Digitized medieval manuscripts of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma
I recently learnt, through my colleague Laetitia Ciccolini, that the National Library in Rome has digitized and released online some of their medieval manuscripts[1]. My tweet about it has had much more echo than I expected, which I’d interpret as a sign that this digital repository was still little known:
Did you know? 69 medieval manuscripts now at the National library in Rome are online!
— Pierre Chambert-Protat (@chaprot) July 25, 2019
➡️ https://t.co/miDOWO2Gnj
E.g. this copy of Augustine’s De Genesi ad litteram dating from the first half of the 6th century (😱😱😱), MS Sess. 13, f. 81v-82r (also #notalion) pic.twitter.com/JXewfdptGB
In fact, the repository is regrettably poorly devised, if not frankly user-hostile. You can’t easily know what books are or aren’t available, since the shelfmarks are not displayed — and the “Advanced Search” hardly helps. The embedded reader doesn’t allow you to do much, aside blindfoldedly leafing through the book; there is no easy way to provide a usable link to this or that page, and of course there isn’t a download button anywhere, not even for individual pictures. All beginner’s mistakes that ought to disappear from all medieval manuscripts digital repositories; and we can only hope that the BNC Rome will sometime come up with a newer version of their platform that allows researchers to actually work on their resources.
In the meantime, I thought it useful to provide at least a handlist of the 69 manuscripts that are indeed available.
The shelfmark’s abbreviation system is pretty straightforward; only be advised that “VE” manuscripts are from the “Vittorio Emanuele” collection (usually abbreviated as “Vitt. Em.”).
- BNCR_Ms_S_PANTALEO_0008
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0002
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0010
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0012
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0013
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0016
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0017
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0023
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0026
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0030
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0031
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0033
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0034
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0036
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0038
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0039
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0040
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0041
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0044
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0045
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0048
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0052
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0055
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0058
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0062
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0063
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0066
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0070
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0071
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0074
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0076
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0077
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0094
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0095
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0096
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0128
- BNCR_Ms_SESS_0590
- BNCR_Ms_VARIA_0003
- BNCR_Ms_VARIA_0291
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0039
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0055
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0199
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0244
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0273
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0293
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0307
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0350
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0411
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0443
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0448
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0471
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0723
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0741
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0742
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0743
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0744
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0796
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0797
- BNCR_Ms_VE_0849
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1004
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1005
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1119
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1324
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1347
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1348
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1502
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1630
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1631
- BNCR_Ms_VE_1632
Citer ce billet
Pierre Chambert-Protat (2019, 30 juillet). Digitized medieval manuscripts of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma. Florus de Lyon. Consulté le 18 avril 2024, à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/oryb
- They also have a repository for “Modern and Contemporary Manuscripts” which, as for now, helds 6’191 items. [↩]
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