Cutting from Isidore of Seville, Etymologies

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Notes:

Edges browning and cracked where the cutting was folded. Small scuffs and stains. Text trimmed away on upper, outer and lower edges., 2-line initial in red with faded blue pen florishes extending into the margin. Ink flaking from recto. Remnant of a single red rubric on recto., Small cutting with the remant of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies, beginning at Liber 2, section 21, on the figures of words and expressions (De figuris verborum et setentiarum). The Etymologies (also called the Origins) is divided into 20 books concerning a subject-area., and 1 column with the remains of 26 lines ruled in dark red ink written in Protogothic script.

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Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--France, Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. Etymologiae, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Textura (Gothic script), Protogothic, Decorated initials, Manuscript waste (Binding), and detached leaves

Language:

lat and grc

Rights:

Copyright 2019 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, all rights reserved. The digital version is available for educational use under 'Fair Use' guidelines. For additional permission and further information contact the WMU Libraries.

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