[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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