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Lesson: loyaltyFather/son relationshipsAge versus youthSetting: natureOrchardFoolish old man

The Tree

A foolish man values a young sapling over a mature fruit tree, and has the large tree trimmed back further and further to make room for the young sprout. Eventually, he has the grown tree chopped down entirely to offer the smaller plant its light, but finds that unlike the mature tree, the sapling does not bear fruit.

[Added by Jane Bonsall]

Critical Literature
Nishimura (2001)

Arbor appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Version Original Language Branch of Tradition Adapted from A (Seven Sages) Old French Seven Sages of Rome V (Lost metrical Old French Sept Sages) Anonymous Verse Version German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome German Version H Versfassung / Verse Version Latin Version H Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome Redaction G Continental Group w Seven Sages of Rome Continental Group x Seven Sages of Rome Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců Czech Seven Sages of Rome D (Sept Sages de Rome) Old French Seven Sages of Rome Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome Seven Sages of Rome Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A Welsh Seven Sages of Rome Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Erasto I (Versio Italico) French A/L Overlap Old French Seven Sages of Rome L (Sept Sages de Rome) French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Old French Seven Sages of Rome A (Seven Sages) German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome Latin Version A German Version H German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome Latin Version H H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin West A (Seven Sages) Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome German Version H I (Versio Italico) Seven Sages of Rome A (Seven Sages) French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Il Libro dei Sette Savi de Roma (C) Italian Seven Sages of Rome Italian Prose (V) Italian Seven Sages of Rome French A/L Overlap Italian Version A Italian Seven Sages of Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages K (Sept Sages de Rome) Old French Seven Sages of Rome V (Lost metrical Old French Sept Sages) L (Sept Sages de Rome) Old French Seven Sages of Rome A (Seven Sages) L'Amabile di Continentia Latin Version A Latin Seven Sages of Rome A (Seven Sages) Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus Latin Seven Sages of Rome Latin Version A Latin Version H Latin Seven Sages of Rome A (Seven Sages) Libro dei Sette Savj (A) Italian Seven Sages of Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages M ('Male Marastre') Old French Seven Sages of Rome A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A Middle English Seven Sages of Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Middle Welsh Version A Middle Welsh Seven Sages of Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Old Swedish Redaction C Seven Sages of Rome German Version H Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Seven Sages of Rome Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis Older Scots Seven Sages of Rome H (Historia Septem Sapientum) French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Polish Version H Polish Seven Sages of Rome Prosafassung / Prose Version German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome German Version H S (Scala Coeli) Latin Seven Sages of Rome (Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages Scots Seven Sages of Rome H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma Spanish Seven Sages of Rome Latin Version H Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M) Italian Seven Sages of Rome Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L) Storia di Stefano (R) Italian Seven Sages of Rome Storia favolosa di Stefano (S) Italian Seven Sages of Rome Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Seven Sages of Rome German Version H Danish Version H Versfassung / Verse Version German (High and Low German) Seven Sages of Rome German Version H Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L) Seven Sages of Rome Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Middle Welsh Seven Sages of Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages

Arbor is narrated in the following occurrences

Narrator Pages Empress [Kronika sedmi mudrců]. [Litomyšl : Matouš Václav Březina, 1637-1651]., A (Seven Sages), Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 2.83 (RMWL MS 6), Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5), Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanover MS 13075B, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 117, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 171, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 2., Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652, Anonymous Verse Version, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 409 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum), Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 641, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 272, Berlin Staatsbibliothek mgf 59, Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 388, Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84), Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245, Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek II 1171, Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, Chantilly Musée Condé MS 683, Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55, Continental Group x, Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců, D (Sept Sages de Rome), Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. F 61a, Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667, Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome, Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1, Auchinleck Manuscript, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland MS. 16500, Asloan Manuscript, Erasto, Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11, Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gaddiano 166, Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Palatino 680, French A/L Overlap, French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages, German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, German Version H, H (Historia Septem Sapientum), Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben, I (Versio Italico), Il Libro dei Sette Savi de Roma (C), Italian Prose (V), Italian Version A, K (Sept Sages de Rome), Kratochwjlná Kronyka o sedmy Mudrcých. Jihlava: Fabián Augustin Beinhauer, [ca. 1789–1831], Kronika sedmi mudrců. s.l.: s.n., [before 1567], Kronyka Kratochwjlná O Znamenitých Sedmi Mudrcych. Kutná Hora: Františka Šleretová, [ca. 1772], Kronyka o sedmi Mudrcých / kteráž w sobě Rozpráwky welmi kratochwilné zawijrá / w nichžto se Lest a Chytrost ženská zgewně wyprawuge. Praha: Jiří Jakubův Dačický, 1590, L (Sept Sages de Rome), L'Amabile di Continentia, Latin Version A, Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus, Latin Version H, Libro dei Sette Savj (A), London British Library Add. MS. 27429, London British Library Additional MS 15685, London British Library Cotton Galba E IX, London British Library Egerton 1995, M ('Male Marastre'), Middle English Version A, Middle Welsh Version A, Old Swedish Redaction C, Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare, Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis, Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book), Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111, Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 20, Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175, Padua Biblioteca Civica C.M. 304/6, Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354, Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3516, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95, Polish Version H, Prosafassung / Prose Version, S (Scala Coeli), Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages, Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma, St. Florian Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XI 92 B, Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M), Storia di Stefano (R), Storia favolosa di Stefano (S), Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare, Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.), Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket Cod. C 7, Versfassung / Verse Version, Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L), Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein, Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 2937

Arbor appears in the following manuscripts

Manuscript Language Siglum (Version) Language Group within Version Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 2.83 (RMWL MS 6) Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5) Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanover MS 13075B Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 117 Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 171 Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 2. Latin Middle Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 101a Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 409 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum) Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 641 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 272 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Berlin Staatsbibliothek mgf 59 German (High and Low German) H (Historia Septem Sapientum) German Version H Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 388 Old French A (Seven Sages) French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84) German (High and Low German) H (Historia Septem Sapientum) German Version H Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245 Old French Overlap of Versions A and L French A/L Overlap Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek II 1171 Dutch A (Seven Sages) Dutch Version A Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17 English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38 English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28 Old French Overlap of Versions A and L French A/L Overlap Chantilly Musée Condé MS 683 Latin A (Seven Sages) Latin Version A Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55 German (High and Low German) H (Historia Septem Sapientum) German Version H Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667 Latin A (Seven Sages) Latin Version A Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1, Auchinleck Manuscript English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A Edinburgh National Library of Scotland MS. 16500, Asloan Manuscript Scots A (Seven Sages) Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11 German (High and Low German) H (Historia Septem Sapientum) German Version H Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gaddiano 166 Italian A (Seven Sages) Italian Version A Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Palatino 680 Italian A (Seven Sages) Italian Version A Graz Universitätsbibliothek Ms. 876 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Göttweig Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 158 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Göttweig Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 284 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Göttweig Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 285 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Göttweig Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 325 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Innsbruck Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol Cod. 128 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Innsbruck Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol Cod. 509 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Innsbruck Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol Cod. 591 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Innsbruck Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol Cod. 612 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Innsbruck Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol Cod. 667 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Klagenfurt Universitätsbibliothek Pap.-Hs. 60 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Klosterneuburg Stiftsbibliothek CCl 168 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Klosterneuburg Stiftsbibliothek CCl 444 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Klosterneuburg Stiftsbibliothek CCl 782 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Kraków Biblioteka Jagiellońska cod. 435 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H London British Library Add. MS. 27429 Italian A (Seven Sages) Italian Version A London British Library Additional MS 15685 Latin I (Versio Italico) London British Library Cotton Galba E IX English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A London British Library Egerton 1995 English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 688 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 12730 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14827 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 16521 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 23755 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 23851 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 24571 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book) English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111 Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 20 Welsh A (Seven Sages) Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175 English A (Seven Sages) Middle English Version A Padua Biblioteca Civica C.M. 304/6 Italian A (Seven Sages) Italian Version A Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354 Old French Overlap of Versions A and L French A/L Overlap Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3516 Old French Overlap of Versions A and L French A/L Overlap Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573 Old French M ('Male Marastre') French Version M Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95 Old French Overlap of Versions A and L French A/L Overlap Prague Knihovna metropolitní kapituli Ms. O 48 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Prague Národní muzeum Ms. XIV E 14 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Salzburg, Erzabtei St. Peter, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. a VI 51 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Seitenstetten Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 266 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H St. Florian Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XI 92 B German (High and Low German) A (Seven Sages) German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket Cod. C 7 Latin A (Seven Sages) Latin Version A Vorau Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 219 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 13202 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 2937 German (High and Low German) A (Seven Sages) German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 3490 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 3511 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 4603 Latin H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Latin Version H