# Le Régime du corps by Aldobrandino of Siena [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Sloane 2435\) ## Commentary Le Régime du corps by Aldobrandino of Siena c. 1285 Manuscript \(MS Sloane 2435\) British Library, London To the Church in the Middle Ages, sexual desire was a sin, tolerated, within marriage, only as a means of producing children. This French parchment codex from northern France contains 132 folios, one large miniature in colours and gold, and numerous historiated initials. The historiated initial on folio 9v shows a man and woman in bed. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()