Gaza

Critical Literature

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The inset story appears in the following manuscripts

Manuscript	Language	Siglum (Version)	Language Group within Version
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354		Overlap of Versions A and L	French A/L Overlap
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3516	Old French (Picardie)	Overlap of Versions A and L	French A/L Overlap
Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573		M ('Male Marastre')	French
Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95	Old French (Nord)	Overlap of Versions A and L	French A/L Overlap
British Library Arundel 140	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
British Library Cotton Galba E IX	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
British Library Egerton 1995	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84)	Bairisch	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)	German Version H
Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245		Overlap of Versions A and L	French A/L Overlap
Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28		Overlap of Versions A and L	French A/L Overlap
Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620		C (Sept Sages de Rome)	French Version C
Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55	Elsässisch	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)	German Version H
Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11	Bairisch Oberdeutsch-Bairisch	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)	German Version H
National Library of Scotland MS. 16500, Asloan Manuscript	Middle Scots	A (Seven Sages)	Older Scots Version A
Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book)	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175	Middle English	A (Seven Sages)	Middle English Version A
University of Pennsylvania Library Ms. Codex 931		L (Sept Sages de Rome)	French Version L

The inset story appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Version	Original Language	Branch of Tradition	Adapted from
A (Seven Sages)	Old French	West
Aventewr von Diocleciano		West
D (Sept Sages de Rome)		West
Dolopathos		West
H (Historia Septem Sapientum)	Latin	West	A (Seven Sages)
I (Versio Italica)		West	A (Seven Sages)
L (Sept Sages de Rome)	Old French	West	A (Seven Sages)
M ('Male Marastre')	Old French	West	A (Seven Sages)
S (Scala Celi)	Latin	West	(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus

A man falls deep into debt, and decides to rob the emperor's treasury with his son. They are successful, but when they return to steal for a second time, the man is caught in a trap made of tar, and is unable to escape. Rather than leaving his father to be discovered and identified by the authority, the son cuts off his father's head, and escapes, leaving his father's body behind. In order to uncover the headless thief's accomplices, the emperor orders that the body be dragged through the city in humiliation, whereupon the man's daughters cannot contain their cries of distress. Quickly, to hide their guilt and explain his sisters' outcry, the son stabs himself in the thigh, and uses that as an excuse for their tears when they are questioned about their relationship to the unidentitfied thief.