Enkuklo-paideiai / (Encyclo-paediae) -- WEBLINKS


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Various Antient & Mediaeval Encyclopaediae


[Disciplinarum libri IX (an encyclopedia on the liberal arts) by Marcus Terentius Varro (sometimes called Varro Reatinus) is lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro ]


Natural History by Plinius the Elder http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+toc


Souda by Souidas http://www.stoa.org/sol/


Origenes by Isidoros of Sevilla http://bestiary.ca/etexts/brehaut1912/Brehaut%20-%20Encyclopedist%20of%20the%20Dark%20Ages.pdf


"Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_the_Brethren_of_Purity

"The Rasail Ikhwan as-Safa" http://www.ismaili.net/histoire/history04/history428.html &

"The Classification of the Sciences according to the Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’"

http://www.iis.ac.uk/classification-sciences-according-rasa-il-ikhwan-al-safa


"Chinese Encyclopedia". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_encyclopedia &

"Leishu". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishu


Agni Puran.a (This is at least as encyclopaedic -- covering as many topics -- as is the Br.hat-Samhita.)

Br.hat-Samhita by Varaha-mihira https://ia801708.us.archive.org/18/items/Brihatsamhita/brihatsamhita.pdf (This translation is a only a small portion of the whole.)


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Mediaeval Western European encyclopaedic descriptions of the world (in Latin -- can be read in English by "Google Translate")


The Myrrour & Dyscrypcyon of the Worlde (Gossuin of Metz, translated into English by William Caxton), https://ia600206.us.archive.org/5/items/myrrourdyscrypcy00goss/myrrourdyscrypcy00goss.pdf

the Otia Imperialia (Gervase of Tilbury), https://archive.org/stream/desgervasiusvon00liebgoog/desgervasiusvon00liebgoog_djvu.txt

the Summarium Heinrici,

the Hortus deliciarum (Herrad [abbess at Hoheburg] of Landsberg),

the Liber exceptionum (Richard de Saint-VictorJean Châtillon),

the  De proprietatibus rerum   (Bartholomeus Anglicus), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomeus_Anglicus (description); & http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6493/pg6493.html (partial translation); & http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A05237.0001.001?page=viewtextnote;rgn=div1 complete-text English translation by John de Trevisa

and the Speculum naturale (Vincent of Beauvais). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_of_Beauvais (description); & https://books.google.com/books?id=v9yKk_tdhusC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (Latin text in facsimile not suitable for automatic translation)


"An English Version of the Chapter Headings in the Medieval Encyclopedias". https://web.archive.org/web/20110604055101/http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/engl614/encycl.htm


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Full-text English-language Encyclopaediae on-line


Harris's An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1723 edn.) https://books.google.com/books?id=BWFEAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728 edn.) http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=header&id=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01


Encyclopaedia Britannica (1797, 1810, 1823, & 1911 ednn.) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/work?id=olbp16644


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Spanish------------<arabic-------------------Byzantine--------French------------French--------------German------------English

p. 34 Isidorus Hispalensis (of Sevilla)

p. 41 Rasa>ulu >ih^wan >al S.afa> (at Bas.ra)

p. 46 Didaskalia Pantodape, by Mikhael Psellos

pp. 47-49 Didascalicon, by Hugh of St. Victor

p. 59 De Natura Rerum, by Thomas of Cantimpre'

p. 67 Compendium Philosophiae

pp. 180-181 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5a. Jurisprudence

46. Divine law

66-81. Ethics



8. Ethics


5b. Time

37. Motion

82-107. Physics



6b. Physics


6. the Bible



4:1-8. the Scriptures




8. the Church & haeresies



4:9. Oecumenical Councils




10. Etymology

30. Philology


4:14. Etymology



4:2. Lexicon

11. Man

28-29. Man




5c. faculties

3. Biography


26-27. Physiology

108-119. Physiology



5a. Physiology

2:2:5:1. Anatomy

12. Zoology

24-25. Zoology




4. Fauna

2:2:4:3. Zoology

13a. Heaven


120-138. Astronomy


17-18. Astronomy



13b. Atmosphaere

20-21. Meteorology

139-178. Meteorology &c.


16. Atmosphaere


2:2:1:7. Meteorology

13c. Seas & oceans

18-19. the 4 elements



13. Water



20b. Tools

6. Arts & Crafts







Latin------------<arabic----------French--------English---------Italian-----------<arabic-----------Italian------------------Italian

p. 24 Artes, by Aulus Cornelius Celsus

p. 38 Kitab <uyun >al->ah^bar, by >ibn Quteba of Kufa

pp. 47-49 Hugh of St. Victor

p. 55 De Naturis Rerum, by Alexander Neckam

p. 64 Li Livres dou Tre`sor, by Brunetto Latini

p. 66 Nihayat ..., by >en-Noweri in Mis.r

pp. 70-71 Fons Memorabilium Universi, by Domenico Bandini

p. 85 Anatomia Ingeniorum et Scientiarum, by Antonio Zara






2c. Conduct


3:5. Ethics


1. Power



3:73-105. Politics

2d. Politics

4:1. politics

2:14. Government

26. Warfare

2. War






2:13. war




170-172. Buildings



4:4. buildings

2:8 Architecture


3. Nobility






2:5. Courtiership





3:1-72 Rhetoric



2:4. Oratory


4. Character






1. character


5. Learning

5:10. Students

173-174. Learning






6. Asceticism

3:14c. Parsimony







7. Friendship


175-192. Society





1-5. Agriculture




1:125-129. Agriculture

4. oeconomic botany

4:8. vegetables



9. Food





4:10. eating



10. Women





5:6. "Famous women"



Latin----------------Persian------------French---------------French-------------English-------------Dutch---------------Spanish

p. 23 Marcus Terentius Varro

p. 40 Mafatih. >al-<ulum, by >al-H^warizmi

pp. 47-49 Didascalicon, by Hugh of St. Victor

pp. 60-61 Speculum Maius, by Vincent

pp. 180-181 Coleridge

pp. 211-212 ENSIE, ed. by Pos

p. 215-216 Enciclopedia Labor

1. Grammar

1:19-30 Grammar

2:25. Grammar


1:1. Grammar



2. Logic

2:4-12. Logic

2:24. Logic


1:2. Logic



4-5. Mathematics

2:21-29. Mathematics



1:3. Mathematics







1:1:4. Metaphysics

1:1. Philosophy





1:1. God

1:2:3. Theology

1:2. Religion

9:7. theology



2:23. Theatrics




8:5 Theatre





2:2:2:3. Painting

2:2. Painting

8:1-3. Fine arts



2:21. Agriculture

1:7. Agriculture

2:2:3:1. Agriculture






1:8. Alchemy

2:2:2:5. Numismatics






2:1. Language

2:2:2:6. Poetry



7. Music

2:34-36. Music



2:2:2:7. Music

2:3. Music

7:5-7. Music



2:20. Commerce

2:8. Oeconomics

2:2:3:3. Commerce






2:9. Politics

2:2:3:4. Political oeconomy






2:11a. Crafts

2:2:3:5. Carpentry





2:19. Armaments

2:11b. Architecture

2:2:3:6. Fortification






2:12 Navigation

2:2:3:7. "Naval architecture"




2:37-38. Mechanics

2:16. Mechanical


2:2:3:8. Manufactures






2:13 Medicine

2:2:5:3. Medicine






3:2-31. History

3. History

3:1. History

5. history





4:1. Geography

5. cartography

4:2-4. geography





4:2. Lexicon

10. Dictionary


[Alchemy = Numismatics :- Isaac Newton, author of a text on alchemy, was keeper of the royal coin-mint of England]


Robert Collison: Encyclopaedias. Hafner Publishing Co., London, 1964.


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