Wednesday, September 26, 2007

An Arabian Nights Bibliography


Sleeping Woman

The Thousand and One Nights:
Texts & Translations



  • Texts
  • Translations (chronological)

    1. Antoine Galland [1704-1717] (French)
    2. Dom Dennis Chavis & M. Cazotte [1788-89] (French)
    3. Jonathan Scott [1811] (English)
    4. Maximilian Habicht [1824-25] (German)
    5. Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall et al. [1826] (French / German / English)
    6. Gustav Weil [1837-41] (German)
    7. Henry W. Torrens [1838] (English)
    8. Edward William Lane [1839-40] (English)
    9. John Payne [1882-89] (English)
    10. Richard F. Burton [1885-88] (English)
    11. Max Henning [1895-97] (German)
    12. Andrew Lang [1898] (English)
    13. Dr. J. C. Mardrus [1899-1904] (French)
    14. Cary von Karwath [1906-14] (German)
    15. Laurence Housman [1907-14] (English)
    16. Enno Littmann [1921-28] (German)
    17. Felix Tauer [1928-34] (Czech & German)
    18. M. A. Salye [1929-36] (Russian)
    19. Francesco Gabrieli [1948] (Italian)
    20. A. J. Arberry [1953] (English)
    21. Rafael Cansinos-Asséns [1954-55] (Spanish)
    22. N. J. Dawood [1954-57] (English)
    23. Juan Vernet [1964-67] (Spanish)
    24. René R. Khawam [1965-67 & 1985-88] (French)
    25. Husain Haddawy [1990-95] (English)
    26. Jamel Eddine Bencheikh & André Miquel [1991-2001 & 2005-7] (French)
    27. Malcolm & Ursula Lyons [2008] (English)
    28. Salvador Peña Martín [2016] (Spanish)
    29. Miscellaneous
  • Cognate Collections
  • Imitations & Tributes
  • Anthologies & Secondary Literature




Abbasid Manuscript

Texts:


  1. Alph Laylé Wa Laylé. 4 vols. Beirut: Al-Maktaba Al-Thakafiyat, A.H. 1401 [= 1981].

  2. Arabic Key Readers. A Thousand and One Nights: Graduated Readings for English Speaking Students – Book 1: Story of the Book, Nights 1 through 9. Retold by Michel Nicola. Troy, Michigan: International Book Centre, 1986.



  3. Macnaghten, W. H., ed. The Alif Laila, or Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Commonly Known as ‘The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments;’ Now, for the First Time, Published Complete in the Original Arabic, from an Egyptian Manuscript Brought to India by the Late Major Turner Macan, Editor of the Shah-Nameh. 4 vols. Calcutta: W. Thacker, 1839-42.

  4. Zotenberg, Hermann. Histoire d’Alâ al-Din ou La Lampe Merveilleuse: Texte Arabe publié avec une notice sur quelques manuscrits des Mille et une nuits. Paris; Imprimerie Nationale, 1888.





Galland's Translation (1704-17)

Translations:


    Antoine Galland (1646-1715) – [12 vols: 1704-1717] (French)



    Antoine Galland: Les Mille et Une Nuits (1960)


  1. Galland, Antoine, trans. Les Mille et Une Nuits: Contes arabes traduits par Galland. 12 vols. 1704-17. Ed. Gaston Picard. 2 vols. 1960. Paris: Garnier, 1975.

  2. Galland, Antoine, trans. Les Mille et Une Nuits: Contes arabes. 12 vols. 1704-17. Ed. Jean Gaulmier. 3 vols. 1965. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1990, 1985, 1991.

  3. Galland, Antoine, trans. Les Mille et Une Nuits: Le Pêcheur et le Génie; Histoire de Ganem. Ed. Marie-Louise Astre. Étonnants Classiques. Paris: GF-Flammarion, 1995.



  4. Galland's Translation (1704-17)


  5. Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody Vow he had made to marry a Lady every day, and have her cut off next Morning, to avenge himself for the Disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. Containing a better Account of the Customs, Manners, and Religion of the Eastern Nations, viz. Tartars, Persians, and Indians, than is to be met with in any Author hitherto published. Translated into French from the Arabian Mss. by M. Galland of the Royal Academy, and now done into English from the last Paris Edition. London: Andrew Bell, 1706-17. 16th ed. 4 vols. London & Edinburgh: C. Elliot, 1781.

  6. The Arabian Nights. Illustrated with Engravings from Designs by R. Westall, R. A. 4 vols. London: Printed for C and J. Rivington et al., 1825.

  7. Forster, Edward, trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. 1812. Rev. G. Moir Bussey. London: J. J. Chidley, 1846.

  8. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. [Trans. Antoine Galland]. Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred Books 67. London: Routledge, 1893.



  9. Antoine Galland: Las mil y una noches (1934)

  10. Galland, A. Las Mil y Una Noches: Cuentos orientales. Trans. Pedro Pedraza y Páez. Biblioteca Hispania. Barcelona: Editorial Ramón Sopena, 1934.



  11. Mack, Robert L., ed. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.




  12. Chavis & Cazotte: Continuation des Mille et Une Nuits (vol. 2: 1788)


    Denis Chavis & Jacques Cazotte (fl. 1780s / 1719-1792) – [4 vols: 1788-89] (French)

  13. Chavis, Dom, and M. Cazotte, trans. La Suite des Mille et une Nuits, Contes Arabes. Cabinet des Fées 38-41. 4 vols. Geneva: Barde & Manget, 1788-89.




  14. Jonathan Scott (1754–1829) – [6 vols: 1811] (English)

  15. Scott, Jonathan, trans. Tales, Anecdotes and Letters, translated from the Arabic and Persian. London: Cadell and Davies, 1800.

  16. Scott, Jonathan, trans. The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Carefully Revised and Occasionally Corrected from the Arabic. 6 vols. London, 1811. [Vol. 6: Tales Selected from the Manuscript copy of the 1001 Nights brought to Europe by Edward Wortley Montague, Esq].




  17. Maximilian Habicht et al. (1775-1839) – [15 vols: 1824-25] (German)

  18. Habicht, Max., Fr. H. von der Hagen, and Carl Schall, trans. Tausend und Eine Nacht, Arabische Erzählungen. 1824-25. Ed. Karl Martin Schiller. 12 vols. Leipzig: F. W. Hendel, 1926.






  19. J. von Hammer: New Arabian Nights' Entertainments, trans. George Lamb (1826)


    Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall / Guillaume-Stanislas Trébutien / George Lamb (1774-1856 / 1800-1870 / 1784-1834) – [3 vols: 1826] (German / French / English)

  20. Lamb, George, trans. New Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Selected from the Original Oriental Ms. by J. Von Hammer, and Now First Translated into English. 1826. 3 vols in 1. Milton Keynes, UK: Palala Press, 2015.

  21. Trébutien, G. S., trans. Contes inédits des Mille et une Nuits, extraits de l’original arabe par M. J. de Hammer. 3 vols. Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1828.




  22. Gustav Weil (1808-1889) – [4 vols: 1837-41] (German)

  23. Weil, Gustav, trans. Tausendundeine Nacht. 1837-41. Ed. Inge Dreecken. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: R. Löwit, n.d. [c. 1960s]

  24. Weil, Gustav, trans. Liebesgeschichten aus Tausendundeiner Nacht, übertragen aus dem arabischen Urtext von Gustav Weil: Mit Holzstichen der Ausgabe von 1865. 1837-41. München: Delphin Verlag, 1987.




  25. Henry Whitelock Torrens (1806-1852) – [1 vol: 1838] (English)

  26. Torrens, Henry, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: From the Arabic of the Ægyptian M.S. as edited by Wm Hay Macnaghten, Esqr., Done into English by Henry W. Torrens. Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. / London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1838. India: Pranava Books, n.d.


  27. Hume, James, ed. A Selection from the Writings, Prose and Poetical, of the late Henry W. Torrens, Esq., B.A., Bengal Civi Service, and of the Inner Temple; with a Biographical Memoir. 2 vols. Calcutta & London: R. C. Lepage & Co., 1854.




  28. Lane's Translation (1839-41)


    Edward William Lane (1801-1876) – [3 vols: 1839-40] (English)

  29. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. 3 vols. London: Charles Knight, 1839-41.



  30. Lane's Translation (1839-41)


  31. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights; Commonly Called The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Ed. Edward Stanley Poole. 3 vols. 1859. London: Chatto, 1912.

  32. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights; Commonly Called The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Ed. Edward Stanley Poole. Vol 2 of 3. 1859. London & Cairo: East-West Publications & Livres de France, 1980.

  33. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Ed. Stanley Lane-Poole. 4 vols. 1906. Bohn’s Popular Library. London: G. Bell, 1925.



  34. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments or The Thousand and One Nights: The Complete, Original Translation of Edward William Lane, with the Translator’s Complete, Original Notes and Commentaries on the Text. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1927.

  35. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Wood Engravings from Original Designs by William Harvey. London: Chatto and Windus, 1930.

  36. Lane, Edward William, trans. Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments). Ed. Stanley Lane-Poole. The Harvard Classics 16. New York: P. F. Collier, 1909.

  37. Lane, Edward William, trans. Tales from the Arabian Nights. Ed. E. O. Lorimer. 1946. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. 1961. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.




  38. John Payne (1842-1916) – [13 vols: 1882-89] (English)

  39. Payne, John, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night; Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic. 9 vols. London: Villon Society, 1882-84.

  40. Payne, John, trans. Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-’18) Editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work; Now First Done into English. 3 vols. London: Villon Society, 1884.

  41. Payne, John, trans. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp; Zein ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn: Two Stories Done into English from the Recently Discovered Arabic Text. London: Villon Society, 1889.



  42. John Payne: Oriental Tales, ed. Leonard C. Smithers (1901)

  43. Payne, John, trans. Oriental Tales: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night [and other tales]. 1882-97. 15 vols. Herat edition (limited to 500 copies): No. 141. London: Printed for Subscribers Only, 1901.
    1. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night; Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic. 9 vols (London: Villon Society, 1882-84)
    2. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 2)
    3. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 3)
    4. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 4)
    5. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 5)
    6. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 6)
    7. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 7)
    8. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 8)
    9. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (vol. 9)
    10. Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-’18) Editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work; Now First Done into English. 3 vols. (London: Villon Society, 1884)
    11. Tales from the Arabic (vol. 2)
    12. Tales from the Arabic (vol. 3)
    13. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp; Zein ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn: Two Stories Done into English from the Recently Discovered Arabic Text (London: Villon Society, 1889)
    14. The Persian letters, with introduction and notes, done into English from the original by Montesquieu (London, 1897)
    15. A Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour and Tartarian Tales, by Thomas Simon Gueulette (London, 1897)



  44. Payne, John, trans. The Portable Arabian Nights. 1882-1884. Ed. Joseph Campbell. 1952. New York: The Viking Press, 1963.



  45. Payne, John, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. 1882-1884. Publisher's Note by Steven Moore. 3 vols. Ann Arbor, MI: Borders Classics, 2007.




  46. Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) – [16 vols: 1885-88] (English)

  47. Burton, Richard F, trans. A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: With Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. 10 vols. Benares [= Stoke-Newington]: Kamashastra Society, 1885. N.p. [= Boston]: The Burton Club, n.d.

  48. Burton, Richard F., trans. Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory. 6 vols. Benares [= Stoke-Newington]: Kamashastra Society, 1886-88. 7 vols.[1] N.p. [= Boston]: The Burton Club, n.d.

  49. Burton, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. 1885. 10 vols. U.S.A.: The Burton Club, n.d. [c.1940s].

  50. Burton, Richard F., trans. Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory. 1886-88. 6 vols. U.S.A..: The Burton Club, n.d. [c. 1940s].



  51. Burton's Translation (1885-88)


  52. Burton, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. 1885. Decorated with 1001 Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. 3 vols. New York: The Heritage Press, 1934.


  53. Valenti Angelo: The 1001 Nights (1934)


  54. Burton, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. 1885. Decorated with 1001 Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. 3 vols. 1934. The Heritage Press. New York: The George Macy Companies, Inc., 1962.



  55. Burton, Richard F., trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, or The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Selection of the Most Famous and Representative of these Tales. Ed. Bennett A Cerf. 1932. Introductory Essay by Ben Ray Redman. New York: Modern Library, 1959.

  56. Burton, Richard F., trans. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Selection. Ed. P. H. Newby. 1950. London: Arthur Barker, 1953.

  57. Burton, Sir Richard, trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Notes by Henry Torrens, Edward Lane, John Payne. Illustrations by Arthur Szyk. 1955. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1983.

  58. Burton, Richard F., trans. More Stories from the Arabian Nights. Ed. Julian Franklyn. London: Arthur Barker, 1957.

  59. Burton, Richard F. Love, War and Fancy: The Customs and Manners of the East from Writings on The Arabian Nights. Ed. Kenneth Walker. 1884. London: Kimber Paperback Library, 1964.



  60. Marc Chagall: Arabian Nights


  61. Chagall, Marc, illus. Arabian Nights: Four Tales from a Thousand and One Nights. Introduction by Norbert Nobis. Trans. Richard F. Burton. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1988.

  62. Zipes, Jack, ed. Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights, Adapted from Richard F. Burton’s Unexpurgated Translation. Signet Classic. New York: Penguin, 1991.

  63. Zipes, Jack, ed. Arabian Nights, Volume II: More Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights, Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton’s Unexpurgated Translation. Signet Classic. New York: New American Library, 1999.




  64. Max Henning: Tausend und eine Nacht (1957)


    Max Henning (1861-1927) – [24 vols: 1895-97] (German)

  65. Henning, Max, trans. Tausend und eine Nacht. Aus dem Arabischen übertragen. 24 vols. Leipzig: Reclam, 1895-99.

  66. Henning, Max, trans. Tausend und eine Nacht. 1895-99. Ed. Hans W. Fischer. Berlin & Darmstadt: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1957.




  67. Andrew Lang: Tales from The Arabian Nights (1898)


    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) – [1 vol: 1898] (English)

  68. Lang, Andrew, ed. Tales from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by H. J. Ford. 1898. London: Wordsworth Classics, 1993.

  69. Lang, Andrew, trans. Tales from The Arabian Nights. 1898. Illustrated by Edmond Dulac. Afterword by Pete Hamill. The World’s Best Reading. Sydney & Auckland: Reader’s Digest, 1991.




  70. Dr. J. C. Mardrus: Le Livre des Mille et une Nuits (1989)


    Dr. J. C. Mardrus (1868–1949) – [16 vols: 1899-1904] (French)

  71. Mardrus, Dr. J. C., trans. Le Livre des Mille et une Nuits. 16 vols. Paris: Édition de la Revue blanche, 1899-1904. Ed. Marc Fumaroli. 2 vols. Paris: Laffont, 1989.



  72. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: El libro de las mil noches y una noche (1967)


  73. Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente. El libro de las mil noches y una noche, traducción desde la versión francesa de J. C. Mardrus. 1889. 6 vols. Valencia: Editorial Prometeo, 1916.



  74. Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Rendered from the Literal and Complete Version of Dr. J. C. Mardrus; and Collated with Other Sources. 1923. 8 vols. London: The Casanova Society, 1929.

  75. Mathers, E. Powys. Sung to Shahryar: Poems from the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. London: The Casanova Society, 1925.

  76. Mathers, E. Powys, trans. Arabian Love Tales: Being Romances Drawn from the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. Illustrated by Lettice Sandford. London: The Folio Society, 1949.

  77. Mathers, E. Powys, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. 4 vols. 1949. 2nd ed. 1964. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.

  78. Mathers, E. Powys, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. 4 vols. 1949. 2nd ed. 1964. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.



  79. Mardrus & Mathers: The Arabian Nights (2003)


  80. The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. Introduction by Marina Warner. 6 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2003.
    • Vol. 1: with 8 colour illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 375 pp.
    • Vol. 2: with 8 colour illustrations by Grahame Baker, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 3: with 8 colour illustrations by Debra McFarlane, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 4: with 8 colour illustrations by Roman Pisarev, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 5: with 8 colour illustrations by Jane Ray, 431 pp.
    • Vol. 6: with 8 colour illustrations by Neil Packer, 448 pp.



  81. Eugenio Sanz del Valle, Alfredo Domínguez, & Luis Aguirre Prado: Las mil y una noches (1967)


  82. Sanz del Valle, Eugenio, Alfredo Domínguez, & Luis Aguirre Prado, trans. Las Mil y Una Noches: Desde la versión de J. C. Mardrus. Ilustraciones por J. Narro. 2 vols. Madrid: Nauta, 1967.




  83. Cary von Karwath (?) – [19 vols: 1906-14] (German)

  84. Karwath, Cary Von, trans. 1001 Nacht: Vollständige Ausgabe in 18 Taschenbüchern mit einem Zusatzband: Nach dem arabischen Urtext angeordnet und übertragen von Cary von Karwath. 1906-14. 19 vols. München: Goldmann Verlag, 1987.




  85. Laurence Housman: Stories from the Arabian Nights (1907)


    Laurence Housman (1865-1959) – [4 vols: 1907-14] (English)

  86. Housman, Laurence. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. 1907. New York: Doran, n.d.

  87. Housman, Laurence. Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. 1907. Weathervane Books. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978.




  88. Enno Littmann (1875-1958) – [6 vols: 1921-28] (German)

  89. Littmann, Enno, trans. Die Erzählungen aus den Tausendundein Nächten: Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe in zwölf Teilbänden zum ersten mal nach dem arabischen Urtext der Calcuttaer Ausgabe aus dem Jahre 1839 übertragen von Enno Littmann. 1921-28. 2nd ed. 1953. 6 vols in 12. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1976.



  90. Littmann, Enno, trans. Geschichten der Liebe aus den 1001 Nächten: Aus dem arabischen Urtext übertragen von Enno Littmann. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1973.




  91. Felix Tauer: Tisíc a Jedna Noc (2001)


    Felix Tauer (1893-1981) – [5 vols: 1928-34] (Czech & German)

  92. Tauer, Felix, trans. Tisíc a Jedna Noc. 1928-34. 5 vols. 1973. Praha: Ikar, 2001.

  93. Tauer, Felix, trans. Erotische Geschichten aus den tausendundein Nächten: Aus dem arabischen Urtext der Wortley Montague-Handschrift übertragen und herausgegeben von Felix Tauer. 1966. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1983.

  94. Tauer, Felix, trans. Neue Erzählungen aus den Tausendundein Nächten: Die in anderen Versionen von »1001 Nacht« nicht enthaltenen Geschichten der Wortley-Montague-Handschrift der Oxforder Bodleian Library; Aus dem arabischen Urtext vollständig übertragen und erläutert von Felix Tauer. 2 vols. 1982. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1989.




  95. Mikhail Alexandrovich Salye (1899-1961) – [8 vols: 1929-36] (Russian)

  96. Salye, M. A., trans. Тысяча и Одна Ночь. Vol 1: Nights 1-107. 1929-36. 6 vols. Санкт-Петербург: «Кристалл», 2000.

  97. Salye, M. A., trans. Тысяча и Одна Ночь. Vol 2: Nights 108-270. 1929-36. 6 vols. Санкт-Петербург: «Кристалл», 2000.

  98. Salye, M. A., trans. Тысяча и Одна Ночь. Vol 3: Nights 271-468. 1929-36. 6 vols. Санкт-Петербург: «Кристалл», 2000.

  99. Salye, M. A., trans. Тысяча и Одна Ночь. Vol 5: Nights 681-845. 1929-36. 6 vols. Санкт-Петербург: «Кристалл», 2000.




  100. Francesco Gabrieli (1904-1996) – [4 vols: 1948] (Italian)

  101. Gabrieli, Francesco, ed. Le mille e una notte: Prima versione integrale dall’arabo. Trans. Francesco Gabrieli, Antonio Cesaro, Constantino Pansera, Umberto Rizzitano and Virginia Vacca. 1948. Gli struzzi 35. 4 vols. Torino: Einaudi, 1972.



  102. Francesco Gabrieli: Le mille e una notte (vol. 2: 1980)


  103. Faccioli, Emilio, ed. Le mille e una notte: Scelta di racconti. Dall’edizione integrale diretta da Francesco Gabrieli. Letture per la Scuola Media 56. Torino: Einaudi, 1980.




  104. A. J. Arberry: Scheherazade (1953)


    Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969) – [1 vol: 1953] (English)

  105. Arberry, A. J., trans. Scheherazade: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. London: Allen and Unwin, 1953.

  106. Arberry, A. J., trans. Scheherazade: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Illustrations by Asgeir Scott. 1953. A Mentor Book. New York: New American Library, 1955.




  107. Rafael Cansinos Asséns: Libro de las mil y una noches (3 vols: 1990)


    Rafael Cansinos-Asséns (1882-1964) – [3 vols: 1954-55] (Spanish)

  108. Cansinos Asséns, Rafael, trans. Libro de las mil y una noches, por primera vez puestas en castellano del árabe original. Prologadas, anotadas y cotejadas con las principales versiones en otras lenguas y en la vernácula por Rafael Cansinos Asséns. 3 vols. 1954-55. Mexico: Aguilar, 1990.



  109. Rafael Cansinos Asséns: Libro de las mil y una noches (1961)





    Nessim Joseph Dawood (1927-2014) – [2 vols: 1954-57] (English)

  110. Dawood, N. J., trans. The Thousand and One Nights: The Hunchback, Sindbad, and Other Tales. Penguin 1001. 1954. Penguin Classics L64. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955.

  111. Dawood, N. J., trans. Aladdin and Other Tales from The Thousand and One Nights. Penguin Classics L71. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.

  112. Dawood, N. J., trans. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. 1954-57. 2nd ed. 1973. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.




  113. Juan Vernet: Las mil y una noches (3 vols: 1968)


    Juan Vernet i Ginés (1923-2011) – [3 vols: 1964-67] (Spanish)

  114. Vernet, Juan, trans. Las Mil y Una Noches. 3 vols. Clásicos Planeta. Barcelona, Editorial Planeta, 1964-67.




  115. René Khawam: Les Mille et une nuits (2001)


    René R. Khawam (1917-2004) – [7 vols: 1965-67 & 1985-88] (French)

  116. Khawam, René R., trans. Les Mille et une nuits. Traduction Nouvelle et Complète faite sur les Manuscrits par René R. Khawam. 4 Vols. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1965-67.

  117. Khawam, René R., trans. Les Mille et une nuits. 4 vols. 1965-67. 2nd ed. 1986. Paris: Presses Pocket, 1989.

  118. Khawam, René R., trans. Les Aventures de Sindbad le Marin. Paris: Phébus, 1985.

  119. Khawam, René R., trans. Les Aventures de Sindbad le Terrien. Paris: Phébus, 1986.

  120. Khawam, René R., trans. Le Roman d’Aladin. Paris: Phébus, 1988.



  121. Cantera, Gregorio, trans. Las mil y una noches: Versión de René R. Khawam. Barcelona, Edhasa, 2007.






  122. Husain Haddawy: The Arabian Nights & The Arabian Nights II (1990 & 1995)


    Husain Haddawy (?) – [2 vols: 1990-95] (English)

  123. Haddawy, Husain, trans. The Arabian Nights: Based on the Text of the Fourteenth-Century Syrian Manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1990.


  124. Haddawy, Husain, trans. The Arabian Nights: Based on the Text of the Fourteenth-Century Syrian Manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi. 1990. Everyman’s Library 87. London: David Campbell, 1992.



  125. Haddawy, Husain, trans. The Arabian Nights II: Sindbad and Other Popular Stories. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995.

  126. Heller-Roazen, Daniel, ed. The Arabian Nights. The Husain Haddaway Translation Based on the Text Edited by Muhsin Mahdi: Contexts, Criticism. 1990 & 1995. A Norton Critical Edition. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.




  127. Jamel Eddine Bencheikh & André Miquel (1930-2005 / 1929- ) – [10 vols: 1977-2001 & 2005-7] (French)

  128. Miquel, André. Un Conte des Mille et Une Nuits: Ajîb et Gharîb (Traduction et perspectives d’analyse). Paris: Flammarion, 1977.

  129. Miquel, André. Sept contes des Mille et Une Nuits, ou Il n’y a pas de contes innocents, suivi d’entretiens autour de Jamaleddine Bencheikh et Claude Brémond. Paris: Sindbad, 1981.

  130. Bremond, Claude, ed. Les Dames de Bagdad: Conte des Mille et une nuits. Trans. André Miquel / Claude Bremond, A Chraïbi, A. Larue, and M. Sironval. La Nébuleuse du conte: Essai sur les premiers contes de Galland. Paris: Desjonquères, 1991.

  131. Bencheikh, Jamel Eddine, and André Miquel, ed. Les Mille et Une Nuits: Contes choisis. Trans. Jamel Eddine Bencheikh, André Miquel & Touhami Bencheikh. 2 vols. Folio 2256-57. Paris: Gallimard, 1991.

  132. Bencheikh, Jamel Eddine, and André Miquel, ed & trans. Les Mille et Une Nuits: Contes choisis III. Folio 2775. Paris: Gallimard, 1996.

  133. Bencheikh, Jamel Eddine, and André Miquel, ed & trans. Sindbâd de la mer et autres contes des Mille et Une Nuits: Contes choisis IV. Folio 3581. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.



  134. Jamel Eddine Bencheikh & André Miquel: Les Mille et Une Nuits (2005-7)


  135. Bencheikh, Jamel Eddine, and André Miquel, trans. Les Mille et Une Nuits. 3 vols. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Paris: Gallimard, 2005-7.

  136. Album Mille et Une Nuits: Iconographie. Choisie et commentée par Margaret Sironval. Albums de la Pléiade, 44. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Paris: Gallimard, 2005.




  137. Malcolm & Ursula Lyons: The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights (2008)


    Prof. Malcolm C. & Dr. Ursula Lyons (1929-2019 / ?-2016) – [3 vols: 2008] (English)

  138. Lyons, Malcolm & Ursula, trans. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. Introduction by Robert Irwin. 3 vols. Penguin Classics Hardback. London: Penguin, 2008.


  139. Malcolm & Ursula Lyons: Three Tales from The Arabian Nights. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2008.


  140. Lyons, Malcolm & Ursula, trans. Three Tales from The Arabian Nights. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2008.



  141. The Lyons' Translation (2008)


  142. Lyons, Malcolm & Ursula, trans. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. Volume 1: Nights 1 to 294. Introduction by Robert Irwin. 3 vols. 2008. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2010.

  143. Lyons, Malcolm & Ursula, trans. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. Volume 2: Nights 295 to 719. Introduced & Annotated by Robert Irwin. 3 vols. 2008. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2010.

  144. Lyons, Malcolm & Ursula, trans. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. Volume 3: Nights 719 to 1001. Introduction by Robert Irwin. 3 vols. 2008. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2010.




  145. Salvador Peña Martín: Mil y una noches (2016)


    Salvador Peña Martín (1958- ) – [4 vols: 2016] (Spanish)

  146. Peña Martín, Salvador, trans. Mil y una noches. 4 vols. 2016. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2018.




  147. Salvador Peña Martín: Mil y una noches (2016)


    Miscellaneous

  148. Blyton, Enid. Tales from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by Anne & Janet Johnstone. 1951. London: Latimer House, 1956.

  149. Bull, René, illus. The Arabian Nights. Children’s Classics. Bath: Robert Frederick, 1994.

  150. Chraibi, Aboubakr. Contes nouveaux des 1001 nuits: Étude du manuscript Reinhardt. Paris: J. Maisonneuve, 1996.

  151. Gauttier, Edouard, trans. Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes, traduits en français par Galland. Nouvelle édition revue ... avec les continuations et plusieurs contes, traduits pour la première fois du persan, du turc et de l’arabe. 7 vols. Paris: Société de traduction, 1822-23.

  152. Greve, Felix Paul, trans. Die Erzählungen aus den Tausend und ein Nächten. Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe ... aug Grund der Burton’schen englischen Ausgabe. 12 vols. Leipzig: Insel, 1907-08.

  153. Guerne, A., trans. Les Mille et Une Nuits. 6 vols. Paris, 1966.



  154. Gutiérrez-Larraya & Leonor Martínez: Las Mil y Una Noches (2014)


  155. Gutiérrez-Larraya, Juan Antonio & Leonor Martínez Martín, trans. Las mil y una noches. 3 vols. Barcelona: Argos Vergara, 1965.

  156. Hanley, Sylvanus. Caliphs and Sultans, Being Tales Omitted in the Usual Editions of the Arabian Nights Entertainments; rewritten and rearranged. London: L. Reeve, 1868.

  157. Kirby, W. F. The New Arabian Nights. Select Tales, not included by Galland or Lane. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1882.

  158. Ouyang, Wen-Ching, & Paulo Lemos Horta, ed. The Arabian Nights: An Anthology. Everyman’s Library 361. A Borzoi Book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.



  159. Samsó, Julio, trans. Antología de Las Mil y Una Noches. Libro de Bolsillo: Clásicos 599. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1975.

  160. Scott, Anne, ed. Tales from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Vladimir Hulpach. Trans. Vera Gissing. Illustrated by Mária Zelibská. London: Cathay Books, 1981.

  161. Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Nora A. Smith, eds. The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1996.

  162. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Arabian Nights Stories Retold. 1957. London: Blackie, 1972.







Bronwyn Lloyd: Arabian Nights bookcase (3/2/17)

Cognate Collections


    Arabic:

    1. Muhammad Diyab al-Atlidi (c.17th century)
    2. Al-Hariri of Basra (1054-1122)
    3. Al-Mas'udi (c.896-956)
    4. 'Antar (525-608)
    5. Ahmad Ibrahim Faqih (1942-2019)
    6. A Hundred and One Nights [Kitâb Fîhi Hadîth Mi'a Layla wa-Layla] (c.1235)
    7. Kalīla wa-Dimna (c.8th century)
    8. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
    9. Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi (c.15th century)
    10. Anthologies & Secondary Literature



    Muhammad Diyab al-Atlidi (c.17th century)

  1. Clerk, Mrs. Godfrey, trans. Ilâm-en-Nâs. Historical Tales and Anecdotes of the Time of the Early Kalîfahs. London: Henry S. King, 1873.


  2. Al-Hariri of Basra [Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Uthmān al-Harīrī] (1054-1122)

  3. Shah, Amina, trans. The Assemblies of Al-Hariri: Fifty Encounters with the Shaykh Abu Zayd of Seruj. London: The Octagon Press, 1980.


  4. Al-Mas'udi [ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī] (c.896-956)

  5. Mas'ūdī. From The Meadows of Gold. Trans. Paul Lunde & Caroline Stone. Penguin Great Journeys, 2. London: Penguin, 2007.


  6. 'Antar [Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi] (525-608)

  7. Richmond, Diana. ’Antar and ’Abla, A Bedouin Romance: Rewritten and Arranged by Diana Richmond. London: Quartet Books, 1978.


  8. Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih [’áħmad 'Ibrāhīm al-faqīh] (1942-2019)

  9. Faqih, Ahmad. Gardens of the Night: A Trilogy. Trans. Russell Harris, Amin al-Ayouti & Suraya Allam. London: Quartet Books, 1995.


  10. A Hundred and One Nights [Kitâb Fîhi Hadîth Mi'a Layla wa-Layla] (c.1235)

  11. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, M., trans. Les Cent et une Nuits. 1911. Bibliothèque Arabe. Paris: Sinbad, 1982.


  12. Kalīla wa-Dimna (c.8th century)

  13. Benalmocaffa, Abdalá. Calila y Dimna. Introducción, traducción y notas de Marcelino Villegas. Libro de Bolsillo: Clásicos 1512. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1991.

  14. Kalila and Dimna: Selected Fables of Bidpai. Retold by Ramsay Wood. Introduction by Doris Lessing. 1980. London: Granada, 1982.


  15. Naguib Mahfouz [Najīb Maḥfūẓ] (1911-2006)

  16. Mahfouz, Naguib. Arabian Nights and Days. 1982. Trans. Denys Johnson-Davies. New York: Doubleday, 1995.


  17. Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi (c.15th century)

  18. Nefzawi, Shaykh. The Perfumed Garden. Trans. Richard F. Burton. 1886. Ed. Alan Hull Walton. 1963. London: Panther, 1966.

  19. Nefzawi, Shaykh. The Glory of the Perfumed Garden: The Missing Flowers. An English Translation from the Arabic of the Second and Hitherto Unpublished Part of Shaykh Nafzawi’s Perfumed Garden. Trans. H. E. J. 1975. London: Granada, 1978.


  20. Anthologies & Secondary Literature

  21. Besson, Gisèle, and Michèle Brossard-André, trans. Le Livre de l’échelle de Mahomet: Liber Scale Machometi. Préface de Roger Arnaldez. Lettres Gothiques. Paris: Livre de Poche, 1991.

  22. Irwin, Robert. Night & Horses & The Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature. Harmondsworth: Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1999.

  23. Kritzeck, James, ed. Anthology of Islamic Literature: From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1964

  24. Lewis, Bernard. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam. 1967. Preface by the Author. 2003. London: The Folio Society, 2006.

  25. Lichtenstadtler, Ilse. Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature, with Selections from representative Works in English Translation. 1974. New York: Schocken Books, 1976.

  26. Lyons, Malcom C., trans. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange. Introduction by Robert Irwin. Penguin Classics. 2014. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2015.

  27. Mardrus, Dr J. C. The Queen of Sheba: Translated into French from his own Arabic Text. Trans. E. Powys Mathers. London: The Casanova Society, n.d. [1924].

  28. Ullah, Najib. Islamic Literature: An Introductory History with Selections. New York: Washington Square P, 1963.




  29. Indian:

    1. Mir Amman (c.17th century-18th century)
    2. The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)
    3. Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)
    4. Narayana (c.12th century)
    5. The Pañcatantra (c.3rd century BC)
    6. The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā (c.12th century)
    7. Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)
    8. Somadeva (c.11th century)
    9. Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)
    10. Anthologies & Secondary Literature



    Mir Amman (c.17th-18th century)

  30. Mir Amman. A Tale of Four Dervishes. Translated from the Urdu with an Introduction by Mohammed Zakir. Penguin Classics. New Delhi: Penguin, 1994.


  31. The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)

  32. Rhys Davids, T. W. trans. Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jātaka Tales): The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidāna-Kathā, The Story of the Lineage. 1880. Broadway Translations. London & New York: Routledge & Dutton, 1925.

  33. Cowell, E. B., ed. The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births. Trans. R. Chambers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis & R. A. Neil, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, E. B. Cowell & W. H. D. Rouse. 6 vols in 3. 1895-1907. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990.


  34. Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)

  35. The Ananga Ranga of Kalyana Malla and The Symposium of Plato. Trans. Richard F. Burton & F. F. Arbuthnot, and Benjamin Jowett. 1885 & 1871. Kimber Pocket Editions. London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1963.


  36. Narayana (c.12th century)

  37. Chandiramani, G. L., trans. The Hitopadesha: An Ancient Fabled Classic. 1995. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 1999.


  38. The Panchatantra [Pañcatantra] (c.3rd century BC)

  39. Ryder, Arthur W., trans. The Panchatantra. 1925. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1964.

  40. Edgerton, Franklin, trans. The Panchatantra. London: Allen & Unwin, 1965.

  41. Visnu Sarma. The Pancatantra. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1993. London: Penguin, 1995.

  42. Olivelle, Patrick, trans. The Pañcatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.


  43. The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā [Thirty-two Tales of the Throne] (c.12th century)

  44. Edgerton, Franklin, ed. & trans. Vikrama’s Adventures, or the Thirty-two Tales of the Throne. Harvard Oriental Series, ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman, 26 & 27. 1926. 2 vols. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993.

  45. Haksar, A. N. D., trans. Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā: Thirty-two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya. New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

  46. Bhoothalingam, Mathuram. Stories of Vikramaditya. Illustrated by Jomraj. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1982.


  47. Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)

  48. Burton, Richard F. Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry. 1870. Memorial Edition. Ed. Isabel Burton. London: Thylston & Edwards, 1893.

  49. Śivadāsa. The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie: Vetālapañćavinśati. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1995. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.


  50. Somadeva (c.11th century)

  51. Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., Grafton House, W.1., 1924-1928.

  52. Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. 1924-28. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1968.

  53. Somadeva. Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara. Trans. Arshia Sattar. Foreword by Wendy Doniger. 1994. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.

  54. Somadeva. Océan des rivières de contes. Ed. Nalini Balbir, with Mildrède Besnard, Lucien Billoux, Sylvain Brocquet, Colette Caillat, Christine Chojnacki, Jean Fezas & Jean-Pierre Osier. Traduction des ‘Contes du Vampire’ par Louis & Marie-Simone Renou, 1963. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 438. Paris: Gallimard, 1997.


  55. Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)

  56. Burton, Richard F., and F. F. Arbuthnot, trans. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. 1883. Ed. John Muirhead-Gould. 1963. London: Panther, 1968.

  57. Daniélou, Alain, trans. The Complete Kāma Sūtra. The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian text by Vātsyāyana: including the Jayamangalā commentary from the Sanskrit by Yasodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shāstrā. Prepared with the help of Kenneth Hurry. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1994.

  58. Vatsyayana Mallanaga. Kamasutra: A New, Complete Translation of the Sanskrit Text, with Excerpts from the Sanskrit Jayamangala Commentary of Yasodhara Indrapada, the Hindu Jaya Commentary of Devadatta Shastri, and Explanatory Notes by the Translators. Trans. Wendy Doniger & Sudhir Kakar. 2002. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.


  59. Anthologies & Secondary Literature:

  60. Alphonso-Karkala, John B., trans. An Anthology of Indian Literature. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.

  61. Beck, Brenda E. F., Peter J. Claus, Praphulladata Goswami, & Jawaharlal Handoo, ed. Folktales of India. Foreword by A. K. Ramanujan. Folktales of the World, ed. Richard M. Dorson. 1987. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  62. De Bary, Wm. Theodore, Stephen Hay, Royal Weiler & Andrew Yarrow, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Introduction to Oriental Civilisations. 1958. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.

  63. de Souza, Eunice de. 101 Folktales from India. Illustrated by Sujata Singh. A Puffin Book. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.

  64. Joshi, Jagdish, illus. Romantic Classics. New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1983.

  65. Ramanujan, A. K. ed. Folktales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. 1991. The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1993.




  66. Persian:

    1. Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)
    2. Ferdowsi (940-1020)
    3. Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
    4. Saʿdī (1210-1291)
    5. Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century
    6. Anthologies & Secondary Literature



      Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)

    1. Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds. Trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.

    2. Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds, Mantiq ut-Tair: A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose - Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Garcin de Tassy. Trans. C. S. Nott. 1954. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.

    3. Fitzgerald, Edward. 'The Conference of the Birds.' Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.


    4. Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (940-1021)

    5. Ferdowsi. The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia. Trans. Reuben Levy. 1967. Rev. Amin Banani. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

    6. Ferdowsi, Abolqasem. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Trans. Dick Davis. 2007. Rev. ed. Foreword by Azar Nafisi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2016.


    7. Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)

    8. Ganjavi, Nizami. Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance. 1197. Trans. Julie Scott Meisami. World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
    9. Fitzgerald, Edward. Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.


    10. Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi [(1210-1291)

    11. Burton, R. F., trans [Edward Retnisak]. Tales from the Gulistân, or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa’di of Shirâz. 1888. London: Philip Allen, 1928.

    12. Sadi. Gulistan or Flower-Garden. Trans. James Ross. Ed. Charles Sayle. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [c.1890].


    13. Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century)

    14. Varâvini, Sa’d al-Dîn. Contes du Prince Marzbân. 1220. Trans. Marie-Hélène Ponroy. Connaissance de l’Orient. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.


    15. Anthologies & Secondary Literature:

    16. Ernst, Paul, ed. Erzählungen aus tausendundein Tag; Vermehrt um andere Morgenländische Geschichten. Trans. Felix Paul Greve and Paul Hansmann. 2 vols. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1987.

    17. Fehse, Willi, ed. The Thousand and One Days. Trans. Anthea Bell. London: Abelard-Schumann, 1971.

    18. Levy, Reuben, trans. The Three Dervishes and other Persian Tales and Legends. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1923.

    19. McCarthy, J., trans. The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales. 2 Vols. London: Chatto, 1892.

    20. Olcott, Frances Jenkins. Tales of the Persian Genii. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1919.




    21. Turkish:

    22. Lewis, Geoffrey, trans. The Book of Dede Korkut. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974.

    23. Pétis de la Croix, ed. The Persian and Turkish Tales, compleat. Trans. Dr. King. 2 Vols. London: Richard Ware, 1714.

    24. Rosen, Georg, trans. Tutti-Nameh: Das Papageienbuch. Aus der türkischen Fassung übertragen von Georg Rosen. Stuttgart: Europäischer Buchklub, 1957.




    25. Miscellaneous:

    26. Basile, Giovanni Batiste. Il Pentamerone: or The Tale of Tales. Trans. Richard F. Burton. 1893. New York: Liveright, 1932.

    27. Haleby, Omar. El Ktab des Lois Secrètes de l’Amour. Trans. Paul de Régla. 1893. Collection Le Nadir. Paris: Balland, 1992.

    28. Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. The Anthology of Eastern Love. Engravings by Hester Sainsbury. 12 vols in 4. London: John Rodker, 1927-30.
      1. Vol. I - The Lessons of a Bawd: English Version of the Kuttanimatam of Dāmodaragupta (1927)
      2. The Harlot’s Breviary: English Version of the Samayamātrikā of Kshemendra (1927)
      3. The Book of Women & Education of Wives: English Versions of the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey & Ta’dīb ul-Nisvān (1927)
      4. Vol. II - The Young Wives’ Tale & Tales of Fez: English Versions of the Kissat al-‘Arā’is Al-Sabīya of Amor ben Amar & Tales of Fez from the Arabic (1927)
      5. The Loves of Rādhā and Krishna & Amores: English Versions from the Bengali of Chandīdāsa & from the Sanskrit of Amaru and Mayūra (1928)
      6. Love Stories and Gallant Tales from the Chinese: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
      7. Vol. III - Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saīkaku Ihara & Songs of the Geishas: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
      8. Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
      9. The Loves of Dāsīn and Musag-ag-Amāstān from the Tamashek & Camel-boy Rhythms from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
      10. Vol. IV - Love Tales of Cambodia & Songs of the Love Nights of Lao: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
      11. Anthology of Eastern Love I: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
      12. Anthology of Eastern Love II: English Versions & Terminal Essays by E. Powys Mathers (1930)

    29. Petrie, Flinders, trans. Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri. 2 vols. 1895. London: Methuen, 1926.

    30. Ranelagh, E. J. The Past We Share: The Near Eastern Ancestry of Western Folk Literature. London: Quartet, 1979.

    31. Shah, Idries, ed. Caravan of Dreams. 1968. London: Quartet Books, 1973.

    32. Shah, Idries, ed. World Tales: the Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places. 1979. London: Octagon P, 1991.

    33. Henry Weber, ed. Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and the Best Imitations by European Authors: with New Translations, and Additional Tales, Never Before Published: to which is prefixed an introductory dissertation, containing the account of each work, and of its author, or translator. 3 vols. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1812.
      1. Vol. I - The Arabian Nights [Galland (1704-17)]
      2. New Arabian Nights' Entertainments [Chavis & Cazotte (1788-89)]
      3. Vol. II - New Arabian Nights' Entertainments (cont.)
      4. Persian Tales [Pétis de la Croix (1710)]
      5. Persian Tales of Inatulla [Alexander Dow (1768)]
      6. Oriental Tales [A. C. P., Comte de Caylus (1749)]
      7. Nourjahad [Frances Sheridan (1767)]
      8. "Four Additional Tales from the Arabian Nights" [Caussin de Perceval (1806)]
      9. Vol. III - The Mogul Tales [Thomas-Simon Gueullette (1723)]
      10. Turkish Tales [Pétis de la Croix (1710)]
      11. Tartarian Tales [Thomas-Simon Gueullette (1723)]
      12. Chinese Tales [Thomas-Simon Gueullette (1723)]
      13. Tales of the Genii [James Ridley (1764)]
      14. History of Abdalla the Son of Hanif [Jean Paul Bignon (1713)]






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    Imitations & Tributes:


    1. Addison, Joseph. “The Vision of Mirzah.” The Spectator 159 (1711). Ed. G. Gregory Smith. 4 vols. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1945. 1: 478-82.

    2. Addison, Joseph. “The Fable of Alnaschar.” The Spectator 535 (1712). Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. 4: 409-12.

    3. Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna. 1987. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1989.

    4. Allende, Isabel. The Stories of Eva Luna. 1987. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991.

    5. Azpiri, Alfonso. “Desert Shadows.” Wet Dreams. New York: Heavy Metal, 2000. 3-12

    6. Barth, John. “Dunyaziad.” Chimera. 1972. London: Granada, 1982.

    7. Barth, John. The Tidewater Tales: A Novel. 1987. London: Methuen, 1988.

    8. Barth, John. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor. 1991. London: Sceptre, 1992.

    9. Beachcroft, Nina. The Genie and Her Bottle. 1983. London: Mammoth, 1992.

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    Notes:
    1. Volume 3 of the original Supplemental Nights has been split into two in this reissue. The pagination, however, remains continuous. For further details consult Norman M. Penzer, An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton (London: Philpot, 1923) 131-32.





7 comments:

Richard said...

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S EDITION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

Robert Louis Stevenson put the Arabian Nights among his favourite books on several occasions. In an unpublished essay written c. 1883, he lists a series of "eternal books" to be included in "the ideal house". These include "the _Arabian Nights_, and kindred stories, in Weber's solemn volumes".

Since I'm in the progress of editing Stevenson's essays, I need to explain this reference--but I can't find a publisher/translator/editor of the Arabian Nights before 1883 called Weber, nor dO I understand "and kindred stories".

The description ("and kindred stories") would cover a publication such as your Bibliography item 43 (Scott, Jonathan, trans. Tales, Anecdotes and Letters, translated from the Arabic and Persian. London: Cadell and Davies, 1800) - but there's no "Weber" in there.

I'm beginning to think that "Weber" may be a typo or misreading. Does the name, or one of the same length with some of the same letters, ring a bell with the experts?

Further clue: in the essay 'A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured', RLS remembers the evening of his childhood "when I brought back with me the ARABIAN ENTERTAINMENTS in the fat, old, double-columned volume with the prints." (But perhaps he's referring to another edition: he mentions a single volume which doesn't seem 'stately'.)

Richard Dury

Dr Jack Ross said...

Dear Richard,

Stevenson's reference is definitely to Henry Weber's Tales of the East: comprising the most popular Romances of Oriental origin, and the best imitations by European authors, with new translations and additional tales never before published, 3 vols (Edinburgh, 1812). You'll find it listed in my chronology under "Principal Translations."

I don't have a copy myself (though I'd very much like one), but I did check through the edition in the Edinburgh University Library when I was last there.

Weber includes Galland's version of the Arabian Nights in his first volume, but also adds a series of other eastern tales in the subsequent volumes: Petis de la Croix's Persian Tales, the Mogul Tales, Turkish Tales, Tartarian Tales [sic], Chinese Tales, Nourjahad, The Tales of the Genii, etc. It's a very compendious work of roughly 2,000 pages in 3 "solemn volumes" (as Stevenson puts it).

I suspect the later reference to the "fat old double-columned volume with the prints" is to one of the many single-volume editions of the English translation of Galland (such as my no. 18 in the Bibliography above).

Unknown said...

I'm We are trying to find out the value of a German version of 1001 Arabian nights. Printed in Germany translated to German. There is no date on the book however there is an inscription which is dated 1938.
Would appreciate any help on this?
Thank you
Amanda

Unknown said...

We are trying to find out the value of a German version of 1001 Arabian night which is written in German. There is no date when published, however there is a subscription written dated 1938. Any help would be appreciated?
Thank you
Amanda

Unknown said...

We are trying to find out the value of a German version of 1001 Arabian night which is written in German. There is no date when published, however there is a subscription written dated 1938. Any help would be appreciated?
Thank you
Amanda

Dr Jack Ross said...

Dear Amanda,

Hard to say, really: there are so many German translations of the Nights! Weil's has been often reprinted, but so have many others. As far as the value goes, it would depend on a host of factors such as rarity, illustrations, etc.

yours, jack

Unknown said...

Dear Jack,
Thank you
Was really trying to persuade the owner to have them insured.
Amanda