Arbor

Nature tale: treeLesson: loyaltyFather/son relationshipsAge versus youth

The Tree

A foolish man values a young sapling over a mature tree, and has the large tree trimmed back further and further to make room for the young sprout. Eventually, he has the grown tree chopped down entirely to offer the smaller plant its light, but finds that unlike the mature tree, the sapling does not bear fruit.

Arbor is the Empress's first story in the European Seven Sages texts. In it, she urges the Emperor to see himself as the old tree, and his son as the upstart sapling.

Critical Literature
Nishimura (2001)

Arbor appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Arbor is narrated in the following occurrences

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Empress

A (Seven Sages), Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652, Anonymous Verse Version, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 409 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum), Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 641, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 272, Berlin Staatsbibliothek mgf 59, British Library, Additional MS 15685, Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84), Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245, Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55, Continental Group x, Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců, D (Sept Sages de Rome), Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. F 61a, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1, Auchinleck Manuscript, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland MS. 16500, Asloan Manuscript, Erasto, Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11, French A/L Overlap, French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages, German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, German Version H, H (Historia Septem Sapientum), Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben, I (Versio Italica), Il Libro dei Sette Savi, K (Sept Sages de Rome), L (Sept Sages de Rome), L'Amabile di Continentia, Latin Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, Latin Version H, London British Library Cotton Galba E IX, London British Library Egerton 1995, M ('Male Marastre'), Middle English Version A, Old Swedish Redaction C, Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare, Old Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare, Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis, Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book), Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175, Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354, Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3516, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95, Polish Version H, Prosafassung / Prose Version, S (Scala Coeli), Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages, Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma, Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna, Storia di Stefano, Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.), Versfassung / Verse Version, Versio Italica (Latin)

Arbor appears in the following manuscripts