The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 11
The manuscript from which it was printed was carefully collated and corrected by a very learned man, the sheykh 'Abd-Er-Raḥmán Eṣ-Ṣaftee Esh-Sharḳáwee, who also superintended the progress of the work through the press.
Die Handschrift, nach der es gedruckt wurde, wurde sorgfältig kollationiert und korrigiert von einem sehr gelehrten Mann, dem Scheich 'Abd-Er-Raḥmán Eṣ-Ṣaftee Esh-Sharḳáwee, der auch den Fortgang des Werkes durch die Presse beaufsichtigte.
But in addition to the value conferred upon it by the corrections of this sheykh, the copy from which the whole of my translation is made, except in a few instances, possesses an advantage which, I believe, renders it incomparably superior to any other now existing:
Aber zusätzlich zu dem Wert, den die Korrekturen dieses Scheichs ihm verliehen haben, besitzt die Abschrift, nach der meine gesamte Übersetzung angefertigt wurde, bis auf wenige Ausnahmen, einen Vorzug, der sie meiner Meinung nach unvergleichlich allen anderen derzeit vorhandenen Exemplaren überlegen macht:
it has been again revised and corrected, and illustrated with numerous manuscript notes, by a person whom I think I may safely pronounce the first philologist of the first Arab college of the present day, the sheykh Moḥammad 'Eiyád Eṭ-Ṭanṭáwee, or, more properly, Eṭ-Ṭanditáee.
Sie wurde erneut überarbeitet und korrigiert sowie mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Anmerkungen versehen von einer Person, die ich getrost als den bedeutendsten Philologen der führenden arabischen Hochschule unserer Zeit bezeichnen möchte, dem Scheich Moḥammad 'Eiyád Eṭ-Ṭanṭáwee, oder, genauer gesagt, Eṭ-Ṭanditáee.
His notes are chiefly philological, and explanatory of words which do not belong to the classical language; and many of them are of very great assistance to me; though most of them I find unnecessary, from the knowledge of the modern Arabic which I have acquired during my intercourse with the people who speak it.
Seine Anmerkungen sind hauptsächlich philologischer Natur und erläutern Wörter, die nicht zur klassischen Sprache gehören; viele davon sind mir eine sehr große Hilfe; obwohl ich die meisten von ihnen als unnötig empfinde, aufgrund der Kenntnis des modernen Arabisch, die ich durch meinen Umgang mit den Menschen, die es sprechen, erworben habe.
His corrections of the text are numerous; and as they would interest very few persons, I have mentioned but few of them in the notes to my translation, notwithstanding a strong temptation that I felt to do otherwise in order that Arabic scholars might be assisted to judge of the fidelity of my version by comparing it with the text of the Cairo edition.
Seine Textkorrekturen sind zahlreich; und da sie nur wenige Personen interessieren dürften, habe ich in den Anmerkungen zu meiner Übersetzung nur wenige davon erwähnt, obwohl ich stark versucht war, anders zu verfahren, damit arabische Gelehrte durch den Vergleich mit dem Text der Kairoer Ausgabe in die Lage versetzt werden könnten, die Treue meiner Übersetzung zu beurteilen.
Vocabulary
- Handschrift
- Manuscript; handwritten document or text
- nach
- After; according to; toward
- gedruckt
- Printed; past participle of drucken (to print)
- wurde
- Was; past tense auxiliary for passive constructions
- sorgfältig
- Carefully; thoroughly; with great attention to detail
- korrigiert
- Corrected; past participle of korrigieren (to correct)
- sehr
- Very; extremely; intensifying adverb
- gelehrten
- Learned; erudite; highly educated scholar
- Mann
- Man; adult male person
- auch
- Also; too; as well
- Fortgang
- Progress; continuation; ongoing advancement of something
- Werkes
- Work; genitive form of Werk (literary or artistic work)
- durch
- Through; by means of; via
- Presse
- Press; printing press; media
- beaufsichtigte
- Supervised; past tense of beaufsichtigen (to oversee)
- Aber
- But; however; coordinating conjunction of contrast
- zusätzlich
- Additionally; in addition; supplementary
- Wert
- Value; worth; importance of something
- Korrekturen
- Corrections; plural of Korrektur (correction, amendment)
- verliehen
- Granted; conferred; past participle of verleihen
- haben
- Have; auxiliary verb used to form perfect tenses
- besitzt
- Possesses; owns; third person singular of besitzen
- Abschrift
- Copy; transcript; written reproduction of a document
- gesamte
- Entire; whole; complete; full
- Übersetzung
- Translation; rendering of text into another language
- angefertigt
- Produced; made; past participle of anfertigen (to produce)
- bis
- Until; up to; by a certain point
- wenige
- Few; a small number of
- Ausnahmen
- Exceptions; plural of Ausnahme (exception, special case)
- Vorzug
- Advantage; merit; distinguishing positive quality
- Meinung
- Opinion; view; personal standpoint on a matter
- unvergleichlich
- Incomparable; matchless; without equal
- derzeit
- Currently; at present; at this time
- vorhandenen
- Existing; available; currently present or extant
- Exemplaren
- Copies; specimens; plural of Exemplar (copy, specimen)
- überlegen
- Superior; to consider; surpassing others in quality
- macht
- Makes; does; third person singular of machen
- erneut
- Again; anew; once more; repeated
- überarbeitet
- Revised; reworked; past participle of überarbeiten
- sowie
- As well as; and also; coordinating conjunction
- zahlreichen
- Numerous; many; a large number of
- handschriftlichen
- Handwritten; pertaining to manuscript or handwriting
- Anmerkungen
- Notes; annotations; plural of Anmerkung (remark, note)
- versehen
- Provided with; furnished; equipped with something
- Person
- Person; individual human being
- getrost
- Confidently; without hesitation; safely, with assurance
- als
- As; than; when; common conjunction or preposition
- bedeutendsten
- Most significant; most important; superlative of bedeutend
- führenden
- Leading; foremost; adjective from führen (to lead)
- arabischen
- Arabic; Arabian; relating to Arab culture or language
- Hochschule
- University; institution of higher education
- Zeit
- Time; era; period; age
- bezeichnen
- To designate; to describe; to label or characterize
- möchte
- Would like; polite form of mögen expressing desire
- oder
- Or; coordinating disjunctive conjunction
- genauer
- More precisely; more accurately; comparative of genau
- gesagt
- Said; stated; past participle of sagen (to say)
- hauptsächlich
- Mainly; primarily; chiefly; for the most part
- Natur
- Nature; character; natural kind or type
- erläutern
- To explain; to elucidate; to clarify in detail
- Wörter
- Words; plural of Wort (individual word)
- klassischen
- Classical; pertaining to classical language or literature
- Sprache
- Language; speech; tongue; mode of communication
- gehören
- To belong to; to be part of a group
- viele
- Many; a large number of people or things
- davon
- Of them; from that; thereof; pronominal adverb
- große
- Great; big; large; considerable in size or importance
- Hilfe
- Help; assistance; aid provided to someone
- obwohl
- Although; even though; subordinating concessive conjunction
- meisten
- Most; the majority; superlative of viel (many/much)
- unnötig
- Unnecessary; not needed; superfluous
- empfinde
- I feel; I perceive; first person singular of empfinden
- aufgrund
- Due to; because of; on the basis of
- Kenntnis
- Knowledge; awareness; familiarity with a subject
- modernen
- Modern; contemporary; of or relating to present times
- Arabisch
- Arabic; the Arabic language
- Umgang
- Dealings; interaction; contact with people
- Menschen
- People; humans; plural of Mensch (person, human being)
- sprechen
- To speak; to talk; to converse in a language
- erworben
- Acquired; gained; past participle of erwerben
- Textkorrekturen
- Text corrections; amendments made to a written text
- zahlreich
- Numerous; plentiful; existing in large numbers
- da
- There; since; because; as; multifunctional adverb/conjunction
- nur
- Only; just; merely; restrictive adverb
- Personen
- Persons; individuals; plural of Person
- interessieren
- To interest; to be of interest or relevance to someone
- dürften
- May; might; subjunctive of dürfen (to be allowed/likely)
- erwähnt
- Mentioned; past participle of erwähnen (to mention)
- stark
- Strong; strongly; greatly; intensely
- versucht
- Tried; attempted; past participle of versuchen (to try)
- anders
- Differently; otherwise; in another way
- verfahren
- To proceed; to handle; to deal with in a certain way
- damit
- So that; with it; in order that; conjunction or adverb
- arabische
- Arabic; adjective relating to Arab language or culture
- Gelehrte
- Scholar; learned person; erudite academic
- Vergleich
- Comparison; analogy; act of comparing two things
- Text
- Text; written or printed written content
- Ausgabe
- Edition; issue; published version of a text
- Lage
- Position; situation; condition; state of affairs
- versetzt
- Placed; transferred; put into a certain position
- werden
- To become; auxiliary verb for future and passive
- könnten
- Could; subjunctive of können (to be able to)
- Treue
- Faithfulness; fidelity; loyalty; accuracy to an original
- beurteilen
- To judge; to evaluate; to assess the quality of something
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