Mike Aquilina of Way of the Fathers has drawn my attention to a Vatican Radio announcement: 256 Vatican manuscripts have gone online. A list by shelfmark is here. They are mostly from the Palatine collection, which in turn contains a lot of the loot from the ancient monastery of Lorsch, destroyed during the 30 years war.

Here are a few highlights:

There’s then a lot of Jerome and Augustine. Then:

All this on a fairly quick glance plus some random clicking. It is an excellent selection.

The index pages for some of the manuscripts need more information. But this is a minor point. A PDF download would also be nice to have.

I hope that someone will do a proper list of all the mss. and their contents. I would do it, but I am still somewhat unwell.

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