The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 591 pages of information about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 591 pages of information about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16.

Vol.  VI. (1886) [? 1888], 163 (continued)-169 (pp. ii. 486).

Also includes Terminal Essay, Index to Tales and Proper Names, Contributions to Bibliography, as far as it relates to Galland’s Ms. and Translations; Comparative Table of Tales; Opinions of the Press; and Letters from Scholars.

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with notes anthropological and explanatory, by Richard F. Burton.  Benares, printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only.  Roy. 8vo.

The contents of the 6 volumes are as follows: 

Vol.  I. (1886) Translator’s Foreword, 170-181bb.

Vol.  Ii. (1886) 182-189.  Appendix:  Variants and analogues of some of the tales in vols. i. and ii., by Mr. W. A. Clouston.

These two volumes contain the tales peculiar to the Breslau Text, and cover the same ground as Mr. Payne’s 3 vols. of “Tales from the Arabic.”

Vol.  III. (1887) Foreword, 191-198.  Appendix:  Variants and Analogues of the Tales in the Supplemental Nights, vol. iii., by Mr. W. A. Clouston.

This volume, the bulkiest of the whole series, contains such of Galland’s tales as are not to be found in the ordinary texts of the Nights.

Vol.  IV. (1887) The Translator’s Foreword, 203-209; App.  A. Ineptiae Bodleianae; App.  B., The three untranslated tales in Mr. E. J. W. Gibb’s “Forty Vezirs.”

Vol.  V. (1888) 210-241a, Translator’s Foreword; App. i.  Catalogue of Wortley Montague Manuscript, Contents, App. ii.  Notes on the Stories contained in vols. iv. and v. of Supplemental Nights, by Mr. W. F. Kirby.

These two volumes contain tales translated from the Wortley Montague Ms., used by Jonathan Scott, and now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.  The following tales, not in our table, are added:—­

Vol.  IV.  Story of the Limping Schoolmaster (between 204i and 204j).

How Drummer Abu Kasim became a Kazi, and Story of the Kazi and his Slipper.  (These two tales come between 206a and 206b.)

Adventure of the Fruit-seller and the Concubine (between 207c and 207d).

Tale of the third Larrikin concerning himself (between 208 and 209).

On the other hand, a few tales in the Ms. are omitted as repetitions, or as too unimportant to be worth translating:—­

Vol.  VI. (1888) Translator’s Foreword:  248; 246; The Linguist-Dame, the Duenna, and the King’s Son; 247; The Pleasant History of the Cock and the Fox; History of what befel the Fowl-let with the Fowler; 249; 250.

App. i.  Index to the Tales and Proper Names; ii.  Alphabetical Table of the Notes (Anthropological, &c.); iii.  Notes on the Stories contained in vol. vi. of Supplementary Nights, by W. F. Kirby; iv.  Additional Notes on the Bibliography of the Thousand and One Nights, by W. F. Kirby; v.  The Biography of the Book and the Reviewers Reviewed, Opinions of the Press.

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