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  • The names Gothic, Toledan, Isidorian, have also been applied to the rite — the first referring to its development during the time of the Visigothic kingdom of Spain, the second to the metropolitan city which was its headquarters, and the third to the idea that it owed, if not its existence, at any rate a considerable revision to St. Isidore of Seville.

    The Mozarabic Rite: Introduction 2009

  • An indication of this is that later Toledan translators such as Alfred of Shareshill, Michael Scot and Hermannus Alemannus filled in gaps in al-FārābÄ«'s list of disciplines which the earlier translators had not covered (Burnett 2001).

    Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008

  • The earliest reference to this was made by the Toledan philosophic author Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen in his encyclopedia Midrash ha-Hokhmah (first half of the 13th century).

    Abraham Ibn Daud Fontaine, Resianne 2006

  • Toledan steel, the heft of ivory and mother-of-pearl.

    Lavengro 2004

  • But the great mother lode of Toledan silver, which the brothers knew had to exist somewhere in the vicinity, eluded him and often in the evenings his brother, now Bishop Palafox, would unroll his maps and ask once more, 'Tell me, Timoteo, have you searched this valley?'

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • Quietly and stealthily it crept through the world; the tinker brought it with his solder and his flux; the African tribes who were the first workers in iron passed it on to the great metallurgists who forged Damascan and Toledan steel.

    The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

  • By the time the Roman book was consumed, the Toledan was little damaged.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The names Gothic, Toledan, Isidorian, have also been applied to the rite – the first referring to its development during the time of the Visigothic kingdom of Spain, the second to the metropolitan city which was its headquarters, and the third to the idea that it owed, if not its existence, at any rate a considerable revision to St. Isidore of Seville.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The champion of the Spanish Rite, Juan Ruiz de Matanzas, who was the victor, was certainly a Castilian, but it is improbable that the champion of the Roman Rite, whose name is not recorded, was a Toledan, and the Annals of Compostella say that one was a Castilian and the other of the king's party.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Two knights – "one a Castilian and the other a Toledan", says the chronicle – were chosen to fight "pro lege Romana et Toletana".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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