Negotiation of Scientific Discourse in the First Printed Edition of the Historia de la donzella Teodor (Toledo: Pedro Hagenbach, ca. 1500)

D medieval European literature.' The story of the aC young slave girl named Teodor belongs to the didactic writings associated with medieval sapiential literature collections (Deyermond 183; Haro Cort6s, Los compendios 41-45). Parker has recently noted that the survival of the text was due in part to the text's affiliation with "the wisdom literature category" (120). The text is frequently found as one of the appendices to the Bocados de oro, a Castilian translation of Mukhtdr al hikam, an Arabic didactic text which circulated in several vernacular versions.2 The manuscript tradition of the Historia de la