From Larestan

Among the treasures put online this week is the celebrated Vatican Judaeo-Persian Pentateuch. This is a 14th-century translation of part of the bible into Persian from the Aramaic Targum Onkelos.

Vat.pers.61 is written out in Hebrew script, though other contemporary translations from the Mongol era exist in Persian script. I quote from the Encyclopaedia Iranica:

Persian manuscripts were purchased for the ‘Stamperia Orientale Medicea’ by the brothers Giovan Battista Vecchietti (1552-1619), and Gerolamo Vecchietti (1557-ca. 1640) during their several missions to the East commissioned by the papacy... Among the manuscripts brought to Italy by Giovan Battista Vecchietti, mention should be made of a copy of the Judaeo-Persian Pentateuch, preserved at the Vatican Library as MS Vat. Pers. 61 (Rossi, 1948, p. 87). Ignazio Guidi (q.v.) made a preliminary study of it, and Herbert Paper published the text in Latin transliteration (1965-68). 

Vecchietti apparently obtained this fragile old book, which is almost square in format, in the town of Lar, capital of Larestan in Iran, according to Kenneth Thomas.

Here is the full list of digitizations placed online on October 10:

1. Barb.or.14, Hebrew grammar
2. Barb.or.82
3. Barb.or.85
4. Barb.or.88
5. Barb.or.98
6. Barb.or.101
7. Barb.or.110
8. Barb.or.119
9. Barb.or.161
10. Barb.or.162
11. Barb.or.163
12. Borg.turc.79
13. Reg.gr.31
14. Reg.gr.36 
15. Reg.lat.1512, a 14th-century copy of the De Re Militari of Vegetius. According to Charles Shrader, Queen Christina owned numerous of these.
16. Urb.lat.187, Metaphysica, an Avicenna Latinus of the Renaissance (hat tip for this to Pieter Beullens, @LatinAristotle on Twitter)
17. Vat.ebr.3
18. Vat.ebr.6
19. Vat.ebr.8
20. Vat.ebr.
21. Vat.ebr.55
22. Vat.ebr.56.pt.1
23. Vat.ebr.56.pt.2
24. Vat.ebr.58
25. Vat.ebr.59
26. Vat.ebr.60
27. Vat.ebr.61
28. Vat.ebr.62
29. Vat.ebr.63
30. Vat.ebr.64
31. Vat.ebr.65
32. Vat.ebr.67
33. Vat.ebr.68
34. Vat.ebr.69
35. Vat.ebr.70
36. Vat.ebr.73
37. Vat.ebr.74
38. Vat.ebr.76
39. Vat.ebr.77
40. Vat.ebr.78
41. Vat.ebr.80
42. Vat.ebr.81
43. Vat.ebr.82
44. Vat.ebr.83
45. Vat.ebr.84
46. Vat.ebr.85
47. Vat.ebr.86
48. Vat.ebr.88
49. Vat.ebr.89
50. Vat.ebr.90
51. Vat.ebr.91
52. Vat.ebr.92
53. Vat.ebr.93
54. Vat.ebr.94
55. Vat.ebr.95
56. Vat.ebr.96
57. Vat.ebr.97
58. Vat.ebr.98
59. Vat.ebr.99
60. Vat.ebr.254
61. Vat.ebr.454.pt.3
62. Vat.ebr.473
63. Vat.ebr.477
64. Vat.ebr.480
65. Vat.ebr.481
66. Vat.ebr.483
67. Vat.ebr.488
68. Vat.ebr.489
69. Vat.ebr.491
70. Vat.ebr.495
71. Vat.ebr.496
72. Vat.ebr.498
73. Vat.ebr.507
74. Vat.ebr.509
75. Vat.ebr.510
76. Vat.ebr.511
77. Vat.ebr.515
78. Vat.ebr.517
79. Vat.ebr.518
80. Vat.ebr.520
81. Vat.ebr.521
82. Vat.ebr.522
83. Vat.ebr.524
84. Vat.ebr.525
85. Vat.ebr.526
86. Vat.ebr.527
87. Vat.ebr.528
88. Vat.ebr.529
89. Vat.ebr.539
90. Vat.ebr.540
91. Vat.ebr.541
92. Vat.ebr.542
93. Vat.ebr.543
94. Vat.ebr.545
95. Vat.ebr.547
96. Vat.ebr.548
97. Vat.ebr.549
98. Vat.ebr.550
99. Vat.ebr.551
100. Vat.ebr.552
101. Vat.ebr.553
102. Vat.ebr.554
103. Vat.ebr.555
104. Vat.ebr.556
105. Vat.ebr.558
106. Vat.ebr.559
107. Vat.ebr.560
108. Vat.ebr.561
109. Vat.ebr.563
110. Vat.ebr.567
111. Vat.ebr.569
112. Vat.ebr.570
113. Vat.ebr.574
114. Vat.ebr.575
115. Vat.ebr.576
116. Vat.ebr.577
117. Vat.ebr.578
118. Vat.ebr.579.pt.2
119. Vat.ebr.580
120. Vat.ebr.585
121. Vat.ebr.588
122. Vat.ebr.590
123. Vat.ebr.592
124. Vat.ebr.593
125. Vat.ebr.594
126. Vat.ebr.596.pt.1
127. Vat.ebr.596.pt.2
128. Vat.ebr.597
129. Vat.ebr.600
130. Vat.ebr.601
131. Vat.ebr.603
132. Vat.ebr.604
133. Vat.ebr.605
134. Vat.ebr.606
135. Vat.ebr.608
136. Vat.ebr.613
137. Vat.ebr.615
138. Vat.ebr.617
139. Vat.lat.344
140. Vat.lat.889
141. Vat.lat.906
142. Vat.lat.913
143. Vat.lat.917
144. Vat.lat.954
145. Vat.lat.955
146. Vat.lat.984
147. Vat.lat.985, Mich. Angiran's Commentary on the Sentences. Schadt, p. 197 notes 12-13, quotes a curious argument at fol. 161 based on medieval genetics to explain why incest leads to sick babies. The front illumination contains a fine image of a baptism where the tiny altar boy is struggling to hold up the heavy lectionary:
     
148. Vat.lat.1000
149. Vat.lat.1017
150. Vat.lat.1029
151. Vat.lat.1058, miscellany including Bonaventura, Lignum Vitae. Those who follow this blog will know that I am interested in tree diagrams, and this contains a diagram presenting people in a tree at fol 28v. This is an exceptionally early adoption of the idea, dating from the 13th century:
     
     The figure at right is not waving fists in a victory pose. Those are only tendrils. As Hermann Schadt notes, Bonaventura (1221-1274) discussed Christ's cross as a "tree of life" with 12 branches and invited his readers to dwell on and explore this symbolism. The graphic is not a data visualization, but the artistic motif helps to prepare the ground for genealogical trees in later centuries.
152. Vat.lat.1068
153. Vat.lat.1087
154. Vat.lat.1819, Latin translation of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Antiquitates romanae, lib. I-XI - 15th century manuscript
155. Vat.lat.1848, Livy, Ad Urbe Condita, 15th or 16th century
156. Vat.lat.3317, 10th-century copy of Servius, In Vergilium, apparently on Georgics I. Lowe notes its Beneventan script.
157. Vat.lat.7319, Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium, with a fine opening illumination from Brussels
158. Vat.pers.61, see above

This is Piggin's Unofficial List 71. 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.

Schadt, Hermann. Die Darstellungen der Arbores Consanguinitatis und der Arbores Affinitatis: Bildschemata in juristischen Handschriften. Tübingen [Germany]: Wasmuth, 1982.