ISIDORUS HISPAL. (ISIDOR OF SEVILLE, SPANISH SAINT, 560-636). De summa bono. No place, nor printer or date (Köln, Joh. Landen) 1486. Small 8:o. (125x94 mm.). 117 (of 120, lacks titel and last 2 index leaves) ll. 28 lines. New vellum. Partly dampstained and browned. Minor foxing. Some underlinings in text, some old marginal annotations. Photo. Isidors Sententiarum or De summo bono, an information-gathering work which concentrates on maxims and opinions generally deriving from the early Church Fathers, especially Gregory the Great and St Augustine. Essentially Isidore's encyclopedic writings represents the earliest attempt to organise knowledge in a way that we might recognise today. The comparison with the modern organisation of knowledge and most specifically with Google and other search engines is clear enough for Isidore now to be known as the patron saint of the Internet having been thus anointed by the Vatican in 2003, recognising him as the greatest early disseminator of organised information.
ISIDORUS HISPAL. (ISIDOR OF SEVILLE, SPANISH SAINT, 560-636). De summa bono. No place, nor printer or date (Köln, Joh. Landen) 1486. Small 8:o. (125x94 mm.). 117 (of 120, lacks titel and last 2 index leaves) ll. 28 lines. New vellum. Partly dampstained and browned. Minor foxing. Some underlinings in text, some old marginal annotations. Photo. Isidors Sententiarum or De summo bono, an information-gathering work which concentrates on maxims and opinions generally deriving from the early Church Fathers, especially Gregory the Great and St Augustine. Essentially Isidore's encyclopedic writings represents the earliest attempt to organise knowledge in a way that we might recognise today. The comparison with the modern organisation of knowledge and most specifically with Google and other search engines is clear enough for Isidore now to be known as the patron saint of the Internet having been thus anointed by the Vatican in 2003, recognising him as the greatest early disseminator of organised information.
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