[Sca-cooks] OT 14th century sex manual (Speculum al foder)
emilio szabo
emilio_szabo at yahoo.it
Thu Sep 17 13:33:49 PDT 2009
<< This is very interesting. Any chance this is a translation of Constantinus Africanus' de coitu?
Thanks
Giano >>
Indirectly, yes.
See:
>http://www.anglo-catalan.org/jocs/11/Articles%20&%20Reviews/Versio%20pdf/08%20Speculum%20Review.pdf
"As Alberni affirms, the work is quite a faithful
translation of the Liber minor de coitu, an anonymous treatise of
andrology fixed in Salerno in the 12th century from the famous Liber
de coitu by Constantinus Africanus (which makes use, in turn, of
unknown Arabic sources)."
E.
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