| Location: | Cologny |
| Library / Collection: | Fondation Martin Bodmer |
| Shelfmark: | Cod. Bodmer 92 |
| Manuscript title: | Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae |
| Caption: | Parchment · III + 124 ff. + f. [125-126] ff. · 31.6 x 19.3 cm · Paris (?) · end of the 13th century |
| Language: | Latin |
| Manuscript summary: | The first three books of the principal work of the Bishop of Seville, the Etymologiae, written at the beginning of the 7th century, provide the earliest medieval instance of division of scholarly study into the trivium (grammar, rhetoric and dialectic) and the quadrivium (mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy). Relying heavily on the--often unreliable--etymologies of the words, Isidore collected in his work the whole of ancient knowledge, in order to prevent it from being forgotten. This manuscript was produced about the end of the 13th century, possibly in the area of the University at Paris and is a witness to the enormous success of this extensive encyclopedia. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-cb-0092 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0092 |
| How to quote: | Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 92: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0092) |
| Online since: | 12/21/2009 |
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