Table of Contents of the Unfinished Calcutta (1814-18) Edition (First Two Hundred Nights Only) of the Arabic Text of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

Alphabetical Table of First Lines (Metrical Portion) in Arabic.

Prepared by Dr. Steingass.

[Index III-B is not included]

Index IV.—A.

Night
INTRODUCTION—
a. The Bull and the Ass
1. The Trader and the Jinni i
a. The First Old Man’s Story ii
b. The Second Old Man’s Story iv
(The Third Old Man’s Story is wanting.)
2. The Fisherman and the Jinni viii
a. The Physician Duban xi
aa. The Merchant and the Parrot xiv
ab. The Prince and the Ogress xv
b. The Ensorcelled Youth xxi
3. The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad xxviii
a. The First Kalandar’s Tale xxxix
b. The Second Kalandar’s Tale xlii
ba. The Envier and the Envied xlvi
c. The Third Kalandar’s Tale liii
d. The Eldest Lady’s Tale lxiv
(The Story of the Portress is wanting.)
4. The Three Apples lxviii
5. Nur al-Din Ali and his Son Badr al-Din Hassan lxxii
6. Isaac of Mosul’s Story of Khadijah and the Caliph Al-Maamun xciv
7. The Hunchback’s Tale ci
a. The Nazarene Broker’s Story cix
b. The Cook’s Story cxxi
(The Reeve or Comptroller’s Tale in the Bresl., Mac.
and Bull Edits.)
c. The Jewish Physician’s Story cxxix
d. Tale of the Tailor cxxxvi
e. The Barber’s Tale of Himself cxliii
ea. The Barber’s Tale of his First Brother cxlv
eb. The Barber’s Tale of his Second Brother cxlviii
ec. The Barber’s Tale of his Third Brother cli
ed. The Barber’s Tale of his Fourth Brother clii
ee. The Barber’s Tale of his Fifth Brother cliv
ef. Story of the Barber’s Sixth Brother clviii
8. Ali bin Bakkar and Shams Al-Nahar clxiii
9. Nur al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis al-Jalis clxxxi
10. Women’s Craft cxcv-cc [195-200]
11. Sindbad the Seaman and Hindbad the Hammal
(In Mac. and Bresl. Edit.; “Sindbad the Sailor and Sindbad
the Hammal,”)
a. The First Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
b. The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
c. The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
d. The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
e. The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
f. The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
g. The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.