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The etymologies of Isidore of Seville
- Title
- The etymologies of Isidore of Seville / [translated by] Stephen A. Barney ... [et al.] ; with the collaboration of Muriel Hall.
- Author
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barney, Stephen A.
- Description
- xii, 475 p.; 26 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Etymologiae. English
- Alternative Title
- Etymologiae.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [29]-31) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Latin.
- Contents
- Grammar and its parts -- Rhetoric and dialectic -- Mathematics, whose parts are arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy -- Medicine -- Laws and the instruments of the judiciary, and chronology -- The order of scripture, cycles and canons, liturgical feasts and offices -- Gods and angels, prophetic nomenclature, names of the holy fathers, martyrs, clerics, monks, and other names -- Church and synagogue, religion and faith, heresies, philosophers, poets, sibyls, magicians, pagans, gods of the gentiles -- Languages of the nations, royal, military, and civic terminology, family relationships -- Certain terms in alphabetical order -- Human beings and their parts, the ages of humans, portents and metamorphoses -- Four-footed animals, creeping animals, fish, and flying animals -- Elements, that is, the heavens and the air, waters, the sea, rivers and floods -- Earth, paradise, the regions of the whole globe, islands, mountains, other terms for places, and the lower regions of the earth -- Cities, urban and rural buildings, fields, boundaries and measures of fields, roads -- Earthly materials from land and water, every kind of gem and precious stones, ivory likewise, treated along with marble, glass, all the metals, weights and measures -- Agriculture, crops of every kind, vines and trees of every kind, herbs and all vegetables -- Wars and triumphs and the instruments of war, the forum, spectacles, games of chance and ball games -- Ships, ropes, and nets, iron workers, the construction of walls and all the implements of building, also wool-working, ornaments, and all kinds of clothing -- Tables, foodstuffs, drink, and their vessels, vessels for wine, water, and oil, vessels of cooks, bakers, and lamps, beds, chairs, vehicles, rural and garden implements, equestrian equipment.
- Call Number
- JFF 07-246
- ISBN
- 0521837499
- 9780521837491
- LCCN
- 2004061770
- 9780521837491
- OCLC
- 56942080
- Author
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Title
- The etymologies of Isidore of Seville / [translated by] Stephen A. Barney ... [et al.] ; with the collaboration of Muriel Hall.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [29]-31) and indexes.
- Language
- Translated from the Latin.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Barney, Stephen A.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780521837491
- Research Call Number
- JFF 07-246