Crusader Kingdom

If you follow Middle Eastern politics, you will certainly have heard of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, a crusader colonial state established in the Southern Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade, destroyed in 1187, refounded five years later and surviving until the sack of Acre in 1291.

Its two centuries of conflict with the Muslim inhabitants of the region (and local Christians and Jews) have left long scars on memory and served as models of misunderstanding ever since.

Two of the codices recently brought online in black and white by the Vatican Library have a major bearing on this kingdom. One is the Lignages d'Outremer, describing the pedigrees of the most important Crusader families. This document is a main source in understanding efforts to create a Christian kingdom at Jerusalem, and the West's early war with Islam.

The other is the Cartulary of the Chapter of the Holy Sepulchre, a celebrated record of Crusader Jerusalem made 1162-1165 in the first period. A couple of days ago, we noted the arrival online of a third key source, the sole record of the 1120 Council of Nablus which established some of the Christian kingdom's laws.

These crusader records figure among the list of 300 items below, all of low resolution black and white (LQ = low quality). This is the fifth of seven blog posts in which I will pick out some highlights from these releases.

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9. Vat.lat.4222 , LQ, Lectionarium. 1st half of 11th century (Lowe)
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36. Vat.lat.4416 , LQ, Hippocratis octoginta volumina , foundational ancient Greek medical texts attributed to Hippocrates, here in the groundbreaking translation by Calvo which I foreshadowed in my previous blog post. See also the Rome Reborn description. 
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78. Vat.lat.4595 , LQ, 14th-century Italian Translation of Alhacen's De aspectibus. For arguments cited that this book was key to development of perspective in early Renaissance painting, see Wikipedia.
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108. Vat.lat.4789 , LQ, The Lignages d'Outremer, describing the pedigrees of the most important Crusader families (above). This is the Vatican's main copy, though the library also holds an Italian translation, Vat.lat.7806 A. See Nielen-Vandevoorde.
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143. Vat.lat.4919 , LQ
144. Vat.lat.4925 , LQ, The small strips used for strengthening the binding formed part of the same manuscript of Gregory as is found in Vat.lat.4918 (Lowe).
145. Vat.lat.4936 , LQ
146. Vat.lat.4939 , Chronicon Monasterii S. Sophiae. This is a very celebrated illuminated book of annals from the first half of the 12th century, and was originally published by Ughelli in 1722 in his history of the church in Italy. This is a full-resolution color scan:
     
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148. Vat.lat.4947 , LQ, Cartulary of the Chapter of the Holy Sepulchre, a celebrated record of Crusader Jerusalem made 1162-1165
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160. Vat.lat.5001 , LQ, the monk Erchempert's History of the Lombards in Benevento, written in the 9th century. This manuscript, penned about 1300 in Salerno, is the only early witness to it, although other historians of the period refer to this vivid history of a time of terrible violence. See Wikipedia
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236. Vat.lat.5356 , LQ, Greek speeches translated with notes by the great Greek scholar Cardinal Bessarion: Rome Reborn highlights the speech Olynthiaca prima by Demosthenes in this volume that echoes the urge to unite Europe against the contemporary Turkish threat
237. Vat.lat.5359 , LQ, a palimpsest with Beuron number 306: the 7th- or 8th-century undertext is part of the Psalms. Trismegistos 66118 = Lowe, CLA 1 23.
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249. Vat.lat.5409 , LQ, a notebook of studies of early Christian inscriptions and art in the catacombs, made under the supervision of Alfonso Chacon.
     
     Rome Reborn notes This notebook was made by no fewer than five artists working under the direction of Chacon, an expert on early Christianity, in the late 16th century. Roman scholars identified some basic themes and conventions of early Christian art, such as the frequent representation of Christ as a shepherd.
250. Vat.lat.5414 , LQ
251. Vat.lat.5419 , LQ, Necrologium, Homiliae Capitulares, Regula S. Benedicti, a 12th-century manuscript, see Lowe Beneventan p. 68.
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286. Vat.lat.5736 , LQ, see Gorman
287. Vat.lat.5755 , LQ, Manuscript (10-11th century) containing a copy of Augustine’s De trinitate as upper text made at Bobbio, Italy. There are a number of palimpsests below it, including a computus fragment with Latin and Irish glosses, but as far as I can see at first look, these are invisible in the black-and-white images.
     • Trismegistos 66127 = Lowe, CLA 1 32, at p. 95-131, 148-291, 308-323;
     • Trismegistos 66128 = Lowe, CLA 1 33 at p. 292-307;
     • Trismegistos 67874 = Lowe, CLA Suppl. 1734, computus fragment at p. 3-6.
288. Vat.lat.5763 , LQ, discarded 5th-century bible text probably from Ravenna, re-used by monks of Bobbio, Italy in the 8th century. On this one you can make out the large-writing undertext, but the black and white offers too little contrast.
     
     See History of Information for a discussion. TM 66134 = Lowe, CLA 1 39 [upper script] fol. 3-80 passim [palimpsest new]; TM 66136 = Lowe, CLA 1 40; fol. 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16-29, 31-40, 49, 50, 55-58, 60, 61, 63-74, 76, 77, 79, 80 [palimpsest old]
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290. Vat.lat.5771 , LQ, Beuron Number 200, 9th century
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297. Vat.lat.5808 , LQ, Libellus de litteris sanctis, by Egidius/Giles of Viterbo, a kabbalistic work based on his own translation of the Hebrew Sepher ha-Temunah. This is a bound calligraphic presentation copy.
298. Vat.lat.5811 , LQ
299. Vat.lat.5812 , LQ
300. Vat.lat.5814 , LQ

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