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Although the arabic sources of Dominicus Gundissalinus – archdeacon of Cuéllar and one of the most important representatives of the Toledan School of Translators – have been studied in detail, only few information is available until now concerning the latin-christian foundations of his work. The present article pretends to shed some light on the subject by analysing Gundissalinus’ use of Isidore of Seville’s works, which leads to the surprising conclusion that it is precisely the most arabic topics, i.e. astronomy/astrology and medicine, where Gundissalinus is mostly inspired by Saint Isidore.