The fortunes of some manuscripts take them to the very brink of destruction, as we see with a Neapolitan part-bible, Vat.lat.8183, digitized in the past week by the Vatican Library.
The miniaturist is believed to have been Matteo Planisio. This codex containing Prophets and Psalms once contained gorgeous colourful 14th-century miniatures, but many were snipped out by a "collector". Check it out, because the vandal did not get them all.
This week 26 manuscripts were scanned and put online for all the world to enjoy. My list:
The miniaturist is believed to have been Matteo Planisio. This codex containing Prophets and Psalms once contained gorgeous colourful 14th-century miniatures, but many were snipped out by a "collector". Check it out, because the vandal did not get them all.
This week 26 manuscripts were scanned and put online for all the world to enjoy. My list:
- Ross.118 (Upgraded to HQ), an exquisite book of hours in mint condition
- Ross.301,
- Vat.gr.2650, from Byzantine southern Italy, a copy of a seventh-century legal deed
- Vat.lat.2399,
- Vat.lat.2400,
- Vat.lat.2482 (Upgraded to HQ), Avicenna, Eugubinus de Montecatino, Albertus Magnus and Petrus de Abano in a 300-folio, mainly medical anthology from the 15th century: see eTK. There's a librarian's handy table of contents at the front.
- Vat.lat.2503,
- Vat.lat.2505,
- Vat.lat.2513,
- Vat.lat.3500 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4710,
- Vat.lat.4711 (Upgraded to HQ), with an Aristotle commentary
- Vat.lat.4760.pt.1,
- Vat.lat.4764,
- Vat.lat.4791 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4792,
- Vat.lat.4813,
- Vat.lat.4816,
- Vat.lat.4837,
- Vat.lat.4841,
- Vat.lat.4842,
- Vat.lat.4846 (Upgraded to HQ),
Dedication of the 'Bonum universale de apibus' to Humbertus of Romans, head of the Dominican Order, by the author Thomas of Cantimpré, 'frater humilis cuius nomen ad presens non urget necessitas nominari.' H/T @JBPiggin https://t.co/MZWmHEDt8t pic.twitter.com/3j86gPS2bZ
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) May 4, 2019 - Vat.lat.4848,
- Vat.lat.4860,
- Vat.lat.4871 (Upgraded to HQ), philosophical, with a text by Franciscus de Marchia on univocal concepts
- Vat.lat.8183, Italian part bible which begins with Isaiah (above)
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