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Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King.
Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 2.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 3.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 4.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 5.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 6.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 7.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 8.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 9.
  • Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King — photograph 10.

Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King

Isidore of Seville, Saint · Madrid

Author
Isidore of Seville, Saint
Date
1599
Place
Madrid
Publisher
Typographia Regia [Royal Printing House]
Language
Spanish/Latin
Binding
Folio.(8.5" x 12.5") (32), 407, 168, 436, (102 index) pp. Full mottled brown leather. Spine with six gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to fancy gilt framed burgundy leather in second compartment, heavy gilt floral decoration with large gilt device centered to each other compartment. All edges reddened, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to two tips. Boards scuffed, rubbed with a 2.5" x 1" piece of leather lacking from the foot/edge of the upper board. Extremities rubbed with small loss to foot of each board. Bookseller's notes in pencil to verso of first free endpaper. Small library stamp in blue ink and a couple of embossed institutional ownership stamps from Madrid to the first free flyleaf. Engraved architectural title page featuring the allegorical figures of Ecclesia and Religio, surmounted by Saint Isidore and incorporating the royal arms of Philip II of Spain. Staining to two lines, evidently obliterating a name, to the engraved title page with early paper repair to verso with bleedthrough to adjoining page. Rear hinge starting, held firmly by cords. Text in two columns. Several pages from Isidore of Seville’s De Natura Rerum (“On the Nature of Things”), a seventh-century explanation of how the physical universe was understood in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with illustrations and charts that depict: Time, calendars, months, seasons, and the calculation of dates; the Earth’s climatic zones; The four elements: earth, water, air, and fire; Heat, cold, moisture, dryness, and the bodily humors; The Sun, Moon, planets, stars, and heavens; Weather, winds, thunder, eclipses, and other natural phenomena; The supposed correspondences among humanity, the Earth, and the greater cosmos with Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn arranged in successive spheres around it. A single leaf (pg 21/22 of 2nd sect.) with a 4.5" x 2.5" chunk lacking, affecting text (see pic). A second title page for the second part of the collected works with an engraving of the Royal coat of arms of Philip II. With an extensive index (100 pp) to rear of text. The index with toned pages, intermittent spots of foxing internally but very clean overall.
Format
Engraved architectural title page featuring the allegorical figures of Ecclesia and Religio, surmounted by Saint Isidore and incorporating the royal arms of Philip II of Spain. The publication date is printed in apostrophus-style Roman numerals: CIƆ.IƆ.XCIX, equivalent to MDXCIX, or 1599. A collected edition of Saint Isidore’s writings, encompassing theology, biblical interpretation, church history, grammar, natural history, chronology, and encyclopedic learning. In effect, it preserves a major early-medieval effort to gather and organize the surviving knowledge of the classical and Christian worlds.
Category
Religion & Theology
Record
S.I.10335

Divi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Opera, Philippi II Catholici Regis Iussu, e Vetustis Exemplaribus Emendata. Translated: The Works of Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Corrected from Ancient Manuscripts by Order of Philip II, the Catholic King.

A major collected edition of the writings of Saint Isidore of Seville, printed in Madrid in 1599 under the authority of Philip II of Spain and corrected from ancient manuscripts. Central to the volume is Isidore’s famous Etymologiae, the great medieval encyclopedia encompassing theology, language, medicine, natural history, geography, law, the liberal arts, and much of the surviving intellectual inheritance of the classical world.

1599. Madrid: Typographia Regia [Royal Printing House]. Folio.(8.5" x 12.5") (32), 407, 168, 436, (102 index) pp. Full mottled brown leather. Spine with six gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to fancy gilt framed burgundy leather in second compartment, heavy gilt floral decoration with large gilt device centered to each other compartment. All edges reddened, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to two tips. Boards scuffed, rubbed with a 2.5" x 1" piece of leather lacking from the foot/edge of the upper board. Extremities rubbed with small loss to foot of each board. Bookseller's notes in pencil to verso of first free endpaper. Small library stamp in blue ink and a couple of embossed institutional ownership stamps from Madrid to the first free flyleaf. Engraved architectural title page featuring the allegorical figures of Ecclesia and Religio, surmounted by Saint Isidore and incorporating the royal arms of Philip II of Spain. Staining to two lines, evidently obliterating a name, to the engraved title page with early paper repair to verso with bleedthrough to adjoining page. Rear hinge starting, held firmly by cords. Text in two columns. Several pages from Isidore of Seville’s De Natura Rerum (“On the Nature of Things”), a seventh-century explanation of how the physical universe was understood in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with illustrations and charts that depict: Time, calendars, months, seasons, and the calculation of dates; the Earth’s climatic zones; The four elements: earth, water, air, and fire; Heat, cold, moisture, dryness, and the bodily humors; The Sun, Moon, planets, stars, and heavens; Weather, winds, thunder, eclipses, and other natural phenomena; The supposed correspondences among humanity, the Earth, and the greater cosmos with Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn arranged in successive spheres around it. A single leaf (pg 21/22 of 2nd sect.) with a 4.5" x 2.5" chunk lacking, affecting text (see pic). A second title page for the second part of the collected works with an engraving of the Royal coat of arms of Philip II. With an extensive index (100 pp) to rear of text. The index with toned pages, intermittent spots of foxing internally but very clean overall.

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