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The Test

A young woman who is sexually unsatisfied by her old husband wishes to take a lover. Before she does so, however, her mother counsels her to test her husband’s patience and depth of feeling. The young wife first cuts down her husband’s favourite tree, then kills his beloved dog, and receives no punishment – this, she reports to her mother, encourages her to take lover. But the final test – disrupting a dinner and shaming her husband before guests – results in her husband losing patience, and ordering her to be blood-let to within an inch of her life. She no longer desires a lover.

Critical Literature
Nishimura (2001), Campbell (1907), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005)

Tentamina appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Tentamina is narrated in the following occurrences

Narrator	Pages
Ancilles	Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38
Empress	Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5)
Faltach	Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj
Fourth Master	Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 163, Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652, Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. I. 2. 2° 22, Bamberg Staatsbibliothek Msc. Class. 87, 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, Chantilly Musée Condé MS 683, 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, Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667, Eichstätt Universitätsbibliothek Cod. st 698, Gdańsk PAN Biblioteka Gdańska Ms. 1974, German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, Latin Version A, Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus, Latin Version H, Polish Version H, St. Florian Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XI 92 B, Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 2937
Josephas	Aventewr von Diocleciano
Lentulus	D (Sept Sages de Rome), K (Sept Sages de Rome)
Malcome	Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
Malquidras (Malquydrac)	Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.)
Malquidras or Maxencius (?)	Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84)
Malquidras	A (Seven Sages), Anonymous Verse Version, Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55, 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, French A/L Overlap, French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages, German Version H, H (Historia Septem Sapientum), Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben, L (Sept Sages de Rome), London British Library Arundel 140, London British Library Cotton Galba E IX, London British Library Egerton 1995, Middle English Version A, Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare, 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, Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket Cod. C 7, Versfassung / Verse Version
Meron	Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanover MS 13075B, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 171, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 2., Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A, Middle Welsh Version A, Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111, Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 20, Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
Third Master	London British Library Additional MS 15685, S (Scala Coeli)
Waldach	Hystorij von Diocleciano, Wien Schottenstift Cod. 33 (407)

Tentamina appears in the following manuscripts

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+|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Campbell (1907); Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984); Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014); Brunner (1933); Whitelock (2005)
 |Has Content Tag=Adultery; Violent punishment; Dog; Blood; Mother/daughter relationships
 |Has Summary='''The Test'''