Editing Etymologiae (section)

== Manuscripts and printed editions ==

Almost 1000 manuscript copies of {{lang|la|Etymologiae}} have survived. The earliest is held at the [[Abbey library of Saint Gall]] in Switzerland,{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|p=24}} a 7th-century fragment of Books XI.<ref>St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 1399 a 1; E. A. Lowe, ''Codices latini antiquiores'', no. 995 (https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1461).</ref> The 13th-century {{lang|la|[[Codex Gigas]]}} held in the [[National Library of Sweden]], the largest extant medieval manuscript, contains a copy of the {{lang|la|Etymologiae}}.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Isidore | title=Codex Gigas: Isidorus |url=http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/Browse-the-Manuscript/Isidorus-Etymologiae/?close=False&closechild=False&mode=0&page=399#content | publisher=National Library of Sweden | access-date=26 May 2015 | archive-date=26 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526234136/http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/Browse-the-Manuscript/Isidorus-Etymologiae/?close=False&closechild=False&mode=0&page=399#content | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1472 at [[Augsburg]], the {{lang|la|Etymologiae}} became one of the first books to be printed, quickly followed by ten more editions by 1500.{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|pp=24–28}} Juan de Grial produced the first scholarly edition in Madrid in 1599.{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|pp=27–28}} [[Faustino Arevalo]] included it as two of the 17 volumes of his {{lang|la|Opera omnia}} in Rome (1797–1803).{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|pp=27–28}} Rudolph Beer produced a facsimile edition of the Toledo manuscript of the {{lang|la|Etymologiae}} in 1909.{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|pp=27–28}} Wallace Lindsay edited the first modern critical edition in 1911.{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|pp=27–28}} Jacques Fontaine and Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz have between 1981 and 1995 supervised the production of the first five volumes of the {{lang|la|Etymologiae}} in the Belle Lettres series "Auteurs Latins du Moyen Age", with extensive footnotes.{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006|pp=27–28}} The first complete English translation, by S.A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach and O. Berghof, was published in 2006.{{sfn|Barney et al.|2006}}