With T-O map

Isidorus Hispalensis. Etymologiarum opus, idem de summo bono.

€ 12,500.00

Second Locatellus edition for Scotus, first published by Zainer in Augsburg in 1472. This famous encyclopedic work presents the sum of then-contemporary knowledge on all branches of science: mathematics, arithmetics, geometry, astronomy, medicine, geography, music, etc. The woodcuts include a full-page tree of consanguinity (fol. 35v) and a variant of the famous T-O map (fol. 51r; cf. Shirley no. 1 and plate 2): a horizontal bar made up of the rivers Don ("Tanais fluvius"), Nile ("Nilus fluvius"), and Sea of Azov ("Meotides paludes"), separates Asia from Europe and Africa. The Mediterranean ("Mare magnum"), which separates Europe and Africa, appears asa vertical radial bar, forming a "T" together with the horizontal bodies of water.

"An investigation of the principal terms employed in all branches of knoledge. Chapters 15 to 23 of book 3 deal exclusively with music, which is defined there as 'the skill [peritia]of modulation consisting of tone and song' [...] The statement most widely quoted by later writers on music is perhaps: 'Music moves the feelings and changes the emotions' (iii, 17) [...] Isidore's writing on numerous subjects influenced a broad range of writers and thinkers throughout the Middle Ages" (New Grove IX, 340).