Hec est arbor Consanguineitatis (Here is the Tree of Blood Relationships) from Etymologiae. Liber Ethymologiarum Isidori Hyspalensis Ep[iscop]i.

Isidore of Seville, Hec est arbor Consanguineitatis (Here is the Tree of Blood Relationships) from Etymologiae. Liber Ethymologiarum Isidori Hyspalensis Ep[iscop]i.

Isidore of Seville, artist

Hec est arbor Consanguineitatis (Here is the Tree of Blood Relationships) from Etymologiae. Liber Ethymologiarum Isidori Hyspalensis Ep[iscop]i., 1489

Credit line: Spencer Research Library, Department of Special Collections, Summerfield D294

Accession number: EL2009.015

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"Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard
Isidore of Seville was an Archbishop known for his learnedness and for his encyclopedic text, the Etymologiae. For this early printing of Etymologiae, an unknown artist has created a woodcut illustration of “the Tree of Blood Relationships.” Unlike most family trees, with ancestors at the roots of the hierarchical tree, this diagram starts at the roots with the great-great grandson and great-great granddaughter of the bearded figure in the center of the tree, and ascends from him to his great-great grandfather and great-great grandmother at the very top.