1577 ENCYCLOPEDIA of SCIENCE by ISIDORE von SEVILLA antique VELLUM BOUND FOLIO

Isidore von Sevilla.

Originum libri viginti ex antiquitate eruti et Martiani Capellae, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii libri novem.

2 parts in 1 volume

 Basel, Perna (1577)

With woodcut printer's mark and some schematic illustrations in the text


6 lvs, 548 columns, 240 columns, 18 lvs.

Original vellum with embossed title to the spine

- VD 16, I 371. Adams I, 206. Ebert 10563. -

Main work of Isidore (of Seville), an encyclopedia of knowledge, treats all scientific branches in key words.


The last folio (cols. 549/550) is missing in the first volume

Toning, foxing

 The 16 final pages of Part 1 are connected to the end of Part 2

Bookplate.


Small folio. Size about 8 1/4 by 12 1/2 inches 

Text in Latin

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Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c.?560 – 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".

At a time of disintegration of classical culture,  aristocratic violence, and widespread illiteracy, Isidore was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Chalcedonian Christianity, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville and continuing after Leander's death. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania.
Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville.

His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia that assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would otherwise have been lost. This work also helped to standardise the use of the full stop, comma and colon.

Since the Early Middle Ages, Isidore has sometimes been called Isidore the Younger or Isidore Junior (Latin: Isidorus iunior), because of the earlier history purportedly written by Isidore of Cordoba.
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