The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
601–700
1 work
c. 630–651
Latin
Braulio of Zaragoza · c. 590 – 651
Forty-four letters, including the exchange in which Braulio spends years nagging Isidore for the finished Etymologies and finally receives it unrevised, with a note asking him to correct it. The life of Aemilian describes a hermit of the Rioja hills.
801–900
1 work
c. 842–847
Latin
De Rerum Naturis
Rabanus Maurus · c. 780 – 856
Twenty-two books rebuilding Isidore's Etymologies with a second layer added: after each thing is defined, Rabanus gives what it signifies in scripture, so that a reader looking up a lion, a stone, or a colour finds both the natural fact and the allegory.
2 of 1774 works