2016-08-31

Men Who Wear Glasses

The Life of Francesco I del Rovere is a biography with a series of extraordinary illuminations depicting 16th-century court life in Italy.

Francesco Maria di Montefeltro was the fourth duke of Urbino and his life ended up being celebrated in word by Giovanni Battista Leoni and in images by Valerio Mariani da Pesaro. The manuscript, Urb.lat.1764, part of the Urbino Collection, was brought online on August 31 by the Vatican Library.

You can enjoy each of the images for a long time, and ask your own questions. Here's somebody standing behind the pope who is wearing natty black-rimmed spectacles. Explain that.

In 1524, Francesco paid a state visit to Venice and was met by the then Doge, Andrea Gritti, in the Piazzetta San Marco. Naturally there was a big procession for him:

But what caught my eye was the commerce at the fringe. Even in those days, there were jerrybuilt wooden shops on the main square of Venice selling heaven knows what to the tourists:

Enjoy browsing the manuscript. It is one of 39 just brought online for a new posted total of 5,353.  Here is my unofficial list:
  1. Reg.lat.1701, a fine miscellany from the 11th century. Among the contents is a glossary of Old High German with definitions in Latin. Below is the incipit of the Ars Poetica of Horace:
  2. Urb.lat.1764, discussed above
  3. Vat.ebr.4
  4. Vat.ebr.40
  5. Vat.ebr.41
  6. Vat.ebr.42
  7. Vat.ebr.344
  8. Vat.ebr.356
  9. Vat.ebr.390
  10. Vat.ebr.391
  11. Vat.ebr.392
  12. Vat.ebr.393
  13. Vat.ebr.394
  14. Vat.ebr.395
  15. Vat.ebr.397
  16. Vat.ebr.398
  17. Vat.ebr.404
  18. Vat.ebr.409
  19. Vat.ebr.410
  20. Vat.ebr.412.pt.3
  21. Vat.ebr.413
  22. Vat.ebr.420
  23. Vat.ebr.423
  24. Vat.lat.181
  25. Vat.lat.329
  26. Vat.lat.360
  27. Vat.lat.368
  28. Vat.lat.783
  29. Vat.lat.873
  30. Vat.lat.878
  31. Vat.lat.888
  32. Vat.lat.898
  33. Vat.lat.935
  34. Vat.lat.953
  35. Vat.lat.959
  36. Vat.lat.969
  37. Vat.lat.987
  38. Vat.lat.8552, Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, in Latin: check out the Latin Josephus Project for more information. This manuscript is discussed in a 1960 codicology book by Jacques Stiennon on millennial manuscripts from the Lieges area, reviewed in Scriptorium.
  39. Vat.turc.152
The Bibliotheca Palatina project is separately pouring on the power, and has brought the following 67 Pal.lat. manuscripts held by the Vatican online in recent weeks. The list includes a 9th- or 10th-century water-damaged Cassiodorus and a 10th-century Cicero with this fine initial C:
  1. Pal. lat. 761 Codicis Iustiniani imp. libri IX (1255)
  2. Pal. lat. 791 Iacobus de Alvarottus: Iacobi de Alvarottis patavini de feudis (15. Jh.)
  3. Pal. lat. 794 Sammelhandschrift (15. Jh.)
  4. Pal. lat. 800 (Iacobi) Gentilis (Brixiensis) repertorium iuris (Pars I) (15. Jh.)
  5. Pal. lat. 801 (Iacobi) Gentilis (Brixiensis) repertorium iuris (Pars II) (15. Jh.)
  6. Pal. lat. 802 Repertorium iuris (15. Jh.)
  7. Pal. lat. 803 Repertorium iuris canonici (15. Jh.)
  8. Pal. lat. 804 Tabula doctorum, i. e. repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars I] (15. Jh.)
  9. Pal. lat. 805 Tabula doctorum, i. e. repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars II] (15. Jh.)
  10. Pal. lat. 806 Repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars I] (15. Jh.)
  11. Pal. lat. 807 Repertorium iuris ; Conclusiones sexti libri decretalium (15. Jh.)
  12. Pal. lat. 808 Repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars III] (15. Jh.)
  13. Pal. lat. 809 Repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars VI] (15. Jh.)
  14. Pal. lat. 810 Repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars II] (15. Jh.)
  15. Pal. lat. 812 Repertorium universale iuridicum, theologicum, morale [Pars V] (15. Jh.)
  16. Pal. lat. 820 Mathey Palmery (sic) florentini de temporibus ad Petrum Cosmae filium medicem ; Eusebii (et) Hieronomi (sic) presbyteri chronica, a Prospero continuata (15. Jh.)
  17. Pal. lat. 821 Eusebii et Hieronymi chronicon, a Prospero continuatum (15. Jh.)
  18. Pal. lat. 823 Cassiodorii historia ecclesiastica tripartita (9.-10. Jh.)
  19. Pal. lat. 826 Anastasii Bibliothecarii historia ecclesiastica tripartita (11. Jh.)
  20. Pal. lat. 827 Pauli Horosii presbiteri ad Augustinum episcopum hystoriarum contra accusatores temporum christianorum, libri VII (13.-14. Jh.)
  21. Pal. lat. 828 Sammelhandschrift (11.,14., 15. Jh.)
  22. Pal. lat. 830 Mariani Scott chronicon (11. Jh.)
  23. Pal. lat. 832 Sammelhandschrift (14. Jh.)
  24. Pal. lat. 837 Ludolphi Carthusiani de uita Christi in euangelio tradita pars secunda et ultima (15. Jh.)
  25. Pal. lat. 838 (Ludolphi Carthusiani) de vita Ihesu in ewangelio (sic) tradita, pars prima (15. Jh.)
  26. Pal. lat. 844 Vitae patrum (15. Jh.)
  27. Pal. lat. 849 Jacobus : Legenda sanctorum (14. Jh.)
  28. Pal. lat. 918 Plutarchi vitae in latinum translatae (15. Jh.)
  29. Pal. lat. 928 Gesta Romanorum ; Historia septem sapientum (Süddeutschland, 14. Jh.)
  30. Pal. lat. 970 Giovanni ; Boccaccio, Giovanni: Sammelband (Italien, 1379 ; 15. Jh.)
  31. Pal. lat. 971 Honorius ; Johannes ; Petrus : Sammelhandschrift (Frankenthal, 1508)
  32. Pal. lat. 1093 Galenus: Sammelhandschrift (Italien, 14. Jh.)
  33. Pal. lat. 1095 Galenus: Sammelhandschrift (Italien (Südfrankreich), 14. Jh.)
  34. Pal. lat. 1099 Galenus; Avicenna; Albertus : Medizinische Sammelhandschrift ((Heidelberg), 2. Hälfte 15. Jh. (1475/77))
  35. Pal. lat. 1120 Avicenna; Knab, Erhardus: Fen quarta libri Canonis primi (Heidelberg, 1467)
  36. Pal. lat. 1183 Knab, Erhardus: Sammelhandschrift (Heidelberg, 1465/66)
  37. Pal. lat. 1232 Avicenna; Knab, Erhardus: Medizinischer Sammelband (Heidelberg, um 1470)
  38. Pal. lat. 1242 Ps.-Albertus Magnus; Odo ; Johannes : Medizinischer Sammelband (Südwestdeutschland , Freiburg (III), 14. Jh. (I) ; 1. Drittel 15. Jh. (II) ; 1419 (III) ; 1. Hälfte 15. Jh. (IV))
  39. Pal. lat. 1246 Avicenna; Thaddaeus; Gentilis : Medizinische Sammelhandschrift ((Heidelberg, 122ff.), letztes Drittel 15. Jh. (nach 1468))
  40. Pal. lat. 1263 Regimen sanitatis für Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz (Hedelberg, 1593)
  41. Pal. lat. 1274 Matthaeus : Circa instans seu de simplcibus medicinis (Westdeutschland, 13./14. Jh.)
  42. Pal. lat. 1310 Lanfrancus ; Ps.-Galenus: Sammelhandschrift (Montpellier, 14. Jh. (1325))
  43. Pal. lat. 1327 Laurentius Rusius; Iordanus ; Knab, Erhardus; Bartholomaeus de Montagnana; Zacharias de Feltris: Medizinische Sammelhandschrift (Heidelberg, 15. Jh. (1476-479))
  44. Pal. lat. 1334 Franciscus : Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis beatae Mariae (Blockbuch) (Regensburg, 1471)
  45. Pal. lat. 1360 Strabo: Strabonis Geographica (Deutschland, 2. Drittel 15. Jh.)
  46. Pal. lat. 1445 Leopoldus ; Yaḥya ibn Abi Manṣūr /al-Ma'mūnī; Hermes; Zael; Guido ; Albertus ; Johannes : Astrologische Sammelhandschrift: Miscellanea (Süddeutschland, Ende 15. Jh.)
  47. Pal. lat. 1480 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  48. Pal. lat. 1484 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  49. Pal. lat. 1497 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (I-XVI) (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  50. Pal. lat. 1500 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (I-XVI) (Italien, 14.-15. Jh.)
  51. Pal. lat. 1504 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (I-XVI) (Italien, 14.-15. Jh.)
  52. Pal. lat. 1505 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (I-VII, IX-XVI) (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  53. Pal. lat. 1506 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (I-VII, IX-XVI) (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  54. Pal. lat. 1507 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (I-XVI) (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  55. Pal. lat. 1514 Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Tusculanae disputationes (Italien, 10. Jh.)
  56. Pal. lat. 1566 Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus: Opus agriculturae (Italien, 14. Jh.)
  57. Pal. lat. 1587 Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Apollinaris; Serenus, Quintus; Ps.-Crispus Mediolanensis Diaconus: Sammelhandschrift (Italien, 15. Jh.)
  58. Pal. lat. 1609 Erasmus, Desiderius: Enchiridion militis Christiani (Frankreich (?), nach 1574)
  59. Pal. lat. 1610 Oratio de natura leonis (Pfalz, um 1590-1594)
  60. Pal. lat. 1611 Guido : Sammelhandschrift (Italien, 13. Jh. ; 14. Jh.)
  61. Pal. lat. 1675 Francesco Ceccharelli: Commentum in Senecae tragoedias (Italien, um 1440)
  62. Pal. lat. 1730 Petrarca, Francesco: Sammelhandschrift (Italien (?), um 1440, 1442)
  63. Pal. lat. 1733 Gruterus, Janus: Anthologia (Heidelberg, 1602)
  64. Pal. lat. 1734 Carmina et orationes festivae (Cambridge, 1613)
  65. Pal. lat. 1744 Veit Örtel: Annotationes (Wittenberg, 1554-1557)
  66. Pal. lat. 1758 Gian Francesco Poggio Braccolini; Valla, Lorenzo (Deutschland, um 1465-1470)
  67. Pal. lat. 1823 Luther, Martin: Excerpta (Weimar (?), Mitte 16. Jh.)

This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 67. 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.

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