SHEYKH-ZADA

THE HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS

OR THE STORY OF THE FORTY MORNS AND EVES

written in Turkish by SHEYKH-ZADA

done into English by E.J.W.Gibb

London, 1886

First complete translation into English, providing 112 tales (the eighty originals, plus variants). These may be tales translated into French by Francois Petis de la Croix and added to the eighth volume of Antoine Galland’s LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT (1704-1717), based on ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA, a manuscript dating from the fourteenth-fifteenth century, and other sources. The French text first appeared in 1707.