Gothic lower-case type,
roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in
majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three-to nine-line spaces left
for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occasional Greek
words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two
pinholes, which in Mentelin's use point to a date not later than
1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger
pl. 170.
On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament,
and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials
supplied in red or blue; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume.
Blank first leaf wanting.
Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymologiae by way of
supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier
treatise of Isidore's entitled _De natura rerum_, written at the request
of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It
contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being
largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS.
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