This article provides a list of stories within Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes were published between 1885 and 1886. The Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six volumes in seven, with the fourth volume sometimes treated as the second part of the third volume. The nights are in the style of stories within stories, and the frame story is The Story Of King Shahryar of Persia and His Brother or The Story Of King Shahryar and Queen Shahrazad, in which Shahrazad tells tales to her husband Shahryar.
NOTE: The numbers in parentheses indicate that the night in question began (and the previous night ended) during the tale indicated.
V. On the Prose-Rhyme and the Poetry of The Nights
A. The Saj'a
B. The Verse
L'Envoi
Index (for both the remaining tales in this volume and the terminal essay)
Appendices
Memorandum
Appendix I
Index I: Index to the Tales and Proper Names
Index II: Alphabetical Table of the Notes (Anthropological, &c.)
Index IIIA: Alphabetical Table of First Lines (Metrical Portion) in English
Index IIIB: Alphabetical Table of First Lines (Metrical Portion) in Arabic
Index IVA: Table of Contents of the Unfinished Calcutta Edition
Index IVB: Table of Contents of the Breslau (Tunis) Edition
Index IVC: Table of Contents of the MacNaghten or Turner-Macan Text and Bulak Edition
Index IVD: Comparison of the Tables of Contents of the Lane and Burton versions
Appendix II: Contributions to the Bibliography (by W. F. Kirby)
Galland's MS and Translation
Cazotte's Continuation, and the Composite Editions
The Commencement of the Story of Saif Zul Yezn According to Habicht
Scott's MSS and Translations
Weil's Translation
Von Hammer's MS and the Translations Derived from it
Collections of Selected Tales
Separate Editions of Single or Composite Tales
Translations of Cognate Oriental Romances
Dr. Clarke's MS.
Imitations and Miscellaneous Works
Conclusion
Comparative Table of the Tales in the Principal Editions
Supplemental Nights, Volume 1
The material in the first two of the seven supplemental volumes are the Arabic tales originally included in the John Payne translation. They are mostly taken from the Breslau edition and the Calcutta fragment.
Tale of the Damsel Torfat al-Kulub and the Caliph Harun al-Rashid
To this tale Burton added an extensive footnote about circumcision.
Women's Wiles
Calcutta edition nights 196-200
Nur al-Din Ali of Damascus and the Damsel Sitt al-Milah
Breslau nights 958-965
Tale of King Ins bin Kays and His Daughter with the Son of King Al-'Abbas
Breslau nights 966-979
Alternate ending from the Breslau edition of tale of Shahrazad and Shahryar, with the remaining tales being told aftet night 1001
Tale of the Two kings and the Wazir's Daughters
The Concubine and the Caliph
The Concubine of Al-Maamun
In the remainder of this volume W. A. Clouston presents "variants and analogues" of the supplemental nights.
The Sleeper and the Waker
The Ten Wazirs; or the History of King Azadbakht and His Son
King Dadbin and His Wazirs
King Aylan Shah and Abu Tamman
King Sulayman Shah and His Niece
Firuz and His Wife
King Shah Bakht and His Wazir Al-Rahwan
On the Art of Enlarging Pearls
The Singer and the Druggist
Persian version
Ser Giovanni's version
Straparola's version
The King Who Kenned the Quintessence of Things
Indian version
Siberian version
Hungarian version
Turkish analogue
The Prince Who Fell In Love With the Picture
The Fuller, His Wife, and the Trooper
The Simpleton Husband
The Three Men and our Lord Isa
The Melancholist and the Sharper
The Devout Woman accused of Lewdness
The Weaver Who Became A Leach By Order of His Wife
The King Who Lost Kingdom, Wife, and Wealth
Kashmiri version
Panjàbí version
Tibetan version
Legend of St. Eustache
Old English "Gesta" version
Romance of Sir Isumbras
Al-Malik al-Zahir and the Sixteen Captains of Police
The Thief's Tale
The Ninth Constable's Story
The Fifteenth Constable's Story
The Damsel Tuhfat al-Kulub
Women's Wiles
Nur al-Din and the Damsel Sitt al-Milah
King Ins Bin Kays and his Daughter
Additional Notes
Firuz and His Wife
The Singer and the Druggist
The Fuller, His Wife, and the Trooper
Supplemental Nights, Volume 3
This volume is based primarily on tales found in a Bibliothèque nationale manuscript (Supplement Arab. No.2523) which was used by Antoine Galland. The nights indicated overlap with those given in Burton's main series. The Table of Contents in this covers this and the following volume.
The stories in this volume are based on the Wortley Montague Codex in the Bodleian Library, originally used for the Jonathan Scott translation. No explanation has been found regarding the nights that do not appear.
Translator's Foreword
Story of the Sultan of Al-Yaman and His Three Sons (330) to (334)
Story of the Three Sharpers (335) to (342)
The Sultan Who Fared Forth in the Habit of a Darwaysh (343)
History of Mohammed, Sultan of Cairo (344) to (348)
Story of the First Lunatic (349) to (354)
Story of the Second Lunatic (355) to (357)
Story of the Sage and the Scholar (358) to (361)
The Night-Adventure of Sultan Mohammed of Cairo with the Three Foolish Schoolmasters (362)
Story of the Broke-Back Schoolmaster (363)
Story of the Split-Mouthed Schoolmaster (364)
Story of the Limping Schoolmaster (365)
[The Night-Adventure of Sultan Mohammed of Cairo] resumed (366)
Story of the Three Sisters and Their Mother the Sultanah (367) to (385)
History of the Kazi Who Bare a Babe (387) to (392)
Tale of the Kazi and the Bhang-Eater (393) to (397)
History of the Bhang-Eater and His Wife (398) to (400)
How Drummer Abu Kasim Became a Kazi (401)
Story of the Kazi and His Slipper (402) (403)
[Tale of the Kazi and the Bhang-Eater] resumed (404) to (412)
Tale of Mahmud the Persian and the Kurd Sharper (417)
Tale of the Sultan and His Sons and the Enchanting Bird (418) to (425)
Story of the King of Al-Yaman and His Three Sons and the Enchanting Bird (427)(429)(430)(432)(433)(435)(437)(438) (sic!)
History of the First Larrikin (441)(442)(443)
History of the Second Larrikin (445)
History of the Third Larrikin (447)
Story of a Sultan of Al-Hind and His Son Mohammed (449)(452)(455)(457)(459)
Tale of the Fisherman and His Son (461)(463)(465)(467)(469)
Tale of the Third Larrikin Concerning Himself (471)
History of Abu Niyyah and Abu Niyyatayn (473)(475)(477)(479)(480)
Appendices
A: Ineptiæ Bodleianæ
B: The Three Untranslated Tales in Mr. E. J. W. Gibb's "Forty Vezirs"
The Thirty-eighth Vezir's Story
The Fortieth Vezir's story
The Lady's Thirty-fourth Story
Supplemental Nights, Volume 6
This volume continues material from the Wortley Montague Codex
Translator's Foreword
The History of the King's Son of Sind and the Lady Fatimah (495)(497)(499)
History of the Lovers of Syria (503)(505)(507)(509)
History of Al-Hajjaj Bin Yusuf and the Young Sayyid (512)(514)(516)(518)
The Loves of the Lovers of Bassorah (in volume 7 of The Nights)
[Night Adventure of Harun al-Rashid and the Youth Manjab] resumed (634)(635)(636)(638)(640)(642)(643)(645)(646)(648)(649)(651)
Story of the Darwaysh and the Barber's Boy and the Greedy Sultan (653)(655)
Tale of the Simpleton Husband (656)
Note Concerning the "Tirrea Bede," Night 655
The Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf (663)(665)(667)(670)(672) (674)(676)(678)(680)(682) (684)(686)(687)(689)(691) (693)(694)(696)(698)(700) (702)(703)(705)(707)(709)
The Three Princes of China (711)(712)(714)(716)
The Righteous Wazir Wrongfully Gaoled (729)(731)(733)
The Cairene Youth, the Barber and the Captain (735)(737)
The Goodwife of Cairo and Her Four Gallants (739)(741)
The Tailor and the Lady and the Captain (743)(745)
The Syrian and the Three Women of Cairo (747)
The Lady With Two Coyntes (751)
The Whorish Wife Who Vaunted Her Virtue (754)(755)
Cœlebs the Droll and His Wife and Her Four Lovers (758)(760)
The Gatekeeper of Cairo and the Cunning She-Thief (761)(763)(765)
Tale of Mohsin and Musa (767)(769)(771)
Mohammed the Shalabi and His Mistress and His Wife (774)(776)(777)
The Fellah and His Wicked Wife (778)(779)
The Woman Who Humoured Her Lover At Her Husband's Expense (781)
The Kazi Schooled By His Wife (783)(785)
The Merchant's Daughter and the Prince of Al-Irak (787)(790)(793)(795)(797)(799)(801)(803)(805)(807)(808)(810)(812)(814)(817)(819)(821)(823)
Story of the Youth Who Would Futter His Father's Wives (832)(833)(834)(835)(836)
Story of the Two Lack-Tacts of Cairo and Damascus (837)(838)(839)(840)
Tale of Himself Told By the King (912)(913)(914)(915)(916)(917)
Appendix I - Catalogue of Wortley Montague Manuscript Contents
Appendix II
Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol IV of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby
Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol V of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby
Supplemental Nights, Volume 7
The Say of Haykar the Sage
The History of Al-Bundukani or, the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid and the Daughter of King Kisra
The Linguist-Dame, The Duenna and the King's Son
The Tale of the Warlock and the Young Cook of Baghdad
The Pleasant History of the Cock and the Fox
History of What Befel the Fowl-let with the Fowler
The Tale of Attif
History of Prince Habib and What Befel Him With the Lady Durrat Al-Ghawwas
