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This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide

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Weekly curation of rare books newly digitized at Harvard Houghton / Oxford Bodleian / Vatican / British Library / Library of Congress, with brief introductions and highlight-page scans

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-10-29

Francis in red ink, the Dies irae inside: a fifteenth-century psalter opens at the Vatican

A fifteenth-century psalter made for a Franciscan house is now online in full at the Vatican, and its calendar gives the book away in red ink: Francis on 4 October, All Souls on 2 November, and the Dies irae 175 leaves in.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-10-22

Before the other twelve turned up: an eight-play Plautus opens at the Vatican

A fifteenth-century Vatican copy of eight Plautus comedies — the whole of Plautus western Europe had before 1429 — is now online leaf by leaf, and it opens with the poet's own epitaph.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-10-15

Justinian's Digest, with its commentary written around the text, opens at the Vatican

A fourteenth-century parchment copy of Justinian's Digest — the Old Digest, with the medieval commentary written around the text — is now open in full on DigiVatLib.

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This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-10-08

Chant, polyphony and Felice Anerio: the Duke of Altemps' choirbook goes online

A Roman choirbook written for the private chapel of the Duke of Altemps, with chant and polyphony by Felice Anerio, is now open on DigiVatLib — and its shelf history runs through a group of six Vatican volumes listed as unlocated since 1851.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-10-01

Milan, Livorno, Warsaw: a year of 1668 news opens at the Vatican

A 510-folio Vatican manuscript of handwritten 1668 news bulletins — dispatched from Milan, Lucerne, Livorno and Warsaw — is now open leaf by leaf on DigiVatLib.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-09-24

From Artemisia to pepper: a medieval herbal poem opens at the Vatican

Vatican manuscript Vat.lat.11514 — a fifteenth-century copy of the Latin herbal poem De viribus herbarum, known as the Macer Floridus and attributed to Odo of Meung-sur-Loire — is newly digitized and open on DigiVatLib.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-09-10

A humanist's copy of Pliny the Younger's letters opens at the Vatican

Vatican manuscript Ott.lat.3305, a fifteenth-century copy of Pliny the Younger's letters penned by Tuscan humanist Sozomeno da Pistoia, is newly digitized and open in DigiVatLib.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-09-03

A seventeenth-century copy of the Urban VI conclave opens at the Vatican

Barb.lat.2633, a seventeenth-century copy of documents from the Urban VI conclave, is newly digitized and open leaf by leaf in DigiVatLib.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-08-27

A Palatine codex missing since 1798, now open leaf by leaf

Vatican manuscript Pal.lat.851 — five saints' lives and Paul the Deacon's Lombard chronicle — left the inventory in 1798, returned in January 2026, and is now fully digitized on DigiVatLib.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-08-20

The conclave that elected Leo X, now open at the Vatican

A newly digitized Vatican manuscript preserves a seventeenth-century copy of documents from the 1513 conclave that elected Giovanni de' Medici as Leo X. Read its opening folio, then explore the complete 12-leaf scan in DigiVatLib.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-07-23

Before Gershwin became Gershwin, a 1916 song goes online

A newly online Library of Congress scan preserves George Gershwin's 1916 song sheet, from its comic illustrated cover to the piano-vocal page meant to be played at home.

This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
This Week's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide
2026-07-16

A Greek Plato, from Florence to the Vatican

Vatican manuscript Vat.gr.2196, a fourteenth-century Greek codex containing Plato's Republic and six related texts, is now freely viewable on DigiVatLib, with a Renaissance ownership trail still visible in its catalog record and pages.

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