"Supplement Arabe 1716. Thousand and One Nights, 3rd and 4th
parts. This volume begins with Night CCLXXXII and ends with Night
DCXXXI. A copy in the handwriting of Chavis. It is from this copy
and in accordance with the instructions (d'apres la indications)
of this Syrian monk that Cazotte composed (redigea) the Sequel to
the Thousand and One Nights, Cabinet des Fees, " xxxvii et xl
(should be tt. xxxviii-xli)."

It is of course evident that M. Reinaud had never read the MS. in
question nor that numbered 1723 in the Supplement Arabe, or he
would at once have recognized that the latter, though not in the
handwriting of the Syrian ecclesiastic, was that which served for
the production of the "Sequel" in question; but, superficial as
was the mistake, it sufficed to prevent the examination by
students of the MS. No. 1716 and so retarded the discovery of the
Arabic originals of Aladdin and its fellows till the acquisition
(some two years ago) by the Bibliotheque Nationale of another
(and complete) MS. of the Thousand and One Nights, which appears
to have belonged to the celebrated Orientalist M. Caussin de
Perceval, although the latter could not have been acquainted with
it at the time (1806) he published his well-known edition and
continuation of Galland's translation, in the eighth and ninth
volumes of which, by the by, he gives a correct version of the
tales so fearfully garbled by Chavis and Cazotte in their
so-called translation as well nigh to defy recognition and to
cause Orientalists in general to deny the possibility of their
having been derived from an Oriental source until the discovery
of the actual Arabic originals so barbarously maltreated [FN#8]