Commentary: |
Snow 2007: "On ‘Ao daian de Cález’ (Lapa 23), which M. V. supposes written around 1267. The magical and aphrodisiacal books in the possession of the cleric in question are traced here to the Arabic adab, books on seduction and fornication that were once plentiful in the peninsula but whose (later) romanized versions do not survive. See also [1987], for a republication of same." |