Arabic prose

(BAKHTIYAR NAMAH) KNÖS, GUSTAV (ed. ). Kitab Qissat al-`asr wuzara wa-ma gara lahum ma`a ibn al-malik Azad Baht] (text in Arabic). Historia decem vezirorum et filii regis Azad Bacht insertis undecim aliis narrationibus. In usum tironum ad codicem man scriptum Cahirensem. Göttingae (typis Henrici Dieterich) 1807.8:o. (2), (1)-114, (19) pp. Contemporary yellow wrappers, worn, spine damaged at foot. Some foxing. First edition of the Arabic text. The Swedish scholar Gustaf Knös (1773-1828) studied in Göttingen and (under Silvestre de Sacy) in Paris. He held the Uppsala chair of oriental languages from 1814 until 1828. Apart from his large Syriac chrestomathy, his edition of the "Bakhtiyar Namah", or "History of the Ten Viziers" (an offshoot story of the 1001 Arabian Nights, in which the Arabic version of the tale is sometimes included), was to become his principal work. The present edition, based on a manuscript discovered in Cairo, contains the Arabic text only; a Latin translation with an