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A note on the story order (below): in all versions of Syntipas, the second story told by the seventh master is Ingenia, or, The Trick: The Wiles of Women Collection. In this story, a man believes he has recorded every instance of women's trickery and deceit, throughout history. He is then challenged by a woman, which demonstrates that women's creative capacity for deception cannot be captured in a single text. As part of that story, the author of the Reworking / Metaphrasis inserted a new, additional story. The redactor added this new tale into the frame of Ingenia, and it is narrated by the woman herself: she tells this tale, titled Ingenia 3, or The Fish in the Field, to the man, who does not have it recorded in his 'Wiles of Women' collection. It serves both as a further example of the deception of which women are capable, and also the limits of men's ability to comprehend them. Ingenia 3 is entered below as its' own story, as the 20th story told; however, it should be understood as part of the previous narrative.

General Information

Parent Versions

Greek Syntipas

Branch of the tradition

Book of Sindbad

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version

• Syntipas
  • Bulgarian Syntipas
  • Greek Syntipas
    • Andreopoulos Syntipas
    • Post-Byzantine Version
    • Reworking

Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Leo	1	First Master
Avis – The Bird	2	First Master
Lavator	3	Empress
Panes	4	Second Master
Gladius – The Drawn Sword	5	Second Master
Striga – The Prince and the Ogress	6	Empress
Mel	7	Third Master
Zuchara	8	Third Master
Fons	9	Empress
Balneator	10	Fourth Master
Canicula – The Weeping Dog	11	Fourth Master
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	12	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	13	Fifth Master
Pallium	14	Fifth Master
Simia	15	Empress
Turtures	16	Sixth Master
Elephantinus	17	Sixth Master
Nomina	18	Seventh Master
Ingenia 1 – The Trick: The Wiles of Women Collection	19	Seventh Master
Ingenia 3 – The Trick: The Fish in the Field	20	Seventh Master
Lac venenatum	21	Prince

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Connected Manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Location	Has Date Range Of Production
Athos Koutloumousiou Monastery 220	Greek	Mount Athos, Μονή Κουτλουμουσίου	1601 - 1700
Athos Monastery of Great Lavra I 107	Greek	Mount Athos, Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας	1601 - 1700
Jerusalem Patriarchal Library Ms. 208	Greek	Jerusalem, Πατριαρχική Βιβλιοθήκη Παναγίου Τάφου	1599
Mount Sinai St Catherine's Monastery gr. 1208	Greek	Mount Sinai, St Catherine's Monastery	1424
Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 2912	Greek	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France	1561 - 1570
Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, suppl. gr. 105	Greek	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France	1501 - 1600
Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, suppl. gr. 141	Greek	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library gr. 3	Greek	Urbana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library	1675 - 1800
Venice Bibliotheca Nazionale Marciana gr. Z 605	Greek	Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana