Only 16 #Manuscripts from #Vatican in the past week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week31.html
Includes a nice glossed Justinian, more 17th C music, more german stuff, a Cantata for the birth of Louis of Orleans, and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @bookhistodons
@aaronm hi there, thanks for this continuous great work. Is there a way to browse the archive by language or by period?
E.g., I'm looking at https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/Vat.slav . Is there a way to see the metadata of these texts, like presumptive dates, titles, and whatever is known about origins? Does such information exist at all, if so, is it digitised?
Again, thanks a lot!
@mapto Of course, to add to it, fonds are by writing system, not language, so Vat.lat has German, French, English, AND Latin, because they all use a latin alphabel. Some collections have nothing to do with language at all, Rossiani (Ross) is just everything he owned, language be damned.
The metadata on my pages is a combo of stuff from the Vatlib website, the printed catalogues, random other databases, and things I have worked out for myself.
Hope this is helpful and not too depressing
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@mapto Like everything BAV, the short answer is no, the long answer is kinda?. I have per-fond pages: https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/fonds/ which would let you see whatever I have on Vat.slav. as example: https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/fonds/Vat.slav.html
but as you can see, I don't know anything about these volumes. Each Fond has it's own catalogues, and some are WAY better than others, eg the slav subsection of PIO is really well documented https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/fonds/P.I.O.html
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