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.
Tentamina appears in the following versions and secondary versions
| | Has Language Of Version | Has Branch Of Tradition | Is Adapted From |
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| 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 |
| Aventewr von Diocleciano | German (High and Low German) | Seven Sages of Rome | H (Historia Septem Sapientum) |
| C (Sept Sages de Rome) | Old French | Seven Sages of Rome | |
| Catalan Version L | Catalan | Seven Sages of Rome | Occitan Version L |
| Continental Group w | | Seven Sages of Rome | |
| Conyers Version | English | Seven Sages of Rome | English Version H, English Erasto, Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus |
| D (Sept Sages de Rome) | Old French | Seven Sages of Rome | |
| Dutch Version A | Dutch | Seven Sages of Rome | French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages |
| Dutch Version H | Dutch | Seven Sages of Rome | |
| Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A | Welsh | Seven Sages of Rome | Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein |
| English Erasto | English | Seven Sages of Rome | French Erasto, Italian Erasto |
| English Version H | | Seven Sages of Rome | |
| Erasto (Es) | Italian | Seven Sages of Rome | L'Amabile di Continentia (Em) |
| Erastus, or, The Roman Prince | English | Seven Sages of Rome | Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus |
| Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus | English | Seven Sages of Rome | French Erasto |
| French A/L Overlap | Old French | Seven Sages of Rome | L (Sept Sages de Rome), French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages |
| French Erasto | French | Seven Sages of Rome | Erasto (Es) |
| 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 |
Tentamina is narrated in the following occurrences
| Narrator |
Pages
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| Anxilles |
Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38, Storia di Stefano (R), Venice Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana It. IX 621 (=10697)
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| Athersatha |
Franciscus Modius: Ludus septem sapientum. De Astrei [...]. Frankfurt am Main: Paul Reffeler, [ca. 1565], Ludus septem sapientum. De Astrei regii
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| Empress |
Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5)
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| Faltach |
Sebastian Wild, Ein schoͤne Tragedj (Stage adaptation)
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| 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
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| Innachindas |
Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gaddiano 166, Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Palatino 680, Libro dei Sette Savj (A)
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| Josephas |
Aventewr von Diocleciano
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| Lentulus |
D (Sept Sages de Rome), K (Sept Sages de Rome)
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| Maladas |
Midland Version
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| Malcome |
Edinburgh National Library of Scotland MS. 16500 (Asloan Manuscript), Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
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| Malequidart |
Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek II 1171
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| Malquidras (Malquydrac) |
Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.)
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| Malquidras or Maxencius (?) |
Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84)
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| Malquidras |
A (Seven Sages), Anonymous Verse Version, Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 388, Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, Catalan Version L, Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55, Conyers Version, Dutch Version A, Dutch Version H, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1 (Auchinleck Manuscript), English Version H, 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, Italian Prose (V), Italian Version A, L (Sept Sages de Rome), Latin Version A: De Septem Sapientibus, London British Library Add. MS. 27429, 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, Padua Biblioteca Civica C.M. 304/6, 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, Storia favolosa di Stefano (S), Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare, Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket Cod. C 7, Versfassung / Verse Version
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| 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
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| Terno |
English Erasto, Erasto (Es), Erastus, or, The Roman Prince, Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus, French Erasto, L'Amabile di Continentia (Em), Mario Teluccini, Erasto in verse, Mario Teluccini, Erasto. Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia, 1566., Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 01391, Spanish Erasto
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| Third Master |
London British Library Additional MS 15685, Madrid Biblioteca Nacional de España 6052 (ant. Q.224), S (Scala Coeli), Spanish Version S: Diego de Cañizares, Scala Çeli, Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L)
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| Waldach |
Hungarian Version H: Pontianus tsaszar historiaia, Hystorij von Diocleciano, Wien Schottenstift Cod. 33 (407)
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Tentamina appears in the following manuscripts