The pudibund Lane makes allusion to and quotes (A.  N. i. 216) one of the most out spoken, a 4to of 464 pages, called the Halbat al-Kumayt or “Race-Course of the Bay Horse,” a poetical and horsey term for grape-wine.  Attributed by D’Herbelot to the Kazi Shams al-Din Mohammed, it is wholly upon the subject of wassail and women till the last few pages, when his reverence exclaims:—­“This much, O reader, I have recounted, the better thou mayst know what to avoid;” and so forth, ending with condemning all he had praised.[FN#350] Even the divine and historian Jalal al-Din al-Siyuti is credited with having written, though the authorship is much disputed, a work entitled, “Kitab al-Izah fi ’ilm al-Nikah” =The Book of Exposition in the Science of Coition:  my copy, a lithograph of 33 pages, undated, but evidently Cairene, begins with exclaiming “Alhamdolillah—­Laud to the Lord who adorned the virginal bosom with breasts and who made the thighs of women anvils for the spear handles of men!” To the same amiable theologian are also ascribed the “Kitab Nawazir al-Ayk fi al-Nayk” = Green Splendours of the Copse in Copulation, an abstract of the “Kitab al-Wishah fi fawaid al-Nikah” = Book of the Zone on Coition-boon.  Of the abundance of pornographic literature we may judge from a list of the following seven works given in the second page of the “Kitab Ruju’a al-Shaykh ila Sabah fi ’l-Kuwwat al-Bah[FN#351]” = Book of Age-rejuvenescence in the power of Concupiscence:  it is the work of Ahmad bin Sulayman, surnamed Ibn Kamal Pasha.

1.  Kitab al-Bah by Al-Nahli.

2.  Kitab al’-Ars wa al’-Arais (Book of the Bridal and the Brides) by Al-Jahiz.

3.  Kitab al-Kiyan (Maiden’s Book) by Ibn Hajib al-Nu’man.

4.  Kitab al-Izah fi asrar al-Nikah (Book of the Exposition on the Mysteries of married Fruition).

5.  Kitab Jami’ al-Lizzah (The Compendium of Pleasure) by Ibn Samsamani.

6.  Kitab Barjan (Yarjan?) wa Janahib (? ?)[FN#352]

7.  Kitab al-Munakahah wa al-Mufatahah fi Asnaf al-Jima’ wa Alatih (Book of Carnal Copulation and the Initiation into the modes of Coition and its Instrumentation) by Aziz al-Din al-Masihi.[FN#353]

To these I may add the Lizzat al-Nisa (Pleasures of Women), a text-book in Arabic, Persian and Hindostani:  it is a translation and a very poor attempt, omitting much from, and adding naught to, the famous Sanskrit work Ananga-Ranga (Stage of the Bodiless One i.e.  Cupido) or Hindu Art of Love (Ars Amoris Indica).[FN#354] I have copies of it in Sanskrit and Marathi,Guzrati and Hindostani:  the latter is an unpaged 8vo of pp. 66, including eight pages of most grotesque illustrations showing the various san (the Figurae Veneris or positions of copulation), which seem to be the triumphs of contortionists.  These pamphlets lithographed in Bombay are broad cast over the land.[FN#355]