Isidore, Etymologiae
Book 1
F-2fz6
The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A pre-Carolingian minuscule likely written by at least two hands (cf. the text on the two pages visible on front). Interlinear corrections.
Original Condition
Original sewing stations visible.
Current Condition
The text block on the left-hand folio is intact; the other folio has been cut roughly in half, obscuring a large portion of the text.
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The fragment was used as a cover or wrapper for its host volume; the greater fading and staining of the outward (1v-2r) side indicates that this originally faced outwards. At the centre of the incomplete bifolium is a thin section of the fragment that once covered the spine. The sewing stations from the host volume are visible either side of this.
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The parchment is worn and stained and text faded, extensively in places.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
One- or two-line penwork initials with an orange or green wash used to mark divisions in the text.
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Rubric "De soloecismo" on recto.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Isidore of Seville
- Text Language Latin
- Title Etymologiae
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Content Description
A single partial bifolium containing sections of Book 1 of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies and an unidentified grammatical text:
2v-1r (Outward face of the bifolium)
2v: Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae, 1, 41:1-42:2 (De historia & De primis auctoribus historiarum).
1r: unidentified grammatical text; Isidore, Etymologiae, 1, 33:1-3 (De soloecismis).
1v-2r (Inward face of the bifolium)
1v: Isidore, Etymologiae, 1, 33: 4-5 (De soloecismis).
2r: Isidore, Etymologiae, 1, 40:6 (De fabula).
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- Edition Isidore de Séville. Étymologies Livre I. La Grammaire. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par Olga Spevak, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020 (etym. 1,33 & 1,40-42 in pp. 134-137 & 206-217).
- Secondary Literature The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Translated by Stephen A. Barney, W. J. Lewis, J. A. Beach and Oliver Berghof. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Host Volume
Host volume unknown at the time of writing.