Zeyn Alasnam, (3) The Sleeper Awakened and (4) Aladdin, and by
the publication (also by M. Zotenberg) of certain extracts from
Galland's diary, giving particulars of the circumstances under
which the "interpolated" tales were incorporated with his
translation of the Arabian Nights. The Arabic text of the Story
of Aladdin, as given by the completer and more authentic of the
newly-discovered MSS., has recently been made by M. Zotenberg the
subject of a special publication, [FN#3] in the preface to which
(an exhaustive bibliographical essay upon the various Texts of
the Thousand and One Nights, considered in relation to Galland's
translation) he gives, in addition to the extracts in question
from Galland's Diary, a detailed description of the two MSS.
aforesaid, the more interesting particulars of which I now
proceed to abstract for the benefit of my readers.



II.



The first MS. commences precisely where the third volume of
Galland's MS. ends, to wit, (see my Terminal essay, p. 265,
note1) with the 281st Night, in the middle of the story of
Camaralzaman [FN#4] and contains, (inter alia) besides the
continuation of this latter (which ends with Night CCCXXIX), the
stories of the Sleeper Awakened (Nights CCCXXX-CCCC), Ganem
(Nights CCCCXXVIII-CCCCLXX1V), Zeyn Alasnam (Nights CCCCLXXV-
CCCCXCI), Aladdin (Nights CCCCXCII-DLXIX) and three others not
found in Galland's version. The MS. ends in the middle of the