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Excerpt from Supplemental Rights, Vol. 6: To the Book of the Thousand Nights With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory
This volume contains the last of my versions from the Wortley Montague Codex, and this is the place to offer a short account of that much bewritten MS.
In the "Annals of the Bodleian Library," etc., by the Reverend William Dunn Macray, M. A. (London, Oxford and Cambridge, 1868: 8vo. p. 206), we find the following official notice: -
"A. D. 1803."
"An Arabic MS. in seven volumes, written in 1764-5, and containing what is rarely met with, a complete collection of the Thousand and one Tales (N.B. an error for "Nights") of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, was bought from Captain Jonathan Scott for £50. Mr. Scott published, in 1811, an edition of the Tales in six volumes (N.B. He reprinted the wretched English version of Prof. Galland's admirable French, and his "revisions" and "occasional corrections" are purely imaginative,) in which this MS. is described, (N.B. after the mos majorum). He obtained it from Dr. (Joseph) White, the Professor of Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford, who had bought it at had been brought from the East. (N.B. Dr. White at one time intended to translate it literally, and thereby eclipse the Anglo-French version.)
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