[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
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> << This is very interesting. Any chance this is a
> translation of Constantinus Africanus' de coitu?
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> Thanks
>
> Giano >>
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> Indirectly, yes.
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> See:
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> >http://www.anglo-catalan.org/jocs/11/Articles%20&%20Reviews/Versio%20pdf/08%20Speculum%20Review.pdf
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> "As Alberni affirms, the work is quite a faithful
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> translation of the Liber minor de coitu, an anonymous
> treatise of
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> andrology fixed in Salerno in the 12th century from the
> famous Liber
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> 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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