Composite manuscript: Isidorus: Etymologiae; In libros veteris ac novi Testamenti prooemia; De ortu et obitu patrum; Allegoriae quaedam Sanctae Scripturae; De natura rerum; Differentiae; Cicero (Pseudo-): De proprietate sermonum vel rerum; Glossaria latina etc., lat.
This is a ninth-century Latin manuscript compilation, made in a monastic scriptorium and held by the Swiss e-codices library, gathering Isidore's Etymologiae with other encyclopaedic, theological and glossary texts for scholarly readers. The first picture shows a diagram of concentric circles with red-ringed centre and Latin labels around its edge, the second a geometric diagram of square and triangular fields with red-lettered inscriptions and a small ornamental wheel, and the third a library seal stamped over handwritten text. A designer might take the disciplined diagrammatic layouts, red-and-brown ink hierarchy and roman capital labels as models for schematic and typographic structure.
