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Isidore of Seville

image of Isidore (Aberdeen bestiary)

 

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 Seville

Isidore 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:

Praefatio
Liber I. de grammatica
Liber II. de rhetorica et dialectica
Liber III. de quatuor disciplinis mathematicis
Liber IV. de medicina
Liber V. de legibus et temporibus
Liber VI. de libris et officiis ecclesiasticis
Liber VII. de deo, angelis et fidelium ordinibus
Liber VIII. de ecclesia et sectis
Liber IX. de linguis, gentibus, regnis, militia, civibus, affinitatibus

Liber X. de vocabulis
Liber XI. de homine et portentis
Liber XII. de animalibus
Liber XIII. de mundo et partibus
Liber XIV. de terra et partibus
Liber XV. de aedificiis et agris
Liber XVI. de lapidibus et metallis
Liber XVII. de rebus rusticis
Liber XVIII. de bello et ludis
Liber XIX. de navibus, aedificiis et vestibus
Liber XX. de penu et instrumentis domesticis et rusticis

 

 


Modern Languages 4970 / MRS 4903: Medieval Latin. Spring 2003 Online Course at the University of Oklahoma. Visit http://www.ou.edu/online/ for more info.
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