The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560 - 636)

Prominent Catholic leader and scholar, he served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades. He preserved many texts from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost.
 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den ersten germanischen ansiedlungen in Britannien bis zum ende des 18. jahrhunderts..
 References in Documents:
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] Isidor's MS. of de natura hominis