Isidore of Seville, Etymologies
- Date:
- Late 12th Century
- Manuscripts
About this work
Description
Contentsff. 1r-91v Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, incomplete.Contains: end of Book 2 (Rhetoric and Dialectic). Beginning of Book 3 (Arithmetic, etc.). End of Book 5 (Chronology). Books 6-9 complete (Ecclesiastical matters. Theology. The Church and religions. Language and peoples.) Beginning of Book 10 (Etymology). Fragments of Books 11-13 (Man and his parts. Zoology. The World). Book 14 complete except for 1 leaf (Physical geography). Book 15 complete (Public building and roads). Book 16 incomplete (Stones and metals). Book 17 beginning only (Agriculture).f. 1r [opens imperfectly] ... pars cause est propositum ... f. 91v [ends imperfectly] inspiratione bona et cum caripter manus inficiens ...
Publication/Creation
Late 12th Century
Physical description
1 volume
91 leaves atlas folio. 45 x 31 cm. On vellum. 19th century boards. The lower part of f. 54 has been cut away. The lower margins of many leaves are frayed. Finely written in double column of 42 lines in a clear gothic hand with headings and paragraph marks in red, and some good large ornamental initials also in red. The Ptolemaic World-map on f. 65v is in red, green and black, and the small diagrams (f. 8v) and the Tables of Consanguinity (ff. 53r, 54r) are in red and black. The last 5 leaves are un-numbered, but the others have the original foliation, and the volume contains folios 19-22, 25 (misplaced before folio 19)-31, 41-88, 90, 95, 106, 111, 113, 115-118, 120-137.
91 leaves atlas folio. 45 x 31 cm. On vellum. 19th century boards. The lower part of f. 54 has been cut away. The lower margins of many leaves are frayed. Finely written in double column of 42 lines in a clear gothic hand with headings and paragraph marks in red, and some good large ornamental initials also in red. The Ptolemaic World-map on f. 65v is in red, green and black, and the small diagrams (f. 8v) and the Tables of Consanguinity (ff. 53r, 54r) are in red and black. The last 5 leaves are un-numbered, but the others have the original foliation, and the volume contains folios 19-22, 25 (misplaced before folio 19)-31, 41-88, 90, 95, 106, 111, 113, 115-118, 120-137.
Biographical note
This famous encyclopaedia - the first of its kind - was written about 630 and first printed at Augsburg in 1472.
Language note
In Latin.
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
Where to find it
Location of original
Wellcome Library; GB.
Location Status Access Closed storesMS.372