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Isidore of Seville writing his Etymologiae. The image is taken from the Aberdeen Bestiary, which provides the source for the texts in the Physiologus unit. Isidore of SevilleIsidore was born in Spain in 560 and died in 636. He was educated at
the cathedral school in Seville, where he later became Archbishop. His
Etymologiae (Etymologies, sometimes called the Origines)
was the first Christian encyclopedia to set out to describe the
entire universe in all its details (the great Roman encyclopedia having
been defined by Pliny's
Natural History). The following table of contents is from the
online Bibliotheca Augustana, which has the complete text of several
Latin books:
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