Details

Standardized Title:

Aloisiae Sigeae Toletanae satyra Sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris

Other Title:

Elegante latine di Giovanni Meursio

Subjects:

Erotic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Erotic literature, Italian.
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Dialogues, Italian.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Translations (documents)
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin and Italian.

Biography/History:

A French lawyer and historian (particularly of the Dauphiné region in southeastern France).

Summary:

Five fictional dialogues between Tullia, a young Italian woman, and Octavia, her younger cousin, with whose sexual initiation Tullia has been charged so that Octavia might be better prepared for marriage and her future husband. The fifth dialogue is incomplete. The author claimed that the text was originally in Spanish and the work of poetess and Portuguese court intellectual Luisa Sigea de Velasco (also known as Luisa Sigea Toledana) and was translated into Latin by Dutch scholar Johannes Meursius.

Contents:

1. p.1-6: Velitatio.
2. p.6-11: Tribadicon.
3. p.12-18: Fabrica.
4. p.18-29: Duellum.
5. p.29-37: Libidinis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1).
Incipit: Tullia: Dulce est (cognata mihi lace dulcior) tuas tandem cum Caviceo pactas esse nuptias (p. 1); Explicit: ... cutis alba, nitida, sine rugis, sine mendis. Statuam marmoream dixisses (p. 37).
Pagination: Paper, 40; [i-ii, 1-38]; modern pagination in pencil, lower outside corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns, with Latin on the left and Italian on the right.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Modern boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Watermark: Tre luna (f. 1).
Origin: Probably written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), circa 1700.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich, Germany), 1962.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 44 (Ms. Latin 186).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1227

OCLC:

233717175