London. British Library, Harley MS 3941/2

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  • Latin
  • Breton
Title
  • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
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  • Preferred form
    • Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
    Original form
    • Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop 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
    • Isidore of Seville
    • Isodore 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.
    • 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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  • The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XI, the human body and medicine. ff. 151r-168r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XII, various animals, with a later addition to the text on inserted parchment strip (f. 166r). ff. 168r-177r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XIII, celestial and terrestrial elements, such as air, water, sea, and rivers. ff. 177r-189v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XIV, geographical aspects of the earth, including a small round map on f. 177r. ff. 189v-202v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XV, aspects of human settlements such as cities, villages, fields and their boundaries, and travels. ff. 202v-219v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XVI, stone, ivory, marble, metals, and weights and measures, with a later addition to the text on an inserted parchment strip (f. 216v). ff. 219v-234v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XVII, agriculture and its products. ff. 234v-244v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XVIII, war, weapons and trophies, and games. ff. 244v-259v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XIX, ships, metal smithing, building construction, clothing and ornaments. ff. 259v-265r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XX, furniture, implements for drinking and eating, vehicles, country life and gardening, and saddlery. lacking one leaf between ff. 263r-264r with consequent loss of text (XX, 6, 9-11,11). Each book is preceded by a table of contents, with the exception of books X and XIX. The manuscript is partly a palimpsest (ff. 240r-241r, 246r, 248r-249r, 251r, 253r-260r, 265r): the palimpsest leaves contain extracts from the Chronicle of Eusebius-St Jerome in uncial script datable to the 5th or 6th century.The manuscript contains some later additions: ff. 142v-143, 144r, 145v-146, 150r, 152v, 163v, 169v, 172r, 173r, 228v, 231r-231v, 234r, 238v: Marginal and interlinear glosses, in a contemporary and slightly later (10th-century) script. Decoration:Several large initials with interlace decoration, usually in yellow, red (oxidised), blue, and green, outlined in brown. Initials in brown ink, filled in red (oxidised), yellow, and/or green. Diagrams in red and brown (ff. 126v-127r). A small round map of the world in brown (f. 177r, lower margin).
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