Draft:The book of numbers that appear in the sacred scriptures

The book of numbers that appear in the sacred scriptures, according to the list of Braulio de Zaragoza, is a treatise on the symbology of numbers within the Holy Scriptures.

The attribution to Isidore of Seville is uncertain.

Questions about authorship, content and data
F. Arévalo ​published the work in 1802. The authorship of this treatise remains uncertain: there are different positions among specialists. Its authenticity, as an Isidorian work, is defended by C. Leonardi, O. García de la Fuente, J. Madoz and J. Fontaine, who shows the existing relationships between this treatise with the Etymologiae, and Domínguez of the Val. However, McNally ​, Díaz y Díaz and Bischoff cast doubt on the attribution. In particular, Díaz y Díaz points out that none of the witnesses to the work present the name of the author, only one of them is of Hispanic origin and the description of the work made by Braulione does not correspond at all to the incipit from the Arévalo Edition. For this reason, it can also be thought, with JC Martín Iglesias ​, that the original work cited by Braulione has been lost.

A pesar de la fluida claridad del estilo, el tratado a menudo se caracteriza por la monotonía y la mecanicidad.

In Arévalo’s edition, the author begins by asserting that it is by no means useless to know the meaning of the numbers, as they contain many spiritual teachings and warnings. First, a definition of number is offered, then the differences between even and odd numbers are highlighted. The numbers 1 to 16 are described, then from 18 to 20, the numbers 24, 30, 40, 46, 50, 60: in the study of each number its principal characteristics are set forth, first of all from a strictly mathematical point of view and then also symbolic and spiritual, indicating its relative use in the two Testaments. Despite the fluid clarity of style, the treatise is often characterized by monotony and mechanics.

According to J. de Aldama ​, the work could date between the years 612 AD. C. and 615 AD. C., a hypothesis produced based solely on the work of Braulio de Zaragoza Renotatio librorum divi Isidori, according to a criterion that today we can no longer accept as univocal. J. Fontaine, on the other hand, states that Isidore of Seville wrote the treaty at the request of Braulio, moving its completion to 632 AD. C.

Editions

 * Braulio de Zaragoza , La Renotatio librorum domini Isidori. Introducción, edición crítica y traducción, ed. JC Martín Iglesias, San Millán de la Cogolla 2004 .
 * Divi Isidori Hispalensis episcopi opera omnia, ed. J. Grial, Madrid 1599.
 * Isidorus Hispalensis, Le livre des nombres. Liber numerorum, ed. JY Guillaumin, París 2005.
 * S. Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Hispaniarum doctoris opera omnia, ed. F. Arévalo, tomo V, Roma (1802), págs. 220-248.

Studi

 * RE McNally, Isidoriana, «Estudios Teológicos» 20 (1959), págs. 432-442.
 * JC Martín Iglesias, Escritores Visigóticos: Reglas Monásticas, Madrid (2011), p. 7.
 * La transmisión de los textos latinos en la Edad Media, volumen II, editado por P. Chiesa y L. Castaldi, Florencia (2005), pp. 407-411.
 * F. Trisoglio, Introducción a Isidoro de Sevilla, Brescia (2009), cap. XII, pág. noventa y dos.
 * JA de Aldama, Indicaciones sobre la cronolia de las obras de San Isidoro, en Miscellanea Isidoroiana: homenaje a S. Isidoro de Sevilla en el XIII centenario de su muerte 636 - 4 de abril – 1936, pp. 57-89.