Author: Isidori [of Seville], Saint.
Title: OPERA OMNIA Hispalensis Episopi. Hispaniarvm Doctoris ...Denvo Correcta et Avcta Recensente Favstino Arevalo. Qui Isidoriana praemisit, variorum praefationes, notas, collationes, qua editas, qua nune primum edendas, collegit, veteres editiones, et codices mss. Romanos contulit, Avctoritate et Impensa Eminentiss. Principis D. Domini Francisci Lorenzanae. Volumes III & IV [only of 7]. ETYMOLOGIARVM.
Description: Romae Anno ... Typis Antonii Fvlgonii, 1798-1801. 2 vols. Sm. 4to. ([iii]-xii) + 607pp. + ([iii]-xii) + 563pp. 5 plates including two [print] signed G.M. Cassini and 2 [print] signed Mss Toletanis, 1 plain, 3 textual tables/charts. Latin text, lilac lib. stamps to leading corner of title pages and to last leaves, occasional marginalia, sporadic browning, some light foxing, from the Library of Dr James Bynon, bound in a modern workmanlike binding of gilt lettered red cloth. ¶ The other volumes entitled I Isidoriana, pars I et II; II, Isidoriana pars III et IV; V, libri differentiarum ex opera biblica; VI, opera theologica, liturgica et mystica; VII, Opera philosophica et historica cum. XXIV, appendicibus. Saint Isidore of Seville was a seventh-century Spanish scholar. He served as Bishop (later Archbishop) of Seville from c. 600 until his death in 636 and was responsible for converting the Visigothic kings of Spain to the Roman Catholic faith. His importance today is due to his works in compiling extracts from classical texts that would otherwise have been lost and his knowledge was revered even in his lifetime. He also wrote several theological works, including some that are today regarded as antisemitic. His best known work, the above, his ‘Etymologiae’, an etymological encyclopedia that assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost. This work also helped standardize the use of the period (full stop), comma, and colon.

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