VOLUME THREE

Privately Printed By The Burton Club

To Henry Edward John, Lord Stanley of Alderley

This The Most Innocent Volume of the Nights is Inscribed by His Old Companion,

The Author.

CONTENTS

Original List of Contents of the Thirteenth Volume.

The Translator's Foreword.

SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS TO THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT

THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM.[8]

When it was the Four Hundred and Ninety-eighth Night,

When it was the Four Hundred and Ninety-ninth Night,

When it was the full Five Hundredth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and First Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Tenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eleventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twelfth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirteenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fourteenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifteenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixteenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventeenth Night,

When it was ad the Five Hundred and Eighteenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Nineteenth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twentieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirtieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fortieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Forty-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fiftieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixtieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-second Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eightieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-third Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-fourth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-fifth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-sixth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-seventh Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-eighth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Eighty-ninth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Ninetieth Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Ninety-first Night,

When it was the Five Hundred and Ninety-second Night,[231]

KHUDADAD[232] AND HIS BROTHERS.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-third Night.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-fourth Night.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-fifth Night.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-sixth Night.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-seventh Night.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-eighth Night.

The end of the Five Hundred and Ninety-ninth Night.

The end of the full Six Hundredth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and First Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Third Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fourth Night,

THE CALIPH'S NIGHT ADVENTURE.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixth Night.

The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah.[252]

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventh Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Ninth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Tenth Night.

History of Sidi Nu'uman.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twelfth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirteenth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fourteenth Night.

The end of the Six Hudred and Fifteenth Night.

History of Khwajah Hasan al-Habbal.[272]

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixteenth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventeenth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighteenth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Nineteenth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twentieth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-first Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-fourth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-fifth Night. "ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES"

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-sixth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-seventh Night,

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-eighth Night,

The end of the Six Hundred and Twenty-ninth Night,

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirtieth Night,

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-first Night,

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-second Night,

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-third Night,

The end of the Six Hundred ante Thirty-fourth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-fifth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-sixth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Thirty-eighth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and thirty-ninth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fortieth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-first Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-third Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-fourth Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-fifth Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-sixth Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-seventh Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-eighth Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-ninth Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Fiftieth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-first Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-Second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-third Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-fourth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-fifth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-sixth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-seventh Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-eighth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-ninth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixtieth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-first Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-third Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-fourth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-fifth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-sixth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-seventh Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-eighth Night

The end of the Six Hundred and Sixty-ninth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventieth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-third Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-fourth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-sixth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-seventh Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-eight Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-ninth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eightieth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-first Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-Second Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-third Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-fourth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-fifth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-sixth Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-seventh Night.

The end of the Six Hundred and Eighty-eighth Night.

APPENDIX.

VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF THE TALES In VOLUME XIII. By W. A. Clouston.

The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam—p. 1.

Aladdin; Or, the Wonderful Lamp—p. 31.

A VERY DIFFERENT SORT OF ALADDIN

Khudadad and His Brothers—p. 145.

The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah—p. 178.

History of Sidi Nu'man—p. 187.

History of Khwajah Hasan Al-habbal—p. 198.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves—p.219

Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad—p. 246.

Prince Ahmad and the Peri Banu—p. 256.

The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette—p. 313.

MODERN ARABIC VERSION.

KABA'IL VERSION.

MODERN GREEK VERSION.

ALBANIAN VERSION.

ITALIAN VERSION,

BRETON VERSION.

GERMAN VERSION.

ICELANDIC VERSION.

BENGALI VERSION.

BUDDHIST VERSION.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

The Tale of Zayn Al-asnam,

Aladdin; Or, the Wonderful Lamp.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The Tale of Prince Ahmad.

ARABIAN NIGHTS, VOLUME 13 FOOTNOTES

Original List of Contents of the Thirteenth Volume.

1. The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam 2. Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp 3. Khudadad and His Brothers a. History of the Princess of Daryabar 4. The Caliph's Night Adventure a. The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah b. History of Sidi Nu'uman c. History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal 5. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 6. Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad 7. Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu 8. The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette

APPENDIX: VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES of the Tales in Volume XIII. By W. A. Clouston. The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp Khudadad and His Brothers The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah History of Sisi Nu'uman History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette Additional Notes:— The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu

The Translator's Foreword.

The peculiar proceedings of the Curators, Bodleian Library, Oxford, of which full particulars shall be given in due time, have dislocated the order of my volumes. The Prospectus had promised that Tome III. should contain detached extracts from the MS. known as the Wortley-Montague, and that No. IV. and part of No. V. should comprise a reproduction of the ten Tales (or eleven, including "The Princess of Daryábár"), which have so long been generally attributed to Professor Galland. Circumstances, however, wholly beyond my control have now compelled me to devote the whole of this volume to the Frenchman's stories.

It will hardly be doubted that for a complete recueil of The Nights a retranslation of the Gallandian histoires is necessary. The learned Professor Gustav Weil introduced them all, Germanised literally from the French, into the Dritter Band of his well-known version—Tausend und eine Nacht; and not a few readers of Mr. John Payne's admirable translation (the Villon) complained that they had bought it in order to see Ali Baba, Aladdin, and others translated into classical English and that they much regretted the absence of their old favourites.

But the modus operandi was my prime difficulty. I disliked the idea of an unartistic break or change in the style, ever

"Tâchnat de rendre mien cet air d'antiquité,"

and I aimed at offering to my readers a homogeneous sequel. My first thought for securing uniformity of treatment was to tender the French text into Arabic, and then to retranslate it into English. This process, however, when tried was found wanting; so I made inquiries in all directions for versions of the Gallandian histories which might have been published in Persian, Turkish, or Hindustani. Though assisted by the Prince of London Bibliopoles, Bernard Quaritch, I long failed to find my want: the vernaculars in Persian and Turkish are translated direct from the Arabic texts, and all ignore the French stories. At last a friend, Cameron McDowell, himself well known to the world of letters, sent me from Bombay a quaint lithograph with quainter illustrations which contained all I required. This was a version of Totárám Sháyán (No. III.), which introduced the whole of the Gallandian Tales: better still, these were sufficiently orientalised and divested of their inordinate Gallicism, especially their lonesome dialogue, by being converted into Hindustani,

the Urdu Zabán (camp or court language) of Upper India and the Lingua Franca of the whole Peninsula.

During one of my sundry visits to the British Museum, I was introduced by Mr. Alexander G. Ellis to Mr. James F. Blumhardt, of Cambridge, who pointed out to me two other independent versions, one partly rhymed and partly in prose.

Thus far my work was done for me. Mr. Blumhardt, a practical Orientalist and teacher of the modem Prakrit tongues, kindly undertook, at my request, to English the Hindustani, collating at the same time, the rival versions; and thus, at a moment when my health was at its worst, he saved me all trouble and labour except that of impressing the manner with my own sign manual, and of illustrating the text, where required, with notes anthropological and other.

Meanwhile, part of my plan was modified by a visit to Paris in early 1887. At the Bibliothèque Nationale I had the pleasure of meeting M. Hermann Zotenberg, keeper of Eastern manuscripts, an Orientalist of high and varied talents, and especially famous for his admirable Chronique de Tabari. Happily for me, he had lately purchased for the National Library, from a vendor who was utterly ignorant of its history, a MS. copy of The Nights, containing the Arabic originals of Zayn al-Asnam and Alaeddin. The two volumes folio are numbered and docketed Supplément Arabe, Nos. 2522-23;" they measure 31 cent. by 20; Vol. i. contains 411 folios (822 pages) and Vol. ii. 402 (pp. 804); each page numbers fifteen lines, and each folio has its catchword. The paper is French, English and Dutch, with four to five different marks, such as G. Gautier; D. and C. Blaew; Pro Patriâ and others. The highly characteristic writing, which is the same throughout the two folios, is easily recognised as that of Michel (Mikhaíl) Sabbágh, the Syrian, author of the Colombe Messagère, published

in Paris A.D. 1805, and accompanied by a translation by the celebrated Silvestre de Sacy (Chrestomathie iii. 365). This scribe also copied, about 1810, for the same Orientalist, the Ikhwán al-Safá.

I need say nothing more concerning this MS., which M. Zotenberg purposes to describe bibliographically in volume xxviii. of Notices et extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque rationale publiés par l'Academie des inscriptions et belles lettres. And there will be a tirage à part of 200-300 copies entitled Histoire d' 'Alá al-Dîn ou La Lampe Merveilleuse, Texte Arabe, publié par H. Zotenberg, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1888; including a most important contribution:—Sur quelques Manuscrits des Mille et une Nuits et la traduction de Galland.1

The learned and genial author has favoured me with proof sheets of his labours: it would be unfair to disclose the discoveries, such as the Manuscript Journals in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Nos. 15277 to 15280), which the illustrious Garland kept regularly till the end of his life, and his conversations with "M. Hanna, Maronite d'Halep," alias Jean Dipi (Dippy, a corruption of Diab): suffice it to say that they cast a clear and wholly original light upon the provenance of eight of the Gallandian histories. I can, however, promise to all "Aladdinists" a rich harvest of facts which wholly displace those hitherto assumed to be factual. But for the satisfaction of my readers I am compelled to quote the colophon of M. Zotenberg's great "find" (vol. ii.), as it bears upon a highly important question.

"And the finishing thereof was during the first decade of Jamádi the Second, of the one thousand and one hundred and fifteenth year of the Hegirah (= A.D. 1703) by the transcription of the neediest of His slaves unto Almighty Allah, Ahmad bin Mohammed al-Tarádí, in Baghdad City: he was a Sháfi'í of school, and a Mosuli by birth, and a Baghdadi by residence, and he wrote it for his own use, and upon it he imprinted his signet. So Allah save our lord Mohammed and His Kin and Companions and assain them! Kabíkaj."2

Now as this date corresponds with A.D. 1703, whereas Galland did begin publishing until 1705-1705 the original MS. of Ahmad al-Tarádí could not have been translated or adapted from the French; and although the transcription by Mikhail Sabbagh, writing in 1805-10, may have introduced modification borrowed from Galland, yet the scrupulous fidelity of his copy, shown by sundry marginal and other notes, lays the suspicion that changes of importance have been introduced by him. Remains now only to find the original codex of Al-Tarádí.

I have noticed in my translation sundry passages which appear to betray the Christian hand; but these are mostly of scanty consequence in no wise affecting the genuineness of the text.

The history of Zayn al Asnam was copied from the Sabbágh MS. and sent to me by M. Houdas, Professeur d'Arabe vulgaire a l'Ecole des langues orientales vivantes; an Arabist, whose name is favourably quoted in the French Colonies of Northern Africa M. Zotenberg kindly lent me his own transcription of Alaeddin before sending it to print; and I can only regret that the dilatory proceedings of the Imprimerie Nationale, an establishment supported by the State, and therefore ignoring the trammels of private industry, have prevented my revising the version now submitted to the public. This volume then begins with the two Gallandian Tales, "Zeyn Alasnam" and "Aladdin," whose Arabic original was discovered by M. Zotenberg during the last year: although separated in the French version, I have brought them together for the sake of uniformity. The other eight (or nine, including the Princess of Daryabar), entitled History of Khudadad and his Brothers, and the Princess of Daryabar;