Rich Student

Among the most tragic figures associated with the Vatican Library is Fabio Mazzatosta, a very wealthy student at Rome in the 15th century who died before getting his first job. I have mentioned in a previous post the seven fabulous Fabio Mattatosta Codices, basically a bunch of school textbooks commissioned in the highest conceivable quality by M from his friend Pomponio Leto.

None of these was hastily copied, all had to be made with the finest script and initials. The arrival online in full color this week of Vat.lat.3279, the Thebaid by Statius (black and white version previously noted here) is fresh cause to celebrate this sad example of conspicuous consumption:

Still to come among the Vatican's five from Fabio's futile bookshelf are Vat.lat.3264 (Fasti of Ovid) and a color version of Vat.lat.3875 (Silvae and Achilleis).

The Vatican Library has been in high gear this week with 48 new digitizations online. The list:

1. Chig.D.V.71 (Upgraded to HQ), book of hours

   Morello says “1st half 14th C”, but quotes P. Salmon as “circa 1330”. Illuminator is “French, influenced by English environment"

   — AaronM (@gundormr) April 23, 2018

2. Reg.lat.1933,
3. Vat.lat.519.pt.1, Milleloquium Veritatis Sancti Augustini by Bartholomew of Urbino, see Bernard Peebles (1954). Part 2 came online earlier this month.
4. Vat.lat.2188, Bernardini de Sicilia, Quaestiones de Cognitione animae conjunctae corpori; see also electronic Thorndike Kiber which lists an incipit Circa considerationem de mensuris durationis attributable to Dietrich von Freiberg.
5. Vat.lat.2215 (Upgraded to HQ), Seneca
6. Vat.lat.2236,
7. Vat.lat.2238,
8. Vat.lat.2260,
9. Vat.lat.2271,
10. Vat.lat.2307 (Upgraded to HQ), Durand de Champagne
11. Vat.lat.2680,
12. Vat.lat.2851,
13. Vat.lat.2924,
14. Vat.lat.2946,
15. Vat.lat.2951 (Upgraded to HQ),
16. Vat.lat.2954,
17. Vat.lat.2957,
18. Vat.lat.2962,
19. Vat.lat.2963,
20. Vat.lat.2970,
21. Vat.lat.2983,

    Aristotle's Topica is a good read, he seems to say.
    HT @JBPiggin https://t.co/QgQXqsh5qn pic.twitter.com/s5EuA3KNbU

    — Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) April 23, 2018

22. Vat.lat.2985,

    Looking out over the first lines of Aristotle's Physica, translatio vetus...
    HT @JBPiggin https://t.co/b99du5vv3H pic.twitter.com/ugKrJhgWQK

    — Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) April 23, 2018

23. Vat.lat.2988,
24. Vat.lat.2998,
25. Vat.lat.3006,
26. Vat.lat.3007,

    Not enough space for your initial? Just tilt the P...
    Aristotle's Problemata in the Latin translation by Bartholomew of Messina is among the latest MSS in @JBPiggin's list of @DigitaVaticana https://t.co/iM52FqQh6V pic.twitter.com/5DLAITelhl

    — Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) April 23, 2018

27. Vat.lat.3008,

    Latin translation of Aristotle's Rhetorica by humanist George of Trebizond, found in last week's list of MSS @DigitaVaticana, HT @JBPiggin https://t.co/xoNIPLi1v8 pic.twitter.com/lu1QEbkHBE

    — Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) April 28, 2018

28. Vat.lat.3009,

    A unique copy of the compendium of Aristotelian knowledge made by the monk Hilarion for Pope Sixtus IV (BAV, Vat. lat. 3009). Fol. 67v has the opening of book IV, the section on living beings. HT @JBPiggin https://t.co/NlvvWvNJa1 pic.twitter.com/c0WtCm3JPn

    — Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) April 29, 2018

29. Vat.lat.3010 (Upgraded to HQ),
30. Vat.lat.3011 (Upgraded to HQ),
31. Vat.lat.3013,
32. Vat.lat.3014,
33. Vat.lat.3015,
34. Vat.lat.3016,
35. Vat.lat.3017 (Upgraded to HQ),
36. Vat.lat.3020,
37. Vat.lat.3021,
38. Vat.lat.3022,
39. Vat.lat.3026, tracts by Walter Burley (1275-1345?) -  electronic Thorndike Kiber lists the incipit In hoc tractatu intendo perscrutari de causa intrinseca.
40. Vat.lat.3034,
41. Vat.lat.3036,
42. Vat.lat.3043,
43. Vat.lat.3044,
44. Vat.lat.3092 (Upgraded to HQ),
45. Vat.lat.3143 (Upgraded to HQ),
46. Vat.lat.3227 (Upgraded to HQ), 12th-century manuscript in Beneventan script. Cicero, Philippics, Somnium Scipionis; O Roma nobilis, etc. Mentioned by Lowe.
47. Vat.lat.3279 (Upgraded to HQ), Fabio Mazzatosta's Thebaid Statius (above)
48. Vat.lat.3294 (Upgraded to HQ), Martial

    Now that many #medieval manuscripts from #Fleury are online on https://t.co/E0Oe5a4m86 I thought you might like to know that another 9thC ms from Fleury is among the latest releases @DigitaVaticana / HT @JBPiggin : a neat copy of Martial's Epigrams
    ➡️https://t.co/hVDGheot8p pic.twitter.com/cXLULvvnsx

    — GiorgiaV (@ParvaVox) April 24, 2018

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 159. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.