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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 22

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  • MS 022
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Date
  • 1100 - 1199 - 1300 - 1399
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 022: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Synonyma. Bestiary
    • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (index) || Tabula super Isidori etymologias
    • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae || IsidoriEtymologiae
    • Descriptio terrae sanctae || On the holy places of Jerusalem etc.
    • Bestiary
    • Isidore of Seville, Synonyma
    • see more
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Isidore of Seville
    Other form
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • S. Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
    • Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
    • ISIDORE
    • Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
    • Isidorus
    • Isidore de Séville
    • Isidori Hispalensis
    • Isidori
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
    • Isidore (Saint), de Séville
    • Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
    • Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
    • Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
    • Isidorus van Sevilla
    • Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
    • Isidore
    • Isodore of Seville
    • Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
    • Isidorus<Hispalensis>
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint)
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
    • Divus Isidorus
    • Hisidorus Hispalensis
    • S. Isidorus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis episcopus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus : Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus Episcopus Hispalensis
    • Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis>
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
    • Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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Description

  • Summary: The main text in CCCC MS 22 is an encyclopaedia, the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), which is preceded by an index of its subject matter. The Etymologiae is a compilation of universal knowledge in twenty books covering topics such as grammar, medicine, theology and geography. Natural history is also extensively covered, and this is the subject of another text in the book, a Bestiary, illustrated with coloured drawings of the animals, birds, fish and reptiles. It is one of the oldest extant copies of an illustrated bestiary made in England. The book also contains one text of a very different character, the Synonyma, a devotional dialogue by Isidore of Seville between the sinful soul and a personification of reason. Recent scholarship dates the book to c. 1150-70, but its place of origin is uncertain, although possibly the North of England, perhaps Durham. There is no evidence of its medieval ownership.


    Contents :


    ir-xxv - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (index) || Tabula super Isidori etymologias

    incipit: (ir) Primus liber Ysidori habet capitula 28

    Note: Ends f. xxv

    rubric: (xxv) Explicit Tabula Ysidori


    1r-161r - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae || IsidoriEtymologiae

    Note: (P. L. LXXXII)

    rubric: (1r) Incipiunt Epistole Ysidori ad Braulionem

    Note: Five letters, the last ending

    explicit: (2v) conditor huius codicis disputauit

    Note: (2v) Capitula. Subjects of the books

    Note: (2v) Capitula libri primi

    rubric: (2v) Incipit liber primus de disciplina

    incipit: (3r) Disciplina a discendo

    Note: (3r) Handsome initial in blue, green and red. Each book has a similar one

    Note: Initials of chapters are mostly in plain colour, red and green and white

    Note: (161r) Liber XX ends

    explicit: (161r) ignis ardore siccetur

    Note: No colophon


    161r-161v - Descriptio terrae sanctae || On the holy places of Jerusalem etc.

    incipit: (161r) Si quis ab occidentalibus partibus ierusalem adire uoluerit solis ortum semper teneat

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (161v) In sinistra parte est mons dominus uidit, ubi locutus est dominus cum abraham ubi et ipse abraham filium suum ysaac immolare uoluit

    Note: Cf. Tobler's Innominatus VII (Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, p. 100)


    162r-169v - Bestiary

    Note: (162r) A Bestiary. The first leaf gone

    Note: Begins in the section de Vulpe, followed by

    incipit: (162r) Est animal quod dicitur monocheros latine uero unicornis

    Note: (169r) The last section (Est arbor que dicitur mandragora in partibus orientis) ends

    explicit: (169r) statim a demonio deuoratus est et periit

    Note: There are illustrations in the text in outline, washed with colour: no backgrounds: the execution rough but effective

    Note: (162r) 1. Unicorn with head on lap of maiden: a man pierces it

    Note: (162r) 2. Hunter blows horn: beaver bites its glands off

    Note: (162r) 3. Ydrus, winged serpent, penetrating crocodile (four-footed beast)

    Note: (162v) 4. Crocodile devouring man

    Note: (162v) 5. Hyena, winged beast, fluttering over a tomb with a cross at each end

    Note: (163r) 6. Two wild asses

    Note: (163r) 7. Two monkeys sit and converse

    Note: (163r) 8. A wild goat

    Note: (163v) 9. Three beasts follow a blue panther

    Note: (164r) 10. A winged hairy dragon

    Note: (164r) 11. Weasels

    Note: (164r) 12. Two deer

    Note: (164v) 13. Elephant lies on its back with legs in air: another elephant with castle and warriors

    Note: (165r) 14. Wolves: one bites his foot

    Note: (165v) 15. R. Dog assaulting murderer: on L. the murderer's hands are being bound: the dog's dead master lies below

    Note: (165v) 16. Ibex leaping from rock on to its horns: another ibex

    Note: (166r) 17. The lapides igniferi represented as four half-length human figures, two of them springing out of a steel such as was used for striking sparks

    Note: (166r) 18. The winged sea beast sarra attacks a ship with men in it

    Note: (166r) 19. Chaladrius looking away from a sick man in bed

    Note: (166r) 20. Four pelicans (small blue birds)

    Note: (166v) 21. Owl (not like)

    Note: (166v) 22. Eagles teach an eaglet to look at the sun

    Note: (166v) 23. Phoenix: on R. it burns in its nest

    Note: (167r) 24. Two hoopoes pull out the feathers of their parent

    Note: (167r) 25. Ants

    Note: (167v) 26. Two sirens, one ending as fish, the other as bird

    Note: (167v) 27. Ibis bringing snake to its young in nest

    Note: (167v) 28. A coot

    Note: (168r) 29. Aspidochelone: ship anchored to it and tree growing in its head, which a man is about to cut with axe

    Note: (168r) 30. Partridges

    Note: (168r) 31. Aspis. On L. it emerges, a beast with legs and ears, from its hole: a man tickles it (?). On R. is a dog on its hind legs attacking or caressing a woman

    Note: (168v) 32. Ostrich

    Note: (168v) 33. Doves

    Note: (168v) 34. Salamander twined round a tree. On R. two men carry off a tub slung on a pole: probably containing apples which the beast has poisoned by its breath

    Note: (169r) 35. Doves

    Note: (169r) 36. Tree with doves perched in it. On L. a dragon lying in wait for them

    Note: (169v) blank


    170r-181v - Isidore of Seville, Synonyma

    rubric: (170r) Incipit prologus in librum beati Ysidori qui uocatur sinonima

    Note: (P. L. LXXXIII 825)

    incipit: (170r) In subsequenti hoc libro

    rubric: (170r) Incipit argumentum

    incipit: (170r) Uenit nuper ad manus

    explicit: (170r) ammonentis rationis

    Note: Text

    incipit: (170r) Anima mea in angustiis est

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (181v) Tu mihi supra uitam meam places. Amen

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