Charlemagne's Daughter

The Vatican Library continues to re-scan codices in color to replace the dire black and white microfilms it previously had online. I just noticed the arrival of a fine old 9th-century codex from Faremoutiers Abbey where at one point Ruothild, an illegitimate daughter of Charlemagne, was abbess. Reg.lat.141 begins with a Latin translation from Basil the Great, apparently with some unique glosses:

Esteemed @ParvaVox points out in response on Twitter that it's a "quite extraordinary #Carolingian witness of a late antique doctrinal controversy ... containing glosses dating back to the fight against Pelagianism and Julian of Eclanum".

For those interested in Carolingian science, the eTK lists a tract in the codex beginning De mundi principio quomodo factus est ... At the back are paschal tables from 804 to 873 (a note marks Ruothild's death), as well as fine diagrams including this one of the phases of the moon:

Also new in color is Reg.lat.1140, a packed tome of 557 folios containing Fons memorabilium universi of Domenico Bandini of Arezzo, but what caught my eye was this amazing diagrammatic table of contents:

The last new color item of note is Vat.lat.2190, a 14th-century text by the Spanish Franciscan philosophy teacher and early Scotist, Peter Thomae (c.1280-c.1350), Ista convertuntur proprie videlicet esse et reytas, ens et res, entale et reale, entalitas et realitas, also listed in eTK.

There are of course completely new items online, of which I have spotted 26:

1. Pal.gr.205
2. Reg.lat.196
3. Reg.lat.1206
4. Reg.lat.1227
5. Reg.lat.1239
6. Reg.lat.1247
7. Reg.lat.1293
8. Reg.lat.1330, eTK: Astrologia est beneficio deorum nobis revelata
9. Reg.lat.1548
10. Reg.lat.1576
11. Reg.lat.1614
12. Reg.lat.1628
13. Reg.lat.1629
14. Reg.lat.1634, HT to @LatinAristotle, who points out this is Lucan's Civil War with a diagram laying out the topographical situation
15. Reg.lat.1639
16. Reg.lat.1651
17. Reg.lat.1862

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    — Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) November 26, 2017

18. Vat.lat.1417
19. Vat.lat.2022
20. Vat.lat.2049
21. Vat.lat.2099
22. Vat.lat.2172
23. Vat.lat.2181
24. Vat.lat.2184, a 14th-century collection on Aristotlean philosophy: the catalog lists commentators Averroes, Michael Scot and Étienne de Provins. eTK says contents include De Intensione et Remissione Formarum, an essay on the philosophy of Aristotle by Walter Burley: Incipit: In hoc tractatu intendo perscrutari de causa intrinseca.
25. Vat.lat.2199
26. Vat.lat.15372 seems to be a Renaissance book of hours, which according to notes on the endpapers was an heirloom and repeated family gift by legacy until it entered the Vatican collection in 2008. Browse it for the delicate images:
    

    https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC.15372 might be from Arras, or passed through there. The same Thomas de Parent(i/y) owned a Pontifical that is still there BM Arras MS 702 - https://t.co/SLBnqezU97

    — AaronM (@gundormr) November 26, 2017

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