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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2025
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Only twenty-two manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican. Following the recent pattern, the largest fraction of those, eleven, came from the Barb.lat collection. Five each were added from Comb and Ott.lat, and a single volume from Capp.Sist.Diari. To the right is f.2r from...
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 11 of 2025
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The Vatican added eighty-five manuscripts this week to their online repository, including two each on both Saturday and Sunday. Per recent trends, the largest number came from Barb.lat, which contributed a massive forty-two volumes. Following that was Ott.lat with sixteen and Capp.Sist.Diari...
on Mar 17
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 10 of 2025
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A total of fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Continuing recent trends Barb.lat contributed the most, a full thirty manuscripts. Twelve came from Ott.lat, five from Comb, and three each from S.Maria.Magg, Vat.gr, and Vat.lat. One lone manuscript came from each of Vat.ar...
on Mar 9
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 9 of 2025
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Continuing the pace of recent weeks, the Vatican added forty manuscripts to the online repositories this week. Additionally continuing the trends, Barb.lat, in the 2000-2300 range, contributed twenty-one volumes, with two more coming from an earlier section of the Barberini collection. Beyond...
on Mar 3
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2025
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A meagre total of twenty-four manuscripts were added this past week. Following the pattern of recent weeks, the bulk of these manuscripts, sixteen in fact, were from the Barb.lat collection. Additional manuscripts came from Capp.Sist.Diari with four, Comb with two, and one each from Vat.gr and...
on Feb 23
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 7 of 2025
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Only thirty-six manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. As with recent weeks, the bulk came from the Barb.lat fond, a full twenty this week. Following that was Vat.lat, contributing six, Capp.Sist.Diari with three, and one each from Ott.lat, P.I.O. and Vat.gr. Four manuscripts...
on Feb 16
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 6 of 2025
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A respectable forty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican Libraries. In what is becoming the current pattern, the largest number of manuscripts came from Barb.lat, thirty-three in total, all from the 1600-2100 block. Other fonds contributing manuscripts were...
on Feb 9
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 5 of 2025
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The Vatican closed this week with an acceptable, if not dramatic, forty-five manuscripts digitized into their repositories. Decisively leading the volumes digitized was Barb.lat, contributing twenty. Seven came from Ott.lat, and six from Capp.Sist.Diari, where work seems to be slowing down. ...
on Feb 3
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 4 of 2025
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A total of thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week by the Vatican teams. These all came from four collections, ten from Ott.lat, nine from Barb.lat, and four from Vat.lat. The remaining fifteen came from Capp.Sist.Diari, which brings the total digitized from that fond to 139,...
on Jan 27
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 3 of 2025
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A total of thrty-two manuscripts were added in the past week to the Vatican repositories. The largest contributor was the Vat.lat collection, with thirteen, followed with Capp.Sist.Diari with nine and Ott.lat with five. Two manuscripts came from Barb.lat, and a single addition each from...
on Jan 21
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 52 of 2024
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Despite it being Christmas week, the Vatican did upload a single manuscript this week, a copy of John Climacus from Vat.gr. As has become customary, I will use the end of year vacation to present some numbers about the progress of digitizations this year. First, a quick snapshot of the year...
on Dec 31
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 51 of 2024
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For what is, probably, the last digitizing week of 2024, the Vatican added a full seventy-nine manuscripts. Like the last few weeks, the vast majority are from the Capp.Sist.Diari, totaling fifty-two. The Chigiani collection contributed seven, five each came from Sire and Vat.lat, and two each...
on Dec 22
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 50 of 2024
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A total of nineteen manuscripts were digitized this week. Like last week, the vast majority, fifteen, are from the Capp.Sist.Diari collection. The remainder are one each from Chig, Vat.arm, Vat.lat, and Vat.pers to the right is the start of the Gospel of Luke found on f.170r of Vat.arm.40. ...
on Dec 16
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 49 of 2024
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Only thirty-five manuscripts were digitized this week, sadly down from the last two weeks. The bulk of these, nineteen, were from the Capp.Sist.Diari. This was followed, distantly, by Chig with six, and three each from Barb.lat and Vat.lat. A single manuscript was added from each of...
on Dec 8
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 48 of 2024
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Another solid week added fifty-one manuscripts to the Vatican systems. Continuing the trend of last week, these were spread across a large number of Fonds, with no single collection dominating. The largest number, nine, came from Chig, with Barb.lat and Vat.lat each contributing eight. Five...
on Dec 1
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 47 of 2024
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And we're back in the swing of things with sixty-one manuscripts digitized in the past week. A wide spread of collections this week, with nineteen coming from Vat.lat, thirteen from Ott.lat, eleven from Barb.lat and 10 from Chig. A further three came from a rare fond, Vat.estr.or, two from...
on Nov 24
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 46 of 2024
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Hopefully not an omen of things to come, only two manuscripts were digitized this week, one from Barb.lat and one from Ott.lat. The manuscript from Ott.lat, Ott.lat.1438, is a 15th C copy of multiple texts on rhetoric and oration. To the right is f.6r, the start of an abridged copy of...
on Nov 17
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 44 of 2024
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There were only thirty manuscripts added this week, all on Monday. The largest contributor was Ott.lat, with eleven manuscripts, followed by Vat.lat with eight, Barb.lat with four, and Borg.Cin with three. One manuscript each came from Borg.lat , Chig, S.Maria.Magg, and Vat.gr. Due to some...
on Nov 3
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 43 of 2024
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Back to slow weeks with only fourteen manuscripts digitized this week. The largest contributor was Ott.lat with six manuscripts. Both Barb.lat and Vat.lat added two, and one each came from Bonc, Chig, S.Maria.Magg, and Vat.gr. It's a bit of a meme, at least when I talk to people, about how...
on Oct 27
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2024
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A busy week, with eighty-one manuscripts digitized into the repositories. The largest contribution came from Ott.lat, whose 26 manuscripts represent nearly 1% of the entire fond. Other large contributors were Vat.lat, with twenty-one, and Barb.lat, with fourteen. Smaller numbers of manuscripts...
on Oct 21
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2024
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Only thirty-five manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week, which probably isn't due to Rosh Hashana. The manuscripts were pretty widely spread for a rather quiet week, with the sixteen from Vat.lat as the only fond with more than ten. Following that were the two popular ones of late...
on Oct 7
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 39 of 2024
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A total of fifty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. The largest number were from Vat.lat, with eighteeen, and Ott.lat with sixteen. Nine came from Barb.lat, completing the triumvirate of fonds that have been in the majority over the last few weeks. Further manuscripts came from Bonc,...
on Sep 29
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2024
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An entirely respectable seventy manuscripts were digitized this week. Following, somewhat, recent patterns, the top three fonds were Ott.lat, Barb.lat, and Vat.lat. The largest fraction came from Ott.lat, with thirty-three manuscripts representing nearly 1% of the entire fond, followed by...
on Sep 22
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 37 of 2024
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Only eight manuscripts were digitized this week, all on Thursday. They are divided across the Vat.lat, four, Ott.lat, three, and Barb.lat, one, collections. To the right are drawings from the plans for St Peter's Square, as drawn by Bernini, found on f.1r of Vat.lat.14620. It shows the large...
on Sep 16
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 36 of 2024
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A reasonable total of fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week, coming from only three fonds. The largest number, twenty-eight, came from Vat.lat, Ott.lat contributed nineteen, and Barb.lat added eleven. To the right is the first real page, f.2r, of Vat.lat.11249, a copy of the Rule of...
on Sep 9
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 35 of 2024
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No more snide commentary on digitization speed, the Vatican brought one hundred and three manuscripts online this week, the first time they have crossed the hundred mark since fall of 2023. The bulk of the volumes are closely split between Vat.lat, with thirty-six, Barb.lat with thirty-two, and...
on Sep 2
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 34 of 2024
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Another quietish week brings thirty-one more manuscripts into the Vatican repositories. This week the bulk of them, fifteen, came from Ott.lat. Eight came from Vat.lat, six from Barb.lat and one each from P.I.O. and Urb.lat. The 1465-66 manuscript of Macrobius' Dream of Scipio was written by...
on Aug 26
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 32 of 2024
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Only twenty-three manuscripts digitized this week as we steam headlong towards August vacation. The largest source this week was Barb.lat, with nine, followed by Ott.lat and Vat.lat with five each. Two came from Vat.et, a rarely-seen Fond, and one each from Chig and Vat.gr To the right is...
on Aug 11
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 31 of 2024
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Another quiet week brings sixteen more manuscripts online as work winds down for the August vacation. The set was pretty evenly split between Barb.lat, with eight, and Vat.lat with seven. The lone remaining manuscript came from Ott.lat, a 15th C Lucretius that was once owned by Pope Alexander...
on Aug 5
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 30 of 2024
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There were only seven manuscripts digitized this week, all on Friday. Of these, four were from Barb.lat and the remaining three from Vat.lat, too small a sample to draw any firm conclusions about digitization patterns. To the right is f.3r from Vat.lat.11219. This is the title page from a...
on Jul 29
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 29 of 2024
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In total fifty-eight manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. It looks like several recent patterns are starting to stabilize, the largest fond represented was Vat.lat, with twenty-eight manuscripts in the 11xxx range, many from German sources. The second largest collection was...
on Jul 22
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 28 of 2024
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A slightly more active week, with a total of forty-one manuscripts digitized. The bulk of these came from Vat.lat, eighteen, Barb.lat, thirteen, and Ott.lat, seven. The remainder were just two from Chigiani and an unidentified, by me at least, Syriac volume from P.I.O. To the right is the...
on Jul 15
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2024
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Editorial note: It is Jewish custom to remember the departed on the anniversary of their deaths. It is in that spirit that I always try to mention Jean-Baptiste Piggin on the 27th week of the year, the week in which, in 2019, I learned of his passing. Jean-Baptist started the work of tracking...
on Jul 7
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 26 of 2024
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Due to the Nativity of John the Baptist on Monday, there were only six manuscripts digitized this week. These included two volumes from Vat.lat, two volumes, but part of the same shelfmark, from Capp.sist, and one each from Barb.lat and Ott.lat To the right is f.2v of Vat.lat.10657, a complex...
on Jun 30
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2024
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A total of seventy-nine manuscripts were digitized in the past week, bringing the rate of progress back more in-line with historical norms, but above the last few months. In the pattern of the last few weeks, however, musical volumes from the Chigiani collection formed the bulk of the weeks...
on Jun 25
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 25 of 2024
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A total of seventy-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week. In what is turning into the current pattern, the bulk of these were 17th and 18th C musical volumes, thirty-three of them from Chigiani and thirty from Barb.lat. The rest of the week consisted of six volumes from Vat.lat,...
on Jun 24
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 23 of 2024
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A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized in the past week by the Vatican. The work continues at pace on digitizing the musical volumes in the Chigiani collection, making up the majority of the twenty-one of their items added this week. Other contributors include Vat.gr with ten, Barb.lat...
on Jun 23
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 22 of 2024
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Back to the recent pace with a total of thirty-five manuscripts digitized this week. The largest number of these, fifteen, were 17th and 18th C musical volumes from the Chigiani collection. These have been coming in small numbers over the last few months, but never this many at once. ...
on Jun 2
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Recently Digitized Manuscripts from the BAV
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This is a project to track the work of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in digitizing their collection of over 80,000 manuscripts.
on May 28
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 21 of 2024
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A reasonably active week for the Vatican this week, with forty-nine manuscripts digitized. The largest number came from Ott.lat, with sixteen, followed by Barb.lat and Vat.lat, each with nine. Eight items from Borg.copt were added, all from the folios originally shelved together as...
on May 27
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2024
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A total of nineteen manuscripts were digitized this week, perhaps quiet due to the lead-up to Pentecost. Of those eleven came from Vat.lat, five from Ott.lat and one each from Barb.lat, Capp.sist, and Chig. To the right is f.2r from Ott.lat.113, the first book of the City of God (the one by...
on May 20
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 19 of 2024
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There were a total of thirty-three manuscripts digitized this week, which has probably been the pattern for the last month or so, taking into consideration the issues noted last week. The largest fond this week is Vat.lat, with twelve, followed by Ott.lat with seven, and Barb.lat with six. One...
on May 13
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 18 of 2024
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How many manuscripts were added this week is a more complex question than usual. It was discovered on monday that the main listing page for the Vat.lat collection was loading too slowly for the system, which was timing out and not capturing the new manuscripts in this, the largest fond in the...
on May 5
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 17 of 2024
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The Vatican has returned to the slow pace of earlier April with only thirteen manuscripts getting digitized in the course of the week. Most of these, nine in total, came from the Barb.lat fond, and two each came from Ott.lat and Borg.ar. To the right is f.23r from Barb.lat.1441, a 14th C...
on Apr 28
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2024
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It looks like the Vatican has returned the the recent standard, with thirty-one manuscripts digitized in the past week. Following that pattern, the largest number of manuscripts, fifteen, came from Ott.lat, with Barb.lat following with seven. Both Capp.sist and Vat.gr contributed three, and one...
on Apr 22
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 15 of 2024
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Even by recent weeks, this was a quiet week of digitizations, with only thirteen manuscripts added this week. The majority of these, eight, were from Ott.lat, three were from Barb.lat and one each came from Chigiani and Vat.gr To the right is is f.37v from *Ott.lat.886, a late 16th C copy of...
on Apr 15
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 14 of 2024
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Another quiet week at the Vatican with twenty-six manuscripts digitized. In what is seeming to be a new pattern, the bulk of them, seventeen, were from the Ott.lat collection. Following that were Vat.gr and Barb.lat with three each and two from Barb.gr. There was only a single musical volume...
on Apr 8
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 13 of 2024
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Due to it being Holy Week, only nineteen manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. The top two contributors were Pal.lat with nine and Ott.lat with seven. The remaining manuscripts were single items from Chigiani, Pal.gr, and Vat.gr. This is the first time that a significant number...
on Mar 31
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2024
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A new pattern seems to be emerging, another slow week brings twenty-nine new manuscripts to the repositories. As with last week, Ott.lat brings in the most, with eleven, followed by seven Barb.lat, and six Chigiani musical volumes. Three Capp.sist volumes, and one each Barb.grand Vat.gr...
on Mar 24, 2024
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 11 of 2024
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Another slow week, with a total of twenty-seven manuscripts digitized into the Vatican archives. The largest segment came from Ott.lat, which contributed fifteen. The Chigiani collection continues to add 17th C musical volumes, with six digitized this week. The Barg.gr collection added four,...
on Mar 18, 2024