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2009-07-25T18:51:00.000-07:00

[Kay Nielsen, "Scheherazade and Shahryar"]

Between 1991 and 1995, I spent a good deal of time studying and collating all the different texts of the 1001 Nights I could get hold of. The idea was to compile a complete list of all the stories included in all the various editions. I never really succeeded in finishing this task (it's since been done rather more satisfactorily by Ulrich Marzolph and Richard van Leeuwen in their 2004 Arabian Nights Encyclopedia).

In the process, I produced a number of papers and essays on the Nights, which I planned eventually to collate and rewrite into a comprehensive work on the Arabian Nights seen from the perspective of comparative literature. I never managed to complete this either, but rather than leaving it as unfinished (possibly unfinishable) business, I thought I'd put as much of it as I did get done up online.

I suppose I think of it as a sort of unofficial Post-Doctoral thesis, to be regarded as a companion to my MA and PhD dissertations, both of which I'm also (gradually) transferring online.

I'll continue to update it from time to time, but not (I fear) with the same fervour I brought to the subject two decades ago.

- Dr Jack Ross, Mairangi Bay (26 July, 2009)

Scheherazade's Web:
The 1001 Nights & Comparative Literature

Updates

Contents:

Preface

Scheherazades

Introduction: Redu ‘92

The School for Paradox

Chapter 1: Malory and Scheherazade

Malory

Scheherazade

Chapter 2: Europe, Christianity and the Crusades

Plot Summaries

Chapter 3: Voyage en Orient

Chapter 4: Parodies of the Arabian Nights

Chapter 5: The Poetics of Stasis

J. L. Borges: Metaphors of the 1001 Nights

Bibliography

Chronology

Concordance

A List of the Stories in the 1001 Nights

Table of References

[Arabian Nights Girl]

Updates:

2009-01-26T17:56:00.000-08:00

[Tales of the Arabian Nights]

December, 2010:

My new post, "How do you make a single-volumed Arabian Nights?" is an attempt to sum up the various attempts made to date, together with my own suggestion for an updated Portable Arabian Nights.

Joseph Campbell, ed.: The Portable Arabian Nights (1952)

July, 2009:

The post I've put up here, "Orientalism and its Enemies, or The Empire Strikes Back," is a reaction to reading Robert Irwin's latest book For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies. To put it mildly, I don't find his attack on Edward Said's classic text Orientalism particularly cogent or convincing.

Robert Irwin: For Lust of Knowing (2006)

February, 2009:

I've been meaning for quite some time to do a post on the various Arabian Nights comics, gamebooks & other oddities I've collected to date. The seven I list here range from classic Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics from the 50s to the latest Korean "manhwa" versions.

December, 2008:

The appearance of Malcolm (& Ursula) Lyons' complete, 3-volume complete translation of the 1001 Nights in the Penguin Classics is a milestone in the history of the collection in English. I've written a review of it here.

Table of References

2007-09-26T19:59:00.000-07:00

for the Concordance to the 1001 Nights

[Arabic Calligraphy]

List of Abbreviations

[Artin] = Artin Pacha, Contes populaires inédits de la Vallée du Nil (1895)
[B] = Breslau Edition, 12 vols (1825-43)
[Bulaq] = Bulaq Edition, 2 vols (1835)
[Burton] = Burton Translation, 16 vols (1885-88)
[C1] = First Calcutta Edition, 2 vols (1814-18)
[Calc. 2] = Macnaghten or Second Calcutta Edition, 4 vols (1839-42)
[Chauvin] = Victor Chauvin, Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes, 12 vols (1892-1922)
[Ch] = Chavis and Cazotte Translation, 4 vols (1788-89)
[D] = Les Dames de Bagdad, trans. André Miquel (1991)
[D & M] = Decourdemanche, Sottisier de Nasr-eddin-Hodja bouffon de Tamerlan (1878); Müllendorff, Die Schwänke des Nasr-ed-din & Buadem von Mehemed Tewfik
[Eliséef] = Nikita Eliséef, Thèmes et Motifs des Mille et Une Nuits (1949)
[Galland] = Galland Translation, 12 vols (1704-17)
[Garcin] = Garcin de Tassy, Allégories, récits poétiques et chants populaires (1876)
[Gerhardt] = Mia I. Gerhardt, The Art of Story-telling (1963)
[H] = Habicht Translation, 15 vols (1824-25)
[K/ ] = Chauvin, Bibliographie, vol. 2: “Kalîlah” (1897)
[Kirby] = W. F. Kirby, “Contributions to the Bibliography of the 1001 Nights” (1885)
[L/ ] = Chauvin, Bibliographie, vol. 3: “Louqmâne et les fabulistes” (1898)
[M] = Mardrus Translation, 16 vols (1899-1904)
[Mohdy] = J. J. Marcel, Contes du cheykh Él-Mohdy, 3 vols (1835)
[PI-III] = Tales from the Arabic, trans. John Payne, 3 vols (1884)
[P2] = Alaeddin & Zein ul Asnam, trans. John Payne (1889)
[Perron] = Perron, Femmes arabes avant et depuis l’islamisme (1858)
[Reinhardt] = Aboubakr Chraibi, Contes nouveaux des 1001 Nuits: Etude du manuscrit Reinhardt (1996)
[S] = Tales, Anecdotes and Letters, trans. Jonathan Scott (1800)
[S/ ] = Chauvin, Bibliographie, vol. 8: “Syntipas” (1904)
[Spitta] = Guillaume Spitta-Bey, Contes arabes modernes, recueillis et traduits (1883)
[T] = Felix Tauer, Neue Erzählungen aus den 1001 Nächten, 2 vols (1982)
[Tr] = Trébutien Translation, 3 vols (1828)
[W] = Weil Translation, 4 vols (1838-41)
[WM] = Wortley-Montague Ms., 7 vols (1764-65)
[ZER] = ‘Zotenberg’s Egyptian Recension’ (Paris, 1888)

VERSIONS & DATES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
[CONTENTS]	[1900-05]	[References]	[1885-88]
Introduction	-	-	I, 1
King Shahryar and his Brother	No. 111a	V, 188	I, 2
a/ Tale of the Bull and the Ass	No. 104	V, 179	I, 16
(1) Tale of the Trader and the Jinni	No. 194	VI, 22	I, 24
a/ The First Shaykh's Story	No. 396	VII, 129	I, 27
b/ The Second Shaykh's Story	No. 397	V, 6	I, 32
c/ The Third Shaykh's Story	No. 398	VII, 130	I, 36
(2) The Fisherman and the Jinni	No. 195	VI, 23	I, 38
a/ The Wazir and the Sage Duban	No. 156	V, 275	I, 45
a1/ King Sindibad and his Falcon	No. 173	V, 289	I, 50
a2/ The Husband and the Parrot	No. 294	VI, 139	I, 52
a3/ The Prince and the Ogress	No. 197: S/8	VI, 26; 8:39	I, 54
b/ Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince	No. 222	VI, 56	I, 69
(3) The Three Ladies of Baghdad	No. 148	V, 251	I, 82
a/ The First Kalandar's Tale	No. 115	V, 196	I, 104
b/ The Second Kalandar's Tale	No. 116	V, 197	I, 113
b1/ The Envier and the Envied	No. 158	V, 14	I, 123
c/ The Third Kalandar's Tale	No. 117	V, 200	I, 139
d/ The Eldest Lady's Tale	No. 443	V, 4	I, 162
e/ Tale of the Portress	No. 33	V, 98	I, 173
e1/ Conclusion	[No. 148]	V, 252	I, 184
(4) Tale of the Three Apples	No. 302	VI, 144	I, 186
(5) Nur Al-Din and Badr Al-Din Hasan	No. 270	VI, 102	I, 195
(6) The Hunchback's Tale	No. 105	V, 180	I, 255
a/ The Nazarene Broker's Story	No. 249	VI, 80	I, 262
b/ The Reeve's Tale	No. 305	V, 220	I, 278
c/ Tale of the Jewish Doctor	No. 253	VI, 89	I, 288
d/ Tale of the Tailor	No. 78	V, 154	I, 300
e/ The Barber's Tale of Himself	No. 80	V, 156	I, 317
e1/The Barber's First Brother	No. 81	V, 157	I, 319
e2/ The Barber's Second Brother	No. 82	V, 158	I, 324
e3/ The Barber's Third Brother	No. 83	V, 159	I, 328
e4/ The Barber's Fourth Brother	No. 84	V, 160	I, 331
e5/ The Barber's Fifth Brother	No. 85	V, 161	I, 335
e6/ The Barber's Sixth Brother	No. 86	V, 163	I, 343
d1/ The End of the Tailor's Tale	[No. 78]	V, 155	I, 348
(7) Nur Al-Din Ali and Anis Al-Jalis	No. 58	V, 120	II, 1
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(8) Tale of Ghanim Bin Ayyub	No. 188	VI, 14	II, 45
a/ Tale of the First Eunuch, Bukhayt	No. 160	V, 277	II, 49
b/ Tale of the Second Eunuch, Kafur	No. 161	V, 278	II, 51
(9) Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman	No. 277	VI, 112	II, 77
a/ Taj Al-Muluk and Princess Dunya	No. 60	V, 126	II, 283
a1/ Tale of Aziz and Azizah	No. 71	V, 144	II, 298
b/ Tale of the Hashish-Eater	No. 278	VI, 124	III, 91
c/ Tale of Hammad the Badawi	[No. 277]	VI, 124	III, 104
(10) The Birds, Beasts & the Carpenter	No. 284: K/ 154:1	VI, 130; 2:225	III, 114
(11) The Hermits	K/ 154	II, 226	III, 125
ii/ The Hermit and Pigeons	K/ 154: 2	II, 226	III, 125
iii/ The Shepherd's Temptation	K/ 154: 3	II, 226	III, 126
(12) The Water-fowl and the Tortoise	K/ 154: 5	II, 226	III, 129
(13) The Wolf and the Fox	K/ 154: 6	II, 227	III, 132
a/ The Falcon and the Partridge	K/ 154: 7	II, 227	III, 138
b/ The Two Invalids	K/ 154: 8	II, 227	III, 140
c/ The Man and the Serpent	K/ 154: 9	II, 227	III, 145
(14) The Mouse and the Ichneumon	K/ 154: 10	II, 228	III, 147
(15) The Cat and the Crow	K/ 154: 4	II, 226	III, 149
(16) The Fox and the Crow	K/ 154: 11	II, 228	III, 150
a/ The Flea and the Mouse	K/ 154: 12	II, 228	III, 151
b/ The Saker and the Birds	K/ 154: 13	II, 228	III, 154
c/ The Sparrow and the Eagle	K/ 154: 14	II, 228	III, 155
(17) The Hedgehog & the Wood-Pigeons	K/ 154: 15	II, 228	III, 156
a/ The Seed badly Sown	K/ 154: 16	II, 229	III, 156
b/ The Merchant & the Two Sharpers	K/ 154: 17	II, 229	III, 158
(18) The Thief and his Monkey	K/ 154: 18	II, 229	III, 159
a/ The Foolish Weaver	K/ 154: 19	II, 229	III, 159
(19) The Sparrow and the Peacock	K/ 154: 20	II, 230	III, 161
(20) Ali Bin Bakkar & Shams Al-Nahar	No. 76	V, 153	III, 162
(21) Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman	No. 120	V, 204	III, 212
a/ Ni'amah bin Al-Rabia and Naomi	No. 263	VI, 96	IV, 1
(22) Ala Al-Din Abu Al-Shamat	No. 18	V, 43	IV, 29
(23) Hatim of the Tribe of Tayy	No. 215	VI, 49	IV, 94
(24) Ma'an and the Three Girls	No. 247	VI, 78	IV, 96
(25) Ma'an and the Badawi	No. 248	VI, 79	IV, 97
(26) The City of Labtayt	No. 254	VI, 90	IV, 99
(27) Caliph Hisham and the Arab Youth	No. 172	V, 288	IV, 101
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(28) Ibrahim and the Barber-Surgeon	No. 219	VI, 54	IV, 103
(29) The City of Many-Columned Iram	No. 224	V, 36	IV, 113
(30) Isaac of Mosul	No. 142	V, 241	IV, 119
(31) The Sweep and the Noble Lady	No. 306	VI, 148	IV, 125
(32) The Mock Caliph	No. 174	V, 99	IV, 130
(33) Ali the Persian	No. 162	V, 279	IV, 149
(34) Harun Al-Rashid & the Slave-Girl	No. 383	VII, 114	IV, 153
(35) The Lover who feigned Thief	No. 403	VII, 134	IV, 155
(36) Ja'afar and the Bean-Seller	No. 87	V, 164	IV, 159
(37) Abu Mohammed hight Lazybones	No. 233	VI, 64	IV, 162
(38) Yahya bin Khalid and Mansur	No. 88	V, 165	IV, 179
(39) Yahya bin Khalid and the Forger	No. 89	V, 166	IV, 181
(40) Caliph Al-Maamun & the Scholar	No. 163	V, 279	IV, 185
(41) Ali Shar and Zumurrud	No. 28	V, 89	IV, 187
(42) The Loves of Jubayr and Budur	No. 374	VII, 93	IV, 228
(43) The Man and his Six Slave-Girls	No. 313	VI, 151	IV, 245
(44) Harun Al-Rashid and Abu Nowas	No. 296	VI, 140	IV, 261
(45) The Man who Stole the Dog's Dish	No. 191	VI, 20	IV, 265
(46) The Sharper and the Police-Chief	No. 404	VII, 135	IV, 269
(47) Al-Malik & the Police-Chiefs	[No. 427]	VII, 147	IV, 271
a/ The New Cairo Police-Chief's Tale	No. 427	VII, 148	IV, 271
b/ The Bulaq Police-Chief's Tale	No. 428a	VII, 148	IV, 273
c/ The Old Cairo Police-Chief's Tale	No. 429	VII, 149	IV, 274
(48) The Thief and the Shroff	No. 405	VII, 135	IV, 275
(49) The Kus Police-Chief & Sharper	No. 428b	VII, 149	IV, 276
(50) Ibrahim & the Merchant's Sister	No. 220	VI, 54	IV, 278
(51) The Woman with Cut-off Hands	No. 67	V, 138	IV, 281
(52) The Devout Israelite	No. 68	V, 141	IV, 283
(53) Abu and the Khorasan Man	No. 257	VI, 93	IV, 285
(54) The Poor Man and his Friend	No. 192	VI, 21	IV, 288
(55) The Man enriched by a Dream	No. 258	VI, 94	IV, 289
(56) Caliph Al-Mutawakkil & Mahbubah	No. 35	V, 105	IV, 291
(57) Wardan, the Lady and the Bear	No. 101	V, 177	IV, 293
(58) The King's Daughter and the Ape	No. 102	V, 178	IV, 297
(59) The Ebony Horse	No. 130	V, 221	V, 1
(60) Uns Al-Wujud and Rose-in-Hood	No. 282	VI, 127	V, 32
(61) Abu Nowas and the Three Boys	No. 297	VI, 141	V, 64
(62) Abdullah and the Slave-Girl	No. 36	V, 106	V, 69
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(63) The Lovers of the Banu Ozrah	No. 37	V, 106	V, 70
(64) The Wazir and his Young Brother	No. 38	V, 107	V, 71
(65) The Schoolboy and the Schoolgirl	No. 39	V, 108	V, 73
(66) Al-Mutalammis and Umaymah	No. 40	V, 108	V, 74
(67) Harun Al-Rashid and Zubaydah	No. 298	VI, 142	V, 75
(68) Harun Al-Rashid and the Poets	No. 299	VI, 142	V, 77
(69) Mus'ab bin Al-Zubayr and Ayishah	No. 41	V, 109	V, 79
(70) Abu Al-Aswad and his Slave-Girl	No. 320	VI, 154	V, 80
(71) Harun Al-Rashid & the Two Girls	No. 314	VI, 152	V, 81
(72) Harun Al-Rashid & the Three Girls	[No. 314]	VI, 152	V, 81
(73) The Miller and his Wife	No. 367	VI, 195	V, 82
(74) The Simpleton and the Sharper	No. 406	VII, 136	V, 83
(75) The Kazi Abu Yusuf with the Caliph	No. 384	VII, 115	V, 85
(76) Caliph Al-Hakim & the Merchant	No. 208	VI, 43	V, 86
(77) Kisra Anushirwan and the Damsel	No. 198	VI, 26	V, 87
(78) The Water-Carrier and the Wife	No. 361	VI, 192	V, 89
(79) Khusrau, Shirin & the Fisherman	No. 164	V, 280	V, 91
(80) Yahya bin Khalid and the Poor Man	No. 93	V, 168	V, 92
(81) Mohammed Al-Amin and the Girl	No. 42	V, 109	V, 93
(82) The Sons of Yahya and Said	No. 94	V, 169	V, 94
(83) The Woman's Trick on her Husband	No. 337	VI, 177	V, 96
(84) The Woman & the Wicked Elders	No. 362	VI, 192	V, 97
(85) Ja'afar and the Old Badawi	No. 165	V, 281	V, 98
(86) Omar and the Young Badawi	No. 125	V, 216	V, 99
(87) Al-Maamun and the Pyramids	No. 255	VI, 91	V, 105
(88) The Thief and the Merchant	No. 407	VII, 137	V, 107
(89) Masrur and Ibn Al-Karibi	No. 166	V, 282	V, 109
(90) The Devotee Prince	No. 363	VI, 193	V, 111
(91) The Schoolmaster in Love	No. 287	VI, 136	V, 117
(92) The Foolish Dominie	No. 288	VI, 137	V, 118
(93) The Illiterate Schoolmaster	No. 289	VI, 137	V, 119
(94) The King and the Virtuous Wife	No. 391	VII, 120	V, 121
(95) Abd Al-Rahman's Tale of the Rukh	No. 256	VI, 92	V, 122
(96) Adi bin Zayd and Princess Hind	No. 216	VI, 50	V, 124
(97) Di'ibil Al-Khuza'i with the Lady	No. 43	V, 110	V, 127
(98) Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant	No. 225	VI, 59	V, 129
(99) The Three Unfortunate Lovers	No. 44	V, 110	V, 133
(100) How Abu Hasan brake Wind	No. 167	V, 283	V, 135
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(101) The Lovers of the Banu Tayy	No. 45	V, 111	V, 137
(102) The Mad Lover	No. 46	V, 111	V, 138
(103) The Prior who became a Moslem	No. 137	V, 237	V, 141
(104) Abu Isa and Kurrat Al-Ayn	No. 47	V, 112	V, 145
(105) Al-Amin and his Uncle Ibrahim	No. 315	VI, 152	V, 152
(106) Al-Fath and Al-Mutawakkil	No. 316	VI, 152	V, 153
(107) The Excellence of Male & Female	No. 317	VI, 153	V, 154
(108) Abu Suwayd and the Old Woman	No. 318	VI, 153	V, 163
(109) Ali bin Tahir and the girl Muunis	No. 319	VI, 154	V, 164
(110) A Boy and a Man to Lover	No. 48	V, 112	V, 165
(111) Ali and the Haunted House	No. 22	V, 77	V, 166
(112) The Pilgrim and the Old Woman	No. 200	VI, 28	V, 186
(113) Abu Al-Husn and Tawaddud	No. 387	VII, 117	V, 189
(114) The Angel of Death	No. 349	VI, 183	V, 246
(115) The Angel and the Rich King	No. 350	VI, 184	V, 248
(116) The Angel and the Israelite King	No. 351	VI, 185	V, 250
(117) Iskander and the Poor Folk	No. 352	VI, 185	V, 252
(118) King Anushirwan's Righteousness	No. 199	VI, 27	V, 254
(119) The Jewish Kazi and his Wife	No. 321	VI, 154	V, 256
(120) The Shipwrecked Woman & Child	No. 324	VI, 160	V, 259
(121) The Pious Black Slave	No. 353	VI, 186	V, 261
(122) The Tray-maker and his Wife	No. 354	VI, 187	V, 264
(123) Al-Hajjaj and the Pious Man	No. 355	VI, 188	V, 269
(124) The Blacksmith and the Fire	No. 356	VI, 188	V, 271
(125) The Devotee and the Cloud	No. 357	VI, 189	V, 274
(126) The Moslem & the Christian Girl	No. 138	V, 238	V, 277
(127) The Christian King's Daughter	No. 139	V, 239	V, 283
(128) The Prophet and Providence	No. 358	VI, 190	V, 286
(129) The Ferryman and the Hermit	No. 359	VI, 191	V, 288
(130) The Island King and the Israelite	No. 325	VI, 161	V, 290
(131) Abu Al-Hasan and Abu Ja'afar	No. 360	VI, 191	V, 294
(132) The Queen of the Serpents	No. 152	V, 255	V, 298
a/ The Adventure of Bulukiya	No. 77	V, 154	V, 304
b/ The Story of Janshah	No. 153	VII, 39	V, 329
(133) Sindbad the Seaman	No. 373	VII, 1	VI, 1
a/ The 1st Voyage of Sindbad	No. 373a	VII, 7	VI, 4
b/ the 2nd Voyage of Sindbad	No. 373b	VII, 9	VI, 14
c/ The 3rd Voyage of Sindbad	No. 373c	VII, 15	VI, 22
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
d/ the 4th Voyage of Sindbad	No. 373d	VII, 18	VI, 34
e/ the 5th Voyage of Sindbad	No. 373e	VII, 21	VI, 48
f/ The 6th Voyage of Sindbad [Galland]	No. 373f	VII, 24	-
f1/ The 6th Voyage of Sindbad [ZER]	No. 373f	VII, 26	VI, 58
g/ The 7th Voyage of Sindbad [Galland]	No. 373g	VII, 26	VI, 78
g1/ The 7th Voyage of Sindbad [ZER]	No. 373h	VII, 27	VI, 68
(134) The City of Brass	No. 16	V, 32	VI, 83
(135) The Craft and Malice of Women	No. 402: S/1	7:133; 8:33	VI, 122
a/ The King and his Wazir's Wife	S/2	7:122; 8:35	VI, 129
b/ The Confectioner and the Parrot	S/3	VIII, 35	VI, 132
c/ The Fuller and his Son	S/4	VIII, 36	VI, 134
d/ The Rake's Trick against the Wife	S/5	VIII, 37	VI, 135
e/ The Miser and the Loaves of Bread	S/6	VIII, 38	VI, 137
f/ The Lady and her Two Lovers	S/7	VIII, 38	VI, 138
g/ The King's Son and the Ogress	S/8b	VIII, 40	VI, 139
h/ The Drop of Honey	S/9	VIII, 41	VI, 142
i/ The Husband who sifted Dust	S/10	VIII, 42	VI, 143
j/ The Enchanted Spring	S/11	VIII, 43	VI, 145
k/ The Wazir's Son and the Wife	S/12	VIII, 44	VI, 150
l/ The Wife who cheated her Husband	S/13	VIII, 45	VI, 152
m/ The Goldsmith and the Singing-Girl	S/14	VIII, 46	VI, 156
n/ The Man who never laughed	S/15	VIII, 47	VI, 160
o/ The King's Son and the Wife	S/16	VIII, 48	VI, 167
p/ The Page and the Birds	S/17	VIII, 49	VI, 169
q/ The Lady and her Five Suitors	S/18	VIII, 50	VI, 172
r/ The Three Wishes	S/19	VIII, 51	VI, 180
S/The Stolen Necklace	S/20	VIII, 53	VI, 182
t/ The Two Pigeons	S/21: K/ 66	8:53; 2:104	VI, 183
u/ Prince Behram and Al-Datma	S/22	VIII, 54	VI, 184
v/ The House with the Belvedere	S/23	VIII, 57	VI, 188
w/ The King's Son & Ifrit's Mistress	S/24	VIII, 59	VI, 199
x/ The Poisoning	S/25	VIII, 59	VI, 201
y/ The Merchant and the Sharpers	S/26	VIII, 60	VI, 202
z/ the Debauchee and the Child	S/27	VIII, 62	VI, 208
aa/ The Stolen Purse	S/28	VIII, 63	VI, 209
bb/ The Fox and the Folk	S/29	VIII, 64	VI, 211
(136) Judar and his Brethren	No. 154a	V, 257	VI, 213
(137) Gharib and his Brother Ajib	No. 13	V, 19	VI, 257
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(138) Otbah and Rayya	No. 49	V, 115	VII, 91
(139) Hind, daughter of Al-Nu'uman	No. 50	V, 115	VII, 96
(140) Khuzaymah and Ekrimah	No. 193	VI, 21	VII, 99
(141) Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph	No. 51	V, 116	VII, 104
(142) Harun Al-Rashid & the Arab Girl	No. 300	VI, 143	VII, 108
(143) Al-Asma'i and the Three Girls	No. 301	VI, 144	VII, 110
(144) Ibrahim of Mosul and the Devil	No. 226	VI, 59	VII, 113
(145) The Lovers of the Banu Uzrah	No. 52	V, 116	VII, 117
(146) the Badawi and his Wife	No. 53	V, 118	VII, 124
(147) The Lovers of Bassorah	No. 54	V, 118	VII, 130
(148) Ishak, his Mistress & the Devil	No. 227	VI, 60	VII, 136
(149) The Lovers of Al-Medinah	No. 55	V, 119	VII, 139
(150) Al-Malik Al-Nasir and his Wazir	No. 56	V, 119	VII, 142
(151) The Rogueries of Dalilah	No. 147	V, 245	VII, 144
a/ Mercury Ali of Cairo	[No. 147]	V, 248	VII, 172
(152) Ardashir and Hayat Al-Nufus	No. 59	V, 124	VII, 209
(153) Julnar the Sea-born	No. 73	V, 147	VII, 264
(154) King Mohammed bin Sabaik	No. 348	VII, 64	VII, 308
a/ Sayf Al-Muluk and Badi'a Al-Jamal	[No. 348]	VII, 65	VII, 314
(155) Hasan of Bassorah	No. 212a	VII, 29	VIII, 7
(156) Khalifah, Fisherman of Baghdad	No. 190	VI, 18	VIII, 145
a/ Khalif the Fisherman [Breslau ed.]	[No. 190]	VI, 18	VIII, 184
(157) Masrur and Zayn Al-Mawassif	No. 251	VI, 82	VIII, 205
(158) Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam	No. 271	V, 52	VIII, 264
(159) The Man and his Frankish Wife	No. 140	V, 240	IX, 19
(160) The Ruined Man & his Slave-Girl	No. 75	V, 152	IX, 24
(161) King Jali'ad & his Wazir Shimas	No.184:K/150-2	6:9; 2:216	IX, 32
a/ The Mouse and the Cat	K/ 152: 2	II, 218	IX, 35
b/ The Fakir and his Jar of Butter	K/ 152: 3	II, 218	IX, 40
c/ The Fishes and the Crab	K/ 152: 4	II, 219	IX, 43
d/ The Crow and the Serpent	K/ 152: 5	II, 219	IX, 46
e/ The Wild Ass and the Jackal	K/ 152: 6	II, 219	IX, 48
f/ The King and the Pilgrim Prince	K/ 152: 7	II, 219	IX, 50
g/ The Crows and the Hawk	K/ 152: 8	II, 220	IX, 53
h/ The Serpent-Charmer and his Wife	K/ 152: 9	II, 220	IX, 56
i/ The Spider and the Wind	K/ 152: 10	II, 220	IX, 59
j/ The Two Kings	K/ 152: 12	II, 221	IX, 65
k/ The Blind Man and the Cripple	K/ 152: 13	II, 221	IX, 67
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
l/ The Lion and the Hunter	K/ 152: 15	II, 222	IX, 72
m/ The Foolish Fisherman	K/ 152: 16	II, 222	IX, 93
n/ The Boy and the Thieves	K/ 152: 17	II, 222	IX, 95
o/ The Man and his Wife	K/ 152: 19	II, 223	IX, 98
p/ The Merchant and the Robbers	K/ 152: 20	II, 223	IX, 100
q/ The Jackals and the Wolf	K/ 152: 21	II, 223	IX, 103
r/ The Shepherd and the Rogue	K/ 152: 22	II, 223	IX, 106
S/The Francolin and the Tortoises	K/ 152: 23	II, 224	IX, 113
(162) Abu Kir and Abu Sir	No. 10	V, 15	IX, 134
(163) The Abdullahs of Sea and Land	No. 3	V, 6	IX, 165
(164) Harun Al-Rashid and Abu Hasan	No. 276	VI, 111	IX, 188
(165) Ibrahim and Jamilah	No. 218	VI, 52	IX, 207
(166) Abu Al-Hasan of Khorasan	No. 129	V, 218	IX, 229
(167) Kamar Al-Zaman & the Wife	No. 121	V, 212	IX, 246
(168) Abdullah bin Fazil & his Brothers	No. 2	V, 2	IX, 304
(169) Ma'aruf the Cobbler & his Wife	No. 250	VI, 81	X, 1
(170) The Sleeper and the Waker	No. 155	V, 272	XI, 1
a/ Story of the Larrikin and the Cook	No. 436	VII, 155	XI, 4
(171) Caliph Omar and the Poets	No. 295	VI, 140	XI, 39
(172) Al-Hajjaj & the Three Young Men	No. 205	VI, 35	XI, 47
(173) The Woman of the Barmecides	No. 95	V, 169	XI, 51
(174) The Ten Wazirs	No. 402: S/48	7:133; 8:78	XI, 55
a/ Of Striving against Ill Luck	S/49	VIII, 79	XI, 63
a1/ The Merchant who Lost his Luck	S/49	VIII, 79	XI, 65
b/ Of Looking to the Ends of Affairs	S/50	VIII, 80	XI, 73
b1/ Tale of the Merchant and his Sons	No. 327e: S/50	VI, 166	XI, 73
c/ Of the Advantages of Patience	S/51	VIII, 81	XI, 81
c1/ Story of Abu Sabir	S/51	VIII, 81	XI, 81
d/ Of the Ill Effects of Impatience	S/52	VIII, 82	XI, 89
d1/ Story of Prince Bihzad	S/52	VIII, 82	XI, 89
e/ Of Good and Evil Actions	S/53	VIII, 83	XI, 93
e1/ Story of King Dadbin & his Wazirs	S/53	VIII, 83	XI, 94
f/ Of Trust in Allah	S/54	VIII, 84	XI, 102
f1/ Story of King Bakhtzaman	S/54	VIII, 84	XI, 102
g/ Of Clemency	S/55	VIII, 85	XI, 107
g1/ Story of King Bihkard	S/55	VIII, 85	XI, 107
h/ Of Envy and Malice	S/56	VIII, 86	XI, 111
h1/ Aylan Shah and Abu Tammam	S/56	VIII, 86	XI, 112
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
i/ Of Destiny or that which is written	S/57	VIII, 87	XI, 120
i1/ Story of King Ibrahim & his Son	S/57	VIII, 87	XI, 121
j/ Of the Appointed Term	S/58	VIII, 88	XI, 129
j1/ King Sulayman Shah & his Niece	S/58	VIII, 88	XI, 131
k/ Of the Speedy Relief of Allah	S/59	VIII, 89	XI, 151
k1/ Story of the Prisoner	S/59	VIII, 89	XI, 151
(175) Ja'afar & Abd Al-Malik bin Salih	No. 90	V, 167	XI, 159
(176) Al-Rashid and the Barmecides	Nos 91-92	V, 167	XI, 165
(177) Ibn Al-Sammak and Al-Rashid	No. 393	VII, 125	XI, 171
(178) Al-Maamun and Zubaydah	No. 244	VI, 77	XI, 175
(179) The Arab of the Banu Tay	No. 124	V, 215	XI, 179
(180) Firuz and his Wife	No. 391b	VII, 121	XI, 185
(181) King Shah Bakht and his Wazir	No. 402: S/60	7:133; 8:90	XI, 191
a/ The Man, his Son & his Tutor	S/61	VIII, 90	XI, 194
b/ Tale of the Singer and the Druggist	S/62	VIII, 91	XI, 203
c/ The Quintessence of Things	S/63	VII, 163	XI, 212
d/ The Richard and his Daughter	S/64	VIII, 92	XI, 218
e/ Tale of the Sage and his Three Sons	S/65	VIII, 93	XI, 222
f/ The Prince who loved a Picture	S/66	VIII, 95	XI, 226
g/ The Fuller, his Wife & the Trooper	S/67	VIII, 95	XI, 231
h/ The Merchant, Crone and King	S/68	VIII, 96	XI, 235
i/ Tale of the Simpleton Husband	S/69	VIII, 97	XI, 239
j/ The Unjust King and the Tither	S/70	VIII, 98	XI, 242
j1/ Story of David and Solomon	S/71	VIII, 99	XI, 244
k/ Tale of the Robber and the Woman	S/72	VIII, 100	XI, 246
l/ The Three men and Our Lord Isa	S/73	VIII, 100	XI, 250
l1/ The Disciple's Story	S/73	VIII, 101	XI, 251
m/ Tale of the Dethroned Ruler	S/74	VIII, 101	XI, 253
n/ The Man whose Caution slew him	S/75	VIII, 102	XI, 258
o/ The Man lavish of his House	S/76	VIII, 102	XI, 259
p/ The Melancholist and the Sharper	S/77	VIII, 103	XI, 264
q/ Khalbas, his Wife & the Scholar	S/78	VIII, 103	XI, 267
r/ The Devotee accused of Lewdness	No. 322b: S/79	6:157;8:104	XI, 270
S/Tale of the Hireling and the Girl	S/80	VIII, 104	XI, 279
t/ The Weaver who became a Leach	S/81	VIII, 105	XI, 282
u/ The Two Sharpers cozened	S/82	VIII, 106	XI, 288
v/ The Sharpers, Shroff and the Ass	S/83	VIII, 107	XI, 298
w/ Tale of the Cheat & the Merchants	S/84	VIII, 108	XI, 302
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
w1/ Story of the Falcon & the Locust	S/85: L/ 50: 25	8:108; 3:61	XI, 305
x/ The King & his Chamberlain's Wife	S/86	7:123;8:108	XI, 308
x1/ The Crone and the Draper's Wife	S/87	VIII, 109	XI, 309
y/ The Ugly Man & his Beautiful Wife	S/88	VIII, 109	XI, 315
z/ The King who Lost his Kingdom	No. 327b: S/89	6:164;8:110	XI, 319
z1/ Tale of Salim & Salma his Sister	S/90	VIII, 110	XI, 332
z2/ The King of Hind and his Wazir	S/91	VIII, 111	XI, 352
(182) Bibars & the Captains of Police	Nos 408-26	VII, 138	XII, 3
a/ First Constable's History	No. 408a	VII, 138	XII, 6
b/ Second Constable's History	No. 409	VII, 140	XII, 16
c/ Third Constable's History	No. 410	VII, 140	XII, 19
d/ Fourth Constable's History	No. 411	VII, 140	XII, 23
e/ Fifth Constable's History	No. 412	VII, 141	XII, 26
f/ Sixth Constable's History	No. 413	VII, 141	XII, 27
g/ Seventh Constable's History	No. 414	VII, 141	XII, 30
h/ Eighth Constable's History	No. 415	VII, 142	XII, 34
h1/ The Thief's Tale	No. 416	VII, 143	XII, 42
i/ Ninth Constable's History	No. 417	VII, 143	XII, 44
j/ Tenth Constable's History	No. 418	VII, 144	XII, 47
k/ Eleventh Constable's History	No. 419	VII, 144	XII, 49
l/ Twelfth Constable's History	No. 420	VII, 144	XII, 52
m/ Thirteenth Constable's History	No. 421	VII, 145	XII, 53
n/ Fourteenth Constable's History	No. 422	VII, 145	XII, 54
n1/ A Merry Jest of a Clever Thief	No. 423	VII, 146	XII, 56
n2/ Tale of the Old Sharper	No. 424	VII, 146	XII, 57
o/ Fifteenth Constable's History	No. 425	VII, 146	XII, 59
p/ Sixteenth Constable's History	No. 426	VII, 147	XII, 63
(183) Al-Rashid & Abdullah bin Nafi	No. 211	VI, 46	XII, 67
a/ Tohfat Al-Kulub & the Caliph	[No. 211]	VI, 46	XII, 70
(184) Women's Wiles	No. 331a	VI, 173	XII, 137
(185) Nur Al-Din Ali and Sitt Al-Milah	No. 269	VI, 100	XII, 151
(186) King Ins bin Kays & his Daughter	No. 61	V, 128	XII, 191
(187) The Kings & Wazir's Daughters	No. 111c	V, 189	XII, 263
(188) The Concubine and the Caliph	No. 178	V, 290	XII, 275
(189) The Concubine of Al-Maamun	No. 179	V, 291	XII, 281
(190) Conclusion	No. 111b	V, 189	X, 54
(191) The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam	No. 442	VII, 165	XIII i, 3
(192) Khudadad and his Brothers	No. 237	VI, 69	XIII i, 269
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
a/ The Princess of Daryabar's history	No. 237	VI, 70	XIII i, 281
(193) Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp	No. 19	V, 55	XIII i, 51
(194) The Caliph's Night Adventure	No. 209	VI, 44	XIII ii, 307
a/ The Blind Man, Baba Abdullah	No. 72	V, 146	XIII ii, 311
b/ History of Sidi Nu'uman	No. 371	VI, 198	XIII ii, 325
c/ History of Khwajah Hasan	No. 202	VI, 31	XIII ii, 341
(195) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	No. 24	V, 79	XIII ii, 369
(196) Ali Khwajah and the Merchant	No. 26	V, 85	XIII ii, 405
(197) Prince Ahmad and the Peri-Banu	No. 286	VI, 133	XIII ii, 419
(198) The Two Envious Sisters	No. 375	VII, 95	XIII ii, 491
(199) Ja'afar the Barmecide	[Nos 90-91]	V, 166	[IV, 181]
(200) Ali and Zaher of Damascus	No. 21	V, 70	-
a/ The Story of Tarad	[No. 21]	V, 73	-
(201) Adventures of Judar of Cairo	No. 154b	V, 261	-
a/ Mahmood's Story	[No. 154]	V, 261	-
b/ The Story of Queen Daruma	[No. 154]	V, 265	-
c/ Taj Al-Muluk, King of Tauris	[No. 154]	V, 268	-
d/ The Story of the Golden Castle	[No. 154]	V, 271	-
(202) The Physician and the Young Man	[No. 253]	VI, 89	[I, 288]
(203) The Sultan and his Three Sons	No. 438	VII, 158	XIV, 1
(204) Story of the Three Sharpers	No. 439	VII, 162	XIV, 17
a/ The Sultan in a Darwaysh's Habit	[No. 439]	VII, 163	XIV, 35
b/ Mohammed, Sultan of Cairo	No. 234	VI, 67	XIV, 37
c/ Story of the First Lunatic	Nos 175-76	V, 101	XIV, 49
d/ Story of the Second Lunatic	No. 331b	VI, 174	XIV, 67
e/ Story of the Sage and the Scholar	No. 377	VII, 102	XIV, 74
f/ The Three Foolish Schoolmasters	No. 385	VII, 116	XIV, 90
g/ The Broke-back Schoolmaster	No. 290	VI, 137	XIV, 95
h/ The Split-mouthed Schoolmaster	No. 291	VI, 138	XIV, 97
i/ Story of the Limping Schoolmaster	No. 292	VI, 138	XIV, 101
j/ The Sultan's Visit to the Sisters	[No. 385]	VII, 116	XIV, 102
k/ The Three Sisters and their Mother	No. 327a	VI, 162	XIV, 109
(205) The Kazi who bare a Babe	No. 107	V, 184	XIV, 167
(206) The Kazi and the Bhang-Eater	No. 279	VI, 125	XIV, 187
a/ The Bhang-Eater and his Wife	No. 280	VI, 125	XIV, 202
b/ How Abu Kasim became a Kazi	No. 230	VI, 62	XIV, 210
c/ The Kazi and his Slipper	No. 283	VI, 129	XIV, 212
d/ Tale of the Bhang-Eater	No. 189	VI, 17	XIV, 215
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
d1/ The Bhang-Eater become Wazir	Nos 231-32	VI, 63	XIV, 235
(207) The Sultan and Mahmud the 'Ajamí	No. 385b	VII, 117	XIV, 241
a/ Tale of Mahmud the Persian	[No. 162]	V, 279	XIV, 242
b/ The Sultan and the Poor Man	No. 146	V, 245	XIV, 242
c/ The Three Princes and the Bird	No. 273	VI, 8	XIV, 244
d/ The Fruit-Seller and the Concubine	[No. 146]	V, 245	XIV, 256
e/ The King of Al-Yaman and his Sons	No. 182	VI, 5	XIV, 258
f/ History of the First Larrikin	No. 430	VII, 150	XIV, 281
g/ History of the Second Larrikin	No. 431	VII, 151	XIV, 290
h/ History of the Third Larrikin	No. 432	VII, 152	XIV, 294
i/ The Sultan of Al-Hind and his Son	No. 274	VI, 108	XIV, 297
(208) j/ Tale of the Fisherman's Son	No. 20	V, 68	XIV, 314
k/ The Third Larrikin's Tale	No. 103	V, 178	XIV, 329
(209) Abu Niyyah and Abu Niyyatayn	No. 8	V, 11	XIV, 334
a/ The Courtier's Story	No. 52	V, 116	[VII, 117]
b/ Another relation of the Courtier	-	IV, 207	-
c/ The Shaykh with Beard shorn	-	IV, 207	-
(210) The Prince & the Lady Fatimah	No. 372	VI, 199	XV, 1
(211) History of the Lovers of Syria	No. 30	V, 94	XV, 19
(212) Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and Sayyid	No. 204	VI, 34	XV, 37
a/ Sultan's Son & Wazir's Daughter	-	IV, 207	-
(213) Tale of Sultan Káyyish	No. 235	VI, 68	-
(214) The Young Lady Turned Gazelle	-	IV, 207	-
(215) The History of Mázin	No. 212b	VII, 35	-
(216) Harun Al-Rashid and Manjab	No. 177	V, 103	XV, 61
a/ The Lovers of Bassorah	[No. 374]	VII, 93	[VII, 130]
b/ Night Adventure of Harun Al-Rashid	[No. 177]	V, 104	XV, 62
c/ Tale told by Manjab	[No. 177]	V, 104	XV, 65
d/ The Darwaysh & the Barber's Boy	No. 378	VII, 104	XV, 105
e/ Tale of the Simpleton Husband	No. 332: S/69	6:175;8:142	XV, 116
f/ The Wife and her two Gallants	-	IV, 207	-
(217) Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf	No. 206	VI, 35	XV, 121
(218) The Three Princes of China	No. 239	VI, 72	XV, 211
(219) History of the First Brave	-	IV, 207	-
(220) History of another Brave	-	IV, 207	-
(221) The Adventures of a Simpleton	-	IV, 207	-
(222) The Goodwife of Cairo	-	IV, 207	-
(223) The Righteous Wazir gaoled	No. 401: S/108	7:132;8:122	XV, 229
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(224) The Youth, Barber and Captain	No. 79	V, 156	XV, 241
(225) The Wife and her Four Gallants	No. 185	VI, 11	XV, 251
a/ The Tailor, the Lady & the Captain	No. 333: S/142	6:175;8:142	XV, 261
b/ The Syrian and the Women of Cairo	No. 335	VI, 176	XV, 271
c/ The Lady with Two Coyntes	No. 336	VI, 176	XV, 279
d/ The Whorish Wife vaunting Virtue	No. 338	VI, 177	XV, 287
(226) CÏlebs the Droll and his Wife	No. 187	VI, 13	XV, 295
(227) The Gate-Keeper & the She-Thief	No. 408b	VII, 139	XV, 307
(228) Tale of Mohsin and Musa	No. 9	V, 13	XV, 319
(229) Mohammed the Shalabi	No. 339	VI, 178	XV, 333
(230) The Fellah and his wicked Wife	No. 340	VI, 178	XV, 345
(231) The Woman and her Lover	No. 341	VI, 179	XV, 355
(232) The Kazi schooled by his Wife	No. 108	V, 185	XV, 361
(233) The Merchant's Daughter	No. 150	V, 253	XV, 371
(234) The Story of Ahmed and Ali	-	IV, 207	-
(235) The Fellah and his fair Wife	-	IV, 207	-
(236) The Youth & his Father's Wives	No. 342	VI, 180	XV, 439
(237) Story of the Two Lack-Tacts	No. 168	V, 283	XV, 453
(238) The Tale of Musa and Ibrahim	-	IV, 207	-
(239) The Brother Wazirs	No. 15	V, 32	-
a/ The Story of the Unfaithful Wife	-	-	-
(240) The Thief and his Step-mother	-	IV, 208	-
(241) The Kazi and his Wife	No. 322a	VI, 155	-
a/ The King's Tale of Himself	No. 326	VI, 162	XV, 463
b/ The Sultan of Al-'Irák	-	IV, 208	-
(242) Shaykh Nakkit the Fisherman	-	IV, 208	-
a/ the Sultan of Andalusia	No. 57	V, 120	-
(243) Sultan Taylún and the Fellah	-	IV, 208	-
(244) The Sage and his Servant-lad	-	IV, 208	-
(245) The Merchant's Daughter	No. 133	V, 234	-
(246) The History of Al-Bundukani	No. 106	V, 182	XVI, 39
(247) The Warlock & Cook of Baghdad	No. 376	VII, 100	XVI, 119
(248) The Say of Haykar the Sage	No. 207	VI, 36	XVI, 1
(249) The Tale of Attaf	No. 64	V, 135	XVI, 165
(250) The History of Prince Habib	No. 203	VI, 32	XVI, 223
a/ The History of Durrat Al-Ghawwas	[No. 203]	VI, 33	XVI, 234
(251) The Forty Wazirs	No. 402: S/93	7:133;8:112	-
a/ Story of Shaykh Shahabeddin	S/94	7:105;8:113	-
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
b/ The Gardener, his Son, and the Ass	S/138	VIII, 139	-
c/ The Sultan Mahmoud and his Wazir	S/119	VIII, 129	-
d/ The Brahman Padmanaba and Fyquai	S/103	VIII, 118	-
e/ Story of Sultan Akshid	S/110	VIII, 123	-
f/ The Husband, Lover and Thief	S/110	VIII, 123	-
g/ The Princess of Georgia	S/121	7:74; 8:130	-
h/ The Cobbler & the King's Daughter	S/136	VIII, 138	-
i/ The Woodcutter and the Genius	S/154	VIII, 152	-
j/ The Royal Parrot	S/162	VIII, 157	-
(252) The King and Queen of Abyssinia	S/58	VIII, 88	-
(253) Story of Princess Amina	No. 31	V, 95	-
a/ Story of the Princess of Tartary	[No. 31]	V, 95	-
b/ Story told by the Old Man's Wife	[No. 31]	V, 97	-
(254) Story of Ali Johari	No. 27	V, 86	-
(255) The two Princes of Cochin China	No. 134	V, 234	-
(256) Story of the two Husbands	No. 151	V, 253	-
a/ Story of Abdallah	No. 149	V, 252	-
b/ Story of the Favourite	No. 334	VI, 176	-
(257) Yusuf and the Indian Merchant	No. 441	VII, 164	-
(258) Story of Prince Benazir	No. 100	V, 175	-
(259) Story of Selim, Sultan of Egypt	No. 369: S/115	6:196;8:127	-
a/ Story of the Cobbler's Wife	No. 267	VI, 99	-
b/ Story of Adileh	No. 11: S/104	5:17; 8:119	-
c/ Story of the scarred Kalender	No. 118	V, 203	-
d/ Continuation of the Story of Selim	[No. 369]	VI, 197	-
(260) Story of Seif Sul Yesn	No. 347	VI, 183	X, 475
(261) The Labourer and the Chair	No. 131	V, 232	-
(262) Story of Ahmed the Orphan	No. 14?	V, 32	-
(263) The Three Princes and the Genius	No. 181	VI, 1	XVI, 363
(264) The Linguist-Dame & the Duenna	No. 114	V, 194	XVI, 87
(265) The Cock and the Fox	No. 141	V, 240	XVI, 143
(266) The Fowl-let and the Fowler	No. 275	VI, 110	XVI, 151
(267) The Idiot; or, Story of Xailoun	No. 437	VII, 155	-
(268) Alibengiad, Sultan of Herat	No. 25	V, 85	-
(269) The Family of the Schebandad	No. 366	VI, 194	-
a/ Abil Hasan's Story	No. 29	V, 92	-
b/ Debil Hasan's Story	No. 392	VII, 124	-
c/ The Dream of Valid Hasan	No. 328	VI, 171	-
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
(270) History of Maugraby	No. 252	VI, 84	-
a/ Halaiaddin, Prince of Persia	[No. 252]	VI, 85	-
b/ Yemaladdin, Prince of Great Katay	[No. 252]	VI, 86	-
c/ Baha-Ildur, Prince of Cinigae	[No. 252]	VI, 86	-
d/ Badvildinn, Prince of Tartary	[No. 252]	VI, 86	-
e/ Shahadildin, Prince of Damascus	[No. 252]	VI, 87	-
f/ The Amours of Maugraby	[No. 252]	VI, 87	-
g/ The Birth of Maugraby	[No. 252]	VI, 88	-
(271) Solomon and the Queen of Sheba	-	-	-
a/ The Death and Downfall of Solomon	-	-	-
b/ The Story of the Deceitful Widow	-	-	-
(272) The Story of Ibn Tamim Addari	-	-	-
(273) The Adventures of Sultan Beibars	-	-	-
a/ The History of the Moslems	-	-	-
b/ The Treacherous Priest Djawan	-	-	-
c/ The Early life of Schahin	-	-	-
d/ Salech's Dream, Beibars' Birth	-	-	-
e/ Youth of Zaher Beibars	-	-	-
f/ Djawan's Plot against Beibars	-	-	-
g/ Beibars and the Princess Mariam	-	-	-
h/ Beibars Meets his Brother & Uncle	-	-	-
i/ Djawan's New Plot, Beibars' Dream	-	-	-
j/ Beibars' Adventures in Syria	-	-	-
(274) Ali the Fisherman	-	-	-
(275) Satilatlas and Hamamatelliwa	-	-	-
(271) The Parable of True Learning	No. 444	VII, 169	-
(272) The Keys of Destiny	No. 388	V, 39	-
(273) The Diwan of Easy Jests	-	IX, 80	-
a/ Buhlûl the Jester	No. 393a-e	VII, 126	-
b/ The Tale of the Kadi-Mule	No. 445	VII, 170	-
c/ The Kadi and the Ass's Foal	No. 446	VII, 171	-
d/ The Tale of the Astute Kadi	No. 448: S/245	VII, 172	-
e/ The Man Who Understood Women	No. 447	VII, 171	-
(274) The Tale of the Unending Treasure	No. 5	V, 8	-
(276) The Tale of Princess Zulaikah	S/65	VIII, 93	-
(277) Sweet Tales of Careless Youth	-	IX, 81	-
a/ Hard-Head & his Sister Little-Foot	Artin, 149	IX, 81	-
b/ The Anklet	Artin, 63	IX, 81	-
SHORT TITLES	CHAUVIN	CHAUVIN 2	BURTON
c/ The He-Goat & the King's Daughter	Artin, 87	IX, 81	-
d/ The Prince and the Tortoise	Artin, 103	IX, 81	-
e/ The Chick-Pea Seller's Daughter	Artin, 185	IX, 81	-
f/ The Looser	Artin, 123	IX, 81	-
g/ The Captain of Police	Artin, 195	IX, 81	-
i/ The Gelded Barber	No. 78	V, 154	-
(278) The Tale of Prince Diamond	Garcin, 423	IX, 82	-
(279) Some Jests and Suggestions	D & M	IX, 82	-
(280) Baibars and His Captains	[Nos 408-26]	VII, 138	-
a/ The Second Captain's Tale	-	IX, 82	-
b/ The Third Captain's Tale	Spitta, 43	IX, 82	-
c/ The Fourth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 43	IX, 82	-
d/ The Fifth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 30	IX, 82	-
e/ The Sixth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 61	IX, 82	-
f/ The Eighth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 112	IX, 82	-
g/ The Ninth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 105	IX, 82	-
h/ The Tenth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 94	IX, 83	-
i/ The Eleventh Captain's Tale	Spitta, 152	IX, 83	-
j/ The Twelfth Captain's Tale	Spitta, 1	IX, 83	-
(281) The Sea Rose of the Girl of China	Garcin, 307	IX, 83	-
(282) Windows on the Garden of History	Mohdy I, 44	IX, 83	-
a/ The Poet Duraid and His Love	Perron, 83, 268-90	IX, 83	-
b/ The Warrior Daughters of Find	Perron, 49	IX, 83	-
c/ Princess Fatimah and Murakkish	Perron, 64-69	IX, 83	-
d/ The Vengeance of King Hujr	Perron, 88-91	IX, 83	-
e/ Men in their Wives' Judgement	Perron, 34, 322	IX, 83	-
f/ Tales of Umar ibn al-Khattab	Perron, 336-41	IX, 83	-
g/ Blue Salamah the Singer	Perron, 477-81	IX, 83	-
h/ The Tale of the Parasite	Perron, 514-15	IX, 83	-
i/ The Tale of the Slave of Destiny	Perron, 502-11	IX, 83	-
j/ The Tale of the Fatal Collar	Perron, 543-45	IX, 83	-
k/ Ishak of Mosul and the Lost Melody	Perron, 458-63	IX, 83	-
l/ The Two Dancers	Perron, 486-89	IX, 83	-
m/ The Pistachio Oil Cream	[No. 383]	VII, 114	-
n/ The Arab Girl at the Fountain	No. 246	VI, 78	-
(283) Prince Jasmine and Almond	Garcin, 481	IX, 84	-

Preface

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[Sultanabad Carpet]

The two major events in Nights scholarship since the bulk of this book was written, between 1991 and 1995, have been the appearance of Ulrich Marzolph and Richard van Leeuwen's 2-volume Arabian Nights Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA / Denver CO / Oxford, UK: ABC Clio, 2004) - a peerlessly authoritative (and instantly indispensable) work of scholarship - and the completion of Andre Miquel and Jamel Eddine Bencheikh's fully-annotated 3-volume French translation of the Arabic text in the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade (Paris: Gallimard, 2005-6).

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia includes (in volume 2 pp. 743-82), a list of stories and editions of the Nights which largely supersedes my own more tortuous attempts to reconcile the numbering systems created by the two pioneers in this endeavour: W. F. Kirby and Nikita Eliseef. Nevertheless, I have still thought it worthwhile to include my story-concordance in this collected version of my Arabian Nights papers to date. There are certain features in it which may make it useful even to those who have the Encyclopedia to hand.

The main reason why it seems opportune to publish this material now is the fact that it embodies a certain attitude towards the Nights, and towards their place in the larger scheme of Comparative Literature which has not yet found enough of a voice. Origin studies and linguistic analysis are still in the ascendant.

I prefer to approach the Nights from the point of view of the cultural impact they've had than to attempt to answer questions about what they really are.

In one sense the answer is obvious: a collection of Arabic tales translated (with supplementary materials) by the Frenchman Antoine Galland between 1704 and 1717. In another sense, it's the constantly-morphing concept of a book which has beguiled and bedevilled writers, critics and translators for 300 years - a process which shows no signs of abating, as postmodern relativism permeates ever deeper into popular culture.

We no longer have so much trouble imagining a book which could be said to have invented and written itself. Do we find it any easier to read, though? I would suspect not. "In dreams begin responsibilities." The more uncertain and malleable our readings become, the more responsibility we have to assume for them. Are the Nights, finally, simply a vessel for stereotypical Western fantasies of the Oriental other, or is it possible to claim a more positive cultural role for them over the past three centuries of European hegemony?

- Dr Jack Ross, Massey Albany, September 2007

A List of Stories in the 1001 Nights

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TITLES / NIGHTS

List of Abbreviations:

[Anderson] = Anderson's recension of the Wortley-Montague Ms.
[B] = Breslau Edition, 12 vols (1825-43)
[Bulaq] = Bulaq Edition, 2 vols (1835)
[Burton] = Burton Translation, 16 vols (1885-88)
[C1] = First Calcutta Edition, 2 vols (1814-18)
[Calc. 2] = Macnaghten or Second Calcutta Edition, 4 vols (1839-42)
[Chauvin] = Victor Chauvin, Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes, 12 vols (1892-1922)
[Ch] = Chavis and Cazotte Translation, 4 vols (1788-89)
[D] = Les Dames de Bagdad, trans. André Miquel (1991)
[Encyclopedia] = Ulrich Marzolph and Richard van Leeuwen, ed. Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols (2004), 2: 743-82
[Eliséef] = Nikita Eliséef, Thèmes et Motifs des Mille et Une Nuits (1949: 190-205)
[Galland] = Galland Translation, 12 vols (1704-17)
[Gerhardt] = Mia I. Gerhardt, The Art of Story-telling (1963)
[H] = Habicht Translation, 15 vols (1824-25)
[Kirby] = W. F. Kirby, “Contributions to the Bibliography of the 1001 Nights” (Burton, 1885, X: 514-31)
[M] = Mardrus Translation, 16 vols (1899-1904)
[PI-III] = Tales from the Arabic, trans. John Payne, 3 vols (1884)
[P2] = Alaeddin & Zein ul Asnam, trans. John Payne (1889)
[Reinhardt] = Aboubakr Chraïbi, Contes nouveaux des 1001 Nuits: Étude du manuscrit Reinhardt (1996)
[S] = Tales, Anecdotes and Letters, trans. Jonathan Scott (1800)
[T] = Felix Tauer, Neue Erzählungen aus den 1001 Nächten, 2 vols (1982)
[Tr] = Trébutien Translation, 3 vols (1828)
[W] = Weil Translation, 4 vols (1838-41)
[WM] = Wortley-Montague Ms., 7 vols (1764-65)
[ZER] = ‘Zotenberg’s Egyptian Recension’ (Paris, 1888)

Key to Numbering:

Ross = Decimal numbers
Encyclopedia = {curly brackets}
Eliséef = [square brackets]
Kirby = (parentheses)
Burton = Titles
Calc. 2 &c. = (Nights)

[Abacus]

Story of King Shahryar and his Brother

{2} a) Tale of the Bull and the Ass (-)

{3} b) The Merchant and His Wife (-)

{4} [1] (1) Tale of the Trader and the Jinni (Nights 1-3)
1. {5} a) The First Shaykh's Story (Night 1)
2. {6} b) The Second Shaykh's Story (Night 2)
3. {7} c) The Third Shaykh's Story (Nights 2-3)

{8} [2] (2) The Fisherman and the Jinni (Nights 3-9)
1. {9} a) Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban (Nights 4-6)
  1. {10} a1) Story of King Sindibad and his Falcon (Night 5)
  2. {11} a2) Tale of the Husband and the Parrot (Night 5)
  3. {12} a3) Tale of the Prince and the Ogress (Night 5)
2. {13} b) Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince (Nights 7-9)

{14} [3] (3) The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad (Nights 9-19)
1. {15} a) The First Kalandar's Tale (Nights 11-12)
2. {16} b) The Second Kalandar's Tale (Nights 12-14)
  1. {17} b1) Tale of the Envier and the Envied (Night 13)
3. {18} c) The Third Kalandar's Tale (Nights 14-16)
4. {19} d) The Eldest Lady's Tale (Nights 17-18)
5. {20} e) Tale of the Portress (Night 18)
  1. e1) Conclusion of the Story of the Porter and Three Ladies (Nights 18-19)

{21} [4] (4) Tale of the Three Apples (Nights 19-20)

{22} [5] (5) Tale of Nur Al-Din and his Son Badr Al-Din Hasan (Nights 20-24)

{23} [6] (6) The Hunchback's Tale (Nights 24-34)
1. {24} a) The Nazarene Broker's Story (Nights 25-26)
2. {25} b) The Reeve's Tale (Nights 27-28)
3. {26} c) Tale of the Jewish Doctor [= (202)] (Nights 28-29)
4. {27} d) Tale of the Tailor [= 276/h] (Nights 29-33)
5. {28} e) The Barber's Tale of Himself (Nights 31-33)
  1. {29} e1) The Barber's Tale of his First Brother (Night 31)
  2. {30} e2) The Barber's Tale of his Second Brother (Nights 31-32)
  3. {31} e3) The Barber's Tale of his Third Brother (Night 32)
  4. {32} e4) The Barber's Tale of his Fourth Brother (Night 32)
  5. {33} e5) The Barber's Tale of his Fifth Brother (Nights 32-33)
  6. {34} e6) The Barber's Tale of his Sixth Brother (Night 33)
6. d1) The End of the Tailor's Tale (Night 33)

{35} [7] (7) Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis (Nights 34-38)

{36} [8] (8) Tale of Ghanim Bin Ayyub, the Distraught, the Thrall o' Love (Nights 38-45)
1. {37} a) Tale of the First Eunuch, Bukhayt (Night 39)
2. {38} b) Tale of the Second Eunuch, Kafur (Nights 39-40)

{39} [9] (9) Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his Sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan (Nights 45-145)
1. {40} a) Tale of Taj Al-Muluk and the Princess Dunya (Nights 107-37)
  1. {41} a1) Tale of Aziz and Azizah (Nights 112-29)
2. {42} b) Tale of the Hashish-Eater (Nights 142-43)
3. {43} c) Tale of Hammad the Badawi (Night 144)

{44} [10] Parables: i) (10) The Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter (Nights 146-47)

{45} (11) The Hermits (Nights 147-48)
1. [ii] The Hermit and the Pigeons (Nights 147-48)
2. [iii] The Temptation of the Pious Shepherd (Night 148)

{46} [iv] (12) The Water-fowl and the Tortoise (Night 148)

{47} [v] (13) The Wolf and the Fox (Nights 148-50)
1. {48} a) Tale of the Falcon and the Partridge (Night 149)
2. b) The Two Invalids (Night 149)
3. c) The Man and the Serpent (Night 150)

{49} [vi] (14) The Mouse and the Ichneumon (Night 150)

{50} [vii] (15) The Cat and the Crow (Night 150)

{51} [viii] (16) The Fox and the Crow (Nights 150-52)
1. {52} a) The Flea and the Mouse (Nights 150-51)
2. {53} b) The Saker and the Birds (Nights 151-52)
3. {54} c) The Sparrow and the Eagle (Night 152)

{55} [ix] (17) The Hedgehog and the Wood Pigeons (Night 152)
1. a) The Seed Badly Sown (Night 152)
2. {56} b) The Merchant and the Two Sharpers (Night 152)

{57} [x] (18) The Thief and his Monkey (Night 152)
1. {58} a) The Foolish Weaver (Night 152)

{59} [xi] (19) The Sparrow and the Peacock (Night 152)

{60} [11] (20) Ali Bin Bakkar and Shams Al-Nahar (Nights 153-69)

{61} [12] (21) Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman (Nights 170-249)
1. {62} a) Ni'amah bin Al-Rabia and Naomi his Slave-Girl (Nights 237-49)

{63} [13] (22) Ala Al-Din Abu Al-Shamat (Nights 249-69)

{64} [14] (23) Hatim of the Tribe of Tayy (Nights 269-71)

{65} [15] (24) Ma'an the Son of Zaidah and the Three Girls (Nights 271-72)

{66} [16] (25) Ma'an son of Zaidah and the Badawi (Night 272)

{67} [17] (26) The City of Labtayt (Nights 272-73)

{68} [18] (27) The Caliph Hisham and the Arab Youth (Night 273)

{69} [19] (28) Ibrahim bin Al-Mahdi and the Barber-Surgeon (Nights 273-76)

{70} [20] (29) The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kalabah (Nights 276-79)

{71} [21] (30) Isaac of Mosul (Nights 279-82)

{72} [22] (31) The Sweep and the Noble Lady (Nights 282-85)

{73} [23] (32) The Mock Caliph (Nights 285-94)

{74} [24] (33) Ali the Persian [= (207/a)] (Nights 294-96)

{75} [25] (34) Harun Al-Rashid and the Slave-Girl and the Imam Abu Yusuf [= 281/m] (Nights 296-97)

{76} [26] (35) The Lover who feigned himself a Thief (Nights 297-99)

{77} [27] (36) Ja'afar the Barmecide and the Bean-Seller (Night 299)

{78} [28] (37) Abu Mohammed hight Lazybones (Nights 299-305)

{79} [29] (38) Generous dealing of Yahya bin Khalid the Barmecide with Mansur (Nights 305-06)

{80} [30] (39) Generous dealing of Yahya son of Khalid with a man who forged a letter [= (199)] (Nights 306-07)

{81} [31] (40) Caliph Al-Maamun and the Strange Scholar (Nights 307-08)

{82} [32] (41) Ali Shar and Zumurrud (Nights 308-27)

{83} [33] (42) The Loves of Jubayr bin Umayr and the Lady Budur [cf. (147)] (Nights 327-34)

{84} [34] (43) The Man of Al-Yaman and his Six Slave-Girls (Nights 334-38)

{85} [35] (44) Harun Al-Rashid and the Damsel and Abu Nowas (Nights 338-40)

{86} [36] (45) The Man who stole the dish of gold whereon the dog ate (Nights 340-41)

{87} [37] (46) The Sharper of Alexandria and the Chief of Police (Nights 341-42)

{88} [38] (47) Al-Malik Al-Nasir and the Three Chiefs of Police (Nights 342-44)
1. {89} a) Story of the Chief of the New Cairo Police (Night 342)
2. {90} b) Story of the Chief of the Bulak Police (Night 343)
3. {91} c) Story of the Chief of the Old Cairo Police (Night 344)

{92} [39] (48) The Thief and the Shroff (Nights 344-45)

{93} [40] (49) The Chief of the Kus Police and the Sharper (Nights 345-46)

{94} [41] (50) Ibrahim bin Al-Mahdi and the Merchant's Sister (Nights 346-47)

{95} [42] (51) The Woman whose hands were cut off for almsgiving (Nights 347-48)

{96} [43] (52) The devout Israelite (Nights 348-49)

{97} [44] (53) Abu Hassan Al-Ziyadi and the Khorasan Man (Nights 349-51)

{98} [45] (54) The Poor Man and his Friend in Need (Night 351)

{99} [46] (55) The Ruined Man who became rich again through a Dream (Nights 351-52)

{100} [47] (56) Caliph Al-Mutawakkil and his Concubine Mahbubah (Nights 352-53)

{101} [48] (57) Wardan the Butcher's Adventure with the Lady and the Bear (Nights 353-55)

{102} [49] (58) The King's Daughter and the Ape (Nights 355-57)

{103} [50] (59) The Ebony Horse (Nights 357-71)

{104} [51] (60) Uns Al-Wujud and the Wazir's Daughter Rose-in-Hood (Nights 371-81)

{105} [52] (61) Abu Nowas with the Three Boys and the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid (Nights 381-83)

{106} [53] (62) Abdullah bin Ma'amar with the Man of Bassorah and his Slave-Girl (Night 383)

{107} [54] (63) The Lovers of the Banu Ozrah (Nights 383-84)

{108} [55] (64) The Wazir of Al-Yaman and his Young Brother (Night 384)

{109} [56] (65) The Loves of the Boy and Girl at School (Nights 384-85)

{110} [57] (66) Al-Mutalammis and His Wife Umaymah (Night 385)

{111} [58] (67) Harun Al-Rashid and Zubaydah in the Bath (Nights 385-86)

{112} [59] (68) Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Poets (Night 386)

{113} [60] (69) Mus'ab bin Al-Zubayr and Ayishah his Wife (Nights 386-87)

{114} [61] (70) Abu Al-Aswad and his Slave-Girl (Night 387)

{115} [62] (71) Harun Al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls (Night 387)

{116} [62] (72) Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls (Night 387)

{117} [63] (73) The Miller and his Wife (Nights 387-88)

{118} [64] (74) The Simpleton and the Sharper (Night 388)

{119} [65] (75) The Kazi Abu Yusuf with Harun Al-Rashid and Queen Zubaydah (Nights 388-89)

{120} [68] (76) The Caliph Al-Hakim and the Merchant (Night 389)

{121} [69] (77) King Kisra Anushirwan and the Village Damsel (Nights 389-90)

{122} [70] (78) The Water-Carrier and the Goldsmith's Wife (Nights 390-91)

{123} [71] (79) Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman (Night 391)

{124} [72] (80) Yahya bin Khalid and the Poor Man (Nights 391-92)

{125} [73] (81) Mohammed Al-Amin and the Slave-Girl (Night 392)

{126} [74] (82) The Sons of Yahya bin Khalid and Said bin Salim (Nights 392-93)

{127} [75] (83) The Woman's Trick against her Husband [cf. (184)] (Nights 393-94)

{128} [76] (84) The Devout Woman and the Two Wicked Elders (Night 394)

{129} [77] (85) Ja'afar the Barmecide and the Old Badawi (Nights 394-95)

{130} [78] (86) Omar bin Al-Khattab and the Young Badawi (Nights 395-97)

{131} [79] (87) Al-Maamun and the Pyramids of Egypt (Nights 397-98)

{132} [80] (88) The Thief and the Merchant (Nights 398-99)

{133} [81] (89) Masrur the Eunuch and Ibn Al-Karibi (Nights 399-401)

{134} [82] (90) The Devotee Prince (Nights 401-02)

{135} [83] (91) The Schoolmaster who fell in Love by Report (Nights 402-03)

{136} [84] (92) The Foolish Dominie (Night 403)

{137} [85] (93) The Illiterate who set up for a Schoolmaster (Nights 403-04)

{138} [86] (94) The King and the Virtuous Wife (Night 404)

{139} [87] (95) Abd Al-Rahman the Maghribi's Tale of the Rukh (Nights 404-05)

{140} [88] (96) Adi bin Zayd and the Princess Hind (Nights 405-07)

{141} [89] (97) Di'ibil Al-Khuza'i with the Lady and Muslim bin Al-Walid (Night 407)

{142} [90] (98) Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant (Nights 407-09)

{143} [91] (99) The Three Unfortunate Lovers (Nights 409-10)

{144} [-] (100) How Abu Hasan brake Wind (Night 410)

{145} [92] (101) The Lovers of the Banu Tayy (Nights 410-11)

{146} [93] (102) The Mad Lover (Nights 411-12)

{147} [94] (103) The Prior who became a Moslem (Nights 412-14)

{148} [95] (104) The Loves of Abu Isa and Kurrat Al-Ayn (Nights 414-18)

{149} [96] (105) Al-Amin and his Uncle Ibrahim bin Al-Mahdi (Nights 418-19)

{150} [97] (106) Al-Fath bin Khakan and Al-Mutawakkil (Night 419)

{151} [98] (107) The Man's Dispute with a Woman about the relative excellence of the Sexes (Nights 419-23)

{152} [99] (108) Abu Suwayd and the pretty Old Woman (Nights 423-24)

{153} [100] (109) Ali bin Tahir and the girl Muunis (Night 424)

{154} [101] (110) The Woman who had a Boy, and the other who had a Man to Lover (Night 424)

{155} [102] (111) Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad (Nights 424-34)

{156} [103] (112) The Pilgrim Man and the Old Woman (Nights 434-36)

{157} [104] (113) Abu Al-Husn and his Slave-Girl Tawaddud (Nights 434-62)

{158} [105] (114) The Angel of Death with the Proud King and the Devout Man (Night 462)

{159} [106] (115) The Angel of Death and the Rich King (Nights 462-63)

{160} [107] (116) The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel (Nights 463-64)

{161} [108] (117) Iskander zu Al-Karnayn and a certain Tribe of Poor Folk (Night 464)

{162} [109] (118) The Righteousness of King Anushirwan (Nights 464-65)

{163} [110] (119) The Jewish Kazi and his Pious Wife [= (241)] (Nights 465-66)

{164} [111] (120) The Shipwrecked Woman and her Child (Nights 466-67)

{165} [112] (121) The Pious Black Slave (Nights 467-68)

{166} [113] (122) The Devout Tray-maker and his Wife (Nights 468-70)

{167} [114] (123) Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and the Pious Man (Nights 470-71)

{168} [115] (124) The Blacksmith who could handle Fire without Hurt (Nights 471-73)

{169} [116] (125) The Devotee to whom Allah gave a Cloud for Service and the Devout King (Nights 473-74)

{170} [117] (126) The Moslem Champion and the Christian Damsel (Nights 474-77)

{171} [118] (127) The Christian King's Daughter and the Moslem (Nights 477-78)

{172} [119] (128) The Prophet and the Justice of Providence (Nights 478-79)

{173} [120] (129) The Ferryman of the Nile and the Hermit (Night 479)

{174} [121] (130) The Island King and the Pious Israelite (Nights 479-81)

{175} [122] (131) Abu Al-Hasan and Abu Ja'afar the Leper (Nights 481-82)

{176} [123] (132) The Queen of the Serpents (Nights 482-536)
1. {177} a) The Adventure of Bulukiya (Nights 486-533)
2. {178} b) The Story of Janshah (Nights 499-530)

{179} [124] (133) Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman (Nights 537-66)
1. [A] a) The 1st Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The Floating Island] (Nights 538-42)
2. [B] b) the 2nd Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The Valley of Diamonds] (Nights 542-46)
3. [C] c) The 3rd Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The Mountain of Apes and Cannibals] (Nights 546-50)
4. [D] d) the 4th Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [Buried Alive with His Dead Wife] (Nights 550-55)
5. [E] e) the 5th Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The Old Man of the Sea] (Nights 556-59)
6. f) The 6th Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The Embassy from Serendib (Gerhardt A)] (Galland)
7. [F] f1) The 6th Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [Embassy from the Indies (Gerhardt B)] (Nights 559-63)
8. [G] g) The 7th Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The Elephant's Burial-Place (Gerhardt A)] (Galland)
9. [H] g1) The 7th Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman [The City of the Flying Men (Gerhardt B)] (Nights 563-66)

{180} [125] (134) The City of Brass (Nights 566-78)

{181} [126] (135) The Craft and Malice of Women (Nights 578-606)
1. {182} a) The King and his Wazir's Wife (Nights 578-79)
2. {183} b) The Confectioner, his Wife and the Parrot (Night 579)
3. {184} c) The Fuller and his Son (Nights 579-80)
4. {185} d) The Rake's Trick against the Chaste Wife (Night 580)
5. {186} e) The Miser and the Loaves of Bread (Nights 580-81)
6. {187} f) The Lady and her Two Lovers (Night 581)
7. {188} g) The King's Son and the Ogress (Nights 581-82)
8. {189} h) The Drop of Honey (Night 582)
9. {190} i) The Woman who made her Husband sift Dust (Night 582)
10. {191} j) The Enchanted Spring (Nights 582-84)
11. {192} k) The Wazir's Son and the Hammam-keeper's Wife (Night 584)
12. {193} l) The Wife's Device to cheat her Husband (Nights 584-86)
13. {194} m) The Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing-Girl (Nights 586-87)
14. {195} n) The Man who never laughed during the rest of his days (Nights 587-91)
15. {196} o) The King's Son and the Merchant's Wife (Nights 591-92)
16. {197} p) The Page who feigned to know the Speech of Birds (Night 592)
17. {198} q) The Lady and her Five Suitors (Nights 593-96)
18. {199} r) The Three Wishes, or the Man who longed to see the Night of Power (Night 596)
19. {200} s) The Stolen Necklace (Nights 596-97)
20. {201} t) The Two Pigeons (Night 597)
21. {202} u) Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma (Nights 597-98)
22. {203} v) The House with the Belvedere (Nights 598-602)
23. {204} w) The King's Son and the Ifrit's Mistress (Nights 602-03)
24. x) The Poisoning (Night 603)
25. {205} y) The Sandal-wood Merchant and the Sharpers (Nights 603-05)
26. {206} z) the Debauchee and the Three-year-old Child (Night 605)
27. {207} aa) The Stolen Purse (Nights 605-06)
28. {208} bb) The Fox and the Folk (Night 606)

{209} [127] (136) Judar and his Brethren (Nights 606-24)

{210} [128] (137) The History of Gharib and his Brother Ajib (Nights 624-80)

{211} [129] (138) Otbah and Rayya (Nights 680-81)

{212} [130] (139) Hind, daughter of Al-Nu'uman and Al-Hajjaj (Nights 681-82)

{213} [131] (140) Khuzaymah bin Bishr and Ekrimah Al-Fayyaz (Nights 683-84)

{214} [132] (141) Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph Walid bin Sahl (Nights 684-85)

{215} [133] (142) Harun Al-Rashid and the Arab Girl (Nights 685-86)

{216} [134] (143) Al-Asma'i and the Three Girls of Bassorah (Nights 686-87)

{217} [135] (144) Ibrahim of Mosul and the Devil (Nights 687-88)

{218} [136] (145) The Lovers of the Banu Uzrah [= (209/a)] (Nights 688-91)

{219} [137] (146) the Badawi and his Wife (Nights 691-93)

{220} [138] (147) The Lovers of Bassorah [= (216/a)] (Nights 693-95)

{221} [139] (148) Ishak of Mosul and his Mistress and the Devil (Nights 695-96)

{222} [140] (149) The Lovers of Al-Medinah (Nights 696-97)

{223} [141] (150) Al-Malik Al-Nasir and his Wazir (Nights 697-98)

{224} [142] (151) The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty & her Daughter Zaynab Coney-Catcher (Nights 698-719)
1. {225} a) The Adventures of Mercury Ali of Cairo (Nights 708-19)

{226} [143] (152) Ardashir and Hayat Al-Nufus (Nights 719-38)

{227} [144] (153) Julnar the Sea-born and her Son King Badr Basim of Persia (Nights 738-56)

{228} [145] (154) King Mohammed bin Sabaik and the Merchant Hasan (Nights 756-78)
1. {229} a) Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'a Al-Jamal (Nights 758-78)

{230} [146] (155) Hasan of Bassorah (Nights 778-831)

{231} [147] (156) Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad (Nights 831-45)
1. a) The same from the Breslau Edition (B 321-22)

{232} [148] (157) Masrur and Zayn Al-Mawassif (Nights 845-63)

{233} [149] (158) Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl (Nights 863-94)

{234} [150] (159) The Man of Upper Egypt and his Frankish Wife (Nights 894-96)

{235} [151] (160) The Ruined Man of Baghdad and his Slave-Girl (Nights 896-99)

{236} [152] (161) King Jali'ad of Hind and his Wazir Shimas ... (Nights 900-30)
1. {237} [152/2] a) The Mouse and the Cat (Nights 901-02)
2. {238} [152/3] b) The Fakir and his Jar of Butter (Nights 902-03)
3. {239} [152/4] c) The Fishes and the Crab (Night 903)
4. {240} [152/5] d) The Crow and the Serpent (Nights 903-04)
5. {241} [152/6] e) The Wild Ass and the Jackal (Night 904)
6. {242} [152/7] f) The Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince (Night 905)
7. {243} [152/8] g) The Crows and the Hawk (Night 906)
8. {244} [152/9] h) The Serpent-Charmer and his Wife (Night 907)
9. {245} [152/10] i) The Spider and the Wind (Night 908)
10. {246} [152/12] j) The Two Kings (Nights 909-10)
11. {247} [152/13] k) The Blind Man and the Cripple (Night 910)
12. [152/15] l) The Lion and the Hunter (Night 911)
13. {248} [152/16] m) The Foolish Fisherman (Night 918)
14. {249} [152/17] n) The Boy and the Thieves (Night 918-19)
15. {250} [152/19] o) The Man and his Wife (Nights 919-20)
16. {251} [152/20] p) The Merchant and the Robbers (Night 920)
17. {252} [152/21] q) The Jackals and the Wolf (Night 921)
18. {253} [152/22] r) The Shepherd and the Rogue (Nights 921-22)
19. {254} [152/23] s) The Francolin and the Tortoises (Night 924)

{255} [153] (162) Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the Barber (Nights 930-40)

{256} [154] (163) Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman (Nights 940-46)

{257} [155] (164) Harun Al-Rashid and Abu Hasan, the Merchant of Oman (Nights 946-52)

{258} [156] (165) Ibrahim and Jamilah (Nights 952-59)

{259} [157] (166) Abu Al-Hasan of Khorasan (Nights 959-63)

{260} [158] (167) Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife (Nights 963-78)

{261} [159] (168) Abdullah bin Fazil and his Brothers (Nights 978-89)

{262} [160] (169) Ma'aruf the Cobbler and his Wife Fatimah (Nights 989-1001)

{263} [66] (170) The Sleeper and the Waker (B 272-91)
1. {264} [67] a) Story of the Larrikin and the Cook (B 273)

{265} (171) The Caliph Omar bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets (B 432-34)

{266} (172) Al-Hajjaj and the Three Young Men (B 434)

{267} (173) Harun Al-Rashid and the Woman of the Barmecides (B 434)

{268} (174) The Ten Wazirs; or The History of King Azadbakht and his Son (B 435-87)
1. a) Of the Uselessness of Endeavour against Persistent Ill Fortune (B 440)
  1. {269} {a1) Story of the Merchant who Lost his Luck (B 440)
2. b) Of Looking to the Ends of Affairs (B 444)
  1. {270} b1) Tale of the Merchant and his Sons (B 444) )
3. c) Of the Advantages of Patience (B 448)
  1. {271} c1) Story of Abu Sabir (B 448) )
4. d) Of the Ill Effects of Impatience (B 453)
  1. {272} d1) Story of Prince Bihzad (B 453) )
5. e) Of the Issues of Good and Evil Actions (B 455)
  1. {273} e1) Story of King Dadbin and his Wazirs (B 455) )
6. f) Of Trust in Allah (B 461)
  1. {274} f1) Story of King Bakhtzaman (B 461) )
7. g) Of Clemency (B 464)
  1. {275} g1) Story of King Bihkard (B 464) )
8. h) Of Envy and Malice (B 466)
  1. {276} h1) Story of Aylan Shah and Abu Tammam (B 466) )
9. i) Of Destiny or that which is Written on the Forehead (B 471)
  1. {277} i1) Story of King Ibrahim and his Son (B 471) )
10. j) Of the Appointed Term, which, if it be Advanced, may not be Deferred ... (B 475)
  1. {278} j1) Story of King Sulayman Shah and his Niece (B 475) )
11. k) Of the Speedy Relief of Allah (B 485)
  1. {279} k1) Story of the Prisoner and how Allah gave him Relief (B 485)

{280} (175) Ja'afar bin Yahya and Abd Al-Malik bin Salih the Abbaside (B 565)

{281} (176) Al-Rashid and the Barmecides (B 567)

{282} (177) Ibn Al-Sammak and Al-Rashid (B 568)

{283} (178) Al-Maamun and Zubaydah (B 568)

{284} (179) Al-Nu'uman and the Arab of the Banu Tay (B 660-61)

{285} (180) Firuz and his Wife (B 675-76)

{286} (181) King Shah Bakht and his Wazir Al-Rahwan (B 885-930)
1. {287} a) Tale of the Man of Khorasan, his Son and his Tutor (B 886)
2. {288} b) Tale of the Singer and the Druggist (B 888)
3. {289} c) Tale of the King who Kenned the Quintessence of Things (B 891)
4. {290} d) Tale of the Richard who Married his Beautiful Daughter to the Poor Old Man (B 892)
5. {291} e) Tale of the Sage and his Three Sons (B 893)
6. {292} f) Tale of the Prince who fell in love with the Picture (B 894)
7. {293} g) Tale of the Fuller and his Wife and the Trooper (B 896)
8. {294} h) Tale of the Merchant, the Crone and the King (B 896)
9. {295} i) Tale of the Simpleton Husband [= (216/e)] (B 898)
10. {296} j) Tale of the Unjust King and the Tither (B 899)
11. {297} j1) Story of David and Solomon (B 899)
12. {298} k) Tale of the Robber and the Woman (B 899)
13. {299} l) Tale of the Three men and our Lord Isa (B 901)
14. {300} l1) The Disciple's Story (B 901)
15. {301} m) Tale of the Dethroned Ruler whose Reign and Wealth were Restored to Him (B 901)
16. {302} n) Tale of the Man whose Caution slew him (B 903)
17. {303} o) Tale of the Man who was lavish of his House and his Provision (B 904)
18. {304} p) Tale of the Melancholist and the Sharper (B 905)
19. {305} q) Tale of Khalbas and his Wife and the Learned Man (B 906)
20. {306} r) Tale of the Devotee accused of Lewdness (B 907)
21. {307} s) Tale of the Hireling and the Girl (B 909)
22. {308} t) Tale of the Weaver who became a Leach by Order of his Wife (B 909)
23. {309} u) Tale of the Two Sharpers who each cozened his Compeer (B 911)
24. {310} v) Tale of the Sharpers with the Shroff and the Ass (B 914)
25. {311} w) Tale of the Cheat and the Merchants (B 915)
  1. {312} w1) Story of the Falcon and the Locust (B 916)
26. {313} x) Tale of the King and his Chamberlain's Wife (B 917)
  1. {314} x1) Story of the Crone and the Draper's Wife (B 917)
27. {315} y) Tale of the Ugly Man and his Beautiful Wife (B 918)
28. {316} z) Tale of the King who Lost Kingdom and Wife and Wealth and Allah Restored them (B 919)
  1. {317} z1) Tale of Salim the Youth of Khorasan and Salma, his Sister (B 922)
  2. {318} z2) Tale of the King of Hind and his Wazir (B 928)

{319} [164] (182) Bibars Al-Bundukari & the 16 Policemen [= 279] (B 930-40)
1. {320} a) First Constable's History [= (227)] (B 930)
2. {321} b) Second Constable's History (B 932)
3. {322} c) Third Constable's History (B 932)
4. {323} d) Fourth Constable's History (B 934)
5. {324} e) Fifth Constable's History (B 934)
6. {325} f) Sixth Constable's History (B 934)
7. {326} g) Seventh Constable's History (B 934)
8. {327} h) Eighth Constable's History (B 935)
  1. {328} h1) The Thief's Tale (B 938)
9. {329} i) Ninth Constable's History (B 938)
10. {330} j) Tenth Constable's History (B 938)
11. {331} k) Eleventh Constable's History (B 938)
12. {332} l) Twelfth Constable's History (B 939)
13. {333} m) Thirteenth Constable's History (B 939)
14. {334} n) Fourteenth Constable's History (B 939)
  1. {335} n1) A Merry Jest of a Clever Thief (B 940)
  2. {336} n2) Tale of the Old Sharper (B 940)
15. {337} o) Fifteenth Constable's History (B 940)
16. {338} p) Sixteenth Constable's History (B 940)

(183) Tale of Harun Al-Rashid and Abdullah bin Nafi (B 941-57)
1. {339} a) Tale of the Damsel Tohfat Al-Kulub and the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid (B 942-57)

{340} (184) Women's Wiles [= (204/d)] (C1 196-200)

{341} (185) Nur Al-Din Ali of Damascus and the Damsel Sitt Al-Milah (B 958-65)

{342} (186) Tale of King Ins bin Kays and his Daughter with the Son of King Al-'Abbás (B 966-79)

(187) Tale of the Two Kings and the Wazir's Daughters (B 1001)

{343} (188) The Concubine and the Caliph (B 1001)

{344} (189) The Concubine of Al-Maamun (B 1001)

(190) Conclusion (–)

{345} (191) The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam (Galland)

{347} [167] (192) Khudadad and his Brothers (Galland)
1. {348} a) History of the Princess of Daryabar (Galland)

{346} [161] (193) Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp (Galland)

{349} [166] (194) The Caliph's Night Adventure (Galland)
1. {350} a) The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah (Galland)
2. {351} b) History of Sidi Nu'uman (Galland)
3. {352} c) History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal (Galland)

{353} [162] (195) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Galland)

{354} [168] (196) Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad (Galland)

{355} [163] (197) Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu (Galland)

{356} [165] (198) The Two Sisters who Envied their Cadette (Galland)

(199) Weil's Anecdote of Ja'afar the Barmecide [= (39)] (W 483)

{442} (200) Weil's Adventures of Ali and Zaher of Damascus (W 834-68)
1. a) The Story of Tarad (W 848-50)

{445} (201) Weil's Adventures of the Fisherman, Judar of Cairo, with Mahmood and Beibars (W 881-917)
1. a) Mahmood's Story (W 885-88)
2. b) The Story of Queen Daruma (W 895-96)
3. c) The Story of Taj Al-Muluk, King of Tauris (W 905-07)
4. d) The Story of the Golden Castle (W 915-17)

(202) The Physician and the young man of Mosul [= (6/c)] (WM 92)

{357} (203) Story of the Sultan of Al-Yaman and his Three Sons (WM 329-34)

{358} (204) Story of the Three Sharpers (WM 334-42)
1. {359} a) The Sultan who fared forth in the Habit of a Darwaysh (WM 342)
2. {360} b) History of Mohammed, Sultan of Cairo (WM 343-48)
3. {361} c) Story of the First Lunatic (WM 348-55)
4. {362} d) Story of the Second Lunatic [= (184)] (WM 355-57)
5. {363} e) Story of the Sage and the Scholar (WM 357-62)
6. {364} f) The Night-Adventure of Sultan Mohammed of Cairo with the three Foolish Schoolmasters (WM 362)
7. {365} g) Story of the Broke-back Schoolmaster (WM 363)
8. {366} h) Story of the Split-mouthed Schoolmaster (WM 363 )
9. {367} i) Story of the Limping Schoolmaster (WM 364-65)
10. j) The Sultan's second visit to the Sisters (WM 366)
11. {368} k) Story of the Three Sisters and their Mother the Sultanah (WM 366-86)

{369} (205) History of the Kazi who bare a Babe (WM 386-92)

{370} (206) Tale of the Kazi and the Bhang-Eater (WM 392-403)
1. {371} a) History of the Bhang-Eater and his Wife (WM 397-400)
2. {372} b) How Drummer Abu Kasim became a Kazi (WM 400-12)
3. {373} c) Story of the Kazi and his Slipper (WM 401-02)
4. d) Tale of the Bhang-Eater (WM 402-09)
  1. d1) Who became the Just Wazir and who decided two difficult Cases (WM 409-11)

(207) The Sultan and the Traveller Mahmud the 'Ajamí (WM 412)
1. a) Tale of Mahmud the Persian and the Kurd Sharper [= (33)] (WM 413-16)
2. b) Tale of the Sultan and the Poor Man who brought to him Fruit (WM 416-25)
3. {374} c) Tale of the Sultan and his Three Sons and the Enchanting Bird (WM 417-26)
4. d) Adventure of the Fruit-Seller and the Concubine (WM 425)
5. {375} e) Story of the King of Al-Yaman and his Three Sons and the Enchanting Bird (WM 426-39)
6. {376} f) History of the First Larrikin (WM 439-43)
7. {377} g) History of the Second Larrikin (WM 443-45)
8. {378} h) History of the Third Larrikin (WM 445-46)
9. {379} i) Story of a Sultan of Al-Hind and his Son Mohammed (WM 446-58)

{380} (208) j) Tale of the Fisherman and his Son (WM 459-69)
1. {381} k) Tale of the Third Larrikin concerning Himself (WM 469-72)

{382} (209) History of Abu Niyyah and Abu Niyyatayn (WM 472-83)
1. a) The Courtier's Story, or Tale of the Nadím to the Emir of Cairo [= (145)] (WM 483-91)
2. b) Another relation of the Courtier (WM 491)
3. c) The Shaykh with Beard shorn by the Shaytan (WM 492)

{383} (210) The History of the King's Son of Sind and the Lady Fatimah (WM 492-501)

{384} (211) History of the Lovers of Syria (WM 501-10)

{385} (212) History of Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and the Young Sayyid (WM 510-20)
1. a) Story of the Sultan's Son and Daughter of the Wazir (WM 541-45)

(213) Tale of Sultan Káyyish (WM 545-57)

(214) The Young Lady transformed into a Gazelle by her Step-mother (WM 558-63)

(215) The History of Mázin (WM 548-624)

{386} (216) Night Adventure of Harun Al-Rashid and the Youth Manjab (WM 625-50)
1. a) The Loves of the Lovers of Bassorah [= (147)] (WM 626-33)
2. b) Night Adventure of Harun Al-Rashid (WM 633-38)
3. c) Tale told by Manjab (WM 639-50)
4. {387} d) Story of the Darwaysh and the Barber's Boy and the Greedy Sultan (WM 651-55)
5. {388} e) Tale of the Simpleton Husband [= (181/i)] (WM 655-56)
6. f) Story of the Wife and her two Gallants (WM 656-60)

{389} (217) The Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf [= (242/a)] (WM 660-710)

{390} (218) The Three Princes of China (WM 710-17)

(219) History of the first Brave (WM 717-22)

(220) History of another Brave (WM 722-23)

(221) The Merry Adventures of a Simpleton (WM 723-26)

(222) The Goodwife of Cairo and the three Rakehells (WM 726-28)

{391} (223) The Righteous Wazir wrongfully gaoled (WM 728-38)

{392} (224) The Cairene Youth, the Barber and the Captain (WM 733-38)

{393} (225) The Goodwife of Cairo and her Four Gallants (WM 738-43)
1. {394} a) The Tailor and the Lady and the Captain (WM 742-46)
2. {395} b) The Syrian and the Three Women of Cairo (WM 746-49)
3. {396} c) The Lady with Two Coyntes (WM 749-52)
4. {397} d) The Whorish Wife who vaunted her Virtue (WM 752-55)

{398} (226) Cœlebs the Droll and his Wife and her Four Lovers (WM 755-60)

{399} (227) The Gate-Keeper of Cairo and the cunning She-Thief [= (182/a)] (WM 759-65)

{400} (228) Tale of Mohsin and Musa (WM 765-72)

{401} (229) Mohammed the Shalabi and his Mistress and his Wife (WM 772-77)

{402} (230) The Fellah and his wicked Wife (WM 777-780)

{403} (231) The Woman who humoured her Lover at her Husband's Expense (WM 780-81)

{404} (232) The Kazi schooled by his Wife (WM 781-85)

{405} (233) The Merchant's Daughter and the Prince of Al-Irak (WM 785-824)

(234) The Story of Ahmad and Ali who cuckolded their Masters (WM 824-29)

(235) The Fellah and his fair Wife (WM 829-30)

{406} (236) Story of the Youth who would futter his Father's Wives (WM 830-38)

{407} (237) Story of the Two Lack-Tacts of Cairo and Damascus (WM 838-40)

(238) The Tale of Musa and Ibrahim, including Anecdotes of the Berberines (WM 840-43)

(239) The Brother Wazirs, Ahmad and Mohammed (WM 843-95)
1. a) The Story of the Unfaithful Wife (WM 895-97)

(240) Story of the thieving Youth and his Step-mother (WM 897-900)

(241) The Kazi of Baghdad and his virtuous Wife [= (119)] (WM 900-911)
1. {408} a) Tale of Himself told by the King (WM 911-17)
2. b) The Sultan of Al-'Irák, Zunnár ibn Zunnár (WM 917-21)

(242) Story of Shaykh Nakkit the Fisherman (WM 968-78)
1. a) The Sultan of Andalusia and the Prince of Al-'Irák [= (217)] (WM 978-88)

(243) Tale of Sultan Taylún and the generous Fellah (WM 988-94)

(244) The retired Sage and his Servant-lad (WM 998)

(245) The Merchant's Daughter who married an Emperor of China (WM 998-1001)

{410} (246) The History of Al-Bundukani (H 528-30)

{412} (247) The Warlock and Cook of Baghdad (Chavis)

{409} (248) The Say of Haykar the Sage (H 561-68)

{415}(249) The Tale of Attaf (H 546-49)

{416} (250) The History of Prince Habib (H 512-17)
1. a) The History of Durrat Al-Ghawwas (H 513)

{434} (251) The Forty Wazirs (H 14-19)
1. {435} a) Story of Shaykh Shahabeddin (H 14)
2. {436} b) Story of the Gardener, his Son, and the Ass (H 14)
3. {437} c) The Sultan Mahmoud and his Wazir (H 14)
4. {438} d) Story of the Brahman Padmanaba and the young Fyquai (H 14)
5. e) Story of Sultan Akshid (H 14)
6. {439} f) Story of the Husband, the Lover and the Thief (H 15)
7. {418} g) Story of the Prince of Carisme and the Princess of Georgia (H 16-17)
8. {440} h) The Cobbler and the King's Daughter (H 17)
9. i) The Woodcutter and the Genius (H 18)
10. {441} j) The Royal Parrot (H 18)

{419} (252) Story of the King and Queen of Abyssinia (H 448-51)

{420} The Sultan and His Storyteller (H 11: 164-205)

{421} (253) Story of Princess Amina (H 498-512)
1. a) Story of the Princess of Tartary (H 503-22)
2. {422} b) Story told by the Old Man's Wife (H 507-09)

{423} (254) Story of Ali Johari (H 517-23)

{424} (255) Story of the two Princes of Cochin China (H 531-35)

{425} (256) Story of the two Husbands (H 535-40)
1. {426} a) Story of Abdallah (H 537-38)
2. {427} b) Story of the Favourite (H 539)

{428} (257) Story of Yusuf and the Indian Merchant (H 540-42)

{429} (258) Story of Prince Benazir (H 542-45)

{430} (259) Story of Selim, Sultan of Egypt (H 553-60)
1. {431} a) Story of the Cobbler's Wife (H 554-55)
2. {432} b) Story of Adileh (H 555-56)
3. {433} c) Story of the scarred Kalender (H 556-58)
4. d) Continuation of the Story of Selim (H 558-60)

(260) Story of Seif Sul Yesn (H 884)

(261) Story of the Labourer and the Chair (Anderson)

(262) Story of Ahmed the Orphan (Anderson)

{417} Story of the Three Princes and the Genius Morhagian and His Daughters (Galland)

{411} The Linguist-Dame, the Duenna and the King's Son (Chavis)

{413} The Pleasant History of the Cock and the Fox (Chavis)

{414} History of What Befel the Fowl-let with the Fowler (Chavis)

The Idiot; or, Story of Xailoun (Chavis)

Adventures of Alibengiad, Sultan of Herat, and of the False Birds of Paradise (Chavis)

History of the Family of the Schebandad of Surat (Chavis)
1. a) The Lover of the Stars: or, Abil Hasan's Story (Chavis)
2. b) History of Captain Tranchemont and his Brave Companions: Debil Hasan's Story (Chavis)
3. c) The Dream of Valid Hasan (Chavis)

History of Maugraby; or, The Magician (Chavis)
1. a) History of Halaiaddin, Prince of Persia (Chavis)
2. b) History of Yemaladdin, Prince of Great Katay (Chavis)
3. c) History of Baha-Ildur, Prince of Cinigae (Chavis)
4. d) History of Badvildinn, Prince of Tartary (Chavis)
5. e) History of Shahadildin, Prince of Damascus (Chavis)
6. f) The Amours of Maugraby with Auhata al-Kawakik, daughter of the King of Egypt (Chavis)
7. g) History of the Birth of Maugraby (Chavis)

{443} Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (W 868-77)
1. a) The Death and Downfall of Solomon (W 873-74)
2. b) The Story of the Deceitful Widow (W 874-77)

{444} The Story of Ibn Tamim Addari, the Companion of the Prophet (W 878-81)

{446} The Adventures of Sultan Zaher Beibars (W 937-95)
1. a) The History of the Moslems from the Death of Mohammed (W 937-41)
2. b) The Despicable Priest Djawan, the Betrayer (W 941-45)
3. c) The Early Life of Schahin, and his First Meeting with Djawan (W 945-47)
4. d) Salech's Dream, the Birth of Beibars and his Adventures until his Arrival in Egypt (W 947-48)
5. e) Youth and Upbringing of Zaher Beibars (W 948-56)
6. f) Djawan and Eibek's Plot against Beibars, and his Gradual Rise (W 956-62)
7. g) Beibars' Adventure with Maruf and the Genoese Princess Mariam (W 962-66)
8. h) Beibars Becomes Governor of Alexandria, Meets his Brother and Uncle, Travels to Genoa (W 966-70)
9. i) Djawan's New Plot, Salech's Death and Beibars' Dream (W 970-77)
10. j) Beibars' Adventures in Syria with Hasan, Schiha and Aischa (W 977-82)

{447} Ali the Fisherman (W 995-98)

{448} Satilatlas and Hamamatelliwa (W 998-1001)

{449} The Parable of True Learning (M 774)

{450} The Keys of Destiny (M 788-94)

The Diwan of Easy Jests and Laughing Wisdom (M 794-806)
1. {451} a) Buhlûl the Jester (M 795)
2. {452} b) The Tale of the Kadi-Mule (M 800-01)
3. {453} c) The Kadi and the Ass's Foal (M 802-03)
4. {454} d) The Tale of the Astute Kadi (M 803-04)
5. {455} e) The Man Who Understood Women (M 804-06)

{456} The Two Lives of Sultan Mahmûd (M 819-21)

{457} The Tale of the Unending Treasure (M 821-26)

{458} The Youth Behind Whom Chinese and Indian Airs were Played (M 866-68)

{459} The Tale of Princess Zulaikah (M 876-81)

Sweet Tales of Careless Youth (M 881-94)
1. {460} a) Hard-Head and his Sister Little-Foot (M 881-82)
2. {461} b) The Anklet (M 882-83)
3. {462} c) The He-Goat and the King's Daughter (M 883-86)
4. {463} d) The Prince and the Tortoise (M 886-88)
5. {464} e) The Chick-Pea Seller's Daughter (M 888-89)
6. {465} f) The Looser (M 889-90)
7. {466} g) The Captain of Police (M 890-91)
8. {467} h) The Gelded Barber [= (6/d)] (M 892-93)

{468} The Splendid Tale of Prince Diamond (M 904-22)

{469} Some Jests and Suggestions of the Master of Shifts and Laughter (M 922-26)

The Tale of Al-Malik Baibars and His Captains of Police [= (182)] (M 937-54)
1. {470} a) The Second Captain's Tale (M 939-40)
2. {471} b) The Third Captain's Tale (M 940-41)
3. {472} c) The Fourth Captain's Tale (M 941-43)
4. {473} d) The Fifth Captain's Tale (M 943-45)
5. {474} e) The Sixth Captain's Tale (M 945-48)
6. {475} f) The Eighth Captain's Tale (M 948-50)
7. {476} g) The Ninth Captain's Tale (M 950-51)
8. {477} h) The Tenth Captain's Tale (M 951-52)
9. {478} i) The Eleventh Captain's Tale (M 952)
10. {479} j) The Twelfth Captain's Tale (M 952-54)

{480} The Tale of the Sea Rose of the Girl of China (M 954-59)

{481} Windows on the Garden of History (M 971-94)
1. {482} a) The Poet Duraid, His Generosity, and His Love for Tumadir al-Khansah (M 972-74)
2. {483} b) Ufairah the Suns, and Hudhailah the Moons, the Warrior Daughters of the Poet Find (M 974-75)
3. {484} c) The Love Story of Princess Fatimah and the Poet Murakkish (M 975-76)
4. {485} d) The Vengeance of King Hujr (M 976-77)
5. {486} e) Men in the Judgement of Their Wives (M 977-78)
6. {487} f) Tales of Umar ibn al-Khattab (M 978-80)
7. {488} g) Blue Salamah the Singer (M 980-81)
8. {489} h) The Tale of the Parasite (M 981-82)
9. {490} i) The Tale of the Slave of Destiny (M 982-84)
10. {491} j) The Tale of the Fatal Collar (M 984-86)
11. {492} k) Ishak of Mosul and the Lost Melody (M 986-88)
12. {493} l) The Two Dancers (M 988-89)
13. m) The Pistachio Oil Cream and the Legal Point [= (34)] (M 989-91)
14. n) The Arab Girl at the Fountain (M 991-93)

{494} The End of Ja’afar and the Barmakids (M 994-998)

{495} The Tender Tale of Prince Jasmine and Princess Almond (M 998-1001)

{496} The Vizier’s Clever Daughter (WM 341-47)

{497} Sultan Qáyish, His Borther Ardashir and the Emir ’Urwa (WM 350-67)

{498} The Maiden Who Was Transformed into a Gazelle (WM 368-74)

{499} The Wife and Her Two Lovers (WM 422-28)

{500} The Ten Slave-Girls (WM 498-515)

{501} The Admonished Adulteress (WM 528-32)

{502} The Coward Belied by His Wife (WM 533-35)

{503} The Numskull Who Does Not Count the Ass He Is Sitting On (WM 535-40)

{504} The Three Corpses (WM 540-44)

{505} ‘Ali with the Large Member (WM 682-92)

{506} The Peasant’s Beautiful Wife (WM 692-96)

{507} Mûsâ and Ibrâhîm (WM 710-800)
1. {508} The Stupid Berbers (WM 712-15)
2. {509} The Two Viziers and Their Children (WM 715-97)
3. {510} The Love Exposed by Way of a Special Perfume (WM 797-800)

{511} The Silly Woman Who Wanted to Blind her Stepson (WM 800-05)

{512} Oft-Proved Fidelity (WM 805-42)
1. {513} Zunnâr ibn Zunnâr (WM 834-42)

{514} Shaykh Nakkît (WM 842-919)
1. {515} Sitt al-Banât and the King of Irak’s Son (WM 861-82)
2. {516} Sultan Taylun and the Generous Man (WM 883-94)
3. {517} The Soothsayer and His Apprentice (WM 894-903)
4. {518} The Merchant’s Daughter Who Married the King of China (WM 904-19)

{519} Hasan, the Love-stricken (Reinhardt)

{520} Hasan, the Old Poet (Reinhardt)

{521} Yâsamîn and Husayn the Butcher (Reinhardt)

{522} Muhammad of Damascus and Sa‘d of Baghdad (Reinhardt)

{523} Qamar al-Zamân and Shams (Reinhardt)

{524} Alexander the Great and the Water of Life (Reinhardt)

{525} Solomon (Reinhardt)

{526} King Sabâ (Reinhardt)

{527} Alexander the Great (Reinhardt)

{528} Hâyid’s Expedition to the Sources of the Nile (Reinhardt)

{529} The Barmakids (Reinhardt)

{530} Abû Hasan, the Old Man Who Bemoans Ja‘far (Reinhardt)

{531} Al-Mundhir ibn al-Mughîra who Bemoans Ja‘far (Reinhardt)

{532} Al-Ma’mûn and the Parasite (Reinhardt)

{533} ‘Alî al-Khawâja (Reinhardt)

{534} Hasan, the Youth Whose Wishes Are Fulfilled (Reinhardt)

{535} Zahr al-Rawd (Reinhardt)

{536} Sayf ibn Dhî Yazan (Reinhardt)

{537} ‘Abbâs (Reinhardt)

{538} Ma‘dîkarib (Reinhardt)

{539} Ma‘n Obtains Pardon for a Rebel (Reinhardt)

{540} It is Impossible to Arouse the Anger of Ma‘n (Reinhardt)

{541} Ishâq and the Roses (Reinhardt)

{542} The Kiss (Reinhardt)

{543} al-Ma’mûn and the Kilabite Girl (Reinhardt)

{544} Sayf al-Tijân (Reinhardt)

{545} Hasan, the King of Egypt (Reinhardt)

{546} Fâris al-Khayl and al-Badr al-Fâyiq (Reinhardt)

{547} Mâlik ibn Mîrdas (Reinhardt)

{548} Sirkhâb and Aftûna (Reinhardt)

{549} Dâmire and al- ‘Anqâ’ (Reinhardt)

{550} Mahmûd and His Three Sons (Reinhardt)

{551} The Omanite (Reinhardt)

An Arabian Nights Chronology

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Political History

c.570-632: Life of Muhammad

622: The Hegira

632-61: The First Caliphs (Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman and Ali)

638: Omar conquers Jerusalem

661-750: Ummayad Caliphs (Damascus)

711-13: The Conquest of Spain

718: The Arabs fail to take Constantinople

732: Charles Martel halts Islamic expansion into Western Europe

750-1258: Abbasid Caliphs (Baghdad)

778: The Ummayad Abd-al-Rahman repulses Charlemagne from Spain

909-1171: Fatimid Caliphs (Egypt)

1071: The Turks defeat and capture the Byzantine Emperor at Manzikart

1095-1099: The First Crusade, and foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

1169-1250: Saladin and the Ayubites (Egypt and Syria)

1187: The Horns of Hattin, and recapture of Jerusalem

1189-92: The Third Crusade, and consolidation of the Kingdom of Acre

1202-04: The Fourth Crusade, and Latin conquest of Constantinople

1250-1517: Mamluk Sultans (Egypt)

1258: The Mongols take Baghdad

1291: The Destruction of Acre, and end of Outremer

1326-1914: Ottoman Sultans (Turkey)

1453: The Fall of Constantinople

1492: Ferdinand and Isabella take Granada

1798: Napoleon invades Egypt

1802-05: Wahhabi Revolt in Iraq, Syria and Arabia

1805: Muhammad Ali Pasha takes control of Egypt

1869: The Suez Canal is opened

1882: The British occupy Egypt

Textual History

?: The Hazār Afsāna (“Thousand Nights”) is composed in Persia from Iranian and Sanskrit sources

c.800: This Thousand Nights is translated into Arabic

c.900: The Alf Layla (“Thousand Nights”) is expanded with Arabic materials

947: al-Mas’udi mentions the book called the Thousand Nights in his Plains of Gold

987: al-Nadïm’s Fihrist mentions the Thousand Nights, as well as the unfinished Alf Samar (or “Thousand Stories”) collected by Ibn ‘Abdüs

c.1170: al-Kurtï’s history of Egypt under the Fatimids mentions the popularity of a collection called Alf Layla wa Layla (“The Thousand and One Nights”), which probably included material from the Thousand Stories as well as local Egyptian sources

c.1400: Composition of the Syrian Ms. of The Thousand and One Nights employed by Galland

c.1500: Compilation of the prototype Mss. of ‘Zotenberg’s Egyptian Recension’ of The 1001 Nights

1764-65: Omar-al-Safatí (scribe) [The Wortley-Montague Ms.], The Thousand Nights and a Night of the Acts and Deeds of the Kings and what befel them from sundry women that were whorish and witty and various Tales therein, 7 vols (Cairo)

1814-18: Ahmed al-Shirwani, ed. [1st 200 nights only], The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments in the Original Arabic, 2 vols (Calcutta: Pereira)

1825-43: Maximilian Habicht and M. H. L. Fleischer, ed., Tausend und Eine Nacht Arabisch. Nach einer Handschrift aus Tunis, 12 vols (Breslau)

1835: Alf Laylah wa Laylah, 2 vols (Bulaq, A.H. 1251)

1839-42: Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 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)

1863: Sheikh Mahommed Qotch Al-Adewi, ed., Alf Laylah wa Laylah, 4 vols (Bulaq, A.H. 1279)

1881-83: Khalil Sarkis, ed., Alif-Leila we Leila, 5 vols (Beirut)

1981: Alph Laylé Wa Laylé, 4 vols (Beirut: Al-Maktaba Al-Thakafiyat, A.H. 1401)

1984: Muhsin Mahdi, ed. [Galland’s manuscript], Alf Layla wa Layla, 2 vols (Leiden: Brill)

Principal Translations

1704-17: Antoine Galland, Les Mille et une Nuit: Contes arabes, 12 vols (Paris: chez la veuve de Claude Barbin)

1706-17: Anonymous [from Galland], 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, 12 vols in 6 (London: Andrew Bell)

1708: Pétis de la Croix, Histoire de la Sultane de Perse et des Vizirs: Contes turcs (Paris)

1710-12: Pétis de la Croix, Les Mille et un Jour: Contes persanes, 5 vols (Paris)

1714: Dr. King et al. [from Pétis de la Croix], The Persian and Turkish Tales, compleat. 2 vols (London: Richard Ware)

1722: Ambrose Philips [from Pétis de la Croix], The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales, 3 vols (London)

1788-89: Dom Dennis Chavis & M. Cazotte [Cabinet des Fées, 38-41], Les Veillées du Sultan Schahriar avec la Sultane Scheherazade; histoires incroyables, amusantes et morales ... Faisant suite aux Nille et une Nuits, 4 vols (Geneva: Barde & Manget)

1792: Robert Heron [from Chavis & Cazotte], Arabian Tales, or a Continuation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments: Consisting of Stories Related by the Sultana of the Indies to divert her Husband from the Performance of a rash vow; Exhibiting A most interesting view of the Religion, Laws, Manners, Customs, Arts, and Literature of the nations of the East, And Affording a rich Fund of the most pleasing Amusement, which fictitious writings can supply, 4 vols (Edinburgh: Bell, Bradfute et al.)

1800: Jonathan Scott, Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters, translated from the Arabic and Persian (London: Cadell and Davies)

1811: Jonathan Scott [from Galland, with additional material], The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Carefully Revised and Occasionally Corrected from the Arabic, 6 vols (London: Longman, Hurst etc.)

1812: Henry Weber, 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)

1823: Aug. E. Zinserling, Der Tausend und einen Nacht noch nicht übersetzte Märchen, Erzählungen und Anekdoten, zum erstenmale aus dem Arabischen in’s Französische übersetzt von Joseph von Hammer, und aus dem Französischen in’s Deutsch, 3 vols (Stuttgart und Tübingen)

1824-25: Max. Habicht, Fr. H. von der Hagen, and Carl Schall, Tausend und Eine Nacht. Arabische Erzählungen. Zum erstenmal aus einer Tunesischen Handschrift ergänzt and vollständig übersetzt, 15 vols (Breslau: Josef Mar)

1826: George Lamb [from Zinserling], New Arabian Nights Entertainments, selected from the original Oriental MS. by Jos. Von Hammer, and now first translated into English, 3 vols (London: Henry Colburn)

1828: G. S. Trébutien [from Zinserling], Contes inédits des Mille et une Nuits, 3 vols (Paris)

1836: E. W. Lane, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 2 vols (London: Charles Knight)

1838: Henry Torrens, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: from the Arabic of the Ægyptian MS. as edited by Wm. Hay McNaghten ... (Calcutta: W. Thacker and Co.)

1838-40: E. W. Lane, The Thousand and One Nights. A New Translation [monthly parts]

1838-41: Gustav Weil, Tausend und Eine Nacht: Arabische Erzählungen. Zum Erstenmale aus dem Urtexte vollständig und treu übersetzt, 4 vols (Stuttgart und Pforzheim)

1839-41: E. W. Lane, 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)

1863-74: E. W. Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, 5 parts, ed. Stanley Lane-Poole (London)

1877-92: S. Lane-Poole, Supplement to Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon (London)

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

1882-84: John Payne, 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: The Villon Society)

1883: E. W. Lane, Arabian Society in the Middle Ages, ed. S. Lane-Poole (London: Chatto)

1884: John Payne, 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)

1885: Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, 10 vols (Benares [=Stoke-Newington]: The Kamashastra Society)

1886: Lady Burton and J. H. McCarthy, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Prepared for Household Reading, 6 vols (London: Waterlow)

1886-88: Richard F. Burton, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory, 6 vols (Benares [=Stoke-Newington]: The Kamashastra Society)

1889: John Payne, 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)

1892: J. H. McCarthy, The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales, 2 vols (London: Chatto & Windus)

1895-97: Max Henning, Tausend und eine Nacht. Aus dem Arabischen übertragen, 24 vols (Leipzig: Reclam)

1898: Andrew Lang, The Arabian Nights Entertainments (London: Longmans)

1899-1904: J. C. Mardrus, Le Livre des Mille et une Nuits, 16 vols (Paris)

1900-05: Victor Chauvin, "Les Mille et une nuits," Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux Arabes publiés dans l’Europe chrétienne de 1810 à 1885, 12 vols (Liège: H. Vaillant-Carmanne, Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1892-1922) vols 4-7, 9.

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

1907: Laurence Housman, Stories from the Arabian Nights (London: Hodder & Stoughton)

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

1911: M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Les Cent et Une Nuits (Paris)

1911: Laurence Housman, Ali Baba and other stories from the Arabian Nights (London: Hodder & Stoughton)

1913: Laurence Housman, Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights (London: Hodder & Stoughton)

1914: Laurence Housman, Sindbad the Sailor, & other stories from the Arabian Nights (London: Hodder & Stoughton)

1921-28: Enno Littmann, Die Erzählungen aus den Tausendundein Nächten: Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe in sechs Bänden zum ersten Mal nach dem arabischen Urtext der Calcuttaer Ausgabe aus dem Jahre 1839, 6 vols (Leipzig)

1923: Vicente Blasco Ibañez [from Mardrus], Las Mil y Una Noches (Spain)

1923: E. Powys Mathers, 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, 8 vols (London: The Casanova Society)

1927-30: E. Powys Mathers, The Anthology of Eastern Love, 12 vols in 4 (London: John Rodker)

1929-36: M. A. Salier, Tisyacha Odna Nochi (U. S. S. R), 8 vols

1948: Francesco Gabrieli, Le mille e una notte: Prima versione integrale dall’arabo, trans. Francesco Gabrieli, Antonio Cesaro, Constantino Pansera, Umberto Rizzitano and Virginia Vacca, 4 vols (Torino: Einaudi)

1949: E. Powys Mathers, 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 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul)

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

1954: N. J. Dawood, The Thousand and One Nights: The Hunchback, Sindbad, and Other Tales, Penguin 1001 (Harmondsworth: Penguin)

1957: N. J. Dawood, Aladdin and Other Tales from The Thousand and One Nights (Harmondsworth: Penguin)

1965-67: René R. Khawam, Les Mille et une nuits, 4 vols (Paris)

1973: N. J. Dawood, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, 2nd ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin)

1982: Felix Tauer, 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 (Frankfurt: Insel Verlag)

1985: René R. Khawam, Les Aventures de Sindbad le Marin (Paris: Phébus)

1986: René R. Khawam, Les Mille et une nuits, 4 vols (Paris: Phébus)

1986: René R. Khawam, Les Aventures de Sindbad le Terrien (Paris: Phébus)

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

1990: Husain Haddawy, The Arabian Nights: Based on the Text of the Fourteenth-Century Syrian Manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi (New York: Norton)

1991-2001: Jamel Eddine Bencheikh, André Miquel and Touhami Bencheikh, Les Mille et Une Nuits: Contes choisis, 4 vols (Paris: Gallimard)

1995: Husain Haddawy, The Arabian Nights II: Sindbad and Other Popular Stories.(New York: Norton)

2004: Ulrich Marzolph & Richard van Leeuwen, The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols (Santa Barbara, CA / Denver CO / Oxford, UK: ABC Clio)

2005: Jamel Eddine Bencheikh & André Miquel, Les Mille et Une Nuits, 3 vols (Paris: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)

2008: Malcolm & Ursula Lyons, The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. 3 vols (Harmondsworth: Penguin)

Theatrical & Cinematic History

1911: Edward Knoblock, Kismet: An “Arabian Night” in Three Acts (First produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, April 19th)

1922: James Elroy Flecker, Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Voyage to Samarkand, A Play in Five Acts (London: Heinemann)

1924: “The Thief of Bagdad,” dir. Raoul Walsh - with Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong, and Snitz Edwards - (U.S.A.)

1940: “The Thief of Baghdad,” dir. Michael Powell - with Conrad Veidt, Sabu, Rex Ingram - (U.K.)

1947: ‘Sinbad the Sailor’, dir. Richard Wallace - with Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr., Maureen O’Hara, and Anthony Quinn - (U.S.A.)

1954: ‘Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs’, dir. Jacques Becker - with Fernandel, Dieter Borsche, Henri Vilkarl, Samia Gamal - (France)

1973: “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad,” dir. Gordon Hassler - with John Philip Law, Caroline Munro, and Tom Baker - (U.K.)

1974: “Il Fiore delle mille e una notte,” dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy)

1977: “Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, “ dir. Sam Wanamaker - with Patrick Wayne, Jame Seymour and Patrick Troughton - (U.K.)

1979: “Arabian Adventure,” dir. Kevin Connor - with Christopher Lee, Milo O’Shea and Oliver Tobias - (U.K.)

1981: Michael Hayes, “Tales from the 1001 Nights” (BBC)

1989: Tariq Ali & Howard Brenton, ‘Iranian Nights’ (UK Broadcast May 20th on ITV)

1989: “Sinbad of the Seven Seas,” dir. Enzo G. Castellari - with Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner - (Italy)

1992: “Aladdin,” dir. Ron Clements & John Musker - with the voices of Robin Williams, Jonathan Freeman, Brad King - (USA)

2000: “Arabian Nights,” dir. Steve Barron, writ. Peter Barnes – with Mili Avital, Alan Bates, Dougray Scott – (USA)

An Arabian Nights Bibliography

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Texts & Translations:

Arabic

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

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.

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.

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.

English

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Burton, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Library Edition. Ed. Leonard C. Smithers. 12 vols. London: H. S. Nichols, 1897.

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.

Burton, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. 1885. 3 vols. New York: The Heritage Press, 1934.

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].

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].

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.

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

Burton, Richard F., trans. Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Ed. David Shumaker. New York: Avenel Books, 1978.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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. London: The Folio Society, 1949.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Torrens, Henry, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, from the Arabic of the Ægyptian MS. edited by Mr. William H. Macnaghten. Calcutta: W. Thacker, 1838.

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.

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

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.

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.

French

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Maltaite, Eric. Les 1001 Nuits de Schéhérazade. Paris ; Albin Michel, 2001.

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.

Miquel, André, ed. Les Dames de Bagdad: Conte des Mille et une nuits. Paris: Desjonquères, 1991.

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.

German (& Czech)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Tauer, Felix, trans. Neue Erzählungen aus den Tausendundein Nächten: Die in anderen Versionen von >1001 Nacht<> Aus dem arabischen Urtext vollständig übertragen und erläutert von Felix Tauer. 2 vols. 1982. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1989.

Tauer, Felix, trans. Tisic a Jedna Noc. 5 vols. 1973. Praha: Ikar, 2001.

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.

Weil, Gustav, trans. Tausendundeine Nacht. 1838-41. Ed. Inge Dreecken. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: R. Löwit, n.d. [c. 1960s]

Italian

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.

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.

Russian

Salier, M. A., trans. Tysyacha i Odna Noch'. 8 vols. 1929-36. Saint Petersburg: Kristall, 2000.

Spanish

Cansinos-Assens, Rafael, trans. Las Mil y Una Noches. Spain, 1960.

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

Ibañez, Vicente Blasco, trans. Las Mil y Una Noches. Spain, n.d.

Larraya, Juan A. G., and Leonor Martínez Martín, trans. Las Mil y Una Noches. 3 vols. Barcelona, 1965.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Burton, Richard F., and F. F. Arbuthnot, trans. The Ananga Ranga of Kalyana Malla. 1885. London: Kimber, 1963.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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Ibn Khaldûn, ‘Abd-ar Rahmân. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Trans. Franz Rosenthal. 1958. Abridged and ed. N. J. Dawood. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.

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

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

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

Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. The Anthology of Eastern Love. 12 vols in 4. London: John Rodker, 1927-30.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Masters, Phil. Arabian Nights: Magic and Mystery in the Land of the Djinn. Ed. Steve Jackson and Susan Pinsonneault. Austin, Tx: Steve Jackson Games, 1993

Meredith, George. The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment. 1856. London: Constable, 1909.

Miles, Keith. Arabian Adventure: Based on an Original Screenplay by Brian Hayles. London: Mirror, 1979.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter. When the Devil was Well. 1885. Skerryvore Edition 3. London: Heinemann, 1924.

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Bencheikh, Jamel Eddine, Claude Bremond and André Miquel. Mille et un Contes de la Nuit. Bibliothèque des Idées. Paris: Gallimard, 1991.

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[Scheherazade]

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.

Scheherazade:

2007-09-25T14:51:00.000-07:00

[The Three Ladies of Baghdad]

The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad

Plot Summary:

(This story, like all the others, is told in the first person. I have switched to the third in order to make the plot summary more concise.)

Page numbers in parentheses are taken from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, trans. Richard F. Burton, 10 vols, 1885 (U.S.A.: Burton Society, n.d.) 1: 82-186:

[... 9th Night]:
A Porter is hired by ‘an honourable woman’ (82). She takes him to a wine-merchant, a fruiterer, a butcher, a grocer, a confectioner, a perfumer, a greengrocer, and then home. The door is opened by ‘a lady of tall figure, some five feet high’ (84). The lady-portress welcomes the lady-cateress, and shows them both in. They come before a third lady, the eldest of the three, who pays the porter and tells him to depart. He persuades them to let him stay and join their feast, and they all start to drink wine and recite verses together. When she is sufficiently drunk, ‘the portress stood up and doffed her clothes till she was mother-naked’ (90). She disports herself in the fountain, then makes the porter guess the name of her ‘solution of continuity’ (90). He cannot, and is soundly beaten. The second and third ladies behave similarly, and finally he does too.

[10th Night]:
The three ladies try to send the Porter away, but finally agree to let him stay if he observes their motto: ‘WHOSO SPEAKETH OF WHAT CONCERNETH HIM NOT, SHALL HEAR WHAT PLEASETH HIM NOT’ (93). A knocking comes at the door.

The Porter lets in three Persian Kalandars [mendicant friars] ‘with their beards and heads and eyebrows shaven; and all three blind of the left eye’ (94), who are looking for a lodging for the night. Another knock is heard, and the Porter lets in the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Wazir Ja’afar, and Masrur ‘his Sworder of Vengeance’ (96), who are wandering the city by night disguised as merchants. They too ask for lodging and are given the same warning as the Porter and the monks. The eldest lady has ‘two black bitches with chains round their necks’ (97) brought in. She beats each of them as hard as she can, then cries over them. After this the cateress plays three sad love-songs on a lute. Each song makes the portress cry out till she ‘rent her raiment’, showing the guests ‘scars of the palm-rod on her back and welts of the whip’ (99).

The Caliph demands that Ja’afar ask for an explanation of these events. The latter demurs, but the other guests are all curious as well. When he does ask, the seven men are immediately seized by armed slaves and told to prepare for death. The Porter protests amusingly.

[11th Night]:
The eldest lady ‘came up to the party and spake thus, “Tell me who ye be, for ye have but an hour of life; and were ye not men of rank ... you had not been so froward and I had hastened your doom.”‘ (103) The Porter tells us as much of his story as we already know, and is told to leave. He prefers, however, to stay and hear the other stories:

The First Kalandar’s Tale

A Prince helps his cousin to conceal himself in a tomb with a veiled lady. Afterwards he repents, but cannot find the tomb again. On returning to his father’s kingdom, he finds that the Wazir has treacherously slain him and taken over the kingdom. The Wazir puts out the prince’s eye, in revenge for the fact that he himself had his eye knocked out by the prince’s slingshot years before, then commands that he be executed. The headsman takes pity on him however, and he escapes back to his uncle’s kingdom. He confesses to his uncle his part in his cousin’s disappearance, and the two finally succeed in finding the tomb. The cousin and the lady are found lying dead and charred in each other’s arms. His uncle curses and strikes the body of his son.

[12th Night]:
The uncle explains that the two dead lovers were brother and sister, and that he had many a time forbidden their love, but they hid from him here. ‘Then His righteous judgement fell upon the twain and consumed them with fire from Heaven’ (111). On returning to the surface, the prince and his uncle are overtaken by the Wazir’s troops, who have invaded this city as well. The uncle is killed in the fighting, but the prince dresses himself in rags and leaves, ‘hoping that peradventure some one would assist me to the presence of the Prince of the Faithful, and the Caliph who is the Viceregent of Allah upon earth’ (112-13). He met the other two mendicants by chance.

He is dismissed by the eldest lady, but prefers to stay and hear the other stories.

The Second Kalandar’s Tale

A Prince is brought up to be very skilled in all branches of learning. On his way to show off his skills to the King of Hind he is overtaken by robbers, who take everything he has. He is advised to work as a woodcutter by a Tailor whom he meets in a nearby town, for ‘the King of this city is the greatest enemy thy father hath ... and thou hast cause to fear for thy life’ (115).

One day, in the forest, he discovers an underground cavern, ‘where was a damsel like a pearl of great price’ (116). The lady was stolen by an Ifrit on her wedding day, and has been kept by him in this cave ever since. She invites the prince to stay with her: ‘of every ten days one is for the Ifrit and the other nine are thine’ (118). He agrees; however one day, in a fit of drunkenness, he proposes to summon the Ifrit and slay him.

[13th Night]:
The Ifrit comes and, seeing the prince’s woodcutting gear, accuses the lady of entertaining a lover. She denies it, and is tortured by the jealous demon. The prince escapes, lamenting his foolishness, but is caught and brought back again by the Ifrit. When the lady refuses either to identify her lover or to cut off his head, the Ifrit mutilates and kills her. The prince asks for mercy with the:

Tale of the Envier and the Envied

Two men lived in adjoining houses; and ‘one of them envied the other and looked on him with an evil eye’ (123). Realising this, the Envied left the neighbourhood and set up an oratory near another city. His fame as a holy man spread, until the Envier heard of it, and travelled to see him. Under pretext of having something to discuss, he drew the Envied to one side, and pushed him into an old well. ‘Now this well happened to be haunted by the Jann’ (124), who saved him and broke his fall. He also overheard them saying that the Sultan of the city would shortly come visiting to consult the holy man about the health of his daughter, who seemed mad but was in fact bewitched. She could be cured by fumigation.

The Envied is saved by his disciples next day, and duly meets the Sultan and cures his daughter. He is rewarded with her hand in marriage, and is made Wazir, and (after his father-in-law’s death) Sultan. One day he comes across his old enemy the Envier, and rewards him greatly instead of punishing him.

The Ifrit, unimpressed, turns the prince into an ape, and in this form he succeeds in finding a place on board a ship. The ship comes to a port whose King is looking for ‘a calligrapher of renown’ (127) to replace his previous chief minister. The entire crew, including the ape, are made to write some lines on a scroll. The ape’s writing is the best, and the King purchases him from the ship’s captain. On showing his new acquisition to his daughter, however, she asks ‘How cometh it thou art pleased to send for me and show me to strange men?’ (133), and reveals that her magic arts tell her that he is actually a prince.

[14th Night]:
The King’s daughter, at her father’s instigation, summons the Ifrit in order to disenchant the prince. Their magical conflict is long, and she succeeds in killing the demon, but at the cost of her own life. The King is wounded, and the prince loses one eye from hot sparks. He is, however, turned back into a man. Afterwards the angry King banishes him from the city, and he takes on the robes of a monk and travels to Baghdad to ‘seek audience ... with the Commander of the Faithful’ (138-39).

Dismissed like the others, he prefers to stay.

The 3rd Kalandar’s Tale

A Prince goes sailing, but his ship is overtaken by a storm. After some days, they come to the ‘Magnet Mountain’ (140), which draws out all the iron in their hull and wrecks them. The prince survives, and finds a way up the rock.

[15th Night]:
A voice tells the prince in his dream to shoot at the brass horseman on top of the dome at the summit of the rock, and thus rid mankind of this affliction. He does so and, as the dream predicted, the waters rise up the rock, carrying with them a skiff with a brass rower inside - ‘He will come to thee and do thou embark with him but beware of saying Bismillah or otherwise naming Allah Almighty’ (142).

After ten days, in sight of his destination, the prince forgets this prohibition, and is immediately thrown into the sea. He swims to an island, and there sees a youth taken ashore from a ship and put into an underground hiding-place. After the ship has left he uncovers the trap-door and talks to the youth, who has been hidden away by his father because of a prophesy that he will be killed by the prince who shot the brazen horseman. The prince lives with him for forty days, but then kills him by accident with a knife on the very day predicted.

[16th Night]:
The ship returns, and the boy’s father is stricken with grief. The prince stays on the island until one day ‘the tide ebbed’ (151), making it possible for him to reach the mainland. There he finds an old Shaykh who lives with ten young men ‘all ... blind of the same eye’ (152). He stays with them, and notices their habit of lamentation, which they will not explain. Finally they reveal to him a route - by ‘Rukh’ [Roc] - to a distant palace. He reaches the palace, is welcomed by forty damsels. He lives with them in bliss, but they are forced to absent themselves for forty days at New Year, and accordingly give him the keys to forty chambers, with strict instructions not to enter the last one. He eventually does and is carried off by a winged horse which deposits him back with the old Shaykh, putting out his eye with its wing as it departs. The Shaykh and the young men refuse to let him stay, so he dresses as a monk and sets out for Baghdad.

After the Caliph, Ja’afar and Masrur have repeated their story of being merchants, the eldest lady lets them all go. Next day the Caliph send for the three sisters and demands that they tell their stories.

[17th Night]:
The Eldest Lady’s Tale

The two dogs are her elder sisters by one mother, the portress and cateress her younger half-sisters. The two older sisters made unfortunate marriages, and had to be rescued by her on two or three occasions. Eventually they persuade her to go on a trading voyage with them, and they reach a city where all the inhabitants have been turned to black stones. Exploring, she finds a youth who was spared this fate because he was a Moslem, unlike the other ‘Magians who fire adored in lieu of the Omnipotent Lord’ (168).

[18th Night]:
The eldest lady brings the youth back with her, but her two sisters, jealous, throw them both overboard. She swims to an island but he is drowned. On shore, she saves a serpent (who turns out to be a ‘Jinniyah’) from a Dragon, and the former turns the two wicked sisters into bitches in gratitude. She also tells the eldest lady to beat them three hundred times every day or else she will ‘imprison thee forever under the earth’ (173).

Tale of the Portress

She married young and was left a young widow. One day she is invited by an old woman to attend a wedding. When she reaches her destination, it turns out to be the palace of a young lady who tells her that her brother is in love with her. The brother is attractive, so she agrees to marry him, and swears never to ‘look at any other than myself nor incline thy body or thy heart to him’ (178). After a month of bliss she is persuaded by the old woman to kiss a young merchant who will not accept her money. He bites her on the cheek, and her husband, refusing to accept her explanations and excuses, has her beaten nearly to death and thrown out of the house. She has not seen him since, but now lives with her sisters in seclusion.

[19th Night ...]:
The Caliph has the eldest lady summon the Jinniyah, whom he commands to disenchant the two bitches. She also tells him that the portress’s husband is his own son Al-Amin, so he commands him to take her back. He marries the eldest lady and her elder sisters to the three Kalandars, and finally marries the cateress himself.

Analysis:

[... 9th Night]:

Porter

7 Shops
3 Sisters (youngest to eldest)
Fountain-game

[10th Night]:

1st Prohibition
1st knock- 3 shaved, one-eyed monks
2nd knock - 3 disguised Merchants
7 Guests
2 black bitches
1st beating + laments
3 love-songs
laments + 2nd beating
7 slaves

[11th Night]:

Porter’s Tale (the story to date)

1st Prince's tale:
1st tomb-descent (incest)
1st armed insurrection (Father killed)
1st blinding (unjust)
2nd tomb-descent

[12th Night]:

2nd Prohibition
2nd armed insurrection (Uncle killed)

2nd Prince's tale:
1st cavern-descent (adultery)
3rd Prohibition

[13th Night]:

1st beating for jealousy
2nd cavern-descent
1st lady killed for him
well-descent (vision)
Exorcism
1st transformation

[14th Night]:

2nd transformation
2nd lady killed for him
2nd blinding (accidental)

3rd Prince's tale:

[15th Night]:

1st magic horse
4th Prohibition
underground descent (the youth)
40 days

[16th Night]:

40 damsels
40 days
40 rooms
5th Prohibition
2nd magic horse
3rd blinding (at fault)

[17th Night]:

1st Sister’s tale:
2 groups of 2 sisters
twice deserted by husbands
3rd transformation

[18th Night]:

youth killed for her
4th transformation
6th Prohibition

2nd Sister’s tale:
7th Prohibition
2nd beating for jealousy

[19th Night]:

5th transformation

Al-Amin = Portress
Eldest lady + 2 sisters = 3 Kalandars
Harun = Cateress

Recurrent Patterns:

7 shopkeepers
7 guests
7 slaves
7 stories:
(Porter, 3 Kalandars, Ja’afar, & 2 Sisters)
7 Prohibitions

3 shaved monks
3 blindings
3 underground descents
(Incest, Adultery, a Youth)
3 ‘Merchants’
3 Sisters
3 Love-songs
3 Floggings
(Portress’s husband, Ifrit, and Eldest Lady)

40 days underground
40 damsels
40 days in the palace
40 chambers

Doublings:

(1st Kalandar): 2 descents into the vault
2 armed insurrections
(2nd Kalandar): 2 ladies killed for him
2 transformations (Ifrit and Princess)
(3rd Kalandar): 2 magic horses
(1st Sister): 2 Sisters twice deserted
2 transformations (black stones and black dogs)
(2nd Sister): Marriage and Repudiation caused by the same old woman

Malory:

2007-09-25T14:33:00.000-07:00

[Aubrey Beardsley: Illustrations to Malory's Morte d'Arthur]

A Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake

Plot Summary:

Page numbers in parentheses are taken from The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugène Vinaver, 3 vols, 1947, 3rd ed. rev. P. J. C. Field, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) 1: 249-287:

[Caxton, VI.1]:
Sir Launcelot and Sir Lyonell ‘go seke adventures’ (253) . Launcelot goes to sleep under an apple-tree while Lyonell stays awake. Lyonell sees a ‘stronge knyght’ (254) overcome three knights in a row. Lyonell assays the knight, is beaten, and cast in prison.

[Caxton, VI.2]:
Sir Ector de Marys ‘made hym redy to seke sir Launcelot’ (254). He meets a foster, who warns him of a tree hung with shields. He fights Sir Tarquyn, but is beaten by him and imprisoned.

[Caxton, VI.3]:
Sir Launcelot is found by ‘foure queenys of a grete astate’ (256), and enchanted by Morgan le Fay and taken to the Castell Charyot. He refuses to choose any of them as his love.

[Caxton, VI.4]:
A damsel offers to release Launcelot if he will help her father King Bagdemagus in a tournament against the King of North Galys ‘on Tewysday next commynge’ (258). He agrees and is given back his armour and horse.

[Caxton, VI.5]:
Launcelot falls asleep in a ‘pavylyon of rede sendele’ (259), and fights Sir Belleus who has come expecting his lemman. She comes, and demands that Launcelot have Belleus made a knight of the Round Table.

[Caxton, VI.6]:
Launcelot arrives at the abbey of white monks and again meets the ‘doughter of kyng Bagdemagus’ (261), who sends for her father. Sir Madore de la Porte, Sir Mordred and Sir Gahalantyne are the three Round Table knights who are fighting for the King of North Galys.

[Caxton, VI.7]:
Launcelot enters the tournament, where he ‘smote downe the kynge of North Galys’ (262), then Sir Madore, then Sir Mordred, then Sir Gahalantyne, then sixteen knights with one spear, then twelve with another. His side wins.
Launcelot rides back to the forest and meets a damsel on a white palfrey. She tells him about Sir Tarquyn. He meets Sir Gaheris, bound by Sir Tarquyn, and challenges the latter.

[Caxton, VI.8]:
Launcelot and Tarquyn fight, the latter revealing that he holds an enmity against Launcelot for killing his brother ‘sir Carados at the Dolerous Towre’ (266). They continue fighting and Launcelot kills him.

[Caxton, VI.9]:
Launcelot takes Gaheris’ horse, telling him to free the prisoners and to wait for him at court, ‘for by the feste of Pentecoste I caste me to be there’ (268). Gaheris frees them, and the foster brings them food.

[Caxton, VI.10]:
The damsel leads Launcelot to another evil knight, whom he justly slays, ‘for lyke as Terquyn wacched to dystresse good knyghtes, so dud this knyght attende to destroy and dystresse ladyes, damesels and jantyllwomen; and his name was sir Perys de Foreste Savage’ (270). Launcelot and the damsel part here.

Two days later Launcelot is forced to kill a carle on a bridge, in order to reach a village.

[Caxton, VI.11]:
Launcelot kills two giants, and frees ‘three score of ladyes and damesels’ (272) from Tintagel.

He then goes on and lodges with an old gentlewoman. Through the window he sees three knights pursuing one. Launcelot defeats the knights and makes them yield to Sir Kay, then go on to wait for him at court. In the morning, he takes Kay’s armour and leaves him his own.

[Caxton, VI.12]:
Launcelot / Kay (he will retain this disguise for the rest of the adventure) passes three knights. Sir Gawtere pursues him and is defeated. Sir Gylmere is also beaten, then Sir Raynolde. The three are sent to court to yield themselves to Queen Gwenyvere.

[Caxton, VI.13]:
Launcelot fights Sir Sagramoure le Desyrus, Sir Ector de Marys, then Sir Uwayne, then Sir Gawayne. ‘Than had they much sorow to gete their horsis agayne’ (278).

[Caxton, VI.14]:
Launcelot pursues a ‘blak brachette’ (278) by following a trail of blood. It leads him to a lady and a dead knight, her husband Sir Gylberd the Bastarde. Subsequently he meets a damsel, whose brother Sir Melyot de Logyrs was wounded in battle with Gylberte.

[Caxton, VI.15]:
Launcelot agrees to get a bloody cloth and sword from the Chapel Perelus in order to heal Melyot’s wounds.

Launcelot enters the Chapel and confronts ‘thirty grete knyghtes’ (280), then Hallewes the Sorseres. He then returns to Melyot and heals him. Melyot, too, is sent to wait at court.

[Caxton, VI.16]:
Launcelot helps a lady recover her hawk by climbing a tree. Sir Phelot ambushes him there, but is stunned with a branch and then defeated and killed.

[Caxton, VI.17]:
Launcelot sees ‘a knyght chasyng a lady with a naked swerde to have slayne hir’ (284). He stops him, but Sir Pedyvere slays her anyway by stealth. He is sent to Queen Gwenyvere at court with the lady’s severed head. From there he is sent to the Pope in Rome.

[Caxton, VI.18]:
Launcelot returns two days before the feast of Pentecost. Gawayne, Uwayne, Sagramour, and Ector see that it was he who defeated them. Tarquyn’s three-score prisoners are told who rescued them by Gaheris. Kay tells his story. Gawtere, Gylmere, and Raynolde discover ‘Kay’s’ identity. Then Melyot appears, and ‘all his dedys was knowyn’ (287) - the imprisonment by the four queens, King Bagdemagus’ daughter and the tournament, and his defeat there of Mador, Mordred, and Gahalantyne. Belleus and his lady arrive, and the former is made a knight of the Round Table. ‘And so at that tyme sir Launcelot had the grettyste name of ony knyght of the worlde, and moste he was honoured of hyghe and lowe’ (287).

Analysis:

[Caxton, VI.1]:
A: ‘Sir Tarquyn’

Launcelot (apple-tree)
Lyonell
3 Knights(1)
[Tarquyn]

[Caxton, VI.2]:

Ector
‘foster’
Tarquyn

[Caxton, VI.3]:
B: ‘Bagdemagus’

Launcelot
Morgan + 3 Queens
Damsel(1)

[Caxton, VI.4]:

[Caxton, VI.5]:
C: ‘Sir Belleus’

Launcelot
Belleus
Lady(1)

[Caxton, VI.6]:
B: ‘Bagdemagus’

Launcelot
Damsel(1)
3 Knights(2)

[Caxton, VI.7]:
A: ‘Sir Tarquyn’

Launcelot
Damsel(2)
Gaheris
Tarquyn
[Sir Carados]

[Caxton, VI.8]:

[Caxton, VI.9]:
A: ‘Sir Gaheris’

Launcelot
Gaheris + 60 prisoners
‘foster’

[Caxton, VI.10]:
B1: ‘Sir Perys’

Launcelot
Damsel(2)
Perys

B2: ‘Tintagel’

Launcelot
‘carle’

[Caxton, VI.11]:
Giants+ 60 prisoners

C1: ‘Sir Kay’

Launcelot
Kay
3 Knights(3)

[Caxton, VI.12]:

Launcelot / Kay
3 Knights(4)

[Caxton, VI.13]:

Launcelot
Ector
3 Knights(5)

[Caxton, VI.14]:
C2:’Chapel Perilous’

Launcelot
Lady(2)
Gylberd
Damsel(3)
Melyot

[Caxton, VI.15]:

Launcelot
30 Knights
Hallewes

[Caxton, VI.16]:
B3: ‘Sir Phelot’

Launcelot
Lady(3)
Phelot

[Caxton, VI.17]:
B4: ‘Sir Pedyvere’

Launcelot
Pedyvere
Lady(4)

[Caxton, VI.18]:
A: ‘Guinevere’

Launcelot
Ector
3 Knights(5)
[Tarquyn]
Gaheris + 60 prisoners

Kay
3 Knights(3) + 4
Melyot
3 Knights(2)
Belleus

Recurrent Patterns:

Damsels = King’s daughter1 (c.4 & 6)
Guide2 (c.7 & 10)
Melyot’s sister3 (c.14 & 15)
Hallewes4 (c.15)
Couples = Belleus + Lady1 (c.5)
Gylberd + Lady2 (c.14)
Phelot + Lady3 (c.16)
Pedyvere + Lady4 (c.17)
3 + 1 = Tarquyn + 3 Knights1 (c.1)
Morgan + 3 Queens (c.3)
Lancelot + 3 Knights2 (c.6)
Kay + 3 Knights3 (c.11)
‘Kay’ + 3 Knights4 (c.12)
Ector + 3 Knights5 (c.13)

3 score prisoners of Tarquyn (c.18)
3 score prisoners in Tintagel (c.11)