr.989 , LQ
297. Vat.gr.990 , LQ
298. Vat.gr.993 , LQ
299. Vat.gr.996.pt.1 , LQ
300. Vat.gr.996.pt.2 , LQ

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 96. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.

Catching the Changes

Under the smooth shiny hood of the Vatican Library's digital manuscripts portal, which currently has 10,420 items online to read, it's now possible for the scholar to distinguish two categories of URLs to share with friends. The first comprises links to full-color scans of manuscripts like the 94 items below, the latest digitization release, on January 26, 2017.

1. Borg.arm.61
2. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.159
3. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.160
4. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.161
5. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.162
6. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.163
7. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.165
8. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.166
9. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.167
10. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.168
11. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.130
12. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.131
13. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.132
14. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.133
15. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.134
16. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.135
17. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.136
18. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVI.fasc.137
19. Pal.lat.81
20. Pal.lat.87
21. Pal.lat.92
22. Pal.lat.96
23. Pal.lat.99
24. Pal.lat.129
25. Pal.lat.132
26. Pal.lat.133
27. Pal.lat.134
28. Pal.lat.136
29. Pal.lat.137
30. Pal.lat.138
31. Pal.lat.139
32. Pal.lat.141
33. Pal.lat.144
34. Pal.lat.146
35. Pal.lat.147
36. Pal.lat.151
37. Pal.lat.152
38. Pal.lat.155
39. Pal.lat.156
40. Pal.lat.157
41. Pal.lat.158
42. Pal.lat.161
43. Pal.lat.163
44. Pal.lat.164
45. Pal.lat.166
46. Pal.lat.168
47. Pal.lat.237
48. Pal.lat.240
49. Pal.lat.244
50. Pal.lat.247
51. Pal.lat.248
52. Pal.lat.250
53. Pal.lat.252
54. Pal.lat.254
55. Pal.lat.256
56. Pal.lat.257
57. Pal.lat.260
58. Pal.lat.267
59. Pal.lat.268
60. Pal.lat.269
61. Pal.lat.271
62. Pal.lat.275
63. Pal.lat.279
64. Pal.lat.280
65. Pal.lat.384
66. Pal.lat.385
67. Pal.lat.389
68. Pal.lat.391
69. Pal.lat.392
70. Pal.lat.393
71. Pal.lat.394
72. Pal.lat.525.pt.1
73. Pal.lat.525.pt.2
74. Pal.lat.599
75. Pal.lat.1004
76. Pal.lat.1005
77. Reg.lat.1105, Tractatus de Medicina. Written in ordinary 12th-century minuscule. Folios 68-76 are palimpsest; the lower script (part of a 10th-century missal) is Beneventan, according to Lowe.
78. Urb.lat.1454
79. Urb.lat.1469
80. Urb.lat.1490
81. Urb.lat.1604
82. Urb.lat.1606
83. Urb.lat.1691
84. Urb.lat.1716
85. Urb.lat.1718
86. Urb.lat.1722
87. Urb.lat.1724
88. Urb.lat.1725
89. Urb.lat.1726
90. Urb.lat.1727
91. Urb.lat.1729
92. Vat.lat.999
93. Vat.lat.1106
94. Vat.lat.1221

The second category, very likely kept on a different server, comprises digital versions of old microfilms, mostly black and white but a few in color, which are essentially the same as those made available in recent years on CD-ROM by the Vatican photographic workshop at 50 euros and upwards apiece. The URLS, marked "low quality", are permanent links, which I am guessing will remain valid when these films are ultimately replaced by proper scans.

Keeping track of all this cannot be done without help from software. I use an extension, Distill, available for the Chrome and Firefox browsers.

One of its benefits is that it can be programmed to only monitor the parts of the index pages that matter. For each collection, I create a monitor that ignores the page decoration and thumbnail images and only extracts the the plain shelfmarks from the page as served:
//body[@class='script-active']/div[@class='main']/div[contains(@class,'fluid')]/div[@class='shadow-content']//div//ul[@class='loaded']/li//p

I am experimenting with a second monitor that drills down through the DOM tree to the words "low quality" to detect when that flag disappears (after a high-quality scan replaces a microfilm):
"//body[@class='script-active']/div[@class='main']/div[contains(@class,'fluid')]/div[@class='shadow-content']//div//ul[@class='loaded']/li//figure/div/span"

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 96. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.

Greek Night Sky

Some of the most important real releases of new manuscripts by the Vatican Library in the past week are the many Vatican Greek items newly scanned and digitized.

One of these prizes is Vat.gr.1291, a 9th-century manuscript of the "handy tables" by the Late Antique Greek astronomer Ptolemy for astronomical observation. The Rome Reborn catalog remarks: Ptolemy's Handy Tables (4th century) became the basis of later astronomical tables in Greek, Arabic, and Latin. The Handy Tables allow the calculation of solar, lunar, and planetary positions and eclipses of the sun and moon far more rapidly than the tables included in the Almagest. This early and elegant uncial manuscript is well-known for its illumination drawn elegantly in white against the dark blue of the night sky, showing the northern part of the zodiac.

Another highlight is Vat.gr.1288, containing the Vatican Dio Cassius, books 78-79, the sole extant source of those two books of this ancient work of history (see Roger Pearse for more).

1. Vat.gr.10
2. Vat.gr.12
3. Vat.gr.14
4. Vat.gr.15
5. Vat.gr.17
6. Vat.gr.18
7. Vat.gr.101
8. Vat.gr.102
9. Vat.gr.107
10. Vat.gr.110
11. Vat.gr.111
12. Vat.gr.112
13. Vat.gr.113
14. Vat.gr.116
15. Vat.gr.121
16. Vat.gr.122
17. Vat.gr.124
18. Vat.gr.128
19. Vat.gr.130
20. Vat.gr.133
21. Vat.gr.134
22. Vat.gr.136
23. Vat.gr.138
24. Vat.gr.140
25. Vat.gr.141
26. Vat.gr.147
27. Vat.gr.148
28. Vat.gr.149
29. Vat.gr.150
30. Vat.gr.151.pt.1
31. Vat.gr.151.pt.2
32. Vat.gr.153
33. Vat.gr.156
34. Vat.gr.163
35. Vat.gr.164
36. Vat.gr.165
37. Vat.gr.166
38. Vat.gr.167
39. Vat.gr.171
40. Vat.gr.172
41. Vat.gr.176
42. Vat.gr.177
43. Vat.gr.245
44. Vat.gr.284, De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus by Galen: Rome Reborn describes it as a "harmonization of excerpts from two of the most important writers on materia medica of antiquity, ... assembled in Byzantium in the 10th century. Most of the substances named in the work are plants. Illustrations were added in the mid-14th century to enhance the practical usefulness of the work."
    
45. Vat.gr.358
46. Vat.gr.394, Ladder of Divine Ascent, by John Climacus, a finely illuminated manuscript of a classic of desert monasticism:
    
47. Vat.gr.504, with Letter to Aristides by Julius Africanus (see Guignard 2011 edition)
48. Vat.gr.711
49. Vat.gr.749.pt.1,  a famed Byzantine manuscript of the Book of Job 
    
50. Vat.gr.772
51. Vat.gr.807
52. Vat.gr.866
53. Vat.gr.961
54. Vat.gr.1018
55. Vat.gr.1020
56. Vat.gr.1024
57. Vat.gr.1026
58. Vat.gr.1031
59. Vat.gr.1032
60. Vat.gr.1033
61. Vat.gr.1038
62. Vat.gr.1040
63. Vat.gr.1047
64. Vat.gr.1048
65. Vat.gr.1049
66. Vat.gr.1050
67. Vat.gr.1051
68. Vat.gr.1056
69. Vat.gr.1057
70. Vat.gr.1058
71. Vat.gr.1059
72. Vat.gr.1060
73. Vat.gr.1066
74. Vat.gr.1072
75. Vat.gr.1076
76. Vat.gr.1084.pt.1
77. Vat.gr.1084.pt.2
78. Vat.gr.1085
79. Vat.gr.1086
80. Vat.gr.1087
81. Vat.gr.1092
82. Vat.gr.1093
83. Vat.gr.1095
84. Vat.gr.1096
85. Vat.gr.1097
86. Vat.gr.1101.pt.1
87. Vat.gr.1101.pt.2
88. Vat.gr.1102.pt.1
89. Vat.gr.1102.pt.2
90. Vat.gr.1103
91. Vat.gr.1104
92. Vat.gr.1106.pt.1
93. Vat.gr.1106.pt.2
94. Vat.gr.1107
95. Vat.gr.1108
96. Vat.gr.1109
97. Vat.gr.1115
98. Vat.gr.1119
99. Vat.gr.1120
100. Vat.gr.1122
101. Vat.gr.1126
102. Vat.gr.1129
103. Vat.gr.1134
104. Vat.gr.1141
105. Vat.gr.1144
106. Vat.gr.1151
107. Vat.gr.1152
108. Vat.gr.1171
109. Vat.gr.1175
110. Vat.gr.1185.pt.1
111. Vat.gr.1185.pt.2
112. Vat.gr.1188
113. Vat.gr.1190.pt.1
114. Vat.gr.1190.pt.2
115. Vat.gr.1190.pt.3
116. Vat.gr.1192
117. Vat.gr.1193
118. Vat.gr.1196
119. Vat.gr.1204
120. Vat.gr.1205
121. Vat.gr.1213
122. Vat.gr.1219.pt.1
123. Vat.gr.1219.pt.2
124. Vat.gr.1221
125. Vat.gr.1228
126. Vat.gr.1238.pt.1
127. Vat.gr.1238.pt.2
128. Vat.gr.1238.pt.3
129. Vat.gr.1242
130. Vat.gr.1245
131. Vat.gr.1246
132. Vat.gr.1251
133. Vat.gr.1255
134. Vat.gr.1256
135. Vat.gr.1257
136. Vat.gr.1260
137. Vat.gr.1262
138. Vat.gr.1265
139. Vat.gr.1266
140. Vat.gr.1268
141. Vat.gr.1270
142. Vat.gr.1274
143. Vat.gr.1276
144. Vat.gr.1283
145. Vat.gr.1288, Dio Cassius books 78-79 (above)
146. Vat.gr.1291, Ptolemy Handy Tables (above)
147. Vat.gr.1295
148. Vat.gr.1297
149. Vat.gr.1298.pt.1
150. Vat.gr.1298.pt.2
151. Vat.gr.1299
152. Vat.gr.1302
153. Vat.gr.1305
154. Vat.gr.1309.pt.1
155. Vat.gr.1309.pt.2
156. Vat.gr.1311
157. Vat.gr.1314
158. Vat.gr.1316.pt.1
159. Vat.gr.1316.pt.2
160. Vat.gr.1317.pt.1
161. Vat.gr.1317.pt.2
162. Vat.gr.1318
163. Vat.gr.1319
164. Vat.gr.1321
165. Vat.gr.1323
166. Vat.gr.1324
167. Vat.gr.1325.pt.1
168. Vat.gr.1325.pt.2
169. Vat.gr.1334
170. Vat.gr.1335
171. Vat.gr.1339, a later manuscript of Aristotle's On the Soul, although Wikipedia suggests it is of low value.
172. Vat.gr.1340
173. Vat.gr.1342
174. Vat.gr.1345
175. Vat.gr.1347
176. Vat.gr.1349
177. Vat.gr.1351
178. Vat.gr.1352
179. Vat.gr.1353
180. Vat.gr.1357
181. Vat.gr.1359.pt.1
182. Vat.gr.1359.pt.2
183. Vat.gr.1361
184. Vat.gr.1364
185. Vat.gr.1366
186. Vat.gr.1369
187. Vat.gr.1371
188. Vat.gr.1373
189. Vat.gr.1379
190. Vat.gr.1381
191. Vat.gr.1385
192. Vat.gr.1386
193. Vat.gr.1390
194. Vat.gr.1392
195. Vat.gr.1395
196. Vat.gr.1396
197. Vat.gr.1408
198. Vat.gr.1409.pt.2
199. Vat.gr.1410
200. Vat.gr.1411
201. Vat.gr.1412
202. Vat.gr.1414
203. Vat.gr.1415
204. Vat.gr.1431
205. Vat.gr.1435
206. Vat.gr.1442
207. Vat.gr.1444
208. Vat.gr.1447
209. Vat.gr.1455.pt.2
210. Vat.gr.1458
211. Vat.gr.1463
212. Vat.gr.1467
213. Vat.gr.1469
214. Vat.gr.1485
215. Vat.gr.1492
216. Vat.gr.1496.pt.1
217. Vat.gr.1496.pt.2
218. Vat.gr.1496.pt.3
219. Vat.gr.1499
220. Vat.gr.1506
221. Vat.gr.1510
222. Vat.gr.1515
223. Vat.gr.1519
224. Vat.gr.1524
225. Vat.gr.1538
226. Vat.gr.1546
227. Vat.gr.1547
228. Vat.gr.1552
229. Vat.gr.1554
230. Vat.gr.1558
231. Vat.gr.1559
232. Vat.gr.1570
233. Vat.gr.1571
234. Vat.gr.1574
235. Vat.gr.1576
236. Vat.gr.1580
237. Vat.gr.1583
238. Vat.gr.1587.pt.2
239. Vat.gr.1589
240. Vat.gr.1591
241. Vat.gr.1592
242. Vat.gr.1597
243. Vat.gr.1599
244. Vat.gr.1600
245. Vat.gr.1603
246. Vat.gr.1606
247. Vat.gr.1608
248. Vat.gr.1609
249. Vat.gr.1611, with Letter to Aristides by Julius Africanus (see Guignard 2011 edition)
250. Vat.gr.1619
251. Vat.gr.1628
252. Vat.gr.1632
253. Vat.gr.1633
254. Vat.gr.1634
255. Vat.gr.1636
256. Vat.gr.1637
257. Vat.gr.1642, with Letter to Aristides by Julius Africanus (see Guignard 2011 edition)
258. Vat.gr.1644
259. Vat.gr.1646
260. Vat.gr.1647
261. Vat.gr.1648
262. Vat.gr.1652
263. Vat.gr.1656
264. Vat.gr.1659
265. Vat.gr.1660
266. Vat.gr.1665
267. Vat.gr.1667
268. Vat.gr.1669
269. Vat.gr.1671
270. Vat.gr.1672
271. Vat.gr.1674
272. Vat.gr.1675
273. Vat.gr.1676
274. Vat.gr.1677
275. Vat.gr.1678
276. Vat.gr.1682
277. Vat.gr.1683
278. Vat.gr.1687
279. Vat.gr.1693
280. Vat.gr.1694
281. Vat.gr.1696
282. Vat.gr.1697
283. Vat.gr.1700, Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (edition, Aerts and Kortekaas, 1998), often used to supplement the Legend of Alexander in Latin versions.
284. Vat.gr.1702
285. Vat.gr.1705
286. Vat.gr.1708
287. Vat.gr.1709
288. Vat.gr.1712
289. Vat.gr.1713
290. Vat.gr.1716
291. Vat.gr.1719
292. Vat.gr.1720
293. Vat.gr.1732
294. Vat.gr.1733
295. Vat.gr.1735
296. Vat.gr.1745
297. Vat.gr.1747
298. Vat.gr.1750
299. Vat.gr.1751
300. Vat.gr.1753
301. Vat.gr.1755
302. Vat.gr.1756
303. Vat.gr.1759
304. Vat.gr.1766
305. Vat.gr.1770
306. Vat.gr.1774
307. Vat.gr.1777
308. Vat.gr.1778
309. Vat.gr.1784
310. Vat.gr.1789
311. Vat.gr.1802
312. Vat.gr.1809
313. Vat.gr.1811
314. Vat.gr.1813
315. Vat.gr.1818
316. Vat.gr.1822
317. Vat.gr.1823

Here is a second list, mainly of microfilms, which may be of use to someone:

1. Borg.lat.25
2. Borg.lat.30
3. Borg.lat.32
4. Borg.lat.36
5. Borg.lat.45
6. Borg.lat.61
7. Borg.lat.65
8. Borg.lat.67
9. Borg.lat.71
10. Borg.lat.80
11. Borg.lat.86
12. Borg.lat.94
13. Borg.lat.144
14. Borg.lat.148
15. Borg.lat.153
16. Borg.lat.156
17. Borg.lat.158
18. Borg.lat.164
19. Borg.lat.182
20. Borg.lat.234
21. Borg.lat.236
22. Borg.lat.237
23. Borg.lat.238
24. Borg.lat.241
25. Borg.lat.247
26. Borg.lat.248
27. Borg.lat.277
28. Borg.lat.283
29. Borg.lat.285
30. Borg.lat.296
31. Borg.lat.315
32. Borg.lat.316
33. Borg.lat.317
34. Borg.lat.325
35. Borg.lat.326
36. Borg.lat.329
37. Borg.lat.336
38. Borg.lat.355
39. Borg.lat.356
40. Borg.lat.383
41. Borg.lat.397
42. Borg.lat.409
43. Borg.lat.428
44. Borg.lat.450
45. Borg.lat.470
46. Borg.lat.480
47. Borg.lat.481
48. Borg.lat.482
49. Borg.lat.484
50. Borg.lat.499
51. Borg.lat.542
52. Borg.lat.545
53. Borg.lat.565
54. Borg.lat.636
55. Borg.lat.637
56. Borg.lat.653
57. Borg.lat.660
58. Borg.lat.731
59. Borg.lat.733
60. Borg.lat.734
61. Borg.lat.747
62. Borg.lat.767
63. Borg.lat.771
64. Borg.lat.812
65. Borg.lat.869
66. Borg.lat.878
67. Borg.lat.894
68. Borg.lat.895

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 94. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.

Science in the Year 1000

Ending an extraordinary week for DigiVatLib, where nearly 4,000 microfilms were placed online as scans, I bring you a list of the new Ottoboniani Latin codices.

One could argue that one of main manuscripts in terms of history here here is one that grew from an elaborate and devilishly clever early medieval political plot, the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals.

The spectacular Pontificale of King Mathias Corvin of Hungary is undoubtedly the greatest item of art in this bunch of 407 codices, but there is also one fine jewel in the history of science. Ott.lat.477, Isidore's Etymologiae in a 13th-century manuscript, is special because of an insertion: this little-known text comprises a history of medicine and a summary of anatomy.

Its origin is Hebrew, from the Book of Asaph (4th-6th century CE) and what one might describe as a history-of-science course for Jewish medical students, and its Latin elaboration, a progressive version with many alterations, reviews the place of Hippocrates, Galen and others in the long course of studies of the human body.

This 11th-century text is found in eight medieval manuscripts, attached to Etymologiae Book 4 (Medicine), and demonstrates that medieval science after the year 1000 was not fixed or trapped in a corset of ancient knowledge, but kept altering and being revised.

See a comprehensive article and edition by Carmen Codoñer in CRMH. Here is the start of the text on the far left of frame 54 (which Codoñer gives as f. 44^ra, though the page is surely a verso), beginning De initio medicine…

There has also been progress this week in understanding why the 4,000 are not yet scans in color. There has been a public assurance from @DigitaVaticana this week on Twitter, light-hearted but seriously, that the proper scans will be done.

The black and white versions are just a temporary solution to the pressure from scholars to at least see "something“ of the Vatican treasures. Those scans are available for purchase at an average price of 70 euros per CD-ROM, so one could argue that putting all 3,950 sets online for free is a gift worth 276,500 euros (296,000 dollars). 

As far as I can understand, digitizing microfilm can be automated, and there are good arguments for taking this "American" approach, instead of being ultra-perfect and slow.  With 80,000 items to digitize and fewer than 7,000 completed, the task ahead remains enormous and will be a matter of many years.

Here is the list:

1. Ott.lat.3, Martyrologium, 12th or 13th century in Beneventan hand, See Lowe p. 73.
2. Ott.lat.6
3. Ott.lat.7
4. Ott.lat.8
5. Ott.lat.35
6. Ott.lat.38
7. Ott.lat.62
8. Ott.lat.65
9. Ott.lat.70
10. Ott.lat.88
11. Ott.lat.93, contains one of the most famous forgeries of the early Middle Ages, the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals, written by a scholar (or group of scholars) using the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator. They were probably a group of Frankish clerics writing in the second quarter of the 9th century. To defend the position of bishops against metropolitans and secular authorities, they created documents purportedly authored by early popes and council documents. This manuscript is held to be the best of class A1 as used by historians working on this extraordinary medieval detective story. For more, see Wikipedia
12. Ott.lat.107
13. Ott.lat.133
14. Ott.lat.145, Collectarium (Hymni, Cantica, Lectiones, Letaniae et Collectae) in 11th century Beneventan hand.
15. Ott.lat.167
16. Ott.lat.169
17. Ott.lat.176
18. Ott.lat.179
19. Ott.lat.181
20. Ott.lat.196
21. Ott.lat.222
22. Ott.lat.225
23. Ott.lat.227
24. Ott.lat.245
25. Ott.lat.254
26. Ott.lat.256
27. Ott.lat.260
28. Ott.lat.269
29. Ott.lat.279
30. Ott.lat.284
31. Ott.lat.286
32. Ott.lat.306
33. Ott.lat.318
34. Ott.lat.321
35. Ott.lat.322
36. Ott.lat.333
37. Ott.lat.338
38. Ott.lat.339
39. Ott.lat.347
40. Ott.lat.381
41. Ott.lat.382
42. Ott.lat.396
43. Ott.lat.402
44. Ott.lat.403
45. Ott.lat.441
46. Ott.lat.454
47. Ott.lat.464
48. Ott.lat.477, Isidore, Etymologiae, 13th century (above).
49. Ott.lat.481
50. Ott.lat.496
51. Ott.lat.501, the Pontificale of Mathias Corvin of Hungary, a celebrated work of religious art. This is a color microfilm, but of limited resolution:
    
52. Ott.lat.518
53. Ott.lat.542
54. Ott.lat.557
55. Ott.lat.564
56. Ott.lat.566
57. Ott.lat.623
58. Ott.lat.644
59. Ott.lat.662
60. Ott.lat.663
61. Ott.lat.672
62. Ott.lat.695
63. Ott.lat.702
64. Ott.lat.707
65. Ott.lat.711
66. Ott.lat.718
67. Ott.lat.731
68. Ott.lat.751
69. Ott.lat.752
70. Ott.lat.753
71. Ott.lat.757
72. Ott.lat.760
73. Ott.lat.780
74. Ott.lat.781
75. Ott.lat.782
76. Ott.lat.791
77. Ott.lat.792
78. Ott.lat.793
79. Ott.lat.823
80. Ott.lat.842
81. Ott.lat.845
82. Ott.lat.869
83. Ott.lat.870.pt.1
84. Ott.lat.870.pt.2
85. Ott.lat.877
86. Ott.lat.909
87. Ott.lat.911
88. Ott.lat.920
89. Ott.lat.960
90. Ott.lat.983
91. Ott.lat.991
92. Ott.lat.999
93. Ott.lat.1000
94. Ott.lat.1004
95. Ott.lat.1007.pt.1
96. Ott.lat.1007.pt.2
97. Ott.lat.1013
98. Ott.lat.1021
99. Ott.lat.1039
100. Ott.lat.1042
101. Ott.lat.1056
102. Ott.lat.1057
103. Ott.lat.1058
104. Ott.lat.1100
105. Ott.lat.1101
106. Ott.lat.1104
107. Ott.lat.1105
108. Ott.lat.1120
109. Ott.lat.1124
110. Ott.lat.1125
111. Ott.lat.1126
112. Ott.lat.1127
113. Ott.lat.1128
114. Ott.lat.1146
115. Ott.lat.1150
116. Ott.lat.1153
117. Ott.lat.1154
118. Ott.lat.1157
119. Ott.lat.1170
120. Ott.lat.1177
121. Ott.lat.1184
122. Ott.lat.1188
123. Ott.lat.1193
124. Ott.lat.1196
125. Ott.lat.1199
126. Ott.lat.1202
127. Ott.lat.1223
128. Ott.lat.1253
129. Ott.lat.1256
130. Ott.lat.1259
131. Ott.lat.1262
132. Ott.lat.1267
133. Ott.lat.1276
134. Ott.lat.1279
135. Ott.lat.1287
136. Ott.lat.1294
137. Ott.lat.1296
138. Ott.lat.1305
139. Ott.lat.1318
140. Ott.lat.1323
141. Ott.lat.1346
142. Ott.lat.1353
143. Ott.lat.1354
144. Ott.lat.1373
145. Ott.lat.1374
146. Ott.lat.1375
147. Ott.lat.1387
148. Ott.lat.1388
149. Ott.lat.1401
150. Ott.lat.1402
151. Ott.lat.1410
152. Ott.lat.1412
153. Ott.lat.1424
154. Ott.lat.1430
155. Ott.lat.1433
156. Ott.lat.1439
157. Ott.lat.1440
158. Ott.lat.1443
159. Ott.lat.1446
160. Ott.lat.1450
161. Ott.lat.1453
162. Ott.lat.1455
163. Ott.lat.1463
164. Ott.lat.1463.pt.A
165. Ott.lat.1465
166. Ott.lat.1469
167. Ott.lat.1471
168. Ott.lat.1472
169. Ott.lat.1473
170. Ott.lat.1481
171. Ott.lat.1507
172. Ott.lat.1510
173. Ott.lat.1516
174. Ott.lat.1528
175. Ott.lat.1545
176. Ott.lat.1549.pt.1
177. Ott.lat.1549.pt.2
178. Ott.lat.1550
179. Ott.lat.1554
180. Ott.lat.1558
181. Ott.lat.1564
182. Ott.lat.1586
183. Ott.lat.1591
184. Ott.lat.1603
185. Ott.lat.1613
186. Ott.lat.1614
187. Ott.lat.1631
188. Ott.lat.1653
189. Ott.lat.1662
190. Ott.lat.1665
191. Ott.lat.1667
192. Ott.lat.1677
193. Ott.lat.1681
194. Ott.lat.1682
195. Ott.lat.1710
196. Ott.lat.1721
197. Ott.lat.1726
198. Ott.lat.1727
199. Ott.lat.1732
200. Ott.lat.1735
201. Ott.lat.1759
202. Ott.lat.1761
203. Ott.lat.1763
204. Ott.lat.1766
205. Ott.lat.1777
206. Ott.lat.1778
207. Ott.lat.1787
208. Ott.lat.1790
209. Ott.lat.1797
210. Ott.lat.1826
211. Ott.lat.1829
212. Ott.lat.1834
213. Ott.lat.1853.pt.2
214. Ott.lat.1863
215. Ott.lat.1864
216. Ott.lat.1869
217. Ott.lat.1870
218. Ott.lat.1872
219. Ott.lat.1886
220. Ott.lat.1901
221. Ott.lat.1906
222. Ott.lat.1916
223. Ott.lat.1917
224. Ott.lat.1918
225. Ott.lat.1928
226. Ott.lat.1935
227. Ott.lat.1938
228. Ott.lat.1943
229. Ott.lat.1945
230. Ott.lat.1955
231. Ott.lat.1960
232. Ott.lat.1968
233. Ott.lat.1969
234. Ott.lat.1997
235. Ott.lat.2003
236. Ott.lat.2011
237. Ott.lat.2015
238. Ott.lat.2023
239. Ott.lat.2029
240. Ott.lat.2035
241. Ott.lat.2040
242. Ott.lat.2041
243. Ott.lat.2048
244. Ott.lat.2056
245. Ott.lat.2060
246. Ott.lat.2065
247. Ott.lat.2068
248. Ott.lat.2070
249. Ott.lat.2074
250. Ott.lat.2092
251. Ott.lat.2104
252. Ott.lat.2105
253. Ott.lat.2110
254. Ott.lat.2112
255. Ott.lat.2138
256. Ott.lat.2139
257. Ott.lat.2141
258. Ott.lat.2151
259. Ott.lat.2153
260. Ott.lat.2173
261. Ott.lat.2174
262. Ott.lat.2185
263. Ott.lat.2186
264. Ott.lat.2198
265. Ott.lat.2204
266. Ott.lat.2207
267. Ott.lat.2210
268. Ott.lat.2215
269. Ott.lat.2225
270. Ott.lat.2231
271. Ott.lat.2241
272. Ott.lat.2250
273. Ott.lat.2265.pt.1
274. Ott.lat.2265.pt.2
275. Ott.lat.2273
276. Ott.lat.2280
277. Ott.lat.2298
278. Ott.lat.2321
279. Ott.lat.2339
280. Ott.lat.2348
281. Ott.lat.2356
282. Ott.lat.2359
283. Ott.lat.2369
284. Ott.lat.2377, an Office for the Feast of San Vittorio of Volterra. See Rome Reborn by Anthony Grafton, who notes, "The humanist and papal bureaucrat Raffaele Maffei, "il Volterrano," recast traditional hymns to San Vittorio (the patron saint of his home town, Volterra) in various Horatian meters, adding a biography of the saint in Ciceronian Latin."
285. Ott.lat.2413
286. Ott.lat.2416.pt.1
287. Ott.lat.2416.pt.2
288. Ott.lat.2416.pt.3
289. Ott.lat.2435.pt.1
290. Ott.lat.2435.pt.2
291. Ott.lat.2449.pt.3
292. Ott.lat.2462.pt.2
293. Ott.lat.2472.pt.3
294. Ott.lat.2474
295. Ott.lat.2482.pt.1
296. Ott.lat.2482.pt.2
297. Ott.lat.2501.pt.1
298. Ott.lat.2501.pt.2
299. Ott.lat.2501.pt.3
300. Ott.lat.2502.pt.1
301. Ott.lat.2502.pt.2
302. Ott.lat.2502.pt.3
303. Ott.lat.2502.pt.4
304. Ott.lat.2516
305. Ott.lat.2520
306. Ott.lat.2524
307. Ott.lat.2548.pt.3
308. Ott.lat.2548.pt.4
309. Ott.lat.2564
310. Ott.lat.2571
311. Ott.lat.2573
312. Ott.lat.2579
313. Ott.lat.2598
314. Ott.lat.2603.pt.1
315. Ott.lat.2603.pt.2
316. Ott.lat.2608
317. Ott.lat.2623.pt.1
318. Ott.lat.2623.pt.2
319. Ott.lat.2631
320. Ott.lat.2632
321. Ott.lat.2639.pt.1
322. Ott.lat.2639.pt.2
323. Ott.lat.2658
324. Ott.lat.2682
325. Ott.lat.2688
326. Ott.lat.2690
327. Ott.lat.2706
328. Ott.lat.2710
329. Ott.lat.2762
330. Ott.lat.2776
331. Ott.lat.2789
332. Ott.lat.2795
333. Ott.lat.2796
334. Ott.lat.2811
335. Ott.lat.2812
336. Ott.lat.2817
337. Ott.lat.2822
338. Ott.lat.2831
339. Ott.lat.2859
340. Ott.lat.2860
341. Ott.lat.2862
342. Ott.lat.2879
343. Ott.lat.2881
344. Ott.lat.2882
345. Ott.lat.2938
346. Ott.lat.2940
347. Ott.lat.2945
348. Ott.lat.2966
349. Ott.lat.2967
350. Ott.lat.2969
351. Ott.lat.2974, Il Libro dell Arte, often translated as "The Craftsman's Handbook," by Italian painter Cennino d' Andrea Cennini. This is one of the four main codices, usually with the sigle VO, but it dates from the 18th century and there is general consent that it is copied from the manuscript ML of Florence, which survives. Here's a printing in Italian on Archive.org. Giovanni Mazzaferro has detailed 45 editions worldwide. In Japan, the first translation appeared in 1924. See also Jeremy Norman on the importance of this renowned work of Italian art theory.
352. Ott.lat.2981
353. Ott.lat.2984
354. Ott.lat.2989
355. Ott.lat.2991
356. Ott.lat.2992
357. Ott.lat.3008
358. Ott.lat.3027
359. Ott.lat.3034
360. Ott.lat.3052
361. Ott.lat.3057
362. Ott.lat.3064
363. Ott.lat.3065
364. Ott.lat.3066
365. Ott.lat.3067
366. Ott.lat.3076
367. Ott.lat.3076.pt.2
368. Ott.lat.3078
369. Ott.lat.3091
370. Ott.lat.3096
371. Ott.lat.3104
372. Ott.lat.3105
373. Ott.lat.3108
374. Ott.lat.3120
375. Ott.lat.3121
376. Ott.lat.3122
377. Ott.lat.3123
378. Ott.lat.3125
379. Ott.lat.3135
380. Ott.lat.3139
381. Ott.lat.3153
382. Ott.lat.3168
383. Ott.lat.3184
384. Ott.lat.3189
385. Ott.lat.3261
386. Ott.lat.3287
387. Ott.lat.3291
388. Ott.lat.3295
389. Ott.lat.3301
390. Ott.lat.3302
391. Ott.lat.3307
392. Ott.lat.3313
393. Ott.lat.3323
394. Ott.lat.3324
395. Ott.lat.3330
396. Ott.lat.3347.pt.1
397. Ott.lat.3347.pt.2
398. Ott.lat.3347.pt.3
399. Ott.lat.3354.pt.1
400. Ott.lat.3354.pt.2
401. Ott.lat.3354.pt.3
402. Ott.lat.3373
403. Ott.lat.3374
404. Ott.lat.3386
405. Ott.lat.3387
406. Ott.lat.3392
407. Ott.lat.3393

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