Remains of eight leaves (four bifolia), all recovered from reuse in a later binding and hence trimmed at edges, each leaf originally with double column of 24 lines in a rounded bookhand (with some cadels in upper and lower margins partly in red), capitals touched in red, red rubrics and simple initials, indistinct watermark in centre of three of the leaves, one blank corner of one leaf cut away, some ink burn and small holes to two leaves, overall fair condition, each bifolium approximately 150 by 215mm
While the grand and sprawling Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636) has commanded the majority of the interest in this author, it was far from his only work. These leaves contain part of his Sentences (Sententiae or Sententiarum libri tres) - the first work in the medieval summa theologiae or sententiae tradition , and the author's most important and well-known theological work. The work was intended as a digest of Patristic writers to guide the clergy in their work, and is laid out in three books that address the nature of God, the perspectives and benefits of the good, and a comparison of the active and contemplative life of the religious. It was fundamentally important for the medieval Church and survives now in more than 500 manuscript copies
