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Source des données : Parker on the Web

• Résumé : The main text in CCCC MS 22 is an encyclopaedia, the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), which is preceded by an index of its subject matter. The Etymologiae is a compilation of universal knowledge in twenty books covering topics such as grammar, medicine, theology and geography. Natural history is also extensively covered, and this is the subject of another text in the book, a Bestiary, illustrated with coloured drawings of the animals, birds, fish and reptiles. It is one of the oldest extant copies of an illustrated bestiary made in England. The book also contains one text of a very different character, the Synonyma, a devotional dialogue by Isidore of Seville between the sinful soul and a personification of reason. Recent scholarship dates the book to c. 1150-70, but its place of origin is uncertain, although possibly the North of England, perhaps Durham. There is no evidence of its medieval ownership.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Isidore of Seville - author

  ir-xxv - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (index) || Tabula super Isidori etymologias

  incipit : (ir) Primus liber Ysidori habet capitula 28

  Note : Ends f. xxv

  rubric : (xxv) Explicit Tabula Ysidori

  
  

  1r-161r - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae || IsidoriEtymologiae

  Note : (P. L. LXXXII)

  rubric : (1r) Incipiunt Epistole Ysidori ad Braulionem

  Note : Five letters, the last ending

  explicit : (2v) conditor huius codicis disputauit

  Note : (2v) Capitula. Subjects of the books

  Note : (2v) Capitula libri primi

  rubric : (2v) Incipit liber primus de disciplina

  incipit : (3r) Disciplina a discendo

  Note : (3r) Handsome initial in blue, green and red. Each book has a similar one

  Note : Initials of chapters are mostly in plain colour, red and green and white

  Note : (161r) Liber XX ends

  explicit : (161r) ignis ardore siccetur

  Note : No colophon

  
  

  161r-161v - Descriptio terrae sanctae || On the holy places of Jerusalem etc.

  incipit : (161r) Si quis ab occidentalibus partibus ierusalem adire uoluerit solis ortum semper teneat

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (161v) In sinistra parte est mons dominus uidit, ubi locutus est dominus cum abraham ubi et ipse abraham filium suum ysaac immolare uoluit

  Note : Cf. Tobler's Innominatus VII (Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, p. 100)

  
  

  162r-169v - Bestiary

  Note : (162r) A Bestiary. The first leaf gone

  Note : Begins in the section de Vulpe, followed by

  incipit : (162r) Est animal quod dicitur monocheros latine uero unicornis

  Note : (169r) The last section (Est arbor que dicitur mandragora in partibus orientis) ends

  explicit : (169r) statim a demonio deuoratus est et periit

  Note : There are illustrations in the text in outline, washed with colour: no backgrounds: the execution rough but effective

  Note : (162r) 1. Unicorn with head on lap of maiden: a man pierces it

  Note : (162r) 2. Hunter blows horn: beaver bites its glands off

  Note : (162r) 3. Ydrus, winged serpent, penetrating crocodile (four-footed beast)

  Note : (162v) 4. Crocodile devouring man

  Note : (162v) 5. Hyena, winged beast, fluttering over a tomb with a cross at each end

  Note : (163r) 6. Two wild asses

  Note : (163r) 7. Two monkeys sit and converse

  Note : (163r) 8. A wild goat

  Note : (163v) 9. Three beasts follow a blue panther

  Note : (164r) 10. A winged hairy dragon

  Note : (164r) 11. Weasels

  Note : (164r) 12. Two deer

  Note : (164v) 13. Elephant lies on its back with legs in air: another elephant with castle and warriors

  Note : (165r) 14. Wolves: one bites his foot

  Note : (165v) 15. R. Dog assaulting murderer: on L. the murderer's hands are being bound: the dog's dead master lies below

  Note : (165v) 16. Ibex leaping from rock on to its horns: another ibex

  Note : (166r) 17. The lapides igniferi represented as four half-length human figures, two of them springing out of a steel such as was used for striking sparks

  Note : (166r) 18. The winged sea beast sarra attacks a ship with men in it

  Note : (166r) 19. Chaladrius looking away from a sick man in bed

  Note : (166r) 20. Four pelicans (small blue birds)

  Note : (166v) 21. Owl (not like)

  Note : (166v) 22. Eagles teach an eaglet to look at the sun

  Note : (166v) 23. Phoenix: on R. it burns in its nest

  Note : (167r) 24. Two hoopoes pull out the feathers of their parent

  Note : (167r) 25. Ants

  Note : (167v) 26. Two sirens, one ending as fish, the other as bird

  Note : (167v) 27. Ibis bringing snake to its young in nest

  Note : (167v) 28. A coot

  Note : (168r) 29. Aspidochelone: ship anchored to it and tree growing in its head, which a man is about to cut with axe

  Note : (168r) 30. Partridges

  Note : (168r) 31. Aspis. On L. it emerges, a beast with legs and ears, from its hole: a man tickles it (?). On R. is a dog on its hind legs attacking or caressing a woman

  Note : (168v) 32. Ostrich

  Note : (168v) 33. Doves

  Note : (168v) 34. Salamander twined round a tree. On R. two men carry off a tub slung on a pole: probably containing apples which the beast has poisoned by its breath

  Note : (169r) 35. Doves

  Note : (169r) 36. Tree with doves perched in it. On L. a dragon lying in wait for them

  Note : (169v) blank

  
  

  170r-181v - Isidore of Seville, Synonyma

  rubric : (170r) Incipit prologus in librum beati Ysidori qui uocatur sinonima

  Note : (P. L. LXXXIII 825)

  incipit : (170r) In subsequenti hoc libro

  rubric : (170r) Incipit argumentum

  incipit : (170r) Uenit nuper ad manus

  explicit : (170r) ammonentis rationis

  Note : Text

  incipit : (170r) Anima mea in angustiis est

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (181v) Tu mihi supra uitam meam places. Amen