Isidori Etymologiarum opus ; Idem de summo bono
- Bib ID:
- 5350535
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SRf 039.71 I81 copy
- Description:
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- [Venezia : Bonetus Locatellus for the heirs of Octavianus Scotus, between 1500 and 1510]
- 75, [1], 21 leaves : ill., map ; 33 cm. (fo)
- Summary:
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Sixteenth century version of Isidore's encyclopaedia of universal knowledge sourced and summarised from Roman and Greek antiquities and regarded as the depository of all classical learning and highly influential during the Medieval Ages. The work was printed in many editions between 1470 and 1530. It is highly systematised into twenty books by various disciplines. The Idem is a collection of the writings of the early Church fathers.
- Biography/History:
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St. Isidore of Seville (born ca. 560, Cartegena, Spain), bishop, confessor and church doctor. He was taught the ancient classics and in 600 or 601 succeeded to the See of Seville. He assimilated the Roman and Gothic elements in Spain through eduction. At the Second Synod of Seville (618 or 619) he and his brothers were instrumental in enacting Visigothic laws which became the foundation of representative government. The fourth Council of Toledo (636) saw his decree of an education policy promulgated to establish seminaries in cathederal cities by teaching the classical liberal arts. His writings encompass early Spanish and world histories, theology, astronomy, numerology. He died on 4 April 636. The Roman Catholic Church canonized him a Saint in 1598, declared him a Church Doctor in 1772 and Patron Saint of the Internet in 1997.
- Notes:
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- Half t.p.
- Gothic letters in double column with decorative woodcut initials.
- Includes the T-O map and a table of consanguinity.
- Etymologarium has 77 leaves with numerals 7 and 8 repeated with different text.
- Etymologarium signatures: aa⁸bb⁶mm⁶nn⁴
- Idem signatures: a⁶c⁶d³
- Includes indexes.
- SRf 039.71 I81 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2634867996
- Library's copy is in modern binding of limp vellum and includes handwritten marginalia and underlining of text scattered throughout.
- Cited In:
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- Sallander 1783.
- BMC, V, p.435.
- Hordern House. Great south land, 11.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Etymologiarum opus
- Idem de summo bono
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: "Mapping our World : Terra incognita to Australia", National Library of Australia, Canberra, 7 November 2013 to 10 March 2014.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1510
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