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nominando coco legato dimitto popiam et pistillum, quae mecum 
attuleram de Tebeste usque ad Tergeste: liget sibi collo de reste. 
et volo mibi fieri monumentum ex litteris aureis scrip-turn, 7 M. 
Grunnius Corocotta porcellus yixit annis DCCCC. XC. VIII 
et semis, quod si semis vixisset, mdlle annos implessit. 1 op* 
timi amatores mei vel consules vitae, rogo vos ut cum corpora 
meo benefactiatis, bene candiates de bonis condimentis nuclei 
piperis et metis, ut nomen meum in sepiternum nominetur. 
mei dornini vel consobrini mei, qui in medio testamento inter- 
fuistis, iubete signari.” 
Another testament of similar character is the Testamentum 
Asini a Latin poem, ascribed by Xovati to the thirteenth cen¬ 
tury. 1 It seems to have been very popular and to have paissed 
through many editions and transformations. There are two 
versions belonging to the fourteenth century. Other redac¬ 
tions followed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 
this piece an Ass, seeing himself about to die makes his testa¬ 
ment as follows: 
Crucem do papalibus, 
Aures cardinalibus, 
Caudamque minoribus. 
Caput meum iudicantibus, 
vocem meam cantantibus, 
linguamque predicantibus. 
Dorsum meum portantibus, 
carnes meas ieiunantibus, 
pedes autem ambulantibus. 
Pellum meam sutoribus, 
crines sellatoribus, 
ossa quoque canibus. 
Viscera vulturibus, 
priamumque viduis, 
una cum testiculis.” 
Rutebeuf in Le Testament de VAne, written about 1280, tells 
in verse a story of an ass which is represented as having made 
i Francesco Novati, Carmina Medii Aevi, Firenze, 1883, p. 71; Wat- 
tenbach, Die Anfdnge lateinischer profaner Rythmen des Mittelalters 
(Zt. f. deutscheS Alterthum, Band III, Heft, III, 1872, p. 469; I. Fei- 
falik, Amohmische Lieder, (Sitzungsberichte der phil. hist. Classe der 
Wiener Accademie, XXXVI, 1861, p. 172; Romania , vol. XII, no. 45, 
p. 26. 
