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This manuscript is a twelfth-century copy of the Sententiae of Saint Isidore (ca. 560–636). As bishop of Seville, Isidore was instrumental in converting the Visigothic kings to Christianity, but he is most famous for his encyclopedic summa of universal knowledge, the Etymologies , which has led him to be called “the last scholar of the ...
Mar 31, 2024 · His theological works include De ortu et obitu patrum (“On the Origin and Death of the Fathers”), biographies of 86 biblical persons; Sententiarum libri tres (“Three Books of Sentences”), a handbook of morals and theology in the form of collected sentences; De officiis ecclesiasticis (“On Church Duties”), a liturgical work dealing ...
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Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert , as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
Oct 28, 2022 · Language. Latin. Rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department, Lewis E 137. Text (s): Sententiae (Sentences), Incipit liber primus ysidori. Description: ff. ii + 154 + ii - S. XIX brown morocco with blind stamped covers by Riviere, gilt edges. S.
It is believed that this work greatly influenced Peter Lombard in his famous "Book of Sentences", "De ecclesiasticis officiis" is divided into two books, "De origine officiorum" and "De origine ministrorum". In the first Isidore treats of Divine worship and particularly the old Spanish Liturgy.
Isidore of Seville. Publication date. 1100 - 1199. Collection. ds-legacy-data; additional_collections. Contributor. Digital Scriptorium. Language. Latin. Rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department, Lewis E 136.
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville This work is the first complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, bishop of Seville (c. 560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c. 615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter.
