The Third Kalandar’s Tale, Night lv. . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
The Eldest Lady’s Tale.  Night lxvi.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
Tale of the Portress.  Conclusion of the Story of the Porter and
Three Ladies of Baghdad,
Night lxii. (a clerical mistake for lxx.?). . . . . . . .260

     (In Galland follow the Voyages of Sindbad the Seaman which
     are not found in this copy.)

The Tailor and the Hunchback, Night lxviii. (for lxxiv.?). . .295 The Nazarene Broker’s Story, Night lxviii. (for lxxiv.?) . . .308 The Youth whose hand was cut off, Night (?)[FN#628]. . . . . .312

     (In p. 314 is a hiatus not accounting for the loss of hand.)

The Barber’s Tale of his First Brother . . . . . . . . . . . .314
The Barber’s Tale of his Second Brother. . . . . . . . . . . .317
The Barber’s Tale of his Third  Brother . . . . . . . . . . .323
The Barber’s Tale of his Fourth Brother. . . . . . . . . . . .327
The Barber’s Tale of his Fifth Brother . . . . . . . . . . . .331
The Barber’s Tale of his Sixth Brother . . . . . . . . . . . .343
The end of the Tale of the Hunchback, the Barber and others,
Night lxviii.(?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350

(Here Ends My Vol.  I.)

Nur al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis al-Jalis, Night lxviii. . .355
Sayf al-Muluk and Badi’a al-Jamal, Night xci.[FN#629]. . . . .401
Tale of the Youth of Mosul whose hand was cut off, Night xcii466-472

(The Tale of the Jewish Doctor in my vol. i. 288-300.)

Vol. i. ends with a page of scrawls, the work of some by-gone owner.

Vol.  II.

Contains 316 pages, and includes end of Night xcii. to Night clxvi.  The Ms. is somewhat better written; the headings are in red ink and the verses are duly divided.  The whole volume is taken up by the Tale of Kamar al-Zaman (1st), with the episodes of Al-Amjad and Al-As’ad, but lacking that of Ni’amah and Naomi.  In Galland Kamar al-Zaman begins with Night ccxi.:  in my translation with vol. iii. 212 and concludes in vol. iv. 29.  This 2nd vol. (called in colophon the 4th Juz) ends with the date 20th Sha’aban, A.H. 1177.

Vol.  III.

Contains 456 pages, extending from Night cccvi. (instead of Night clxvii.) to cdxxv. and thus leaving an initial hiatus of 140 Nights (cxvi.-cccvi.  C. de Perceval, vol. viii. p. 14).  Thus the third of the original eight volumes is lost.  On this subject Dr. White wrote to Scott, “One or two bundles of Arabic manuscript, of the same size and handwriting as the second volume of the Arabian Tales, were purchased at the sale by an agent for Mr. Beckford of Fonthill, and I have no doubt whatever but that the part deficient in your copy is to be found in his possession.”  If such be the case, and everything seems to prove it, this volume was not No. iii. but No. iv.  The Ms. begins abruptly with the continuation of the tale.  There is no list of contents, and at the end are two unimportant “copies of verses” addressed to the reader, five couplets rhyming in imu (e.g. ta’dimu) and two in—­af (e.g.  Salaf).