File 8 - Isidori Etymologiarum libri XX,

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Isidori Etymologiarum libri XX,

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  • 1400-1500 (Creation)

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1 volume 11+ x 7+ in., 212 ff; 40 lines to a page; binding modern vellum

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Provenance unknown. James comments that it is not in the Durham catalogue. Donated by Thomas Man, 1685. Bears his name (as vicar of North Allerton), and that of Thomas Sandford (1535).

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Isidore's encyclopaedic "Etymology" in twenty books; M. R. James's no. 8. It is lavishly decorated: "The ornaments and initials at the beginnings of the books are exceedingly good and characteristic English work".

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