Suzannah, I do hope someone on the list can give you some assistance with
your search for an English translation of Peter of Limoges's *De oculo
morali*. I just thought I'd share a delightful and perhaps overlooked
recent article, which moves forward the earliest use of eyeglasses in the
West by a good period of time:
Judith S. Neaman, 'The mystery of the Ghent bird and the invention of
spectacles', *Viator* 24 (1993) 189-214.
The article examines a drawing of spectacles in a Flemish psalter (MS
Brussel/Bruxelles, KB/BR 5163-5164).
George Ferzoco
> Does anyone know of a full or partial English translation of the "De Oculo
> Morali" by Peter of Limoges (Petrus Lacepieru)?
>
> Suzannah Biernoff
> Department of Art History
> University of Western Sydney, Nepean
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