At Full Tilt

Among the well-loved old books digitized in the past week by the Vatican Library is a missale plenum of the late 10th or early 11th century from somewhere in central Italy.

Vat.lat.4770 provided a bishop, or abbot or senior priest with liturgical rites for most occasions including for dedication of a church. Although it has a loose appearance, it is well planned in layout, with space set aside for initials and the text spaced where required for the necessary musical notation:

It has one particular curiosity: a sudden change in script from the ordinary Carolingian minuscule of the period to Beneventan in a passage over the turn at fols. 216r-216v. Presumably the scribe knew both, and was deft enough to swap script and revert while working at full tilt.

Dominique Gatté has written a detailed post about the manuscript.

Here is the full unofficial list of 42 new releases:

1. Ross.88,
2. Ross.312,
3. Ross.404,
4. Ross.406,
5. Ross.408,
6. Ross.409,
7. Ross.412,
8. Ross.414,
9. Ross.415,
10. Ross.416,
11. Ross.417,
12. Ross.419,
13. Ross.420,
14. Urb.lat.749,
15. Urb.lat.838,
16. Urb.lat.1114.pt.3,
17. Urb.lat.1352,
18. Urb.lat.1453,
19. Urb.lat.1499,
20. Urb.lat.1620,
21. Urb.lat.1657,
22. Vat.lat.2506,
23. Vat.lat.2512,
24. Vat.lat.3464,
25. Vat.lat.3506,
26. Vat.lat.3508,
27. Vat.lat.4672,
28. Vat.lat.4702 (Upgraded to HQ), 16th-century commentary on Aristotle?
29. Vat.lat.4745,
30. Vat.lat.4748.pt.1,
31. Vat.lat.4750 (Upgraded to HQ), church music, high medieval

    As per Baroffio, vat lat 4750 is a 12th C (middle) processional, possibly from Ravenna

    — AaronM (@gundormr) April 28, 2019

32. Vat.lat.4770, missale plenum (see above)
33. Vat.lat.4774,
34. Vat.lat.4783,
35. Vat.lat.4785,
36. Vat.lat.4793,
37. Vat.lat.4799,
38. Vat.lat.4801 (Upgraded to HQ), Spanish
39. Vat.lat.4804,
40. Vat.lat.4805,
41. Vat.lat.4815,
42. Vat.lat.7597, pontificale

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 206. 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.