Three stories
MS. Beckford d. 23
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
From Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts
This is an extract only. For more information, see the catalogue record in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts.
Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts contains descriptions of the Bodleian Libraries’ archival collections, including post-1500 manuscripts. Some manuscripts with records in other catalogues are also described here as part of a description of a larger archive. Learn more.
Title
Three stories
Shelfmark
MS. Beckford d. 23
Summary
(pp.iii-xii) 'Histoire de Schahanazan, Roi de Tartarie ou l'année des epreuves, suite des Contes Arabes', separately entitled (p. i) 'Introduction de la suite des Contes Arabes'
(pp.xvii, 1-179) 'Histoire d'Elouard Felkanaman et D'Ansel Hougioud'
(pp. 179-209) 'Histoire du Roi Filoui et d'Azora la Cachemerienne'
(pp.xix-xxi) a draft preface in French, added much later in Beckford's hand, saying that the stories were compiled 'de ma propre imagination'; most of the preface is printed in Guy Chapman and John Hodgkin, A bibliography of William Beckford (1930), p. 94.
Date
Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Language
French
Physical facet
Binding: in sections (made up of bifolia) sewn with pink ribbon (sometimes missing)
Physical extent
206 pages
View full record in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts
Collection contents
Translations
French translations or compositions based on the Arabian Nights
Three stories
