The 1K Moment

The biggest manuscript series in the Vatican Library, comprising at least a fifth of the overall repository volume, is the Vat. lat. collection: the codices in Latin that were not purchased in complete libraries as other collections were, but acquired one by one as gifts to or purchases by the papacy. On August 10, the digitizers brought the 1,0000th item from this series online.

The Vat.lat. page with 1,000 thumbnails has become a roadblock in the portal, since it downloads very slowly, and it will be interesting to see if the portal designers can find some way to make it less unwieldy.

Here is the full list of 65 new digitizations, which bring the current total to 5,267:

1. Barb.lat.154 - Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, a Renaissance manuscript. Below is a detail showing Hector. Details
   
2. Borg.copt.109.cass.XX.fasc.75 - Details
3. Borg.copt.109.cass.XX.fasc.76 - Details
4. Borg.copt.109.cass.XX.fasc.77 - Details
5. Borg.copt.109.cass.XX.fasc.79 - Details
6. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXI.fasc.80 - Details
7. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXII.fasc.85 - Details
8. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXII.fasc.86 - Details
9. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXII.fasc.87 - Details
10. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXII.fasc.88 - Details
11. Ott.lat.1420 - Details
12. Ott.lat.1529 -  Justin's Philippic Histories, whereby the illuminations include the bedroom scene below - Details
    
13. Ott.lat.2005 - Details
14. Reg.lat.16 - Details
15. Reg.lat.1823 - 9th-century manuscript in a Beneventan pre-Carolingian hand of Isidore's Sententiae and the Instructiones of Eucherius. In the edition of the Sentences, this is witness Q.  Details
16. Vat.ar.462 - Details
17. Vat.ebr.34 - Details
18. Vat.ebr.35 - Details
19. Vat.ebr.36 - Details
20. Vat.ebr.37 - Details
21. Vat.ebr.325 - Details
22. Vat.ebr.332 - Details
23. Vat.ebr.334 - Details
24. Vat.ebr.336 - Details
25. Vat.ebr.338 - Details
26. Vat.ebr.339 - Details
27. Vat.ebr.341 - Details
28. Vat.ebr.343 - Details
29. Vat.ebr.346 - Details
30. Vat.ebr.348 - Details
31. Vat.ebr.349 - Details
32. Vat.ebr.350 - Details
33. Vat.ebr.351 - Details
34. Vat.ebr.352 - Details
35. Vat.ebr.353 - Details
36. Vat.ebr.354 - Details
37. Vat.ebr.355 - Details
38. Vat.ebr.357 - Details
39. Vat.ebr.358 - Details
40. Vat.ebr.359 - Details
41. Vat.ebr.360 - Details
42. Vat.ebr.361 - Details
43. Vat.ebr.362 - Details
44. Vat.ebr.363 - Details
45. Vat.ebr.365 - Details
46. Vat.ebr.366 - Details
47. Vat.ebr.367 - Details
48. Vat.ebr.368 - Details
49. Vat.ebr.369 - Details
50. Vat.ebr.377 - Details
51. Vat.lat.259 - Athanasius, Details
52. Vat.lat.291 - Ambrose, Details
53. Vat.lat.382 - 16th century miscellany including Cyril of Jerusalem, Augustine. Details
54. Vat.lat.761 - Thomas Aquinas' In Aristotelis librum Analytica posteriora and another brief text in a textura hand. (St Louis catalog.) There appears to have been a flurry of (unavailing) interest in the identity of the Montpellier Dominican friar who once once owned this codex, evidenced only by a rubbed-out ex libris note on fol 57v: Iste liber est fratris...ordinis fratrum predicatorum. Conventus Montispessulani. Details
55. Vat.lat.793 - Details
56. Vat.lat.804 - Details
57. Vat.lat.821 - Details
58. Vat.lat.832 - Details
59. Vat.lat.847 - Details
60. Vat.lat.862 - Details
61. Vat.lat.865 - Details
62. Vat.lat.892 - Pope Sixtus IV, Details
63. Vat.lat.914 - Bonaventura, Commentaries, Details
64. Vat.lat.14596 - Details
65. Vat.turc.148 - Details

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 65. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to Digita Vaticana.