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Special Collections- Vatican Film Library : BAV (by Language)

Selected information on the holdings and organization of the VFL library

Overview

This page provides catalogs of Vatican Library manuscripts divided by some of the languages of manuscripts represented in the Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. For additional resources, see:

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Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana, Studi e Testi v. 466-467

Volume 1: Guide to Vatican manuscripts with indices by: general history; topics; authors; exhibitions; incipits; facsimiles; and fondi. Volume 2: Guide to Vatican printed books and numismatics, as well as indices by topic and shelfmark for both volumes.

Catalogs exist for the following languages:

Arabic
Armenian
Coptic
Ethiopic
Greek
Hebrew
Latin
Persian
Syriac
Turkish

Vat. Syr. 83

East Syriac Hudra (1537/9 AD)
BAV Cod. Vat. Syr. 83, f. 43

Arabic

Elenco dei manoscritti arabi islamici della Biblioteca Vaticana: Vaticani, Barberiniani, Borgiani, Rossiani by Giorgio Levi della Vida
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.67
Secondo elenco dei manoscritti arabi islamici della Biblioteca vaticana by Giorgio Levi della Vida
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.242
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000

Armenian

Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani, Vaticani, Barberiniani, Chisiani
Call Number: Z6621 .V32 Arm.
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000

Coptic

Codices coptici vaticani, Barberiniani, Borgiani, Rossiani
Call Number: Z6621 .V32 Copt.

Ethiopic

Codices aethiopici vaticani et borgiani : Barberinianus orientalis 2, Rossianus 865
Call Number: Z6621 .V32 Etiop.
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000

Greek

Le fonds grec de la Bibliothèque vaticane des origines à Paul V.
Call Number: Z6621.V32 G73
Studi e testi 244
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000
Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus, in tres partes distributus, in quarum prima orientales, in altera graeci, in tertia latini, italici aliorumque europeanorum idiomatum codices by Stefano Evodio Assemani
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A88 1926

Hebrew

Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue by Benjamin Richler and Malachi Beit-Arié
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.438
Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus, in tres partes distributus, in quarum prima orientales, in altera graeci, in tertia latini, italici aliorumque europeanorum idiomatum codices by Stefano Evodio Assemani
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A88 1926
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000

Latin

Les manuscrits classiques latins de la Bibliothèque vaticane : catalogue by Elisabeth Pellegrin
Call Number: Z6621.V32 L26
Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus, in tres partes distributus, in quarum prima orientales, in altera graeci, in tertia latini, italici aliorumque europeanorum idiomatum codices by Stefano Evodio Assemani
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A88 1926
Codici latini datati della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. by José Ruysschaert et al.
Call Number: Z6621.B5418 B53 1997, vols. 1-2
ISBN: 8821006328
Publication Date: 1997-
Catalog of dated Latin manuscripts in the Vatican Library

Persian

Elenco di drammi religiosi persiani (fondo mss. Vaticani Cerulli) by Ettore Rossi and Alessio Bombaci
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.209
Elenco dei manoscritti persiani della Biblioteca vaticana: vaticani, barberiniani, borgiani, rossiani. by Ettore Rossi
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.136
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000

Syriac

Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus, in tres partes distributus, in quarum prima orientales, in altera graeci, in tertia latini, italici aliorumque europeanorum idiomatum codices by Stefano Evodio Assemani
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A88 1926
“Codices Chaldaici sive syriaci Vaticani Assemani,” by Angelo Mai
Call Number: BR60 .M35
in Scriptorum veterum nova collectio e Vaticani codicibus, 10 vols. (Rome, 1825–38), 5, pt. 2:1–82 [MSS 258–459]
Inventaire des manuscrits syriaques des fonds Vatican (490 [recte 460]–631), Barberini Oriental et Neofiti by Arnold Van Lantschoot
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.243
Syriac manuscripts from the Vatican Library [electronic resource] by Brigham Young University
Call Number: PJ5621 .S97 2005

Turkish

Elenco dei manoscritti turchi della Biblioteca Vaticana: Vaticani, Barberiniani, Borgiani, Rossiani, Chigiani, by Ettore Rossi
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.174
Turcica vaticana by Delio V. Proverbio
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.461
Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices syriacos, arabicos, persicos, turcicos, hebraicos, samaritanos, armenicos, aethiopicos, graecos, aegyptiacos, ibericos, et malabaricos by Joseph Simonius Assemanus
Call Number: Z6621.V322 A87 2000