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.)
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| Avis is narrated in the following occurrences
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Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek II 1171, Dutch Version A
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A (Seven Sages), Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 388, Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gaddiano 166, Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Palatino 680, French A/L Overlap, French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages, Italian Prose (V), Italian Version A, Libro dei Sette Savj (A), London British Library Add. MS. 27429, Midland Version, Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare, Padua Biblioteca Civica C.M. 304/6, Storia favolosa di Stefano (S), Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket Cod. C 7
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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), Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome, Dutch Version H, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1 (Auchinleck Manuscript), English Version H, Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11, German Version H, H (Historia Septem Sapientum), Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben, Hungarian Version H: Pontianus tsaszar historiaia, 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
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Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573
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Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.)
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Chantilly Musée Condé MS 683, Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667, German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, Latin Version A, Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus, Madrid Biblioteca Nacional de España 6052 (ant. Q.224), S (Scala Coeli), Spanish Version S: Diego de Cañizares, Scala Çeli, St. Florian Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XI 92 B, Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 2937
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Arabic Version A1001 (Thousand and One Nights), Arabic Version A101 (Hundred and One Nights), Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 618, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Sprenger 1368, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3660, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3662, Hebrew Group A, Hebrew Group B, Hebrew Prints, Latin Mishle Sendebar, Leiden Universiteit Or. 14.303, Libro de los Engaños, Madrid Real Academia Española 'El Conde Lucanor', Ms. 15, Mishle Sendebar, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France Arabe 3639, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3660, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3661, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3662, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3670, St Petersburg National Library of Russia EVR I 272, Toronto Aga Khan Museum 00513, Tunis Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie, MWT 04576
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London British Library Additional MS 15685, Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L)
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Storia di Stefano (R), Venice Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana It. IX 621 (=10697)
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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
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