[2536] Ibid., IV, 6, 77.
[2537] De consol. philos., V, 4-6.
[2538] Ibid., IV, 6, 58.
[2539] Ibid., V, 2-3 and 6, 110, “tametsi nullam naturae habeat necessitatem atqui deus ea futura quae ex arbitrii libertate proveniunt praesentia contuetur.”
[2540] Ibid., V, 1.
[2541] De musica libri quinque, I, 1-2 and 27; in Migne, PL 63, 1167-1300.
[2542] Migne, PL 83, 963-1018. In Harleian 3099, 1134 A. D., the Etymologies at fols. 1-154, are followed by the De natura rerum, the last chapter of which (fol. 164v) is numbered 42 instead of 48 as in Migne. But up to chapter 27, Utrum sidera animam habeant, the division into chapters seems the same as in the printed text.
[2543] Migne, PL 82, 73-728, a reprint of the edition of Arevalus, Rome, 1796. Large portions of the Etymologies have been translated into English with an introduction of some seventy pages by E. Brehaut, An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages; Isidore of Seville, 1912, in Columbia University Studies in History, etc., vol. 48, pp. 1-274. For Isidorean bibliography see pp. 17, 22-3, 46-7 of Brehaut’s introduction.
[2544] Manitius (1911), pp. 60-61; Brehaut (1912), p. 34.
[2545] To say, for example, that “so hospitable an attitude toward profane learning as Isidore displayed ... was never surpassed throughout the middle ages” (Brehaut, p. 31), is unfair to many later writers, as our discussion of the natural science of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries will show.