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<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Manuscript<br /> |Has Reference Number=GreekSyntipas13<br /> |Has Location=Mount Athos, Μονή Κουτλουμουσίου<br /> |Has Siglum=220 (Lambros 3293) [Diktyon 26249]<br /> |Has Page Range=238r-319v<br /> |Has Standardised Title Of Narrative=Βίβλος Συντίπα τοῦ φιλοσόφου (Book of Syntipas the philosopher)<br /> |Has Incipit Or Textual Title=Διήγησις φιλοσόφου συγγραφεῖσα παρ᾽ ἡμῶν<br /> |Has Siglum Of The Version Of The Seven Sages=Syntipas<br /> |Has Language Group Within Version=Greek Syntipas<br /> |Has Narrative Or Scholarly Group Within Version=Reworking<br /> |Has Language=Greek<br /> |Has Regional Language=Byzantine<br /> |Has Place Of Production=Monemvasia/unknown<br /> |Has Start Date Of Production=1601<br /> |Has End Date Of Production=1700<br /> |Is Date Uncertain=No<br /> |Has Material=Paper<br /> |Has Total Pages In Manuscript=322<br /> |Has Literary Form=Prose<br /> |Has Illustrations=No<br /> |Has Collation=4r-8v Moralising prose fragments, among which an excerpt from Leo VI, ''Military Treatise'' and a kephalaion (45) by Michail Glykas; 6v Fictitious epitaph on Maurikios and his children; 165r-188v excerpts from Patria; 188v-190v historical notes; 190v-193v Copy of 2 argyrobulls concerning Monemvasia; 194r-196v Chronicle on the foundation of Monemvasia; 197r–v Tale on the Peloponnese; 198-199v On Pulcheria; 200-201v On Theodosios; 201v Vision of Daniel the Prophet; 208-237v Theodosius Zygomalas, ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'' (acephalous); 236v–237r after the end of Stephanites follows its book epigram and introduction; 320r-322v ''Tzamblakos''<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Citt%C3%A0_del_Vaticano_Biblioteca_Apostolica_Vaticana_Vat._gr._335&diff=16292 2026-03-18T13:40:15Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Manuscript<br /> |Has Reference Number=GreekSyntipas2<br /> |Has Location=Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana<br /> |Has Siglum=Vat. gr. 335 [Diktyon 66966]<br /> |Has Page Range=58r-116v<br /> |Has Standardised Title Of Narrative=Βίβλος Συντίπα τοῦ φιλοσόφου (Book of Syntipas the philosopher)<br /> |Has Incipit Or Textual Title=Διήγησις ἐμφιλόσοφος συγγραφεῖσα παρ᾽ ἡμῶν περὶ τοῦ τῶν περσῶν βασιλέως Κύρου<br /> |Has Siglum Of The Version Of The Seven Sages=Syntipas<br /> |Has Language Group Within Version=Greek Syntipas<br /> |Has Narrative Or Scholarly Group Within Version=Andreopoulos Syntipas<br /> |Has Language=Greek<br /> |Has Regional Language=Byzantine<br /> |Has Author=Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπωλος (Michael Andreopolos)<br /> |Has Canonical Name Of Author=Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπουλος (Michael Andreopoulos)<br /> |Has Start Date Of Production=1301<br /> |Has End Date Of Production=1400<br /> |Is Date Uncertain=No<br /> |Has Source For Date Of Production=Stefec (2014)<br /> |Has Material=Paper<br /> |Has Total Pages In Manuscript=300<br /> |Has Height=206<br /> |Has Width=140<br /> |Has Literary Form=Prose<br /> |Has Illustrations=No<br /> |Has Collation=1r-57v excerpts from the ''Septuagint''; 117r-260v Dorotheos of Gaza, spiritual instructions; 261r-281r John Chrysostom, homilies; 281v-300r Maximos Planudes, homily; 300v satirical text<br /> |Has Catalogue=Devreesse (1937)<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Ingenia_3&diff=16264 2026-03-18T09:45:35Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Short Description=The Trick: The Fish in the Field<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001)<br /> |Has Motif=Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Fish; Food and drink; Humiliation; Evidence; Impossible conditions; Judgement; Revenge; Violence; Imprisonment<br /> |Has Summary=''This story appears within the frame of [[Ingenia 1]] in the Reworking/Metaphrasis version of the Greek Syntipas. The lady asks the man who has collected the Wiles of Women whether he has ever heard of such a tale, and as he has not, she relates the following:'' <br /> <br /> A misogynist man with a faithful and sensible wife spends all his time railing against the wickedness of women. His wife asks for moderation, asking him to criticize only those women whose actions deserve such condemnation, but the husband replies that all women are the same. She retorts that he should not say that, given that he has never met a bad woman in his life. He replies that if he ''were'' to meet a bad woman, he would cut off her nose. The wife decides that she must teach him a lesson. <br /> <br /> One day, the husband instructs his wife to cook him some food for the midday meal, and to bring it to him when he out working in the fields. That morning, she goes out and buys some fish (mullet) from a roadside market, then returns home to cook - but does not cook the mullet. She instead prepares a meal of other dishes, and takes the food to her husband in the fields, secretly carrying the mullet as she does. On her way home, she scatters the fish across the ploughed fields. When her husband returns to the house later in the evening, he sees finds the fish all over the ground. He picks them up and takes them home. When he realises that his wife has not yet cooked supper, he gives her the fish, and orders her to cook them. The wife sets to cooking, but when the meal is ready, it is not fish. The husband demands to know what happened to the fish he brought home, but his wife pretends not to know what he is talking about. He explains that he means the fish he found lying in the field, and she gathers the all the neighbours together to witness his foolishness. He continues to insist that he found fish in the fields, but of course the neighbours think this sounds ridiculous. They believe his wife when she says he must be possessed by an evil spirit, so they tie him up so that he cannot harm anyone. He remains stubborn for three days, after which he gives in, begging for forgiveness. When his wife asks him about the fish, he pretends not to know what she is talking about. She then releases him from his bonds. She finally reveals her trick, explaining that he was right all along, but that she did this to teach him not to boast about being superior to women. <br /> <br /> ''(While listening to the lady relate this story, the man had let his guard down, and drifted closer to the woman - she then shouts, and calls in the guards, as usually happens in the Ingenia narrative.)''<br /> <br /> <br /> From Nishimura's summary of the Reworking/Metaphrasis version of the Greek Syntipas. <br /> <br /> <br /> [Added by Jane Bonsall]<br /> |Has Note=This story is obviously closely related to the other &quot;Wiles of Women&quot; stories, which are: [[Ingenia 1|Ingenia 1, The Trick: The Wiles of Women Collection]], in which this story is embedded, which tells of a man who tries (and fails) to record examples of all of women's trickery; [[Ingenia 2|Ingenia 2, The Trick: Hidden Under the Throne]], in which a queen challenges a merchant who aids adulterous women to demonstrate his capacity for deceit, then outdoes him; and [[Ingenia 4|Ingenia 4: The Fur Coat]], in which a woman challenges her husband's misogynist scribe, who writes about women's wiles, into testing her capacity for creative adultery.<br /> <br /> <br /> Nishimura notes the following: <br /> <br /> '''Motif and Type:''' TMI J1151.1.2 = ATU 1381A Husband discredited by absurd truth. Cf. ATU1381B The Sausage Rain.<br /> <br /> '''Reference stories''', '''etc.''' Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, ''Il Pecorone'', 1.2. ''Pentamerone'', 1.4. Afanasjew, ''Russische Volksmärchen'', 441-443 ‘Das unbeirrbare Eheweib’. ''Arabian Nights'', Nights 393-394: ‘The Story of the Woman Who Deceived Her Husband’. ''Seventy Tales of a Parrot'', Textus ornatior 30, Textus simplicior 21 = Schiefner, ''Tibetan Tales'', 8 ‘Mahaushadha and Viśākhā’ = Nakhshabi, ''Tales of a Parrot'', 19 ‘The Story of the Raja’s peacock’. ''Aki no Yoru no Tomo'', 1.2 ‘Ushioki’.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Syntipas&diff=15810 2026-03-02T15:16:28Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Version<br /> |Has Description=The ''Book of Sindbad the Philosopher'', rendered ''Syntipas'' in Greek, was translated into learned Byzantine Greek in the late 11th century by Michael Andreopoulos in eastern Asia Minor. Andreopoulos states that he translated the text from the [[Syriac Sindban|Syriac version]], which he claims was a translation of the 9th-century Arabic translation of a Persian original. In the 13th century, Andreopoulos’ text was rewritten in a slightly less ‘elevated’ linguistic register, termed ‘''Retractatio''’ or '''[[Metaphrasis]]''&lt;nowiki/&gt;' in scholarship. From the late 16th century onwards translations into 'lower' linguistic registers begin to appear; these are known as the 'Vernacular' or '[[Post-Byzantine Version|'Post-Byzantine' versions]] of the text. The Greek ''Syntipas'' has come down to us in 25 manuscripts, as well as in numerous chapbooks printed in Venice and Athens (for which see Kechayoglou 2024). The oldest known print dates to 1712 or 1713 (printed in Venice by Bortoli); the oldest surviving print dates to 1744 (Bortoli). Reprints continued to be made well into the 20th century.<br /> <br /> The [[metaphrasis]] is a rather faithful ‘rewording’ of [[Andreopoulos Syntipas|Andreopoulos]]’ translation. The two versions offer largely the same text, though the metaphrasis has one extra story that seems to be unique to it ('''Fish in the field)''', as it does not appear in Andreopoulos or any of the eastern text traditions of Sindbad. The story is embedded in another story and is told not by one of the counsellors or the stepmother, but by one of the protagonists in the 7th counsellor’s story. The metaphrasis also changes the storyline of one of the stories ([[Mel]]) to an ostensibly more plausible one. (In Andreopoulos’ version, the escalating violence over the honeycomb begins with a bee that is attracted to the honey, killed by the merchant's cat, who is then killed by the hunter's dog. The translator responsible for the metaphrasis omits the cat and introduces a woman from the merchant’s village, who claims the hunter stole the beehive from her village and tries to grab it. The dog then barks at the woman, the hunter and the merchant start to fight, and the inhabitants of the two villages join in and they all kill each other. In this version, the bee’s presence is pointless. Some of the post-Byzantine versions try to make sense of the role of the bee by making the woman say that the bee was from her village and recognised provenance of the stolen honey.) These and other minor differences can help to determine which unseen or understudied manuscripts belong to which tradition.<br /> <br /> The post-Byzantine versions of the 16th and 17th centuries are based on the ''Metaphrasis'', not on the original Andreopoulos text. They do not go back to one translation but differ considerably in terms of language and expression.<br /> <br /> While several studies and editions of the ''Syntipas'' narrative exist, the editions need updating. For example, an examination of the manuscripts of the [[Andreopoulos Syntipas|Andreopoulos version]] to which [[Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae (1912)|Jernstedt]] did not have access at the time is necessary: at least one of them often offers better readings (Vind. phil. gr. 173; see [[Hinterberger (2023)|Hinterberger 2023]]) than the three manuscripts used by Jernstedt. The same holds true for the manuscripts of the ''[[Metaphrasis]]'', for which no fewer than seven have not yet been properly collated and studied. Moreover, there are likely to be other manuscripts containing the text, especially in the Greek Library of Parliament and the Athos monasteries, for which the catalogues are often inadequate. Occasionally, there is confusion between the ''Book of Syntipas'' and the collection of fables attributed to Syntipas (e.g. in [[Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek gr. Da 33|Dresd. gr. Da. 33]]), as well as between ''Syntipas'' and ''Stephanites and Ichnelates''. For instance, in the manuscript [[Jerusalem Patriarchal Library Ms. 208]], ''Syntipas'' appears after the text of ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'' but is not mentioned in the library catalogue. The same holds true for a large excerpt of ''Syntipas'' in another known manuscript, [[Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cod. gr. 525]]. It is therefore likely that there are more such cases, and it would be worth examining manuscripts that contain the texts frequently found alongside ''Syntipas'', such as ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'', the collection of fables attributed to Syntipas, and the ''Life of Aesop''. <br /> <br /> <br /> [By Marjolijne Janssen, ed. by Jane Bonsall and Bettina Bildhauer]<br /> |Has Title=Vivlos Syntipa tou filosofou<br /> |Has Author=Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπουλος (Michael Andreopoulos)<br /> |Has Branch Of Tradition=Book of Sindbad<br /> |Is Adapted From=Syriac Sindban<br /> |Is Date Uncertain=No<br /> |Has Modern Research Literature=Kechayoglou (2004); Hinterberger (2023)<br /> |Has Modern Edition=Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae (1912)<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Leo<br /> |Has Sequence Number=1<br /> |Has Narrator=First Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Avis<br /> |Has Sequence Number=2<br /> |Has Narrator=First Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Lavator<br /> |Has Sequence Number=3<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Panes<br /> |Has Sequence Number=4<br /> |Has Narrator=Second Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Gladius<br /> |Has Sequence Number=5<br /> |Has Narrator=Second Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Striga<br /> |Has Sequence Number=6<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Mel<br /> |Has Sequence Number=7<br /> |Has Narrator=Third Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Zuchara<br /> |Has Sequence Number=8<br /> |Has Narrator=Third Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Fons<br /> |Has Sequence Number=9<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Balneator<br /> |Has Sequence Number=10<br /> |Has Narrator=Fourth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Canicula<br /> |Has Sequence Number=11<br /> |Has Narrator=Fourth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Aper<br /> |Has Sequence Number=12<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Canis<br /> |Has Sequence Number=13<br /> |Has Narrator=Fifth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Pallium<br /> |Has Sequence Number=14<br /> |Has Narrator=Fifth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Simia<br /> |Has Sequence Number=15<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Turtures<br /> |Has Sequence Number=16<br /> |Has Narrator=Sixth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Elephantinus<br /> |Has Sequence Number=17<br /> |Has Narrator=Sixth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Nomina<br /> |Has Sequence Number=18<br /> |Has Narrator=Seventh Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Ingenia<br /> |Has Sequence Number=19<br /> |Has Narrator=Seventh Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Lac venenatum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=20<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Puer 3 annorum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=21<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Puer 5 annorum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=22<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Senex Caecus<br /> |Has Sequence Number=23<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Vulpes<br /> |Has Sequence Number=24<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Fatum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=25<br /> |Has Narrator=Syntipas<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Kechagioglou_2024&diff=15809 2026-03-02T15:13:12Z

<p>Janssen: Created page with &quot;{{Modern Edition |Has Editor Name=Georgios Kechagioglou |Has Title Of Book Or Journal=Σιντίπας (Μυθολογικόν Σιντίπα του φιλοσόφου) |Has Series=Παλαιότερα κείμενα της νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας |Has Number Of Volumes=1 |Has Place Of Publication=Thessaloniki |Has Publisher=Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών |Has Date Of Publication=2024 |Has Page Range=204-262 |Has Note...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>{{Modern Edition<br /> |Has Editor Name=Georgios Kechagioglou<br /> |Has Title Of Book Or Journal=Σιντίπας (Μυθολογικόν Σιντίπα του φιλοσόφου)<br /> |Has Series=Παλαιότερα κείμενα της νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας<br /> |Has Number Of Volumes=1<br /> |Has Place Of Publication=Thessaloniki<br /> |Has Publisher=Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών<br /> |Has Date Of Publication=2024<br /> |Has Page Range=204-262<br /> |Has Note=Edition of the vernacular version printed in Venice in 1744 by Antonio Bortoli<br /> <br /> (Added by Marjolijne Janssen [in progress])<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Syntipas&diff=15808 2026-03-02T15:03:08Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Version<br /> |Has Description=The ''Book of Sindbad the Philosopher'', rendered ''Syntipas'' in Greek, was translated into learned Byzantine Greek in the late 11th century by Michael Andreopoulos in eastern Asia Minor. Andreopoulos states that he translated the text from the [[Syriac Sindban|Syriac version]], which he claims was a translation of the 9th-century Arabic translation of a Persian original. In the 13th century, Andreopoulos’ text was rewritten in a slightly less ‘elevated’ linguistic register, termed ‘''Retractatio''’ or '''[[Metaphrasis]]''&lt;nowiki/&gt;' in scholarship. From the late 16th century onwards translations into 'lower' linguistic registers begin to appear; these are known as the 'Vernacular' or '[[Post-Byzantine Version|'Post-Byzantine' versions]] of the text. The Greek ''Syntipas'' has come down to us in 25 manuscripts, as well as in numerous chapbooks printed in Venice and Athens (for which see Kechayoglou 2024). The oldest known print dates to 1712 or 1713 (printed in Venice by Bortoli); the oldest surviving print dates to 1744 (Bortoli). Reprints continued to be made well into the 20th century.<br /> <br /> The [[metaphrasis]] is a rather faithful ‘rewording’ of [[Andreopoulos Syntipas|Andreopoulos]]’ translation. The two versions offer largely the same text, though the metaphrasis has one extra story that seems to be unique to it ('''Fish in the field)''', as it does not appear in Andreopoulos or any of the eastern text traditions of Sindbad. The story is embedded in another story and is told not by one of the counsellors or the stepmother, but by one of the protagonists in the 7th counsellor’s story. The metaphrasis also changes the storyline of one of the stories ([[Mel]]) to an ostensibly more plausible one. (In Andreopoulos’ version, the escalating violence over the honeycomb begins with a bee that is attracted to the honey, killed by the merchant's cat, who is then killed by the hunter's dog. The translator responsible for the metaphrasis omits the cat and introduces a woman from the merchant’s village, who claims the hunter stole the beehive from her village and tries to grab it. The dog then barks at the woman, the hunter and the merchant start to fight, and the inhabitants of the two villages join in and they all kill each other. In this version, the bee’s presence is pointless. Some of the post-Byzantine versions try to make sense of the role of the bee by making the woman say that the bee was from her village and recognised provenance of the stolen honey.) These and other minor differences can help to determine which unseen or understudied manuscripts belong to which tradition.<br /> <br /> The post-Byzantine versions of the 16th and 17th centuries are based on the ''Metaphrasis'', not on the original Andreopoulos text. They do not go back to one translation but differ considerably in terms of language and expression.<br /> <br /> While several studies and editions of the ''Syntipas'' narrative exist, the editions need updating. For example, an examination of the manuscripts of the [[Andreopoulos Syntipas|Andreopoulos version]] to which [[Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae (1912)|Jernstedt]] did not have access at the time is necessary: at least one of them often offers better readings (Vind. phil. gr. 173; see [[Hinterberger (2023)|Hinterberger 2023]]) than the three manuscripts used by Jernstedt. The same holds true for the manuscripts of the ''[[Metaphrasis]]'', for which no fewer than seven have not yet been properly collated and studied. Moreover, there are likely to be other manuscripts containing the text, especially in the Greek Library of Parliament and the Athos monasteries, for which the catalogues are often inadequate. Occasionally, there is confusion between the ''Book of Syntipas'' and the collection of fables attributed to Syntipas (e.g. in [[Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek gr. Da 33|Dresd. gr. Da. 33]]), as well as between ''Syntipas'' and ''Stephanites and Ichnelates''. For instance, in the manuscript [[Jerusalem Patriarchal Library Ms. 208]], ''Syntipas'' appears after the text of ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'' but is not mentioned in the library catalogue. The same holds true for a large excerpt of ''Syntipas'' in another known manuscript, [[Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cod. gr. 525]]. It is therefore likely that there are more such cases, and it would be worth examining manuscripts that contain the texts frequently found alongside ''Syntipas'', such as ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'', the collection of fables attributed to Syntipas, and the ''Life of Aesop''. <br /> <br /> <br /> [By Marjolijne Janssen, ed. by Jane Bonsall and Bettina Bildhauer]<br /> |Has Author=Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπουλος (Michael Andreopoulos)<br /> |Has Branch Of Tradition=Book of Sindbad<br /> |Is Date Uncertain=No<br /> |Has Modern Research Literature=Kechayoglou (2004); Hinterberger (2023)<br /> |Has Modern Edition=Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae (1912)<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Leo<br /> |Has Sequence Number=1<br /> |Has Narrator=First Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Avis<br /> |Has Sequence Number=2<br /> |Has Narrator=First Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Lavator<br /> |Has Sequence Number=3<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Panes<br /> |Has Sequence Number=4<br /> |Has Narrator=Second Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Gladius<br /> |Has Sequence Number=5<br /> |Has Narrator=Second Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Striga<br /> |Has Sequence Number=6<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Mel<br /> |Has Sequence Number=7<br /> |Has Narrator=Third Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Zuchara<br /> |Has Sequence Number=8<br /> |Has Narrator=Third Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Fons<br /> |Has Sequence Number=9<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Balneator<br /> |Has Sequence Number=10<br /> |Has Narrator=Fourth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Canicula<br /> |Has Sequence Number=11<br /> |Has Narrator=Fourth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Aper<br /> |Has Sequence Number=12<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Canis<br /> |Has Sequence Number=13<br /> |Has Narrator=Fifth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Pallium<br /> |Has Sequence Number=14<br /> |Has Narrator=Fifth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Simia<br /> |Has Sequence Number=15<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Turtures<br /> |Has Sequence Number=16<br /> |Has Narrator=Sixth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Elephantinus<br /> |Has Sequence Number=17<br /> |Has Narrator=Sixth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Nomina<br /> |Has Sequence Number=18<br /> |Has Narrator=Seventh Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Ingenia<br /> |Has Sequence Number=19<br /> |Has Narrator=Seventh Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Lac venenatum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=20<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Puer 3 annorum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=21<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Puer 5 annorum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=22<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Senex Caecus<br /> |Has Sequence Number=23<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Vulpes<br /> |Has Sequence Number=24<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Fatum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=25<br /> |Has Narrator=Syntipas<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Syntipas&diff=15807 2026-03-02T14:58:28Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Version<br /> |Has Description=The ''Book of Sindbad the Philosopher'', rendered ''Syntipas'' in Greek, was translated into learned Byzantine Greek in the late 11th century by Michael Andreopoulos in eastern Asia Minor. Andreopoulos states that he translated the text from the [[Syriac Sindban|Syriac version]], which he claims was a translation of the 9th-century Arabic translation of a Persian original. In the 13th century, Andreopoulos’ text was rewritten in a slightly less ‘elevated’ linguistic register, termed ‘''Retractatio''’ or '''[[Metaphrasis]]''&lt;nowiki/&gt;' in scholarship. From the late 16th century onwards translations into 'lower' linguistic registers begin to appear; these are known as the 'Vernacular' or '[[Post-Byzantine Version|'Post-Byzantine' versions]] of the text. The Greek ''Syntipas'' has come down to us in 25 manuscripts, as well as in numerous chapbooks printed in Venice and Athens (for which see Kechayoglou 2024). The oldest known print dates to 1712 or 1713 (printed in Venice by Bortoli); the oldest surviving print dates to 1744 (Bortoli). Reprints continued to be made well into the 20th century.<br /> <br /> The [[metaphrasis]] is a rather faithful ‘rewording’ of [[Andreopoulos Syntipas|Andreopoulos]]’ translation. The two versions offer largely the same text, though the metaphrasis has one extra story that seems to be unique to it ('''Fish in the field)''', as it does not appear in Andreopoulos or any of the eastern text traditions of Sindbad. The story is embedded in another story and is told not by one of the counsellors or the stepmother, but by one of the protagonists in the 7th counsellor’s story. The metaphrasis also changes the storyline of one of the stories ([[Mel]]) to an ostensibly more plausible one. (In Andreopoulos’ version, the escalating violence over the honeycomb begins with a bee that is attracted to the honey, killed by the merchant's cat, who is then killed by the hunter's dog. The translator responsible for the metaphrasis omits the cat and introduces a woman from the merchant’s village, who claims the hunter stole the beehive from her village and tries to grab it. The dog then barks at the woman, the hunter and the merchant start to fight, and the inhabitants of the two villages join in and they all kill each other. In this version, the bee’s presence is pointless. Some of the post-Byzantine versions try to make sense of the role of the bee by making the woman say that the bee was from her village and recognised provenance of the stolen honey.) These and other minor differences can help to determine which unseen or understudied manuscripts belong to which tradition.<br /> <br /> The post-Byzantine versions of the 16th and 17th centuries are based on the ''Metaphrasis'', not on the original Andreopoulos text. They do not go back to one translation but differ considerably in terms of language and expression.<br /> <br /> While several studies and editions of the ''Syntipas'' narrative exist, the editions need updating. For example, an examination of the manuscripts of the [[Andreopoulos Syntipas|Andreopoulos version]] to which [[Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae (1912)|Jernstedt]] did not have access at the time is necessary: at least one of them often offers better readings (Vind. phil. gr. 173; see [[Hinterberger (2023)|Hinterberger 2023]]) than the three manuscripts used by Jernstedt. The same holds true for the manuscripts of the ''[[Metaphrasis]]'', for which no fewer than seven have not yet been properly collated and studied. Moreover, there are likely to be other manuscripts containing the text, especially in the Greek Library of Parliament and the Athos monasteries, for which the catalogues are often inadequate. Occasionally, there is confusion between the ''Book of Syntipas'' and the collection of fables attributed to Syntipas (e.g. in [[Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek gr. Da 33|Dresd. gr. Da. 33]]), as well as between ''Syntipas'' and ''Stephanites and Ichnelates''. For instance, in the manuscript [[Jerusalem Patriarchal Library Ms. 208]], ''Syntipas'' appears after the text of ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'' but is not mentioned in the library catalogue. The same holds true for a large excerpt of ''Syntipas'' in another known manuscript, [[Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cod. gr. 525]]. It is therefore likely that there are more such cases, and it would be worth examining manuscripts that contain the texts frequently found alongside ''Syntipas'', such as ''Stephanites and Ichnelates'', the collection of fables attributed to Syntipas, and the ''Life of Aesop''. <br /> <br /> <br /> [By Marjolijne Janssen, ed. by Jane Bonsall and Bettina Bildhauer]<br /> |Has Author=Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπουλος (Michael Andreopoulos)<br /> |Has Branch Of Tradition=Book of Sindbad<br /> |Is Date Uncertain=No<br /> |Has Modern Research Literature=Kechayoglou (2004); Hinterberger (2023)<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Leo<br /> |Has Sequence Number=1<br /> |Has Narrator=First Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Avis<br /> |Has Sequence Number=2<br /> |Has Narrator=First Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Lavator<br /> |Has Sequence Number=3<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Panes<br /> |Has Sequence Number=4<br /> |Has Narrator=Second Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Gladius<br /> |Has Sequence Number=5<br /> |Has Narrator=Second Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Striga<br /> |Has Sequence Number=6<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Mel<br /> |Has Sequence Number=7<br /> |Has Narrator=Third Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Zuchara<br /> |Has Sequence Number=8<br /> |Has Narrator=Third Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Fons<br /> |Has Sequence Number=9<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Balneator<br /> |Has Sequence Number=10<br /> |Has Narrator=Fourth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Canicula<br /> |Has Sequence Number=11<br /> |Has Narrator=Fourth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Aper<br /> |Has Sequence Number=12<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Canis<br /> |Has Sequence Number=13<br /> |Has Narrator=Fifth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Pallium<br /> |Has Sequence Number=14<br /> |Has Narrator=Fifth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Simia<br /> |Has Sequence Number=15<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Turtures<br /> |Has Sequence Number=16<br /> |Has Narrator=Sixth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Elephantinus<br /> |Has Sequence Number=17<br /> |Has Narrator=Sixth Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Nomina<br /> |Has Sequence Number=18<br /> |Has Narrator=Seventh Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Ingenia<br /> |Has Sequence Number=19<br /> |Has Narrator=Seventh Master<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Lac venenatum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=20<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Puer 3 annorum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=21<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Puer 5 annorum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=22<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Senex Caecus<br /> |Has Sequence Number=23<br /> |Has Narrator=Prince<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Vulpes<br /> |Has Sequence Number=24<br /> |Has Narrator=Empress<br /> }}<br /> {{EmbeddedStory<br /> |Has Short Title=Fatum<br /> |Has Sequence Number=25<br /> |Has Narrator=Syntipas<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Senex_Caecus&diff=15099 2026-02-20T17:04:21Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Epstein (1967); Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Bolens (2008)<br /> |Has Motif=Deception; Impossible conditions; Riches; (Threat of) bodily mutilation; Wise old woman; Wise old man; Blindness; Overheard secret; Debt<br /> |Has Summary='''The Blind Old Man; or, The Merchant and the Rogues'''<br /> <br /> A young man inherits a great fortune, and sails away to distant lands to trade, where he is tricked by three rogues. The first rogue convinces him that the precious sandalwood (or aloe wood) he has purchased is actually worthless by burning a bit of it in the privy; he offers to replace the youth's stock of it with anything he desires. The second rogue beats the youth at dice, after wagering that the loser will drink all the waters in the sea. The third rogue, one-eyed, claimed that the youth (whose eyes looked like the rogue's) had stolen his eye, and must stand trial. The youth, tricked at every turn, despairs, but an old woman tells him where to find the wise blind man who counsels all the rogues in the city. The youth sneaks near to the blind man, and overhears the first rogue tell his story about tricking the dupe into believing his sandalwood was worthless. The old man says his promise to fill the young man's cart with anything he desires in exchange for the wood was foolish - what if the youth asks for his cart to be filled with fleas, half male and half female? The rogue protests that the young man won't be shrewd enough to say this. The second rogue tells his story, and the old man tells him that he, too, has done badly - what if the youth says that he WILL drink all the water in the sea, but not a drop more, and insists that the rogue must dam up all the rivers that flow into the sea before he begins drinking? The second rogue also protests that the youth will not be that clever. The third rogue tells his story, and the old man cautions him - what if the youth says, 'Take out your eye, I'll take out mine, we'll weigh them to see if they are equal'? The youth sneaks away, and does exactly as the wise blind man had said, offering each of the rogues an impossible challenge, which they are of course unable to meet, and so he keeps his wealth, health, and freedom.<br /> <br /> <br /> [From Epstein; added by Jane Bonsall.]<br /> |Has Note=Nishimura offers an extensive list of analoguous stories with impossible conditions in response to trickery, as well as relevant motifs and reference narratives: <br /> <br /> '''Motifs:''' TMI F655: Extraordinary perception of blind men; H919.4: Impossible task assigned by plaintiff as proof. H1129.10.1: Impossible task: assembling a huge quantity of many-colored fleas; H1142.3: Task: drinking the sea dry: countertask: stop all the rivers; N411.5: Sandalwood merchant sells his product at high price in land lacking sandalwood; N455.2.1: Robber’s secret overheard and later used in court against them; ATU978: The Youth in the Land of the Cheaters.<br /> <br /> '''Reference stories, etc.:''' <br /> <br /> * Jacques de Vitry, ''Exempla'', 208 ‘When Jacques de Vitry was at Paris…’<br /> * Stories of the drinking the sea dry are is related in: Plutarchos, ''Feast of the Seven Wise Men'', 150F-151E; ''The Life of Aesop'', 69-73; Steinhöwel, ''Äsop'', ‘Life of Aesop’, 15; Caxton, ''Fables of Aesop'', pp. 244-246; ''Esopo no Fabulas'', ‘The Life of Aesop’, pp. 25-26; ''Isoho Monogatari'', vol.1, 7 ‘Of the Covenant of Shanto to drink the Sea dry’; Schwarzbaum, ''Jewish and World Folklore'', 273 ‘The Wager’; stories ‘How much water is in the sea?’ and ‘Dam the river’: ''Pfaffe Amis'', 1; ''Till Eulenspiegel'', 28 ‘Wie Ulenspiegel zu Brag in Behemen…’; ''Grimm’s Fairy Tales'', KHM 152 ‘Das Hirtenbüblein’ and KHM 134 ‘Die sechs Diener’; ''Folklore ordos'', No. 24, ‘Esergei et Mesergei’.<br /> * Stories in which a man escapes from difficulty by eavesdropping (on the answer to a riddle): ‘The Devil and the Devil’s Granny’ in ''Grimm’s Fairy Tales'', KHM 125 ‘Der Teufel und seine Großmutter’; ''Golden Legend'', 129 ‘Praise of the Holy Cross’, pp. 411-414.<br /> * Motifs similar to fleas: ''Mahabharata'', 3.115.12 and 5.104.26; ''The Book of Dede Korkut'', 3 ‘Bamus Beiraki, the Son of Bai Byure’.<br /> * Similar treatment of riddling is found in: ''Akbar and Birbal Vinod'' (From ''Humorous Tales from India'', pp. 167-168); ''Kathasaritsagara'', chapter 74, 163F: 'Akshakshapaṇaka and the Wooden Doll’ and ch. 124, 171G: 'Muladeva and the Brahmin’s Daughter’; ''Nihon Mukashibanashi Tsukan'', 28 ‘Type Index’ 807-814 ('difficult question and answer’ stories; 807 ‘Difficult question and answer -- which is the sounding hand’ is also in Rumi’s ''Mathanavi'', 3.1380-1385).<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Additional Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII 26; Landau 23; ''A World Tour of Laughter'', ‘How Much Water is in the Ocean? -- Cough up the river’. ''Nihon Mukashibanashi Tsukan'', ‘Kenkyu-hen 2’, 807-814; Marzolph, 32.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Puer_5_annorum&diff=15098 2026-02-20T16:45:22Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Comparetti (1869); Orazi (2006); Perry (1959)<br /> |Has Motif=Wise child; Riches; Theft; Punishment for theft; Deception; Food and drink; Old woman; Judgement; Court of law; Children; Bathing<br /> |Has Summary='''The Wise Five-Year-Old'''<br /> <br /> Three business partners are on a trading trip together, bringing with them great wealth. They come to stay with an old woman to whom they entust their riches for safe keeping. In order that none of them should cheat the others, they instruct the old woman not to return their treasure to any one of them alone, but only to the three of them together, to which she agrees. The three men go to bathe in a pool behind the house, but have forgotten a comb; of the three offers to ask to borrow a comb from the old woman. He approaches her, and instead asks her to give him all their gold, saying they wish to count it. She replies that she swore not to give it to any one man, so he tells her he has his companions' consent to retrieve the gold. To prove it, he brings her to the door, and shouts across his companions, saying, 'She will not give it to me unless you both tell her to do so!&quot; The bathers shout back that she should give it to their companion, so the old woman fetches their gold, and he takes it and disappears. Eventually the two other companions, wondering what has taken so long, come to look for their partner. The old woman explains that she gave him their treasure, as they instructed, and the two are furious, crying that they had requested a comb, not their gold. They take her to the court, and present their case before a judge, who rules that the old woman must repay them as their wealth was lost through her carelessness. Crying, the old woman leaves the courthouse. She is approached by a five-year-old boy who asks why she is weeping, but she asks him to leave her alone and continues along the road. He follows, until she at last explains, and he tells her that if she will give him a coin to buy dates, he will tell her how to get out of her predicament. She agrees, so he then instructs her to return to the judge and tell him she still has the money, and that she will return it to the men - but only if they can bring their third companion there. If they cannot, she will not give them anything, as they instructed her not to hand over the gold to any but the three of them together. When the judge hears this, he rules in her favour, and immediately knows that she must have had advice; he begs to know who had the widom to give her such instructions. She explains that it was the young boy she met on the road. The boy is brought before the judge, who is so pleased with this wisdom and cleverness that he takes him under his wing.<br /> <br /> <br /> [From ''Libro de los Engaños''. Added by Jane Bonsall.]<br /> |Has Note=This is one of a pair of 'wise child' narratives, together with [[Puer 3 annorum]]. <br /> <br /> Nishimura notes relevant motifs and analogues: <br /> <br /> '''Motifs and Types:''' TMI J120 Wisdom learned from child; J1161.1 Three joint depositors may have their money back when all demand it; ATU 1591 The three joint depositors; TU3353 Money left by two men.<br /> <br /> '''Analogues:''' Valerius Maximus, ''Factorum et dictorum memorabilium'', 7.3, ext. 5 (as a story of Demosthenes); ''The Books of Tales by A.B.C.'', 78 (7) ‘A wise man’s counsel is to seek,…’; ''Scala Coeli'', 46 ‘Un avocat conseille une femme trompée par deux larrons’; Pauli, ''Schimpf und Ernst'', 113 ‘Die Witfrau solt 500 Gulden keim on den andern geben'; Schwarzbaum, ''Jewish and World Folklore'', 165 ‚The two Partners, the Rabbi and the Five Thousand Pounds’.<br /> <br /> '''Reference stories:''' Stories of a man who gets something else (usually his wife or daughter) by slurring his words (the motif is TMI K1354.1 = ATU 1563 “Both?”): Afanasjew, ''Russian Ridiculous Tales'', 44 ‘The Priest and the Hired Hand’; ''Tohoku Ensho Ukiyo Banashi'', 83 ‘False Agreement’, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII 28; Landau 22; Schwarzbaum, XXI, p. 271, n. 7.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Nomina&diff=15082 2026-02-20T14:17:41Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Epstein (1967); Clouston (1884); Marzolph and Chraïbi (2012)<br /> |Has Motif=Bodily transformation; Magical beings (spirits, demons, djinn, witches); Magic; Genitalia; Impotence anxiety; Sex change; (Threat of) bodily mutilation; Gender play<br /> |Has Summary='''The Three Wishes''' <br /> <br /> A man makes his living telling fortunes, with answers supplied by a demon, or a witch, or a spirit. One day the magical being informs him that they must depart, and offers to tell him three magic spells - or the names of three divine/infernal powers - to thank him for his friendship. He can use these three spells, or three names, to grant wishes. The man is overjoyed, and rushes home to tell his wife. What should I wish for? he asks, and she replies that he should wish for ways to better pleasure women - or, that he should wish for more penises. As soon as his wish is stated, however, he finds himself covered with penises, and panics, crying out that he wishes they were gone. Once ''that'' wish has been said, the penises vanish - but so too does his original genitalia. Both husband and wife unhappily agree that final wish must therefore be the restoration of his original penis.<br /> |Has Note=Nishimura notes analogous motifs and references: <br /> <br /> '''Motif and Type:''' TMI J2071 Three foolish wishes; ATU 750A The three wishes.<br /> <br /> '''Analogues:''' Perry, ''Aesopica'', 668 'The Three Wishes’; Fabliau, MR 133, 'Les 4 Souhais de Saint Martin’; La Fontaine, ''Fables'', 7.5 ‘Three Wishes’; ''Perrault’s Fairy Tales'', ‘Foolish Wishes’; Hebel, ''Kalendergeschichten'', ‘Three Wishes’; Hagen, ''Gesamtabenteuer'', 37 ‘Die drei Wünsche’; ''Altdeutsches Decamerone'', 4.10 ‘Die drei Wünsche’ (by Der Stricker); ''Grimm’s Fairy Tales'', KHM 87 'Der Arme und der Reiche'; ''Nihon Mukashibanashi Tsukan'', 28 ‘Type Index’ 16 ‘Mittsu no Kanae Goto.<br /> <br /> '''Reference stories, etc.:''' ''Panchatantra'', (Textus simplicior) 5.8 ‘The Two-headed Craftsman with Four Arms’, (Textus ornatior. Purnabhadra) 5.6 ‘The Dull-witted Weaver’; Euripides, ''Hippolytus'', line 888; Avianus, ''Fables'', 22 ‘Le convoiteux et l’envieux’; ''The Book of Tales by A.B.C.'', 217 (146) ‘The envious one of mean condition…’; Jacques de Vitry, ''Exempla'', 196 ‘An avaricious and an envious man…’; Fabliau MR 135 ‘Du convoiteus et de l’envieus’; ''Scala Coeli'', 594 ‘L’homme envieux qui demande à perdre un œil’; Gower, ''Confessio Amantis'', 2.2 ‘The Traveler and the Angel’; Pauli, ''Schimpf und Ernst'', 647 ‘Der Neidig und Geitig begerten Lon’; Steinhöwel and Caxton’s ''Fables of Aesop'', ‘Avianus Extract’ 17; ''Isoho Monogatari'', vol. 3, 21. The story of King Midas and his foolish wishes is told in Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'', 11.85-145; Gower, ''Confessio Amantis'', 5.1. <br /> <br /> '''Additional Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII 19; Landau 17, 32; Hagen, II, pp. xxii-xxvi; Takagi Toshio, ''A Study of Fairy Tales'', p. 225; ''A World Tour of Laughter'', pp. 38-42; ''Nihon Mukashibanashi Tsukan'', ‘Kenkyu-hen 2’, 16.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Balneator&diff=14484 2026-02-03T18:29:20Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Epstein (1967); Clouston (1884)<br /> |Has Motif=Adultery; Money in exchange for promise of sex; Gullible husband; Impotence anxiety; Deceitful advisor; Deception; Bathing; Suicide; Humiliation; Genitalia; Riches; Lesson: greed; Woman tricked/coerced into sex; Grief; Mistaken or concealed identity; Coerced sex; Remorse<br /> |Has Summary='''The Bathhouse Keeper''' ''(for comparison, see this story's analogue [[Senescalcus]])''<br /> <br /> A prince visits the local bathhouse, and upon seeing his enormous size, and the way his genitals are hidden behind his belly, the bathhouse attendant weeps. The prince asks the reason for his tears, and the attendant explains that he believes the prince will be unable to have children because of his weight. The prince demands that the attendant bring him a woman to sleep with, whom he will pay 300 gold pieces. The attendant takes the gold, but calculates that the prince will be unable to have sex at all, so he decides to send his own wife to the prince and keep the gold for himself. He does so, and some time later, peeks through the window and is horrified to see his wife and the prince having sex. He begs for her to stop, and she asks, 'But isn't this what you wanted?' Shamed and upset, the bathhouse keeper leaves, and takes his own life (specifically, hangs himself, in some versions). <br /> <br /> <br /> From ''Mishle Sendebar''<br /> <br /> [Added by Jane Bonsall]<br /> |Has Note=This story is a direct parallel of [[Senescalcus]] - see both stories for contrast. <br /> <br /> [[Nishimura (2001)]] notes a number of motif index analogues and related stories, including: <br /> <br /> '''Motifs:''' TMI J2199 Absurd shortsightedness; J2301 Gullible husband; K1544 Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife’s adultery. <br /> <br /> '''Analogies:''' Gower, ''Confessio Amantis'', 5.3 ‘The Story of the King and the Wife of his Seneschal’; Ben Jonson, ''Volpone''.<br /> <br /> '''Reference stories, etc.:''' ''Kathasaritsagara'', ch. 43, ’60. Story of Arthalobha and his Beautiful Wife’; ''Hitopadesha'', 1.7, ‘The Merchant’s Bride’; ''Gesta Romanorum'', 151 ‘Aussatz durch Beischlaf’; Bandello, ''Le Novelle'', 4.28; ''Decameron'', 8.4; ''Les Cent Nouvelle Nouvelle'', 9; Sermini, ''Le Novelle'', 26; Poggio, ''Facezie'', 238; Sacchetti, ''Trecento Novelle'', 206; Balzac, ''Les Contes Drolatiques'', 2.2 ‘The Celibate King’.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Puteus&diff=14483 2026-02-03T18:18:25Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Short Description=The Well<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Brunner (1933)<br /> |Has Motif=Adultery; Deception; Deceitful woman; Gullible husband; Suicide; Woman locked up/kept indoors; Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit; Humiliation<br /> |Has Summary=This story takes place in a city that maintains a strict curfew, and anyone found in the streets after curfew is severely punished. In this city, a man keeps his wife under lock and key, but unbeknownst to him, she regularly sneaks out to meet a lover (in some versions, she accomplishes this by encouraging her husband to drink to excess nightly). One night, discovering her gone, the man locks the door, and refuses to open it for her when she returns and begs entry. She shouts through the door that she would rather drown herself than face public punishment, and then drops a large rock into the well. Hearing the splash and thinking she has thrown herself into the well, her husband rushes out; his wife slips into the house as he does so, and locks him out instead, refusing to let him in.<br /> <br /> <br /> [From Brunner, ''Middle English Seven Sages''. Added by Jane Bonsall.]<br /> |Has Note=Nishimura notes relevant analogues and motifs: <br /> <br /> '''Motif and Types:''' TMI K1511, ATU 1377: The husband locked out; TU5246: Wife throws stone in well. <br /> <br /> '''Analogues:''' ''Seventy Tales of a Parrot'', Textus ornatior 25, Textus simplicior 16; ''Disciplina Clericalis'', Example 14, ‘The Well’; ''Tales of Marzuban'', 8.5 ‘The Carpenter and his Wife’; ''Nasreddin Hoca Monogatari'', pp. 208-209; Vincentius Bellovacensis, ''Speculum Morale'', 3.9.5 (p.1395 DE); ''The Book of Tales by A.B.C.'', 303 (235) ‘You’ll never learn a woman’s games:…’; Wesselski, ''Mönchslatein'', 67 (taken from ''Disciplina Clericalis''); ''Decameron'', 7.4; Sercambi, ''Il Novelliere'', 142; ''Arcipreste de Talavera…'', 2.1 ‘De los vicios e tachas e malas condiciones de las perversas mugeres,…’; Legrand d’Aussy, ''Anciens Fabliaux'', 3.146-155 ‘De celui qui enferma sa femme dans une tour,…'; Sachs, nr. 3966, nr. 46, ‘Das weib im brunnen’; Molière, ''George Dandin''. ''Kathāratnākara'', 22.<br /> <br /> '''Reference stories''', '''etc.:''' Sabadino degli Arienti, ''Le Porretane'', 45; Rakugo, ‘Rokushaku-bo’. <br /> <br /> '''Additional Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII224, IX12; Landau 42; Schwarzbaum, XXII, 28-30; Nishimura, ''Disciplina Clericalis'', pp. 292-295.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Lavator&diff=14478 2026-02-03T17:26:20Z

<p>Janssen: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Inset Story<br /> |Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Epstein (1967); Hilka (1912); Clouston (1884)<br /> |Has Motif=Accidental death; Father/son relationships; Familial relationships<br /> |Has Summary='''The Fuller and His Son'''<br /> <br /> A man who makes his living doing laundry washes clothes in the river, while his young son plays on the banks. The father does not caution his son, nor keep him from the riverside, and one day the child falls into the water. His father rushes in to try to save him, and slips into deep water; his brother shortly follows, trying to rescue them both, but all three are drowned.<br /> }}</div>

Janssen https://db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php?title=Mount_Sinai_St_Catherine%27s_Monastery_gr._2122&diff=14377 2026-01-26T16:03:54Z

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