Avis: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:33, 5 June 2024

'''The Bird'''

A bird - a parrot, or a magpie - reveals a woman's adultery to her husband. She tries to convince him that the bird is lying, mad, or confused, but his faith in the bird's reporting is unshaken. To discredit the bird, the wife tricks it into believing that there is a storm in the night (manufacturing the sound of the weather, dropping water on it from a hole in the ceiling, etc.) when in fact the weather was clear. The husband, hearing the bird's reports of rain and wind, discounts the earlier report of adultery. (In some texts, he eventually learns the truth.)

Critical Literature
No critical literature available

Avis appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Avis is narrated in the following occurrences

Narrator	Pages
Caton	A (Seven Sages), Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 388, French A/L Overlap, French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages, Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare, Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket Cod. C 7
Cato	Anonymous Verse Version, Aventewr von Diocleciano, Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84), Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245, Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj, C (Sept Sages de Rome), Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620, Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55, D (Sept Sages de Rome), Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1, Auchinleck Manuscript, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland MS. 16500, Asloan Manuscript, Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11, German Version H, H (Historia Septem Sapientum), Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben, K (Sept Sages de Rome), L (Sept Sages de Rome), London British Library Arundel 140, London British Library Cotton Galba E IX, London British Library Egerton 1995, M ('Male Marastre'), Middle English Version A, Old Swedish Redaction C, 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 3516, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95, Prosafassung / Prose Version, Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages, Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma, Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare, Versfassung / Verse Version
Chaton	Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573
Craton	Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.)
Empress	Yi 31740
Fifth Master	Chantilly Musée Condé MS 683, Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667, German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, Latin Version A, Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus, S (Scala Coeli), St. Florian Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XI 92 B, Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 2937
First Master	Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 618, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Sprenger 1368, Hebrew Group A, Hebrew Group B, Hebrew Prints, Latin Mishle Sendebar, Libro de los Engaños, Madrid Real Academia Española 'El Conde Lucanor', Ms. 15, Mishle Sendebar, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France Arabe 3639, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3670, St Petersburg National Library of Russia EVR I 272
Fourth Master	London British Library Additional MS 15685
Third Master	Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 163, Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652, Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. I. 2. 2° 22, Bamberg Staatsbibliothek Msc. Class. 87, Bamberg Staatsbibliothek Msc. Theol. 230, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 184, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. fol. 239, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 151, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 272, Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 723, Brno Moravský zemský archiv Cerr II 361, Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. C 398, Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. F 61a, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. F 61a, Eichstätt Universitätsbibliothek Cod. st 698, Gdańsk PAN Biblioteka Gdańska Ms. 1974, Latin Version H, Polish Version H

Avis appears in the following manuscripts

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{Inset Story
-|Has Description=<nowiki>'''The Bird'''</nowiki>
+|Has Summary=<nowiki>'''The Bird'''</nowiki>
 A bird - a parrot, or a magpie - reveals a woman's adultery to her husband. She tries to convince him that the bird is lying, mad, or confused, but his faith in the bird's reporting is unshaken. To discredit the bird, the wife tricks it into believing that there is a storm in the night (manufacturing the sound of the weather, dropping water on it from a hole in the ceiling, etc.) when in fact the weather was clear. The husband, hearing the bird's reports of rain and wind, discounts the earlier report of adultery. (In some texts, he eventually learns the truth.)
 }}