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31 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Heavy on the 17th and 18th C stuff, a lovely 15th C Cicero, Coptic Isaiah, Ge'ez Rituale for the Dead, a volume of satires on the election of Benedict XIII (!!!) and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2026

A total of thirty-one manuscripts were digitized in the past week, most of them being uploaded on Friday. Of these the vast majority, twenty-three of them, were from the Ott.lat collection. The rema...

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In retrospect 32 characters was always going to be too little to contain the shelfmarks of the mighty BAV, behold: "Borg.copt.109.cass.II.fasc.5bis-ter-quater"

Only 18 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Many later Italian works and copies of Latin texts, but also Spanish poems, a Petrarch, Aristophanes with Scholia and a Satire of the 12 Caesars by Julian II (yes that Julian!), and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 23 of 2026

Only eighteen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As seems to be the current pattern, the vast majority of those, sixteen, were from the Ott.lat collection. The remaining two were from the ...

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#MedievalSky I am looking for a taxonomy of White Vine (bianchi girari) manuscript decorations… Does such a thing exist? I mentally sort them into raw edges vs. borders, animals vs not, etc, which made me think someone has to have done this in a more structured way but my searches turn up nothing.

Back in force, 90 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a bunch of 17th and 18th C volumes, Letters, book catalogues, Donatus, ps-Virgil, real Virgil, even some works of Melanchthon, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 22 of 2026

After a week with no manuscripts digitized, probably due to Pentecost, the library was back at full strength, digitizing ninety manuscripts. The vast majority, seventy-five, came from the Ott.lat col...

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Fun times under the hood of www.cokldb.org, I was couldn't run the test scripts on my dev laptop, b/c I had written some boneheaded code, but there was a "protect you from yourself" in the DBI module. They got rid of that, my code broke. I have remove my bone-headedness and all is well

CoKL: Corpus Kalendarium

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Alas, probably due to Pentecost, the #Vatican added no manuscripts this week

The #Vatican came back this week, with 34 #Manuscripts digitized www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Grammar, histories of Florence and Genoa, Longitude, bios of Il Brandano, Carlo Gonzaga, and Cola di Rienzo, a partial catalog of Ott.lat, inside Ott.lat, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2026

After two weeks of no digitizations, work recommenced with thirty-four manuscripts added this week. The vast majority of those, twenty-eight, were from the Ott.lat fond. The remainder were split, fo...

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Alas a second week of no new manuscripts from the Vatican. I verified my processes this week, so I don't think it's a code issue on my side, but that they really are just not adding anything at the moment. Hopefully this isn't a long-term shift...

Sadly the Vatican digitized no manuscripts last week, so there was no blog entry

24 #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes books on forts, on the city of Rome, religious devotion, indexes of manuscripts, commentary on logic, origins of Lombards, Satires and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 17 of 2026

This week concludes with twenty-four manuscripts digitized. Of these, a full three-quarters, eighteen volumes, came from the Ott.lat collection. Of the remaining, five were from the Pal.lat, and a s...

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Only 10 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes Celsus on medicine, debates about heresy, Papal acts and conclaves, a history of Rome, and a few more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2026

Only ten manuscripts in total were digitized this week. Nine were from the Ott.lat collection and the last one was a 12th C glossed Gospel of Luke from Vat.lat. An interesting note, all of these man...

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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 #MedievalSky #Skystorians

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 ...

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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 #MedievalSky #Skystorians

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...

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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! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

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...

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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! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

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...

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