The following is a list of the Tales (widely differing from those of Chavis and Cazotte) which appeared in the version of Caussin de Perceval.
Les | Mille et une Nuits, | Contes Arabes, | Traduits en Français | Par M. Galland, | Membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions et | Belles-Lettres, Professeur de Langue Arabe | au Collége Royal; | Continués | Par M. Caussin de Perceval, | Professeur de Langue Arabe au Collége Impérial. | Tome huitième. | à Paris, | chez Le Normant, Imp.-Libraire, | Rue des Prêtres Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois. | 1806.
1. Nouvelles aventures du calife Haroun Alraschid; ou histoire de la petite fille de Chosroès Anouschirvan.
(Gauttier, Histoire du Khalyfe de Baghdad: vol. vii. 117.)
2. Le Bimaristan, ou histoire du jeune Marchand de Bagdad et de la dame inconnue.
3. Le médecin et le jeune traiteur de Bagdad.
(Gauttier, Histoire du Sage Heycar, vii. 313).
5. Histoire du roi Azadbakht, ou des dix Visirs.
6. Histoire du marchand devenu malheureux.
7. Histoire du marchand imprudent et de ses deux enfants.
8. Histoire d’ Abousaber, ou de l’homme patient.
10. Histoire du roi Dadbin, ou de la vertueuse Aroua.
14. Histoire du roi Ilanschah et d’Abouteman.
15. Histoire du roi Ibrahim et de son fils.
17. Histoire de l’esclave sauvé du supplice.
(Gauttier, Histoire de l’habitant de Damas; vii. 234.)
19. Histoire du Prince Habib et de Dorrat Algoase.
20. Histoire du roi Sapor, souverain des îles Bellour; de Camar Alzemann, fille du génie Alatrous, et Dorrat Algoase.
24. Histoire d’Aly Mohammed le joaillier, ou du faux calife.
I need hardly offer any observations upon these tales, as they have been discussed in the preceding pages.
By an error of the late M. Reinaud (for which see p. 39 Histoire d’ ’Alâ al-Dîn by M. H. Zotenberg, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, MDCCCLXXXVIII,) the MS. _Supplément Arabe, No. 1716_, in the writing of Dom Chavis has been confounded with No. 1723, which is not written by the Syrian priest but which contains the originals of the Cazotte Continuation as noted by M. C. de Perceval (_Les Mille et une Nuits_, etc., vol. viii. Préf. p. 17, et seqq.). It is labelled _Histoires tirées la plupart des Mille et une Nuits_ | _Supplément Arabe_ | _Volume de_ 742 pages. The thick quarto measures centimètres 20½ long by 16 wide; the binding is apparently Italian and the paper is European, but the filegrane or water-mark, which is of three varieties, a coronet, a lozenge-shaped bunch of circles and a nondescript, may be Venetian or French. It contains 765 pages, paginated after European fashion, but the last eleven leaves are left blank reducing the number written to 742; and the terminal note, containing the date, is on the last leaf. Each page numbers 15 lines and each leaf has its catchword (_mot de rappel_). It is not ordered by “karrás” or quires; but is written upon 48 sets of 4 double leaves. The text is in a fair Syrian hand, but not so flowing as that of No. 1716, by Sháwísh himself, which the well-known Arabist, Baron de Slane, described as _Bonne écriture orientale de la fin du XVIII^e Siècle_. The colophon conceals or omits the name of the scribe, but records the dates of incept Kánún II^d. (the Syrian winter-month January) A.D. 1772; and of conclusion Naysán (April) of the same year. It has head-lines disposed recto and verso, _e.g._,