In this case the collection came from the collection of the Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, founded by Daniele Comboni. Much(all?) of the collection is Ge'ez, even though he didn't work in Ethiopia, AFAIK.

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 15 of 2026 A total of twenty-seven manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week. As with recent weeks, the vast majority, twenty-two, came from Ott.lat. The remainder, also as expected, were three from ...

27 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
The expected: 17th C Papal stuff, Ge'ez liturgy, classics. Less common: Inquisition reports, Venetian chronicles, Apocalypse commentary, and more
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 14 of 2026 A total of nineteen manuscripts were digitized this week. The vast majority, thirteen, were from the Ott.lat collection, with the remaining contributions being three from Comb, and one each from Barb...

19 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes a Greek volume written _at_ the BAV, two Avvisi, a few more Ge'ez texts and a bunch of 17th C stuff
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 13 of 2026 Due to Holy Week observances, uploads were only done on Monday, containing seven manuscripts. These followed recent patterns for distribution: three for Ott.lat, two each for Comb and Barb.lat To th...

Probably because they were cleaning and cooking for Passover, the #Vatican only added 7 #Manuscripts this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes 2 Ge'ez, a complaint about East heresy, Italian text on agriculture, and more!
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2026 A total of forty-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week. The largest set, twenty-three, were from Ott.lat, as has been the recent trend. The second largest group was from one of the casse...

48 #Manuscripts digitized this week by the #Vatican, www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
includes a bunch of Coptic biblical fragments, Classics, Bede, and early date for William of Moerbek, liturgical commentary and more!
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New picture of Peter Comestor discovered!

Shammai taught that one should ask only Claude, while Beit Hillel taught either Claude or ChatGPT were acceptable, based on your minhag. One day a student asked “masters, is it permissible to use Grok?”

When the students had cleaned the blood off the floor they decided not to ask that again

Ignore me. It's the Borso d’Este Bible from Modena. I was thinking "this has to be at the BAV", and got confused

Pope Leo Flips through Italy’s most precious illuminated manuscript | Borso d’Este Bible YouTube video by EWTN News

I just happened upon this video from last month of Pope Leo looking at a manuscript at the BAV. Anyone recognize it? I thought it was one of the Urbanati bibles, but they're not nearly chonky enough...
www.youtube.com/shorts/fxNjd...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 11 of 2026 Only ten manuscripts were digitized this past week, six from Ott.lat, four from Comb. This follows the recent pattern of relatively small output weeks consisting mainly of those two fonds. This bring...

Perhaps the #Vatican was at the #MAA2026 this past week, as they only added 10 #Manuscripts
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
includes 3 volumes of cameos, 4 Ge'ez, a library catalogue, a cosmography, and more
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I was not expecting snow on the drive out to #MAA2026 but….

I’ll be there to talk about calendars and non-existent saints. And databases

A small fan of bookmark cards sitting on a piece of marbled paper. Each card has a scallop shell and says CoKL and the url www.cokldb.org

New batch of tiny bookmark cards printed up for #MAA26

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 10 of 2026 The pace picked up this week with a total of sixty-six manuscripts digitized. Following recent trends, the largest contingent, forty-eight, came from Ott.lat, with the 13 of Comb filling in the next l...

a solid 66 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
a ton more Ge'ez, medicine, the tragedy Crispo, ancient cameos, classics, chronicles, specula and more!
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Oooh. I’ll have to find time during the MAA to sneak over and look. I’m daytripping so timing is…. Complex.

A crop of a page of humanist script. There is a large G at top left, gold over blue ground with whitework. The text begins, Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... with several mistakes

Imagine being the scribe who screws up one of the top 3 most famous phrases in Latin, not once or twice, but three times!
BAV Ott.lat.1899

Vitruuis de Architectura prologus incipit written in a red humanist hand

Take a moment to marvel at the rarest of sights, the word "prologus" written fully out in a rubric! BAV Ott.lat.1930

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 9 of 2026 Another moderately quiet week with twenty-eight manuscripts digitized and uploaded to the Vatican archives. As has been the recent pattern, they consisted of Ott.lat with twenty manuscripts and Comb w...

28 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes tons of Ge'ez, 3 Lorenzo Valla, additional classical works, the Conclave for Gregory XIV, juridical works, a chronicle of Padua and more!
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I don't have an example of "Meart". Maart is a common Dutch variant tho...
www.cokldb.org/p/v100/saint...

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 8 of 2026 Ten manuscripts in total were added to the online repositories this week. These consisted of six manuscripts from Ott.lat, three from Comb, and a single volume from Barb.lat. To the right is p.7 fro...

Only 10 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
some Ge'ez (including music), an Arbor Philosophiae, a Formularium, some classical works and more (not much more)
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Interestingly even in Dutch language calendars, Martin isn't rendered with the double-a. We've got Mertens and Mertiins and Martyns...
www.cokldb.org/p/v100/saint...

Forgot to mention, this is June 8. There is an attested "St. Mark" on this date in Essen (western DE). Medard is the most common saint on that date. The calendar is in a weird French, so spellings are all a bit ... vibe

Anyone have a reading for this that isn't just "the scribe screwed up marc"? (BPL MS q.med 105 13th C Metz)

Great! If I might make a suggestion, it might be a good idea to disable “debug” mode so that it doesn’t leak so much info on errors. It was giving versions of python and Django and nginx… etc

would a proof count as a first, or is it before the first?

@medievallitura.bsky.social I think the Books of Duchesses site has crashed booksofduchesses.com, it's returning a bunch of DB connection failures.

Oooh not just manuscript waste, calendar fragment!

I have a soft spot for those, but I guess if there people out there who are _not_ building a massive Horae database….

We could have a second room for “Look what they did to my boy” manuscripts that might have looked nice originally, but….

Ok. So we’ve got to start with a taxonomy of meh. I see

- crummy parchment
- “gotta use it all” margins measured in microns
- scribal hands only a mother could love
- errrrors

I’m sure there are more!

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 7 of 2026 Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As is the current pattern, the vast majority, thirteen, were from Ott.lat. The rest consisted of a single manuscript from each of Barb.lat...

Before the blizzard
The flakes are yet to fall
Seventeen added
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
New from the #Vatican lots of classical Latin, Humanist translations, Francesco Filfelfo, Ge'ez sermons and more
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