The first table below, within quotation marks, is a translation of the listing of the titles of the twenty books of the Etymologies found at the beginning of some early manuscripts, along with its prefatory remark; the list is printed by Lindsay (vol. i, pages 11–12). Since Braulio, not Isidore, divided the work into books, we can be sure these titles are not Isidore's. There follows an analytical table of contents, drawn fromthe text itself. The title and chapters of eachbook correspondwith our translation of the work. Book XX has no title in the early manuscripts. Manuscripts of the Etymologies often listed the chapter titles at the head of each book.

‘So that youmayquickly findwhat you are looking for in this work, this page reveals for you, reader, what matters the author of this volume discusses in the individual books – that is, in Book

1. Grammar and its parts.

2. Rhetoric and dialectic.

3. Mathematics, whose parts are arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.

4. Medicine.

5. Laws and the instruments of the judiciary, and times.

6. The order of Scripture, cycles and canons, liturgical feasts and offices.

7. God and angels, prophetic nomenclature, names of the holy fathers, martyrs, clerics, monks, and other names.

8. Church and synagogue, religion and faith, heresies, philosophers, poets, sibyls, magicians, pagans, gods of the gentiles.

9. Languages of the nations, royal, military, and civic terminology, family relationships.

10. Certain terms in alphabetical order.