From Greek EISAGOG , introduction, import, initiation, EIS, inside, inward and AGO, drive, drive : enter, carry inside. Book written by the neoplatonic philosopher Porfirio, disciple of Plotino, of the neoplatonic school of Rome in the 3rd century, on Aristotelian categories. This Introduction to Aristotelian Categories was used as a text of Aristotelian logic in European universities throughout the Middle Ages.
I do not know another meaning, but this term was used by the anonymous author - possibly a religious of the order of Santo Domingo de Guatemala - of the " Isagoge historical " -written between 1700 and 1711 - and refers to the history of Guatemala from the pre-Columbian era until about 1700. See: anonymous; " Historical isagoge apologetics of the West Indies and special of the province of San Vicente de Chiapa and 34 Guatemala;. Foreword by j. Fernando Juarez Muñoz. Guatemala: Collection of ancient documents of the city of Guatemala. Library Goathemala; 13. Society of geography and history, 1935.
