Etymologies (Etymologiae)
The medieval encyclopaedia's India: gymnosophists (8.6.17); Indians named after the Indus, the Gangaridae (9.2.39–41); dog-headed men, Cyclopes, Macrobii and Pygmies of India (11.3.15–16, 26–27); elephants, tigers and Indian dogs (12.2.14–16, 28); the parrot (12.7.24); Ganges and Indus (13.21.8–11); India, its rivers, harvests, gems, beasts and monsters (14.3.5–7); Chryse, Argyre, Taprobane, Tiles (14.6.11–13); Nysa (15.1.6); magnet, adamas and Indian gems (16); ebony, pepper, aloe, cinnamon and other Indian plants (17.7–9); indigo (19.17.16).
- Language
- Latin
- Date
- 615–636 CE
- Author
- Isidorus Hispalensis
- Text
- not yet digitised (catalogue entry)
Translations (1)
- An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages (selections) — English, not yet digitised