Crusader Elite

A post two years ago highlighted records in the Vatican Library illuminating the doomed attempt to establish a Christian kingdom in Palestine after the Crusades, the finale of a conflict many Muslims angrily remember to this day.

One of those manuscripts is a book of genealogies containing the Lignages d'Outremer, a French-language compilation describing the leading settler families and their descents. This week that work, at folios 276-296 of Vat.lat.4789, has been re-released in high resolution and full color after only a microfilm in black and white had been available.

Arlima informs us this is the second recension of the Lignages. For a quick introduction to its scope, see Wikipedia.

In all, 39 manuscripts arrived online over the past week. My list:

1. Reg.lat.960.pt.A,
2. Reg.lat.2121,
3. Ross.50 (Upgraded to HQ),
4. Ross.107 (Upgraded to HQ), book of hours, see tweet below
5. Ross.116,
6. Ross.117,

   Ross .117 - Benedictine Breviary w/ calendar, c. 1300 (per Baroffio)
   Ross .107 - Parisian BoH, late (c. 1500?)

   — AaronM (@gundormr) May 20, 2019

7. Ross.131,
8. Ross.142,
9. Ross.266,
10. Sbath.243,
11. Urb.lat.1622,
12. Vat.estr.or.127,
13. Vat.estr.or.41.pt.A,
14. Vat.lat.2514,
15. Vat.lat.2516, in which Dominique Gatté discovers a depiction of Fauvel, a fictitious horse which rises to prominence in the French royal court, and is here depicted in a royal crown:
    Merci @JBPiggin pour la nouvelle liste !https://t.co/CGMBOijGdD

    — MusicologieMédiévale (@MusicologieMdiv) May 18, 2019

16. Vat.lat.2519,
17. Vat.lat.2521,
18. Vat.lat.2530,
19. Vat.lat.2531,
20. Vat.lat.3493,
21. Vat.lat.4688,
22. Vat.lat.4698,
23. Vat.lat.4700,
24. Vat.lat.4705,
25. Vat.lat.4760.pt.2,
26. Vat.lat.4789 (Upgraded to HQ), Lignages d'Outremer (above)
27. Vat.lat.4811,
28. Vat.lat.4828, a compilation of merchant arithmetic from 1453 in Italian and Latin. See Jordanus
29. Vat.lat.4844,
30. Vat.lat.4855,
31. Vat.lat.4864, works by Albertus Magnus on alchemy and other scientific topics, see eTK
32. Vat.lat.4873,
33. Vat.lat.4888,
34. Vat.lat.4898,
35. Vat.lat.13489.pt.1,
36. Vat.lat.13489.pt.2,
37. Vat.lat.14402.pt.A,
38. Vat.lat.15344,
39. Vat.turc.373,

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 209. 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.