[Sca-cooks] OT 14th century sex manual (Speculum al foder)

Volker Bach carlton_bach at yahoo.de
Thu Sep 17 13:35:47 PDT 2009



--- emilio szabo <emilio_szabo at yahoo.it> schrieb am Do, 17.9.2009:

> Von: emilio szabo <emilio_szabo at yahoo.it>
> Betreff: [Sca-cooks] OT 14th century sex manual (Speculum al foder)
> An: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Datum: Donnerstag, 17. September 2009, 22:33
> 
> 
> 
> << 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)."

Thanks, that is good to know. I may need it then - I've started translating the Constantinus Africanus text. 

YIS

Giano


      




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