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-Victor, Jean 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 |
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8. Ethics |
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5b. Time |
37. Motion |
82-107. Physics |
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6b. Physics |
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6. the Bible |
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4:1-8. the Scriptures |
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8. the Church & haeresies |
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4:9. Oecumenical Councils |
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10. Etymology |
30. Philology |
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4:14. Etymology |
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4:2. Lexicon |
11. Man |
28-29. Man |
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5c. faculties |
3. Biography |
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26-27. Physiology |
108-119. Physiology |
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5a. Physiology |
2:2:5:1. Anatomy |
12. Zoology |
24-25. Zoology |
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4. Fauna |
2:2:4:3. Zoology |
13a. Heaven |
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120-138. Astronomy |
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17-18. Astronomy |
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13b. Atmosphaere |
20-21. Meteorology |
139-178. Meteorology &c. |
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16. Atmosphaere |
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2:2:1:7. Meteorology |
13c. Seas & oceans |
18-19. the 4 elements |
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13. Water |
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20b. Tools |
6. Arts & Crafts |
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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 |
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2c. Conduct |
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3:5. Ethics |
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1. Power |
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3:73-105. Politics |
2d. Politics |
4:1. politics |
2:14. Government |
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26. Warfare |
2. War |
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2:13. war |
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170-172. Buildings |
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4:4. buildings |
2:8 Architecture |
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3. Nobility |
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2:5. Courtiership |
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3:1-72 Rhetoric |
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2:4. Oratory |
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4. Character |
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1. character |
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5. Learning |
5:10. Students |
173-174. Learning |
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6. Asceticism |
3:14c. Parsimony |
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7. Friendship |
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175-192. Society |
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1-5. Agriculture |
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1:125-129. Agriculture |
4. oeconomic botany |
4:8. vegetables |
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9. Food |
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4:10. eating |
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10. Women |
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5:6. "Famous women" |
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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 |
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1:1. Grammar |
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2. Logic |
2:4-12. Logic |
2:24. Logic |
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1:2. Logic |
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4-5. Mathematics |
2:21-29. Mathematics |
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1:3. Mathematics |
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1:1:4. Metaphysics |
1:1. Philosophy |
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1:1. God |
1:2:3. Theology |
1:2. Religion |
9:7. theology |
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2:23. Theatrics |
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8:5 Theatre |
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2:2:2:3. Painting |
2:2. Painting |
8:1-3. Fine arts |
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2:21. Agriculture |
1:7. Agriculture |
2:2:3:1. Agriculture |
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1:8. Alchemy |
2:2:2:5. Numismatics |
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2:1. Language |
2:2:2:6. Poetry |
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7. Music |
2:34-36. Music |
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2:2:2:7. Music |
2:3. Music |
7:5-7. Music |
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2:20. Commerce |
2:8. Oeconomics |
2:2:3:3. Commerce |
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2:9. Politics |
2:2:3:4. Political oeconomy |
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2:11a. Crafts |
2:2:3:5. Carpentry |
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2:19. Armaments |
2:11b. Architecture |
2:2:3:6. Fortification |
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2:12 Navigation |
2:2:3:7. "Naval architecture" |
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2:37-38. Mechanics |
2:16. Mechanical |
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2:2:3:8. Manufactures |
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2:13 Medicine |
2:2:5:3. Medicine |
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3:2-31. History |
3. History |
3:1. History |
5. history |
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4:1. Geography |
5. cartography |
4:2-4. geography |
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4:2. Lexicon |
10. Dictionary |
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[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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