AaronM

AaronM

@aaronm.bsky.social

I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order. https://www.cokldb.org/ https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/

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AaronM
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7 new #manuscripts this week, plus 14 catching up from last week at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes Ludovico d'Imola Sermons, Valerius MaximusLivy, 2 Ciceros (M.T and Q.T), Pauli Manutii on Cicero, an Avvisi and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2026Due to a timeout hitting the Vatican servers for the Vat.lat collection, it was not properly counted from October 10 through October 18. The missing fourteen volumes have been included below, in addi...
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6* #Manuscripts were digitized this week by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes more Avvisi, a commentary on Aristotle, and a 4 part Mass setting. #MedievalSky #Skystorians * It turns out there was a timeout on Vat.lat, so I've missed 14 MSS recently. Will be in next weeks listing

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 41 of 2026Only six manuscripts were tracked as added this week to the Vatican repository. These consisted of three Barb.lat, two Ott.lat and one from the Capp.Sist. Note that this data is slightly incorrect, ...
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Only 18 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a Digesta Vetus, a book on Papal coinags, more Avvisi, some letters, History by Æ. S. Piccolomini, conclave notes and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2026A total of eighteen manuscripts were digitized this past week. Most came from the Ott.lat collection, contributing eleven. The rest were split between Barb.lat with five and Comb with the remaining ...
AaronM
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4 #Manuscripts this week from #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... One Avvisi for 1644/5, one polyphonic Antiophonal, Petrus de Tarentasia on the Sentences and Petri Lopez de Ayala's "Tractatus de Aritus Zapacibus" (whatever that is) #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 39 of 2026Only four manuscripts were digitized this week, one each from Barb.lat and Vat.lat, and two from Ott.lat. To the right is f.16v from Ott.lat.3388, a collection of assorted polyphonic chants. This co...
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a solid 56 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a bunch of Avvisi, 2 on decorative machines, Odo of Meung on herbs, Celsus on medicine, Bernard of Parma, Hagiography from St. Maria in Trastevere and more! #MedievalSky #Skystoriane

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2026A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized in the past week, the busiest week since early June. Following recent patterns, the largest number were from Ott.lat, which contributed twenty-two. El...
AaronM
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Only 9 #Manuscripts added by the #Vatican last week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a couple of Biordi mass settings, the Life of Otharic the Goth (in German), and something by Garganus Senius (anyone know him?), and a bit more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 37 of 2026Another quiet week, only nine manuscripts were added, and all uploaded on Friday. Most were evenly split between Capp.Sist and Ott.lat, each with four. The final volume was Barb.lat. To the right i...
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I assume the #Vatican was too busy cooking brisket for the holiday to digitize more than 12 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026/week36.html Includes a nice 12th C collection of Vitae, 2 copies of the same text on Japanese martyrs (compare and contrast!) and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 36 of 2026Only twelve manuscripts were digitized the past week, all on monday. Work continues to favor the Ott.lat fond, contributing nine of those volumes. The rest consisted of two from Barb.lat and a singl...
AaronM
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Finally caught up, the #Vatican added 31 #Manuscripts last week (29 on friday!) www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes Bernardino of Siena in Italian, a ton of Conclave notes, a Caroline Chrysostom, heaps of Pitoni Mass settings, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 35 of 2026A total of thirty-one manuscripts were digitized during the past week, all but two of them being uploaded on Friday. The largest fraction, ten, came from Ott.lat, with Barb.lat and relative newcomer ...
AaronM
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Holiday weekend means that the weekly BAV roundup will be slightly delayed. But if you like reading about papal conclaves, have I got good news for you!

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Brandon W. Hawk
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Newly digitized is Pal. lat. 851 (saints lives & Paulus Diaconus's Historia Langobardorum), which made news earlier this year, when it was identified after being considered lost since the 18th century: www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

ub.uni-heidelberg.deRediscovered Palatina Codex returns to the Vatican – thanks to Heidelberg mediation - Heidelberg University Library
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19 #Manuscripts from the #vatican this week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes Palestrina, early modern coins and architectural drawings, Conclave of Nick 5, letters, a Latin-Hebrew dictionary, an unexpected Pal.lat volume of Saints Lives... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 34 of 2026Only nineteen manuscripts were digitized in this week, despite the summer vacation being officially over. Unexpectedly Capp.Sist contributed seven, the same number as the more anticipated Ott.lat. Th...
AaronM
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19 #Manuscripts from the #vatican this week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes Palestrina, early modern coins and architectural drawings, Conclave of Nick 5, letters, a Latin-Hebrew dictionary, an unexpected Pal.lat volume of Saints Lives... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 34 of 2026Only nineteen manuscripts were digitized in this week, despite the summer vacation being officially over. Unexpectedly Capp.Sist contributed seven, the same number as the more anticipated Ott.lat. Th...
AaronM
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28 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes 5 autograph Mass settings by Pitoni, the usual histories, letters, orations, chronicles, a report on the Conclave for Leo X, 17th C pill recipes, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 33 of 2026The Library has been on vacation the last two weeks, but started back up this week with twenty-eight manuscripts digitized. Exactly half of these were from the Ott.lat collection, and the rest were e...
AaronM
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41 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week, even while we were busy at #DH2026 www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a bunch of (anti-)papal conclaves, illustrated botanical texts, Vegio on Old St. Peters, a 12th C Ceremoniale, another French Alchemical text and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 30 of 2026A more active week for digitizing with forty-one manuscripts added to the repository. These were split between Barb.lat, contributing twenty-nine, and Ott.lat adding twelve. At the right side is p.9...
AaronM
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Silly faces in manuscripts time! This time on a flyleaf from BAV Ott.lat.3133. There were even more on the page! #MedievalSky

AaronM
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If you're at #DH2026, either in the flesh, or via astral projection, "Distant Past(s) – Current Future(s): Digitization, Digital Objects and Datafication Approaches in Ancient and Medieval Studies" starts in only a few hours.

AaronM
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Today, in epic 15th C scribes, we have the one who wrote Ott.lat.2967. It looks like they were riffing on earlier styles, but the double s in middle of the second line "potissimum" is quite unique! (NB. also the Q[ue] at the end of the first word) #MedievalSky

AaronM
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Only 18 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Inc. more 17th C papal stuff, an operetta about the death of Petrarch, some classic oratory, Plato, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 28 of 2026Only eighteen manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the pattern of last week, the largest contributor was nine manuscripts from Barb.lat. The rest of the work consisted of eight manuscripts ...
AaronM
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For those attending, either physically or virtually #DH2026 I will be presenting a paper on Proteins and Horae as part of the pre-conference "Distant Past(s) – Current Future(s): Digitization, Digital Objects and Datafication Approaches in Ancient and Medieval Studies" #MedievalSky #Skystorians

AaronM
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33 #Manuscripts from #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... A lot more 17th C stuff about the inside of the Church, Martinus Polonus' Chronica, Petrarch, Pisan history, Gospels in Italian, and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 27 of 2026A total of thirty-three manuscripts were digitized this week, the bulk of them coming in on Friday. Surprisingly the largest contributor, adding sixteen, was Barb.lat. This has been an active Fond fo...
AaronM
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Another slow week, 20 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... A lot of 17th-18th C papal ephemera including a nice Bull, an Ethiopian icon, Juvenal and Boccaccio, and a bit more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 26 of 2026This week completes the first half of the year, and the library digitized only twenty manuscripts. Returning to recent patterns, most of these, fourteen in total, came from the Ott.lat collection. T...
AaronM
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25 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week. www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Mostly fragments of Coptic hagiography, but also part of a 17th C MSS Catalog, a bio of Joannes Bellaius and a book on the theology of the Crucifixion #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 25 of 2026Twenty-five manuscripts were digitized the past week, unusually for the Vatican, the majority of these were uploaded on Sunday. Most of the manuscripts this week, twenty-two, came from Borg.Copt. Th...
AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2026A 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...
AaronM
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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"

AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 23 of 2026Only 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.

AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 22 of 2026After 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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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 20 of 2026After 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...
AaronM
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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...

AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 17 of 2026This 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...
AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2026Only 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...
AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 15 of 2026A 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 ...
AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 13 of 2026Due 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...
AaronM
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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

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2026A 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...
AaronM
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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 #MedievalSky #Skystorians

wiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 11 of 2026Only 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...