Biblioteca Barberiniana

In 2014, the present author came across a runic calendar-that is a perpetual calendar in which golden numbers and Sunday letters are represented by runes-stored in the repository of the Vatican Latin Collection as item no. 14613. It was known previously to scholars only through a set of photo graphic re pro ductions dating back to the mid1800s now in the Royal Library in Stock holm. This paper is a short and corrected summary of the author's detailed ac count of the Vatican runic item, which was published in the Miscellanea Biblio thecae Vati canae 22 (2016). This wellpreserved artifact, dated 1684 and belonging to the Swedish "runebook" type, consists of eight small wooden boards carved on both sides, bound together by a cord passing through two holes near one end. Both the contents of the calendar and its structure and over all style allow an identi fication of its origin as belonging to the postmedi eval Swedish pro duc tion in the Baltic area, more specifically in the Swedish settle ments in pres entday Estonia. Interesting analytic cues derive from the first account of the calendar as being stored in Bibliotheca Barberina in Rome, while a compar ative investigation of the few runebook calendars from Estonia that we know of shows that the Vatican item is original in some formal aspects and very atten tive in responding to calendar issues and Swedish models. The feasts recorded with symbols in the calendar conform to the Åbo diocese; the holi day marks agree with the Swedish popular tradition, but are occasionally reinter preted; various onomastic initials, owner's or identification marks (bo märke) and the socalled Saint Peter's game are cut on the cover pages of the runebook.

I finally finished writing the index of names and I made some corrections to the book that comes out in the 2nd edition.
I hope you appreciate my book and mention it where necessary.
Roma, 7 may, 2018

For citation:
Fortuzzi Cinzia, La biblioteca Barberina : La raccolta libraria di Urbano VIII e Francesco Barberini. 7 maggio 2018, https://www.academia.edu/36580655/La_Biblioteca_Barberina_la_raccolta_libraria_di_Urbano_VIII_e_Francesco_Barberini>. (ultima consultazione: ¬¬--/--/----)

The article analyses in chronological order forty four unpublished manuscripts by pope Urban VIII and his successor and, through cross-reference with lists of books, inventories and letters by librarians of the time, reconstructs the story of one of the Barberini's librarie.