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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Book of
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“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”

(Puris omnia pura)

—Arab Proverb.

“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”

—“Decameron”—conclusion.
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”

—Martial.
“Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”

—Rabelais.
“The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One
Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small
part of these truly enchanting fictions.”
—Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”

A. Lalauze. Pinx. et
Sc.
 upplemental TO THE
BOOK OF THE ights
Thousand Nights and a Night
WITH NOTES ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND
EXPLANATORY
VOLUME V.

BY

RICHARD F. BURTON

PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

 Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number 547

Printed in U. S. A.
 TO THE CURATORS OF THE BODLEIAN
LIBRARY, OXFORD

Especially Revd. B. PRICE and Professor MAX MULLER.

Gentlemen,

I take the liberty of placing your names at the head of this Volume
which owes its rarest and raciest passages to your kindly refusing
the temporary transfer of the Wortley Montague MS. from your
pleasant library to the care of Dr. Rost, Chief Librarian, India Office.
As a sop to “bigotry and virtue,” as a concession to the “Scribes and
Pharisees,” I had undertaken, in case the loan were granted, not to
translate tales and passages which might expose you, the Curators,
to unfriendly comment. But, possibly anticipating what injury would
thereby accrue to the Volume and what sorrow to my subscribers,
you were good enough not to sanction the transfer—indeed you
refused it to me twice—and for this step my clientèle will be (or
ought to be) truly thankful to you.
I am, Gentlemen,
Yours obediently,
RICHARD F. BURTON

Bodleian Library,
August 5th, 1888.
 CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

PAGE
1. THE HISTORY OF THE KING’S SON OF SIND AND THE LADY
FATIMAH 1

2. HISTORY OF THE LOVERS OF SYRIA 19

3. HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID 37

4. NIGHT ADVENTURE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE YOUTH

MANJAB 61

The Loves of the Lovers of Bassorah 65

Story of the Darwaysh and the Barber’s Boy and the Greedy
Sultan 105

Tale of the Simpleton Husband 116

Note concerning the “Tirrea Bede,” Night 655 119

5. THE LOVES OF AL-HAYFA AND YUSUF 121

6. THE THREE PRINCES OF CHINA 211

7. THE RIGHTEOUS WAZIR WRONGFULLY GAOLED 229

8. THE CAIRENE YOUTH, THE BARBER AND THE CAPTAIN 241

9. THE GOODWIFE OF CAIRO AND HER FOUR GALLANTS 251

10. THE TAILOR AND THE LADY AND THE CAPTAIN 261

11. THE SYRIAN AND THE THREE WOMEN OF CAIRO 271

12. THE LADY WITH TWO COYNTES 279

13. THE WHORISH WIFE WHO VAUNTED HER VIRTUE 287

14. CŒLEBS THE DROLL AND HIS WIFE AND HER FOUR LOVERS 295

15. THE GATE-KEEPER OF CAIRO AND THE CUNNING SHE-THIEF 307

16. TALE OF MOHSIN AND MUSA 319

17. MOHAMMED THE SHALABI AND HIS MISTRESS AND HIS WIFE 333

18. THE FELLAH AND HIS WICKED WIFE 345

19. THE WOMAN WHO HUMOURED HER LOVER AT HER HUSBAND’S

EXPENSE 355

20. THE KAZI SCHOOLED BY HIS WIFE 361

21. THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK 371

22. STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WOULD FUTTER HIS FATHER’S

WIVES 439

23. STORY OF THE TWO LACK-TACTS OF CAIRO AND DAMASCUS 453

24. TALE OF HIMSELF TOLD BY THE KING 463

Appendix I.
CATALOGUE OF WORTLEY MONTAGUE MANUSCRIPT CONTENTS 497

Appendix II.

By W. F. KIRBY.

I. —NOTES ON THE STORIES CONTAINED IN VOL. IV. OF

“SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS” 505

II. —NOTES ON THE STORIES CONTAINED IN VOL. V. OF

“SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS” 513
 THE TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD

This volume contains the last of my versions from the Wortley

Montague Codex, and this is the place to offer a short account of
that much bewritten MS.
In the “Annals of the Bodleian Library,” etc., by the Reverend William
Dunn Macray, M.A. (London, Oxford and Cambridge, 1868: 8vo. p.
206), we find the following official notice:—
“A.D. 1803.”
“An Arabic MS. in seven volumes, written in 1764–5, and containing what is rarely
met with, a complete collection of the Thousand and one Tales (N.B. an error for
“Nights”) of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, was bought from Captain
Jonathan Scott for £50. Mr. Scott published, in 1811, an edition of the Tales in six
volumes (N.B. He reprinted the wretched English version of Prof. Galland’s
admirable French, and his “revisions” and “occasional corrections” are purely
imaginative,) in which this MS. is described, (N.B. after the mos majorum). He
obtained it from Dr. (Joseph) White, the Professor of Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford,
who had bought it at the sale of the library of Edward Wortley Montague, by
whom it had been brought from the East. (N.B. Dr. White at one time intended to
translate it literally, and thereby eclipse the Anglo-French version.) It is noticed in
Ouseley’s Oriental Collections (Cadell and Davies), vol. ii. p. 25.”
The Jonathan Scott above alluded to appears under various titles as
Mr. Scott, Captain Scott and Doctor Scott. He was an officer in the
Bengal Army about the end of the last century, and was made
Persian Secretary by “Warren Hastings, Esq.,” to whom he dedicated
his “Tales, Anecdotes and Letters, translated from the Arabic and
Persian” (Cadell and Davies, London, 1800), and he englished the
“Bahár-i-Dánish” (A.D. 1799) and “Firishtah’s History of the Dakkhan
(Deccan) and of the reigns of the later Emperors of Hindostan.” He
became Dr. Scott because made an LL.D. at Oxford as meet for a
“Professor (of Oriental languages) at the Royal Military and East
India Colleges”; and finally he settled at Netley, in Shropshire, where
he died.
It is not the fault of English Orientalists if the MS. in question is not
thoroughly well-known to the world of letters. In 1797 Sir Gore
Ouseley’s “Oriental Collections” (vol. ii. pp. 25–33) describes it,
evidently with the aid of Scott, who is the authority for stating that
the tales generally appear like pearls strung at random on the same
thread; adding, “if they are truly Oriental it is a matter of little
importance to us Europeans whether they are strung on this night or
that night.”[1] This first and somewhat imperfect catalogue of the
contents was followed in 1811 by a second, which concludes the six-
volume edition of “The

ARABIAN NIGHTS

ENTERTAINMENTS,

Carefully revised, and occasionally corrected

From the Arabic.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A SELECTION OF NEW TALES,

Now first translated

From the Arabic Originals.

ALSO,

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE

RELIGION, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE MAHOMMEDANS.”

The sixth volume, whose second title is “Tales | selected from the
Manuscript copy | of the | 1001 Nights | brought to Europe by
Edward Wortley Montague, Esq.,” ends with a general Appendix, of
which ten pages are devoted to a description of the Codex and a
Catalogue of its contents. Scott’s sixth volume, like the rest of his
version, is now becoming rare, and it is regretable that when
Messieurs Nimmo and Bain reprinted, in 1882, the bulk of the work
(4 vols. 8vo) they stopped short at volume five.
Lastly we find a third list dating from 1835 in the “Catalogi |
Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium | Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ |
Pars Secunda | Arabicos | complectens. | Confecit | Alexander Nicoll,
J.C.D. | Nuper Linguæ Heb. Professor Regius, necnon Ædis Christi
Canonicus. | Editionem absolvit | et Catalogum urianum[2]
aliquatenus emendavit | G. B. Pusey, S.T.B. | Viri desideratissimi
Successor. | Oxonii, | E Typographio Academico | MDCCCXXXV.” This
is introduced under the head, “Codicis Arabici Mahommedani
Narrationes Fictæ sive Historiæ Romanenses | in Quarto” (pp. 145–
150).
I am not aware that any attempt has been made to trace the history
of the Wortley Montague MS.; but its internal evidence supplies a
modicum of information.
By way of colophon to the seventh and last volume we have, “On
this wise end to us the Stories of the Kings and histories of various
folk as foregoing in the Thousand Nights and a Night, perfected and
completed, on the eighteenth day of Safar the auspicious, which is
of the months of (the year A. H.) one thousand one hundred and
seventy-eight” (= A.D. 1764–65).
“Copied by the humblest and neediest of the poor, Omar-al-Safatí, to
whose sins may Allah be Ruthful!
“An thou find in us fault deign default supply,
And hallow the Faultless and Glorify.”

The term “Suftah” is now and has been applied for the last century
to the sons of Turkish fathers by Arab mothers, and many of these
Mulattos live by the pen. On the fly-leaf of vol. i. is written in a fine
and flowing Persian (?) hand, strongly contrasting with the text of
the tome, which is unusually careless and bad, “This Book | The
Thousand Nights and a Night of the Acts and deeds (Sírat) of the
Kings | and what befel them from sundry | women that were
whorish | and witty | and various | Tales | therein.” Below it also is a
Persian couplet written in vulgar Iranian characters of the half-
Shikastah type:—
Chih goyam, o chih poyam? ✿ Na mí-dánam hích o púch.
(What shall I say or whither fly? ✿ This stuff and this nonsense know not I.)

Moreover, at the beginning of vol. i. is a list of fifteen tales written in

Europeo-Arabic characters, after schoolboy fashion, and probably by
Scott. In vol. ii. there is no initial list, but by way of Foreword we
read, “This is volume the second of the Thousand Nights and a Night
from the xciiid. Night, full and complete.” And the Colophon declares,
“And this is what hath been finished for us of the fourth (probably a
clerical error for “second”) tome of the Thousand Nights and a Night
to the clxxviith. Night, written on the twentieth day of the month
Sha’bán A.H., one thousand one hundred and seventy-seven” (=
A.D. 1764). This date shows that the MS. was finished during the
year after incept.
The text from which our MS. was copied must have been valuable,
and we have reason to regret that so many passages both of poetry
and prose are almost hopelessly corrupt. Its tone and tenor are
distinctly Nilotic; and, as Mr. E. Wortley Montague lived for some
time in Egypt, he may have bought it at the Capital of the Nile-land.
The story of the Syrian (v. 468) and that of the Two Lack-tacts (vi.
262), notably exalt Misr and Cairo at the expense of Shám and
Damascus; and there are many other instances of preferring Kemi
the Black Soil to the so-called “Holy Land.” The general tone, as well
as the special incidents of the book, argues that the stories may
have been ancient, but they certainly have been modernised. Coffee
is commonly used (passim) although tobacco is still unknown; a
youth learns archery and gunnery (Zarb al-Risás, vol. vii. 440);