Debating Love: A Fifteenth-Century Aljamiado Joc-Partit
Hamilton, Michelle M.(University of California, Irvine)
eHumanista: Volume 14, (2010)
On a single folio of a Hebrew aljamiado manuscript now housed in Parma, Italy someone –most probably a Judeo-Iberian intellectual of the fifteenth-century– jotted down a short poem. This poem (photos and transcriptions of which are included in the appendix) has the form of a pregunta-respuesta debate or joc partit between three speakers who ponder what is the best way to “know” their 
beloved: simply gazing upon her, touching her, or rather, “knowing” her fully.
Demanda
Vos que tanto sabes E vales En la arte del amar Acorde de preguntar Por me avisar A la que más queries ¿Cuál d’esto escogeres? ¿A vuestra guisa tratalla E non fablalla Nin sola mente miralla? ¿O bien veer e fablar E nunca a ella llegar?
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