Identity area
Reference code
JCOL/Q/A/8
Title
Isidori Etymologiarum libri XX,
Date(s)
- 1400-1500 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 volume 11+ x 7+ in., 212 ff; 40 lines to a page; binding modern vellum
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
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).
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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".