1 gen 1681 anni - The German orientalist, Hiob Ludolphus, in his Historia aethiopica

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The German orientalist, Hiob Ludolphus, in his Historia aethiopica (1681) reports:
‘This puts us in mind of the Circumcision of Females, of which Gregory was somewhat asham'd to discourse, and we should have more willingly omitted it, had not Tzaga∣zaabus in his rude Confession of Faith, spoken of it as of a most remarkable Custom introduced by the command of Queen Maqueda; or had not Paulus Jovius himself, Bishop of Como, insisted in the same manner upon this unseemly Custome. This same Ceremony was not onely us’d by the Habissines, but also familiar among other people of Africa the Aegyptians, and the Arabians themselves. For they cut away from the Female Infants something which they think to be an Indecency and Superfluity of Nature […] Jovius calls it, Carunniculam, or a little piece of Flesh. Golius, an oblong Excrescence. The Arabians by a particular word called it Bedbron or Bedbara, beside which they have many other words to the same purpose. Among their Women it is as great a piece of reproach, to revile a woman by saying to her, O Bandaron: that is, O uncircumcis’d, as to call a man Arel, or uncircumcis’d among Jews. A strange thing, that onely in Africa and some parts of Asia, the Women should be noted for those extuberancies: for the Jewish women in Germany, being acquainted by their reading with this Custome, laugh at it, as admiring what is should be that should require such an amputation.’

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