2017-07-10

Book of Hell Complete

Sandro Botticelli's famed image of a crater where the spiral paths lead downward into hell was originally bound into a Vatican Library codex, Reg.lat.1896A. The Botticelli illustration has been online for some time, but the rest of the codex, Reg.lat.1896, containing the text only of sections of Dante's Divine Comedy, was not initially digitized. It has finally arrived in the Vatican digital library.

Albinia de la Mare has attributed some or all of the scripts to Nicolaus Mangona. 

Here is my full list of the novelties. As of July 10, the DigiVatLib index totalled 14,420 items.
  1. Barb.or.9
  2. Borg.et.9
  3. Comb.O.24
  4. Pap.Vat.lat.1, a 9th-century papal privilege for Ravenna on papyrus with the signature "Bene Valete" and still with the original lead seal. HT to @ParvaVox
  5. Pap.Vat.lat.2, papal document on recycled papyrus, written over a private document, HT to @ParvaVox
  6. Pap.Vat.lat.3: this papyrus has a tabulated list in columns:
  7. Reg.lat.72, this is a fine 12th-century compilation of texts, scientific and philosophical, by authors including Boethius and Honorius of Autun. Listed on eTK:
  8. Reg.lat.662
  9. Reg.lat.680
  10. Reg.lat.688
  11. Reg.lat.715
  12. Reg.lat.779
  13. Reg.lat.831
  14. Reg.lat.942
  15. Reg.lat.947
  16. Reg.lat.1896, Dante's Divine Comedy, above
  17. Urb.lat.608
  18. Urb.lat.627
  19. Urb.lat.1618
  20. Vat.gr.1760
  21. Vat.lat.1324
  22. Vat.lat.1329
  23. Vat.lat.1388
  24. Vat.lat.1447
  25. Vat.lat.1449
  26. Vat.lat.1454
  27. Vat.lat.1572
  28. Vat.lat.1722
  29. Vat.lat.1723
  30. Vat.lat.1737
  31. Vat.lat.1743
  32. Vat.lat.1750
  33. Vat.lat.1757
  34. Vat.lat.1772
  35. Vat.lat.1767
  36. Vat.lat.1781
  37. Vat.lat.1793
  38. Vat.lat.1794
  39. Vat.lat.1820
  40. Vat.lat.1827
  41. Vat.lat.1828
  42. Vat.lat.1831
  43. Vat.lat.1832
  44. Vat.lat.1833
  45. Vat.lat.1834
  46. Vat.lat.1836
  47. Vat.lat.1842
  48. Vat.lat.1843
  49. Vat.lat.1846
  50. Vat.lat.1847
  51. Vat.lat.2055, Almagest, by Ptolemy of Alexandria, a Latin translation by cardinal George Trebizond and made pretty with many-coloured inks: this was shown in the Rome Reborn exhibition
  52. Vat.lat.2971
This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 120. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.

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