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

Today's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide2026/06/03 23:28:23

A report on the City of Heaven, written by a man no one can find

A newly digitized Vatican manuscript — Ott.lat.2667, a 16th-century Italian relazione by the entirely unknown Contugo Centugli — describes the great city of Quinsay (Hangzhou, China) and its king, written in 1583, the same year Matteo Ricci entered China. The manuscript has sat in Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni's collection since before 1748 and is now freely viewable on DigiVatLib for the first time.

Today's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide2026/06/02 23:36:16

The history of Troy that begins mid-sentence

A newly digitized Vatican manuscript — Ott.lat.2594, a 14th-century Latin codex — preserves Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, the most widely copied medieval retelling of the Trojan War, a text built on a five-century scholarly deception that shaped Chaucer, Caxton, and Shakespeare.

Today's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide2026/06/01 23:25:33

The manuscript a cardinal brought home

An anonymous 18th-century chronicle of the Abbey of Vangadizza — a Camaldolese monastery on the Po delta that stood from 954 to 1810 — ended up in Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni's vast Roman library after he was named its absentee abbot in 1686. Purchased by the Vatican in 1748, the manuscript sat in the vaults until May 2026, when it was digitized as Ott.lat.2328.pt.1 and all 396 images were made freely available at DigiVatLib.

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