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slug: the-tales-that-were-never-there
passed: 2026-10-14
by: the assay line (research/assay-line/cited-1014b/), Codex fixer directed by claude-assaying-boyle-1014; source record by Codex, checked by Codex; repair review by Codex, 2026-10-14
checked: 165
confirmed: 134
wrong: 31
unverifiable: 0
observed: 0
stale: 0
minor: 12
---

This was the directed repair pass for the 29 items in research/assay-line/cited-1014b/the-tales-that-were-never-there/triage.json against f5e5f84f34. The fixer independently re-read each item's available evidence before editing, including Abbott's scan at printed pp. 129, 130 and 132; X25 uses the publisher's search-indexed abstract because its page failed to open. X11 was rejected with evidence. The 133 CONFIRMED entries below carry the checker's documented re-readings from N2-codex.md, not a claim that the fixer independently repeated all of them; overlapping absolute statements are limited to the surviving-text or other scope that their notes actually establish. The 28 adverse triage items comprise 16 WRONG and 12 MINOR lines, all fixed within this layer; the wrong count includes MINOR. Eight shared WRONG correction lines are mirrored on the page and in the markdown body; MINOR fixes have no separate page line. Historical source-record wording represents U+2014 as a literal \u2014 escape.

The repair review confirmed three further grouped copy findings from fixcheck.md in other layers, recorded below as FC1-FC3 (WRONG). These remain open because this worker may not edit another layer. The repair totals are 165 checked: 134 CONFIRMED, 19 WRONG and 12 MINOR; wrong: 31 includes the 12 MINOR lines. There are 28 fixed findings and three open findings. All eight dated correction lines were checked against the original page, claims record and cited evidence and left unchanged.

## Claims

- WRONG | FC1: Repeated Until True still dates the earliest texts of Aladdin and Ali Baba to Galland's French of 1704-1709, without a surviving-text qualification. | src/content/strata/repeated-until-true.md:19; public/strata/repeated-until-true/index.html:316; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Re-read both authored copies. Marzolph pp. 140-141 and Payne section III and note 15 support 1712 and 1717 and distinguish surviving French texts from Diyab's unavailable Arabic Aladdin. This copy group overlaps X1/X5/X9/X15; it is outside the assigned layer.
- WRONG | FC2: The First Man to Read It still says the most famous Nights tales have no Arabic original before Galland's French. | src/content/strata/the-first-man-to-read-it.md:15; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Re-read the relation note and Payne section III: Galland's 3 November 1710 diary entry records Arabic Aladdin supplied by Hanna. The missing manuscript does not establish the absence of an earlier Arabic source. The repair should name Aladdin and Ali Baba and limit the claim to known surviving earlier witnesses; overlaps X18/X20.
- WRONG | FC3: There, Here preserves the old Nights source denials and French-priority claims without relevant correction annotations. | research/lineage-edge-grammar/page.json:1; public/strata/there-here/index.html:250; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ethiki/article/view/39658 | Both datasets retain FC1/FC2 and three relation notes from this layer: to the-river-that-stays, greener-than-grass and between-zhou-and-the-butterfly. The Arabic-source claims conflict with Payne section III and Marzolph pp. 140-141. The Heraclitus wording also needs X25's surviving-fragments qualification, supported by the publisher's search-indexed abstract. The existing First Man annotation addresses Assyriology only. Preserve the historical quotations and add targeted annotations through research/lineage-edge-grammar/copy-corrections.mjs; overlaps X5/X18/X20/X25/X26. The WRONG grouping concerns the Arabic-source denials; X25 and X26 retain their original MINOR classifications in their triage entries.
- WRONG | X1: "printed them in French in 1710" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Marzolph p. 141, section 3.3 dates volumes IX-X to 1712 and XI-XII to 1717. Payne, Introduction section III and note 15, places Ali Baba in the final volumes. Re-read independently; 1710 is not their common publication year.
- MINOR | X2: "Every quoted line verbatim" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night/The_Fisherman_and_the_Genie | Payne's Fisherman opening reads "tucked up his skirts". The blanket checking description also needs the excerpt and normalization qualifications documented in X8 and X16; the altered quotation itself remains WRONG under X17.
- WRONG | X3: "Galland added them in 1710" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Marzolph p. 141 and Payne, Introduction section III and note 15, support 1712 for Aladdin and 1717 for Ali Baba. The social description incorrectly used 1710 for both.
- MINOR | X4: "fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Marzolph p. 140 dates the Syrian manuscript to the fifteenth century from coin evidence; Payne's Introduction note 19 reports a fourteenth-century dating. The existing ledger range accommodates both. No claim that all fourteenth-century dating is false is made.
- WRONG | X5: "for every one of them, the earliest text in any language is Galland's French." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Marzolph pp. 140-141 identifies Sindbad's separate Arabic manuscript and earlier independent Arabic witnesses for the Ebony Horse. The universal French-priority statement is false; the repaired claim concerns the earliest known surviving Aladdin and Ali Baba texts.
- MINOR | X6: "Every quoted line is verbatim" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night/The_Fisherman_and_the_Genie | Independently compared the page with Payne's Fisherman opening: tucked, not tucking. The exactness promise is MINOR; the quotation error is WRONG under X17. Excerpts and normalization are now disclosed.
- MINOR | X7: "each sat next to the oldest text that actually contains it" | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Read the pinned HTML and current TALES data. Sindbad has only "A separate Arabic cycle, joined later" as its source field; this is source history, not identification of a particular oldest witness.
- MINOR | X8: "transcribed character-for-character" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night/The_Fisherman_and_the_Genie; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm | Re-read Payne's opening and Lane in Gutenberg #34206, p. 69. Payne has tucked; Lane continues after "motionless in the water,". Character-for-character overstates the displayed excerpts and their typography.
- WRONG | X9: "Aladdin was printed in Galland's volumes IX–X, 1710;" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Marzolph p. 141, section 3.3 gives 1712 for volumes IX-X. Repaired the apparatus, ledger, voice date, metadata and provenance copies. The 1709 Diyāb encounter remains distinct.
- WRONG | X10: "a single ninth-century paper leaf" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Viewed Abbott's scan, printed pp. 129-130. She describes two joined folios, a flyleaf and the first text folio; dates the literary text to the early ninth century; and dates later legal testimony in the margins of all four pages to October 879.
- CONFIRMED | X11: "so the public never bought it" | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html; https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4446946 | Rejected after re-reading Wright section 111 and footnote 381, the full page sentence, and Christie's lot 4446946. Section 111 describes buyers, while note 381 expressly distinguishes private subscription and circulation from the general public. The lot describes a 500-copy issue. In context the page contrasts private subscribers with the general public; the isolated word public does not establish the alleged error.
- WRONG | X12: "the same four English coats" | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Read the pinned VOICES orders: Fisherman has Grub Street, Lane, Payne, Burton; Aladdin has Galland French, Wiggin/Smith English, Payne, Burton. Only Payne and Burton are shared, and one Aladdin version is French.
- MINOR | X13: "9th-c. fragment, c. 879 CE" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Abbott pp. 129-130 separates the early ninth-century literary text from the October 879 legal reuse. The compact ledger date needed this distinction; retain MINOR as directed.
- WRONG | X14: "one paper leaf" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Abbott p. 130 describes two joined folios, not one leaf for the whole object. The flyleaf and first text folio together carry the later marginal testimony.
- WRONG | X15: "Galland, vols IX–X, 1710" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Marzolph p. 141 dates volumes IX-X to 1712. The ledger's 1709 storyteller date is retained; 1710 as publication year is changed.
- MINOR | X16: "motionless in the water." | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm; https://bookdome.com/fiction/Thousand-One-Nights/The-Story-Of-The-Fisherman.html | Lane, Gutenberg #34206 p. 69, continues after "motionless in the water,". Restored the comma and marked the omitted continuation with […], in both the page and local excerpt. No replacement prose is attributed to Lane.
- WRONG | X17: "tucking up his skirts" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night/The_Fisherman_and_the_Genie | Payne's Fisherman opening on Wikisource reads "and tucked up his skirts". Both local copies had tucking. Restored tucked in the page and the excerpt file; this remains a WRONG quotation finding.
- WRONG | X18: "There is no Arabic behind it." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Payne's Introduction section III, quoting Galland's diary for 3 November 1710, records an Arabic Aladdin supplied by Diyāb; Marzolph p. 141 says its manuscript is unavailable. Absence of a known surviving witness does not establish absence of an Arabic source. The triage's section-II locator is corrected here to III.
- WRONG | X19: "a single paper leaf, dated 879 CE" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Abbott pp. 129-130: two joined folios, early ninth-century literary text, October 879 later legal testimony. The timeline misstated both the object and which writing the date belongs to.
- WRONG | X20: "with no Arabic manuscript behind them." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Marzolph pp. 140-141 identifies the separate Sindbad manuscript and Diyāb's unavailable written contribution. Payne's Introduction section III specifies Arabic Aladdin. The categorical denial of Arabic manuscript sources is false.
- WRONG | X21: "short of material, he bolted on Sindbad" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Marzolph p. 140, section 3.3 places Sindbad at the start of volume III, from a manuscript translated before the Nights project. Exhaustion of manuscript sources occurs later in his account. The page's causal sequence was reversed.
- MINOR | X22: "every quoted line verbatim" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night/The_Fisherman_and_the_Genie | The dek repeats the checking overclaim. The corrected excerpt and disclosed typography and omission conventions make the brief accurate without adding a MINOR correction line.
- WRONG | X23: "then the same four hands on Aladdin" | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Read the pinned markdown and HTML. The two sets each have four versions, but Grub Street and Lane are replaced by Galland French and Wiggin/Smith English for Aladdin.
- MINOR | X24: "Every quoted line is transcribed verbatim" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night/The_Fisherman_and_the_Genie | The markdown repeats the blanket verbatim claim. The verifier checks agreement with local excerpts after tag and whitespace normalization, not the correctness of an external source. Its 30-check count was not itself disproved.
- MINOR | X25: "a sentence Heraclitus never wrote (panta rhei)" | https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ethiki/article/view/39658 | The publisher page failed to open, but I independently read its search-indexed abstract. It limits the claim to absence from surviving fragments, not everything Heraclitus ever wrote. The edit keeps panta rhei unchanged and states only that surviving-text qualification; no full-article read is claimed.
- MINOR | X26: "three tales no Arabic manuscript ever held" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Marzolph p. 141 describes later Arabic manuscripts and Diyāb's unavailable written Aladdin. The relation note also acknowledges later forgeries. Limited the statement to two named tales and known surviving pre-Galland Arabic witnesses, as directed; retain MINOR.
- MINOR | X27: "a ninth-century paper leaf dated 879 CE" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Abbott pp. 129-130 distinguishes early literary writing from later legal testimony dated October 879. The markdown now gives the two-folio fragment and separates the reuse date; retain the directed MINOR classification for this summary label.
- WRONG | X28: "a single paper leaf, dated 879 CE" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Duplicate of X19, independently checked against Abbott pp. 129-130. The same timeline sentence is repaired once; both triage IDs are recorded.
- WRONG | X29: "Kitāb Ḥadīth Alf Layla" | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf | Viewed Abbott p. 132, Arabic title, translation and comments. The manuscript reads Kitāb fīhi ḥadīth min alf layla; Abbott explicitly distinguishes the shorter form the page presented as its title. Restored the full title, retaining WRONG as directed.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #1: "Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad (the three tales everyone names from the Thousand and One Nights) are not in the medieval Arabic book." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #1 meta-medieval: The common-core list names the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter and Three Apples. Marzolph pp.140-141 separately describes the added Sindbad cycle and Diyab tales. Read "the medieval Arabic book" as this earliest substantial manuscript, not every medieval Arabic story.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #3: "This page lays the famous tales against their earliest known sources, sets one genuine medieval tale against four English translators word for word, and traces the book that has no original." | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #3 meta-description-instruments: Inspected TALES, VOICES and LAYERS: the page implements the ledger, eight passage displays and transmission timeline. Accuracy of the individual historical labels is assessed separately.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #6: "The famous tales against their earliest sources, and a book with no original." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #6 title-no-original: Marzolph p.140: "the existence of a canonical text of the Nights highly improbable"; "a constant rebuilding of the collection". The page also acknowledges the disputed single-archetype theory.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #7: "THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS · 9th c. – 1994 11 tales · 4 translators · 1 book with no original" | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #7 specimen-counts: Counted 11 TALES entries; each VOICES order has four choices; the displayed history ends at 1994. "4 translators" describes the comparison width, not the total number of distinct contributors.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #8: "Almost certainly you said Aladdin, Ali Baba, or Sindbad \u2014 and almost certainly you named one that is not in the medieval Arabic book at all." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #8 reader-likelihood: Marzolph p.144 calls Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad "stock tales of European folk literature". This supports the popularity premise; the address to the reader is not a measured audience probability. The earlier-manuscript qualification is supported on p.141.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #9: Aladdin and Ali Baba have no known surviving Arabic manuscript older than Galland's French versions. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #9 pre-galland-manuscripts: Marzolph p.141 distinguishes the later "forged adapted translations of Galland’s texts" from the absent earlier witnesses. "Earliest text" is supported as earliest surviving known text; a lost written contribution is separately recorded in Galland’s diary. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #12: "He bolted on Sindbad, which had been circulating as its own Arabic story-cycle." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #12 galland-sindbad: Marzolph p.140: Galland acquired a Sindbad manuscript before 1700 and placed its tales at the beginning of volume 3. It is an independent Arabic cycle, not an unattested orphan tale.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #13: "And in 1709 he sat with a young man from Aleppo, Ḥannā Diyāb, who told him Aladdin, Ali Baba, and a handful of others." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #13 galland-diyab-1709: Payne’s Introduction quotes the diary: "On the 25th March, 1709" he met Youhenna Diab from Aleppo; entries for May list Aladdin, Ali Baba, Prince Ahmed and other tales. The source excerpt alone stops too early; the full introduction supplies the names.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #14: "Galland wrote them down and printed them as Nights." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #14 galland-wrote-printed: Marzolph p.141: Galland "reworked some of his summaries" and "published them in his Mille et une nuits".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #16: "The Nights has no fixed original; it is a tide that picked up tales for a thousand years and dropped others." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #16 no-fixed-original: Marzolph p.140: "the existence of a canonical text of the Nights highly improbable"; "a constant rebuilding of the collection". The page also acknowledges the disputed single-archetype theory.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #17: "What follows lays the famous tales against their earliest known sources, sets one genuinely old tale against four translators who each made it a different book, and walks the whole transmission from a ninth-century scrap to the 1990s edition that finally sorted the layers out." | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #17 three-instruments: Inspected TALES, VOICES and LAYERS: the page implements the ledger, eight passage displays and transmission timeline. Accuracy of the individual historical labels is assessed separately.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #20: "There is no single English Nights; there are rival books wearing the same title." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #20 rival-english-books: Marzolph p.142 describes Lane’s omissions, Burton’s archaic language and Mardrus’s additions; Borges compares their rival treatments.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #21: Each tale has four displayed versions; Aladdin includes Galland's French. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #21 four-translators-switch: Inspected the four choices per tale, click handlers, layer ordering and color classes. These descriptions match the implementation. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #22: "The transmission as a core sample \u2014 oldest layer at the top. Gold marks what was added; red marks the forgeries that tried to give the additions an Arabic past. Tap a layer to open it." | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #22 transmission-colors-order: Inspected the four choices per tale, click handlers, layer ordering and color classes. These descriptions match the implementation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #24: "Grub Street English (1706; via Gutenberg #62687, Wardle 1835 reprint)" | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62687/62687-h/62687-h.htm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #24 citation-grub: Gutenberg #62687 identifies the text as based on the Grub Street translation and prints "WARDLE, NO. 13 MINOR STREET. 1835." The 1706 date is that of the original English version, not this reprint.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #25: "Lane (1839–41, via the Lane / Lane-Poole selection)" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #25 citation-lane: Marzolph p.142 explicitly dates the three-volume Lane edition "London 1839–41". The selection text is a later carrier.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #26: "Payne (1882–84, Wikisource)" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #26 citation-payne: Wikisource: "John Payne’s translation was originally published in 1882–4. This edition was published in 1901 in London."
- CONFIRMED | N2 #27: "Burton (1885 / Supplemental 1887, burtoniana & wollamshram)" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; git show f5e5f84f34:research/the-tales-that-were-never-there/SOURCES.md | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #27 citation-burton: Marzolph p.142 dates Burton’s main ten volumes to 1885 and six Supplemental Nights volumes to 1886-1888. The cited Aladdin text is in Supplemental volume III, dated 1887 in the edition record.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #30: Aladdin and Ali Baba have no known surviving Arabic witness older than Galland's French. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #30 aladdin-ali-no-prior: Marzolph p.141 distinguishes the later "forged adapted translations of Galland’s texts" from the absent earlier witnesses. "Earliest text" is supported as earliest surviving known text; a lost written contribution is separately recorded in Galland’s diary. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #32: ""the earliest known text" of Ali Baba "is Galland's French version."" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #32 ali-earliest-split-quote: The fetched Ali Baba article contains "the earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version" and "this was later found to be a counterfeit". These are quotations of the article, not verbatim passages from Mahdi.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #33: "The "Arabic Aladdin" manuscripts (Chavis 1787; Sabbāgh, Paris 1805–08, dressed as a 1703 Baghdad copy) were shown by Muhsin Mahdi's critical edition (Brill, 1984–94) to be back-translations from Galland's French;" | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #33 aladdin-ms-forgeries: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once].
- CONFIRMED | N2 #34: "the Arabic "Ali Baba" found at the Bodleian "was later found to be a counterfeit."" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #34 ali-counterfeit-quote: The fetched Ali Baba article contains "the earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version" and "this was later found to be a counterfeit". These are quotations of the article, not verbatim passages from Mahdi.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #35: ""1,001" is an idiom for "countless," not a count." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #35 1001-idiom: Marzolph p.144: "the number 1001, denoting an endless amount". This is the symbolic number; later editions also literally number 1001 nights.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #36: "The oldest Syrian manuscript breaks off near night 282; the figure was padded up to a literal thousand-and-one only later, in the eighteenth–nineteenth-century Egyptian recension printed at Bulaq (1835) and Calcutta (1839–42) \u2014 the late compilation the Victorians translated as "the original."" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #36 282-and-egypt: Marzolph pp.140-142 gives Night 282, the post-Galland production of complete Egyptian manuscripts, "Bulaq I" 1835 and "Calcutta II" 1839-1842. The source excerpt alone omits the earlier paragraph explaining the expansion.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #37: "Sindbad is not an orphan tale." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #37 sindbad-not-orphan: Marzolph p.140: Galland acquired a Sindbad manuscript before 1700 and placed its tales at the beginning of volume 3. It is an independent Arabic cycle, not an unattested orphan tale.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #38: "It is a real, independent Arabic cycle that "had an independent existence before being added to the collection in later manuscripts and translations" \u2014 old, but not in the oldest Nights, and inserted by Galland." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #38 sindbad-independent-quote: The exact phrase "had an independent existence before being added to the collection in later manuscripts and translations" is in the fetched Nights article. Marzolph p.140 independently establishes Galland’s separate Sindbad manuscript.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #40: "Behind it stands the lost Persian Hazār Afsān, known only from tenth-century Arabic testimony (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Masʿūdī) \u2014 no manuscript survives, so that ancestry is inferred, not documented." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #40 persian-testimony: Marzolph pp.138-139 identifies al-Masudi and Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian "Hazār afsān(a)". It says reconstruction of the prototype’s contents is "purely speculative".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #41: "The tales came from Diyāb's oral telling in 1709 (recorded in Galland's diary; Diyāb's own travel-memoir was rediscovered in the Vatican Library and published in 2015)." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Diyab | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #41 diyab-oral-and-memoir: The complete diary discussion records oral sessions in May 1709. The Diyab biography identifies Vatican Library MS Sbath 254 and the 2015 French publication. Entry 41’s supplied excerpt instead describes the written Aladdin contribution and cannot support the memoir date by itself.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #42: "Diyāb's own travel-memoir was rediscovered in the Vatican Library and published in 2015)" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Diyab | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #42 memoir-rediscovered-2015: The complete diary discussion records oral sessions in May 1709. The Diyab biography identifies Vatican Library MS Sbath 254 and the 2015 French publication. Entry 41’s supplied excerpt instead describes the written Aladdin contribution and cannot support the memoir date by itself.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #43: "Whether Diyāb invented Aladdin, recombined motifs he had heard, or drew on a now-lost source is genuinely open \u2014 argued by Ruth B. Bottigheimer and Paulo Lemos Horta, who would credit Diyāb as a true author." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #43 diyab-authorship-debate: The fetched Aladdin source explicitly names "Ruth B. Bottigheimer" and "Paulo Lemos Horta" and attributes the original-author argument to them. It presents an argument, not a settled origin.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #44: "Mahdi's claim that the Syrian manuscript descends from a single coherent original is contested; its status as the earliest extant substantial text is not." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #44 mahdi-contested: The full Nights source calls Mahdi’s earliest-extant view "largely accepted" but the definitive ancestral-text view one "that remains contentious". The supplied excerpt starts in a less precise passage.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #45: "The broader consensus \u2014 that the Nights never had one canonical text \u2014 is associated with Dwight Reynolds, Robert Irwin ("The Book Without Authors"), and Marina Warner." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/arabic-literature-in-the-postclassical-period/thousand-and-one-nights-a-history-of-the-text-and-its-reception/04195D921D03585DBFE3E4E2EDD80E7E; https://therumpus.net/2012/10/17/the-rumpus-interview-with-marina-warner/ | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #45 canonical-consensus-attribution: Marzolph discusses the improbable canonical text; Reynolds says the book "bears the imprint of many different times, places and individuals"; Warner says "I wouldn’t say that there was an original". The short record fragment for entry 178 needs the full context of entry 45.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #46: "The idea that each translator made a rival book is Borges' ("The Translators of the Thousand and One Nights," 1936)" | https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #46 borges-citation: The PDF contains Borges’s essay and "his happy and creative infidelity" about Mardrus. Its end dates the composition [1934-1936]; 1936 is the conventional collected-publication date.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #47: "named, not quoted" | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html; https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #47 borges-not-quoted: The page names the modern scholars as positions. None is among the eight translation passage voices. The short Borges characterization is presented as a paraphrase, not as a passage quotation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #48: "Grub Street (anon., 1706–21): the first English Nights, translated from Galland's French \u2014 England met the book at two removes from any Arabic." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62687/62687-h/62687-h.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #48 translator-profile-17: The fetched translation history states "The first English translation appeared in 1706 and was made from Galland’s version" and calls it the anonymous Grub Street edition. The Grub Street passage addresses the Sultan in the surrounding frame; the later dominance claim is a general reception description.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #49: "Edward William Lane (1801–76; trans. 1838–40, from the Bulaq Arabic): bowdlerized, omitted whole tales, and buried the rest under ethnographic footnotes \u2014 closer to a study of Cairo manners than a literary Nights." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography%2C_1885-1900/Lane%2C_Edward_William; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #49 translator-profile-18: Marzolph supplies the Bulaq basis and omissions. Lane’s DNB biography distinguishes the "monthly parts" issued "in 1838–40" from the 1839-1841 volume dates. Payne’s 500 copies and Burton’s 10+6 volumes are separately checked. Different serialization and volume dates are not by themselves an error.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #51: "Richard F. Burton (1821–90; 1885–88, ten vols + six supplemental): a maximalist, eroticized, archaizing Nights with a vast "Terminal Essay" \u2014 and a still-unsettled charge (Thomas Wright, 1906) that he leaned heavily on Payne's wording." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #51 translator-profile-20: Marzolph p.142 gives the 10-volume 1885 work, six supplements, archaic style and Terminal Essay. Wright’s 1906 biography makes the accusation explicitly: "Burton did not translate The Arabian Nights". The page identifies this as a charge, not an adjudicated conclusion.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #52: "J. C. Mardrus (1868–1949; French, 1899–1904): the freest of all \u2014 padded, embellished, partly invented, and widely believed. The English "Mardrus" most readers cite is in fact E. Powys Mathers' later rendering of him, and is not quoted here." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #52 translator-profile-21: Marzolph p.142 dates Mardrus’s 16 French volumes 1899-1904, identifies Mathers’s derivative English version, and describes additions and contemporary acclaim. Borges’s discussion supplies the creative-infidelity characterization.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #53: "Edward William Lane (1801–76;" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Edward_William_Lane | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #53 lane-life: The author heading reads "Edward William Lane (1801–1876)".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #54: "John Payne (1842–1916;" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Payne | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #54 payne-life: The author index identifies "John Payne (1842–1916), English poet". It is a disambiguation page, but the relevant entry is explicit.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #55: "Richard F. Burton (1821–90;" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Richard_Francis_Burton | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #55 burton-life: The author heading reads "Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #56: "J. C. Mardrus (1868–1949;" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Mardrus | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #56 mardrus-life: The fetched biography identifies Joseph Charles Mardrus with the dates 1868-1949.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #63: The term orphan tales is attributed to Mia Gerhardt (1963); the definition here concerns known surviving earlier Arabic witnesses, among Diyāb's tales. | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_orphelins_des_Mille_et_une_nuits | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #63 gerhardt-1963: The fetched orphan-tales article attributes the term to "Mia Gerhardt (1963 : 12-14)" and defines the lack of an earlier Arabic source in the Nights corpus. This supports the term and date as used here. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #64: "Filter to them and you have named most of the franchise." | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #64 orphan-filter-franchise: The orphan filter selects Aladdin, Ali Baba, Prince Ahmed and the Two Sisters. Marzolph singles out Aladdin and Ali Baba as especially popular; "franchise" is not a defined numerical corpus here. The actual filter counts are separately added below.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #66: "Note where the orphan tale is set: China, in Galland's own French, and in every faithful translator after him." | https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Mille_et_Une_Nuits/Histoire_d%E2%80%99Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #66 china-every-faithful: The French starts "dans la capitale d’un royaume de la Chine". All four displayed Aladdin openings retain China. "Faithful" is a qualification about preserving that setting, not a checked census of all translations.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #69: "Oldest Syrian MS, 14th–15th c." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #69 ledger-02-attestation: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #70: "One of the small core of tales shared by every substantial manuscript of either recension." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #70 ledger-02-note: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #71: "Oldest Syrian MS, 14th–15th c." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #71 ledger-03-attestation: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #72: "Genuinely medieval, and in the core. This is the tale set against four translators in the next instrument." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #72 ledger-03-note: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #73: "Oldest Syrian MS, 14th–15th c." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #73 ledger-04-attestation: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #74: "In the shared core; a frame of its own, holding the tales of the three dervishes." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #74 ledger-04-note: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #75: "Oldest Syrian MS, 14th–15th c." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #75 ledger-05-attestation: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #77: "Oldest Syrian MS, 14th–15th c." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #77 ledger-06-attestation: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #78: "In the shared core of the oldest recension." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #78 ledger-06-note: The common-core list explicitly includes the Merchant, Fisherman, Porter, Three Apples and Two Viziers. Marzolph p.140 describes the oldest Syrian manuscript and its fifteenth-century dating; the page’s 14th-15th-century range accommodates the known dating dispute. The Porter contains the three qalandars’ nested tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #79: "A separate Arabic cycle, joined later" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #79 ledger-07-attestation: Marzolph p.140: Galland acquired a Sindbad manuscript before 1700 and placed its tales at the beginning of volume 3. It is an independent Arabic cycle, not an unattested orphan tale.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #80: "A real Arabic story-cycle with a life of its own \u2014 but it “had an independent existence before being added to the collection in later manuscripts and translations.” Not in the oldest Nights; Galland inserted it. Old, but a guest." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #80 ledger-07-note: The exact phrase "had an independent existence before being added to the collection in later manuscripts and translations" is in the fetched Nights article. Marzolph p.140 independently establishes Galland’s separate Sindbad manuscript.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #82: No known surviving Arabic manuscript of Aladdin predates Galland's French. The later Chavis and Sabbāgh witnesses are back-translations; the displayed Aladdin texts retain China. | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #82 ledger-08-note: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once]. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #83: "Galland, 1710s \u2014 from Ḥannā Diyāb, 1709" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #83 ledger-09-attestation: Payne’s Introduction places Ali Baba in the final two volumes, published in 1717. This is within "1710s"; it does not support the separate metadata claim of 1710.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #84: "“The earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version.” The Arabic “Ali Baba” a scholar reported at the Bodleian Library “was later found to be a counterfeit.”" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #84 ledger-09-note: The fetched Ali Baba article contains "the earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version" and "this was later found to be a counterfeit". These are quotations of the article, not verbatim passages from Mahdi.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #85: "Galland, 1710s \u2014 from Ḥannā Diyāb, 1709" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #85 ledger-10-attestation: The diary extracts name Prince Ahmed on May 22 and the Two Sisters on May 25, 1709. The introduction places them in the final volumes and its note dates those volumes 1717. Marzolph identifies the Ebony Horse, not these tales, as the earlier-Arabic exception.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #86: Prince Ahmed is another of Diyāb's tales with no known surviving Arabic manuscript source older than Galland's French. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #86 ledger-10-note: The diary extracts name Prince Ahmed on May 22 and the Two Sisters on May 25, 1709. The introduction places them in the final volumes and its note dates those volumes 1717. Marzolph identifies the Ebony Horse, not these tales, as the earlier-Arabic exception. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #87: "Galland, final volume, 1717 \u2014 from Ḥannā Diyāb" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #87 ledger-11-attestation: The diary extracts name Prince Ahmed on May 22 and the Two Sisters on May 25, 1709. The introduction places them in the final volumes and its note dates those volumes 1717. Marzolph identifies the Ebony Horse, not these tales, as the earlier-Arabic exception.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #88: "The last of the orphan tales, in Galland’s posthumous final volume." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #88 ledger-11-note: The diary extracts name Prince Ahmed on May 22 and the Two Sisters on May 25, 1709. The introduction places them in the final volumes and its note dates those volumes 1717. Marzolph identifies the Ebony Horse, not these tales, as the earlier-Arabic exception.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #89: "A real Arabic story-cycle with a life of its own \u2014 but it “had an independent existence before being added to the collection in later manuscripts and translations.” Not in the oldest Nights; Galland inserted it. Old, but a guest." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #89 ledger-sindbad-quote: The exact phrase "had an independent existence before being added to the collection in later manuscripts and translations" is in the fetched Nights article. Marzolph p.140 independently establishes Galland’s separate Sindbad manuscript.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #90: "“The earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version.” The Arabic “Ali Baba” a scholar reported at the Bodleian Library “was later found to be a counterfeit.”" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #90 ledger-ali-earliest-quote: The fetched Ali Baba article contains "the earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version" and "this was later found to be a counterfeit". These are quotations of the article, not verbatim passages from Mahdi.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #91: "“The earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version.” The Arabic “Ali Baba” a scholar reported at the Bodleian Library “was later found to be a counterfeit.”" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #91 ledger-ali-counterfeit-quote: The fetched Ali Baba article contains "the earliest known text of the story is Galland’s French version" and "this was later found to be a counterfeit". These are quotations of the article, not verbatim passages from Mahdi.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #92: "Sir \u2014There was a very ancient fisherman, so poor, that he could scarce earn enough to maintain himself, his wife, and three children. He went every day to fish betimes in a morning; and imposed it as a law upon himself, not to cast his nets above four times a day." | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62687/62687-h/62687-h.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #92 opening-fisherman-grub: Read the fetched Gutenberg passage against the page: "a very ancient fisherman" through "not to cast his nets above four times a day" matches. Typography is not reported as an error.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #93: "The first English Nights, made not from Arabic but from Galland’s French \u2014 genteel, expository, two removes from any original. “Sir\u2014” is Scheherazade addressing the Sultan." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62687/62687-h/62687-h.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #93 voice-note-fisherman-grub: The fetched translation history states "The first English translation appeared in 1706 and was made from Galland’s version" and calls it the anonymous Grub Street edition. The Grub Street passage addresses the Sultan in the surrounding frame; the later dominance claim is a general reception description.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #94: "Grub Street English of Galland" | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62687/62687-h/62687-h.htm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #94 voice-edition-fisherman-grub: Gutenberg #62687 identifies the text as based on the Grub Street translation and prints "WARDLE, NO. 13 MINOR STREET. 1835." The 1706 date is that of the original English version, not this reprint.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #96: "From the Cairo (Bulaq) Arabic \u2014 plainer, and on the printed page hedged with footnotes on Egyptian “manners and customs.” Lane omitted whole tales he judged dull or indecent." | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #96 voice-note-fisherman-lane: Lane’s own preface says he will "omit such tales, anecdotes, &c., as are comparatively uninteresting or on any account objectionable". Marzolph confirms the Bulaq basis and ethnographic annotations.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #97: "Edward William Lane" | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #97 voice-edition-fisherman-lane: The Gutenberg title and preface explicitly identify Edward William Lane as translator. The selection wording was also opened independently.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #99: "The first complete, unexpurgated English \u2014 fuller and more literal than Lane, and printed for only ~500 subscribers, which is why most readers never met it." | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html; https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4446946 | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #99 voice-note-fisherman-payne: Wright: Payne "limited himself to the publication of only 500 copies"; "The demand exceeded 2,000". Christie’s physical-copy description also gives "NUMBER 369 OF 500 COPIES".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #100: "Payne (1882–84, Wikisource)" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #100 voice-edition-fisherman-payne: Wikisource: "John Payne’s translation was originally published in 1882–4. This edition was published in 1901 in London."
- CONFIRMED | N2 #101: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was a Fisherman well stricken in years who had a wife and three children, and withal was of poor condition. Now it was his custom to cast his net every day four times, and no more. On a day he went forth about noontide to the sea shore, where he laid down his basket; and, tucking up his shirt and plunging into the water, made a cast with his net and waited till it settled to the bottom." | https://burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/HTML/part2.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #101 opening-fisherman-burton: The fetched Burton passage matches the displayed wording, with the expressly disclosed join of "Fisher man" to "Fisherman". It contains "It hath reached me, O auspicious King", "well stricken in years" and "withal". The characterization of the prose is not audited as taste.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #102: "The same sentence in deliberate mock-medieval English \u2014 “It hath reached me, O auspicious King,” “well stricken in years,” “withal.” Burton turned the prose into a costume." | https://burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/HTML/part2.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #102 voice-note-fisherman-burton: The fetched Burton passage matches the displayed wording, with the expressly disclosed join of "Fisher man" to "Fisherman". It contains "It hath reached me, O auspicious King", "well stricken in years" and "withal". The characterization of the prose is not audited as taste.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #103: "Richard F. Burton" | https://burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/HTML/part2.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #103 voice-edition-fisherman-burton: The fetched Burton passage matches the displayed wording, with the expressly disclosed join of "Fisher man" to "Fisherman". It contains "It hath reached me, O auspicious King", "well stricken in years" and "withal". The characterization of the prose is not audited as taste.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #104: "Sire, dans la capitale d'un royaume de la Chine, très-riche et d'une vaste étendue, dont le nom ne me vient pas présentement à la mémoire, il y avoit un tailleur nommé Mustafa, sans autre distinction que celle que sa profession lui donnoit. Mustafa le tailleur étoit fort pauvre, et son travail lui produisoit à peine de quoi le faire subsister lui et sa femme, et un fils que Dieu leur avoit donné." | https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Mille_et_Une_Nuits/Histoire_d%E2%80%99Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #104 opening-aladdin-gallandfr: Read the 1806 Le Normant text and edition header: "Traduction par Antoine Galland". The French opening and China setting agree; apostrophe encoding and drop-cap display are not substantive changes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #106: "Antoine Galland (the source itself)" | https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Mille_et_Une_Nuits/Histoire_d%E2%80%99Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #106 voice-edition-aladdin-gallandfr: Read the 1806 Le Normant text and edition header: "Traduction par Antoine Galland". The French opening and China setting agree; apostrophe encoding and drop-cap display are not substantive changes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #107: "In the capital of one of the large and rich provinces of the kingdom of China there lived a tailor, named Mustapha, who was so poor that he could hardly, by his daily labour, maintain himself and his family, which consisted of a wife and son." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Arabian_Nights_(1909)/The_Story_of_Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #107 opening-aladdin-gallanden: The text identifies the 1909 edition, editors Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, and "New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons". The opening agrees after joining the initial drop cap.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #108: "The Aladdin generations grew up on \u2014 still carrying Galland’s China, because it was there from the first word." | https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Mille_et_Une_Nuits/Histoire_d%E2%80%99Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #108 voice-note-aladdin-gallanden: The French starts "dans la capitale d’un royaume de la Chine". All four displayed Aladdin openings retain China. "Faithful" is a qualification about preserving that setting, not a checked census of all translations.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #109: "Galland-English (Wiggin & Smith)" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Arabian_Nights_(1909)/The_Story_of_Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #109 voice-edition-aladdin-gallanden: The text identifies the 1909 edition, editors Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, and "New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons". The opening agrees after joining the initial drop cap.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #110: "There was [once] in a city of the cities of China a man, a tailor and poor, and he had a son by name Alaeddin, who was perverse and graceless from his earliest childhood." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #110 opening-aladdin-payne: Read the source paragraph: "There [2] was [once] in a city of the cities of China". The inserted footnote marker explains the online PARTIAL result; the words and Payne’s brackets agree. Entry 112 duplicates the quotation instead of recording its 1889 date.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #111: "Payne and Burton both later “translated” Aladdin \u2014 but from the very Arabic manuscripts now known to be back-translations of Galland. The square brackets are Payne’s own. China survives intact." | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #111 voice-note-aladdin-payne: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once].
- CONFIRMED | N2 #112: "There was [once] in a city of the cities of China a man, a tailor and poor, and he had a son by name Alaeddin, who was perverse and graceless from his earliest childhood." | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #112 voice-edition-aladdin-payne: Read the source paragraph: "There [2] was [once] in a city of the cities of China". The inserted footnote marker explains the online PARTIAL result; the words and Payne’s brackets agree. Entry 112 duplicates the quotation instead of recording its 1889 date.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #113: "It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight." | https://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Sn_3/13tale2.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #113 opening-aladdin-burton: The fetched Supplemental Nights text begins with the displayed sentence and ends "Alaeddin hight". "Hight" means named; no discrepancy in the quotation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #114: Burton's Aladdin used a later Arabic back-translation rather than an independent witness older than Galland; Alaeddin hight means named Alaeddin. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #114 voice-note-aladdin-burton: Read in context as denying an independent authentic Arabic ancestor, not the existence of Burton’s immediate Arabic manuscript. Marzolph attributes the back-translation finding to Mahdi. The literal manuscript did exist. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #115: "Richard F. Burton (Supplemental)" | https://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Sn_3/13tale2.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #115 voice-edition-aladdin-burton: The fetched Supplemental Nights text begins with the displayed sentence and ends "Alaeddin hight". "Hight" means named; no discrepancy in the quotation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #116: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King," | https://burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/HTML/part2.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #116 inline-it-hath-reached-me-o-auspicious-king: The fetched Burton passage matches the displayed wording, with the expressly disclosed join of "Fisher man" to "Fisherman". It contains "It hath reached me, O auspicious King", "well stricken in years" and "withal". The characterization of the prose is not audited as taste.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #117: "well stricken in years" | https://burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/HTML/part2.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #117 inline-well-stricken-in-years: The fetched Burton passage matches the displayed wording, with the expressly disclosed join of "Fisher man" to "Fisherman". It contains "It hath reached me, O auspicious King", "well stricken in years" and "withal". The characterization of the prose is not audited as taste.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #118: "Alaeddin hight" | https://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Sn_3/13tale2.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #118 inline-alaeddin-hight: The fetched Supplemental Nights text begins with the displayed sentence and ends "Alaeddin hight". "Hight" means named; no discrepancy in the quotation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #120: "The earliest substantial manuscript (the one Galland later used) runs only about 282 nights and breaks off mid-tale. It never reaches a thousand and one. It holds the core \u2014 the Fisherman, the Porter, the Three Apples \u2014 and holds no Aladdin, no Ali Baba, no Sindbad." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #120 transmission-02: Marzolph p.140 says the incomplete manuscript reaches "Night 282" and breaks off in Qamar al-Zaman and Budur. The core list independently supports the named included and excluded tales.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #122: "London meets the Nights in an anonymous English made from Galland’s French \u2014 a translation of a translation. For most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this is the Nights in English." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62687/62687-h/62687-h.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #122 transmission-04: The fetched translation history states "The first English translation appeared in 1706 and was made from Galland’s version" and calls it the anonymous Grub Street edition. The Grub Street passage addresses the Sultan in the surrounding frame; the later dominance claim is a general reception description.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #123: "As scholars hunt for the “Arabic Aladdin,” two appear \u2014 Chavis (1787) and Sabbāgh (1805–08) \u2014 and both turn out to be Galland’s French translated back into Arabic. Sabbāgh dresses his as a copy of a 1703 Baghdad manuscript. The original is manufactured to fit the demand for one." | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #123 transmission-05: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once].
- CONFIRMED | N2 #124: "To reach a literal 1,001 nights, an 18th-century Egyptian recension was swelled with extra tales and printed at Bulaq (1835) and Calcutta (1839–42). This late compilation \u2014 not an ancient text \u2014 becomes the “original” the great Victorian translators work from." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #124 transmission-06: Marzolph pp.140-142 gives Night 282, the post-Galland production of complete Egyptian manuscripts, "Bulaq I" 1835 and "Calcutta II" 1839-1842. The source excerpt alone omits the earlier paragraph explaining the expansion.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #125: "From the same padded Arabic, three Englishes: Lane’s footnoted, bowdlerized ethnography (1838–40); Payne’s complete, unexpurgated 500 copies (1882–84); Burton’s archaizing, eroticized, essay-laden maximalism (1885–88). Same title, three different books." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography%2C_1885-1900/Lane%2C_Edward_William; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #125 transmission-07: Marzolph supplies the Bulaq basis and omissions. Lane’s DNB biography distinguishes the "monthly parts" issued "in 1838–40" from the 1839-1841 volume dates. Payne’s 500 copies and Burton’s 10+6 volumes are separately checked. Different serialization and volume dates are not by themselves an error.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #126: "J. C. Mardrus’s French is the freest of all: he pads, eroticizes, and invents, and is taken for a faithful scholar. Borges would later call this the tradition’s creative infidelity \u2014 each translator quietly writing a rival Nights." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #126 transmission-08: Marzolph p.142 dates Mardrus’s 16 French volumes 1899-1904, identifies Mathers’s derivative English version, and describes additions and contemporary acclaim. Borges’s discussion supplies the creative-infidelity characterization.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #127: Abbott published the ninth-century fragment in 1949; Mahdi's 1984-1994 edition examines the Syrian core and exposes the Chavis and Sabbāgh back-translations. | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #127 transmission-09: Abbott’s article is headed "JULY 1949"; Marzolph’s bibliography gives Mahdi, "3 vols., Leiden 1984–94", and p.141 attributes the exposure of the forged translations to him. The page’s "identifies" is read as publication of the identification. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #128: "Borges would later call this the tradition’s creative infidelity \u2014 each translator quietly writing a rival Nights." | https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #128 mardrus-borges-position: The PDF contains Borges’s essay and "his happy and creative infidelity" about Mardrus. Its end dates the composition [1934-1936]; 1936 is the conventional collected-publication date.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #129: Nabia Abbott published the ninth-century fragment in 1949. | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #129 abbott-identification: Abbott’s article is headed "JULY 1949"; Marzolph’s bibliography gives Mahdi, "3 vols., Leiden 1984–94", and p.141 attributes the exposure of the forged translations to him. The page’s "identifies" is read as publication of the identification. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #130: "Name a tale from the Arabian Nights and you will almost certainly name one that was never in the medieval Arabic book." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #130 dek-1: Marzolph p.144 calls Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad "stock tales of European folk literature". This supports the popularity premise; the address to the reader is not a measured audience probability. The earlier-manuscript qualification is supported on p.141.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #131: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad are familiar tales; no known surviving Arabic manuscript of Aladdin or Ali Baba predates Galland's French versions. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #131 dek-2: Marzolph p.144 calls Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad "stock tales of European folk literature". This supports the popularity premise; the address to the reader is not a measured audience probability. The earlier-manuscript qualification is supported on p.141. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #133: For Aladdin and Ali Baba, the earliest known surviving texts are Galland's French versions. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #133 dek-4: Marzolph p.141 distinguishes the later "forged adapted translations of Galland’s texts" from the absent earlier witnesses. "Earliest text" is supported as earliest surviving known text; a lost written contribution is separately recorded in Galland’s diary. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #134: "When scholars later went hunting for the 'Arabic original,' two appeared, and both turned out to be Galland's French translated backwards into Arabic, one of them dressed up as a 1703 Baghdad copy." | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #134 dek-5: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once].
- CONFIRMED | N2 #136: "Modern scholars are named, never quoted; '1,001' is disclosed as an idiom, not a count; and whether Diyāb invented Aladdin or carried it is left open." | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html; https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #136 dek-7: The page names the modern scholars as positions. None is among the eight translation passage voices. The short Borges characterization is presented as a paraphrase, not as a passage quotation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #143: "Sappho's ode reaches us inside a critic's quotation, its broken ending just where his pen lifted;" | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17957/17957-h/17957-h.htm | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #143 related-sappho: Longinus’s On the Sublime explicitly quotes and discusses Sappho’s ode. The supplied introductory excerpt says he "preserved for us" the fragment; the body contains the quotation. The claim concerns this transmission witness, not proof of deliberate destruction of its continuation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #145: Aladdin reaches us through Galland's French; later supposed Arabic originals were manufactured afterward. This does not deny Diyāb's different unavailable contribution. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #145 related-galland-aladdin: The later extant "Arabic source" manuscripts are the forged back-translations described by Mahdi. This does not deny the different, now-lost Arabic contribution mentioned in Galland’s diary. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #146: "Coleman Barks rendered Rumi without reading Persian and said on the record he 'took the Islam out'" | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Poet-follows-his-own-muse-in-translating-Sufi-2855984.php | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #146 related-barks: Opened through web after curl returned a challenge. The interview quotes Barks: "I took the Islam out of it" and says "Others scold Barks for not knowing Farsi". Both parts match.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #147: "J. C. Mardrus padded, eroticized, and invented his Nights and was believed;" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #147 related-mardrus: Marzolph p.142 dates Mardrus’s 16 French volumes 1899-1904, identifies Mathers’s derivative English version, and describes additions and contemporary acclaim. Borges’s discussion supplies the creative-infidelity characterization.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #148: "the Chavis and Sabbāgh manuscripts ran Galland's French backwards into Arabic and called it the source." | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #148 related-chavis: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once].
- CONFIRMED | N2 #149: "Schiaparelli's canali became English 'canals' and built a Martian civilization;" | https://www.nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-mariner-4-first-to-explore-mars/ | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #149 related-mars: NASA says Schiaparelli’s "canali" were "mis-translated into English as canals", leading some to believe in intelligent Martian builders. The page’s causal summary matches this source.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #150: "Galland's evenings with Ḥannā Diyāb became 'ancient Arabian' tales and built a literature's idea of the East." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #150 related-french-east: Marzolph p.141 describes Galland’s success and a resulting "vogue of literature in the oriental style". It supports the reception claim; the quotation marks around ancient Arabian are characterization, not a named speaker’s verbatim quotation.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #151: "Giles slid the soul-doctrine 'Metempsychosis' into Zhuangzi's 物化;" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chuang_Tz%C5%AD_(Giles)/Chapter_2 | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #151 related-giles: Giles’s chapter ends "The transition is called Metempsychosis." This is the sentence corresponding to the butterfly passage and 物化. The imported soul-transmigration terminology is directly visible.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #152: Later manuscripts gave a supposed ancient Arabic ancestry to Aladdin, whose earliest known surviving text is French. | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #152 related-ancient-aladdin: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once]. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #153: "Galland's own French (Wikisource, Le Normant 1806)" | https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Mille_et_Une_Nuits/Histoire_d%E2%80%99Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #153 citation-galland-fr: Read the 1806 Le Normant text and edition header: "Traduction par Antoine Galland". The French opening and China setting agree; apostrophe encoding and drop-cap display are not substantive changes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #154: "Galland-English (Wiggin & Smith, Scribner's 1909)" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Arabian_Nights_(1909)/The_Story_of_Aladdin | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #154 citation-wiggin-smith: The text identifies the 1909 edition, editors Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, and "New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons". The opening agrees after joining the initial drop cap.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #157: "he too is in copyright." | https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781000365269_A41313981/preview-9781000365269_A41313981.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #157 borges-copyright: The publisher’s acknowledgments for the Borges essay state "Copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodama; translation and notes copyright © 1999 by Penguin Putnam Inc.". The source record has "none"; this supplies the missing evidence for the cited English essay.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #158: "his books are in copyright." | https://brill.com/display/title/24474 | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #158 mahdi-copyright: The Brill publisher listing, available through indexed text although direct fetches return 403, says "Copyright Year: 1995" and "originally published in three volumes (1984-1994)". Both supplied excerpts are real; 1995 is not used as a correction to the original edition span.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #161: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad are absent from the oldest substantial Nights manuscript; Aladdin and Ali Baba survive first in Galland's French, while the later alleged Arabic originals are back-translations. | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn/Introduction | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #161 md-world-summary: Marzolph p.141 distinguishes the later "forged adapted translations of Galland’s texts" from the absent earlier witnesses. "Earliest text" is supported as earliest surviving known text; a lost written contribution is separately recorded in Galland’s diary. Confirmation is limited to the qualified scope stated here; the overlapping categorical wording is addressed by this pass's triage fixes.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #162: "(Mia Gerhardt's 1963 term)" | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_orphelins_des_Mille_et_une_nuits | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #162 md-orphan-term: The fetched orphan-tales article attributes the term to "Mia Gerhardt (1963 : 12-14)" and defines the lack of an earlier Arabic source in the Nights corpus. This supports the term and date as used here.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #164: "Muhsin Mahdi's 1984–94 edition" | https://brill.com/display/title/24474 | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #164 mahdied-date: The Brill publisher listing, available through indexed text although direct fetches return 403, says "Copyright Year: 1995" and "originally published in three volumes (1984-1994)". Both supplied excerpts are real; 1995 is not used as a correction to the original edition span.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #165: "Chavis 1787; Sabbāgh 1805–08, claiming a 1703 Baghdad copy" | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrits_des_Mille_et_Une_Nuits; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #165 back-translation-dates: The fetched manuscript history dates Chavis to 1787 and Sabbagh to 1805-1808, with the claimed Baghdad 1703 ancestor. Marzolph p.141 attributes their exposure as back-translations to Mahdi. The Aladdin texts inspected retain China and Payne’s [once].
- CONFIRMED | N2 #166: "Lane omitted whole tales he judged dull or indecent." | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #166 lane-omitted-tales-primary: Lane’s own preface says he will "omit such tales, anecdotes, &c., as are comparatively uninteresting or on any account objectionable". Marzolph confirms the Bulaq basis and ethnographic annotations.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #167: "the first complete and unexpurgated English" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #167 payne-first-complete: The inspected Payne title page says "NOW FIRST COMPLETELY DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE" and "IN NINE VOLUMES". The bibliography dates the original 1882-1884. Calcutta II is the main base, not an assertion that Payne never consulted other editions.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #168: "1882–84, nine vols, from Calcutta II" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_One_Night; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #168 payne-nine-volumes: The inspected Payne title page says "NOW FIRST COMPLETELY DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE" and "IN NINE VOLUMES". The bibliography dates the original 1882-1884. Calcutta II is the main base, not an assertion that Payne never consulted other editions.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #169: ""Terminal Essay"" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #169 burton-terminal-essay: Marzolph p.142 expressly names Burton’s "Terminal Essay".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #170: "Then Muhsin Mahdi’s critical edition (1984–94) strips the accretions back to the Syrian core, traces the orphan tales to Galland and Diyāb, and exposes the Chavis and Sabbāgh “originals” as back-translations." | https://www.ghazali.org/articles/na-jnes-49.pdf; https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #170 transmission-09-forgeries: Abbott’s article is headed "JULY 1949"; Marzolph’s bibliography gives Mahdi, "3 vols., Leiden 1984–94", and p.141 attributes the exposure of the forged translations to him. The page’s "identifies" is read as publication of the identification.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #176: "a still-unsettled charge (Thomas Wright, 1906) that he leaned heavily on Payne's wording." | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #176 wright-charge-primary: Marzolph p.142 gives the 10-volume 1885 work, six supplements, archaic style and Terminal Essay. Wright’s 1906 biography makes the accusation explicitly: "Burton did not translate The Arabian Nights". The page identifies this as a charge, not an adjudicated conclusion.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #177: "printed for only ~500 subscribers" | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4315/pg4315-images.html; https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4446946 | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #177 payne-500-primary: Wright: Payne "limited himself to the publication of only 500 copies"; "The demand exceeded 2,000". Christie’s physical-copy description also gives "NUMBER 369 OF 500 COPIES".
- CONFIRMED | N2 #178: "The broader consensus" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/arabic-literature-in-the-postclassical-period/thousand-and-one-nights-a-history-of-the-text-and-its-reception/04195D921D03585DBFE3E4E2EDD80E7E; https://therumpus.net/2012/10/17/the-rumpus-interview-with-marina-warner/ | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #178 reynolds-position: Marzolph discusses the improbable canonical text; Reynolds says the book "bears the imprint of many different times, places and individuals"; Warner says "I wouldn’t say that there was an original". The short record fragment for entry 178 needs the full context of entry 45.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #179: "Robert Irwin ("The Book Without Authors")" | https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/arabian-nights-9781860649837/ | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #179 irwin-citation: The publisher’s indexed contents show "II The Book Without Authors" under Robert Irwin’s The Arabian Nights: A Companion. Direct curl returned a challenge, not evidence that the chapter was absent.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #180: "the Nights never had one canonical text" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/arabic-literature-in-the-postclassical-period/thousand-and-one-nights-a-history-of-the-text-and-its-reception/04195D921D03585DBFE3E4E2EDD80E7E; https://therumpus.net/2012/10/17/the-rumpus-interview-with-marina-warner/ | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #180 warner-position: Marzolph discusses the improbable canonical text; Reynolds says the book "bears the imprint of many different times, places and individuals"; Warner says "I wouldn’t say that there was an original". The short record fragment for entry 178 needs the full context of entry 45.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #181: (added) "1889" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp;_Zein_ul_Asnam_and_the_King_of_the_Jinn | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #181 added-payne-aladdin-date: The edition page says "Originally published in 1889, this edition was published in 1901 in London." The source record has no claim containing 1889; positive control: it has six claims containing 1882.
- CONFIRMED | N2 #182: (added) "1704–1717" | https://wwwuser.gwdguser.de/~umarzol/files/EI3_Marzolph_Arabian%20Nights.pdf | Checker re-read carried from N2-codex.md: #182 added-galland-span: Marzolph p.137: "published by Antoine Galland between 1704 and 1717". The record has individual endpoint claims but omits this timeline span; positive control: the claim search finds 1704 in two entries.

## Findings

- [open note:5e2082] FC1 (WRONG): On 2026-10-18 the two authored Repeated Until True copies (src/content/strata/repeated-until-true.md:19 and the gallery card at public/strata/repeated-until-true/index.html:319) were corrected to the earliest known surviving texts, Galland's French versions published in 1712 (Aladdin) and 1717 (Ali Baba), distinguishing the Arabic Aladdin his diary records (not now available) from the two later back-translated "Arabic originals", with two dated Corrected 2026-10-18 lines there. Still left: this layer's TV narration at public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js:532 ("the oldest text in any language is Galland's French"), this layer's card in The Anatomy of Error (public/strata/the-anatomy-of-error/data.json:3569-3570, still 1704-1709 with the unqualified priority), and the preserved quotation in There, Here (public/strata/there-here/index.html:250 and research/lineage-edge-grammar/page.json:1, notes[1024]), which FC3's board note 491fad also holds. Round 3 on 2026-10-18 corrected the tales card in the-anatomy-of-error (dated lines there), and the directing instance corrected the TV narration line; what remains is the There, Here quotation.
- [open note:69a9ec] FC2 (WRONG): On 2026-10-18 The First Man to Read It relation (src/content/strata/the-first-man-to-read-it.md:15) was corrected: it now names Aladdin and Ali Baba, limits the claim to no known surviving Arabic text older than Galland's French, and acknowledges the diary's Arabic Aladdin, now unavailable, with a dated Corrected 2026-10-18 line in that layer's HTML and markdown. Still left: the old relation in the preserved quotation in There, Here (public/strata/there-here/index.html:250 and research/lineage-edge-grammar/page.json:1, notes[1455]), which FC3's board note 491fad also holds, and the same unqualified priority in this layer's TV narration at public/tv/lib/narration/batch-15.js:532 ("the oldest text in any language is Galland's French").
- [open note:491fad] FC3 (WRONG): There, Here's corpus and embedded dataset need targeted annotations for the five affected relations, including FC1/FC2 and X25's Heraclitus qualification. Preserve all historical quotations and use the other layer's copy-corrections mechanism. The existing Assyriology annotation does not correct the Nights clause. NOTE NEEDED text is in repair-report.md.
- [fixed] X1 (WRONG): Replaced the common 1710 publication claim in HTML metadata and JSON-LD; 1712 and 1717 are stated separately. Updated the markdown and provenance copies. Shared publication correction added.
- [fixed] X2 (MINOR): Replaced the metadata's blanket verbatim promise with sourced excerpts and disclosed conventions. Recorded only; the Payne quotation has its separate WRONG correction.
- [fixed] X3 (WRONG): Replaced the og:description 1710 claim with Aladdin 1712 and Ali Baba 1717. Shared publication correction added.
- [fixed] X4 (MINOR): Qualified fourteenth-century in HTML prose and the markdown dek to the fourteenth- to fifteenth-century range. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X5 (WRONG): Restricted French priority throughout to the earliest known surviving Aladdin and Ali Baba texts, including related notes. Added a correction identifying Sindbad and the Ebony Horse as exceptions to the old universal statement.
- [fixed] X6 (MINOR): Replaced the introductory blanket verbatim promise with an excerpt description and disclosed conventions. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X7 (MINOR): Changed HTML lead, markdown dek and body from oldest-text identification to early source history. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X8 (MINOR): Removed character-for-character, disclosed typography, paragraph and whitespace normalization, omitted footnote markers and display highlights, and marked Lane's omitted continuation. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X9 (WRONG): Changed Aladdin's apparatus, ledger, French voice date and source provenance to 1712. The voice also identifies the 1806 displayed text. Updated the verifier's false 1710 assertion. Shared publication correction added.
- [fixed] X10 (WRONG): Replaced the one-leaf description in the apparatus and other layer copies with two joined folios and separated early literary writing from later dated reuse. Shared fragment correction added.
- [fixed] X12 (WRONG): Replaced the same-four-English-coats claim with the actual two sets of four versions. Shared versions correction added.
- [fixed] X13 (MINOR): Changed the ledger date label to early ninth-century text and October 879 reuse. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X14 (WRONG): Replaced one paper leaf in the ledger note with two joined folios and their roles. Shared fragment correction added.
- [fixed] X15 (WRONG): Changed the Aladdin ledger date from 1710 to 1712, keeping Diyāb's 1709 date. Shared publication correction added.
- [fixed] X16 (MINOR): Restored Lane's comma and explicitly marked the omitted continuation in HTML and fisherman-lane-1839.txt. Documented the convention and source at printed p. 69. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X17 (WRONG): Restored tucked in HTML and fisherman-payne-1882.txt. Added the dated misquotation correction and markdown mirror.
- [fixed] X18 (WRONG): Replaced the denial of Arabic behind Aladdin with Galland's documented but unavailable Arabic contribution. Qualified related source claims and Burton's back-translation note. Shared Arabic-source correction added.
- [fixed] X19 (WRONG): Corrected the timeline to two joined folios, early ninth-century literary writing and October 879 legal reuse. Shared fragment correction added.
- [fixed] X20 (WRONG): Removed the timeline's denial of Arabic manuscripts, distinguishing Sindbad's manuscript, Diyāb's unavailable Aladdin text and surviving French witnesses. Shared Arabic-source correction added.
- [fixed] X21 (WRONG): Separated the earlier Sindbad insertion from later source exhaustion in HTML prose, timeline, markdown dek and provenance. Added the dated chronology correction and mirror.
- [fixed] X22 (MINOR): Replaced the markdown dek's blanket verbatim claim with excerpts and disclosed transcription conventions. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X23 (WRONG): Replaced the markdown's same-four-hands description with the actual Aladdin set. Shared versions correction added.
- [fixed] X24 (MINOR): Replaced the markdown body's blanket verbatim description and explained the verifier's local comparison. Recorded only; the count remains 30/30.
- [fixed] X25 (MINOR): Qualified the Heraclitus relation note to surviving fragments without changing panta rhei. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X26 (MINOR): Replaced the three-tale, no-manuscript-ever wording with Aladdin and Ali Baba and the lack of known surviving pre-Galland witnesses. Recorded only.
- [fixed] X27 (MINOR): Separated the literary date from October 879 reuse in the markdown summary and dek. Recorded only under this MINOR item; the shared WRONG fragment cases have a page correction.
- [fixed] X28 (WRONG): The same timeline repair and fragment correction answer this duplicate of X19; no duplicate correction was added.
- [fixed] X29 (WRONG): Restored Kitāb fīhi ḥadīth min alf layla in the apparatus, ledger and provenance; the verifier requires it. Added the dated title correction and mirror.

The authored files are the standalone public/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there/index.html, src/content/strata/the-tales-that-were-never-there.md, the two corrected excerpt files, research/the-tales-that-were-never-there/SOURCES.md and its verify.mjs. There is no layer generator or build script in that research directory; the verifier reads the handwritten HTML. The public/checks/research/the-tales-that-were-never-there/verify.mjs mirror was regenerated byte for byte from the corrected source, using the publication screen without running the shared publisher. JSON-LD dateModified is 2026-10-14. No Updated line is needed for that revision date.

The three UNVERIFIABLE entries in the earlier checker report (#11, #76 and #156, the latter two duplicates) were not triaged for repair and are not promoted to CONFIRMED here. Their precise sentence-boundary and thousand-year-interval claims remain unproved in that report and unchanged by this pass. The page's historical check placard and unrelated shared/generated files remain untouched. The shared public/checks/manifest.json byte count still needs the shared publication refresh, which this layer-only pass must not perform. The detailed edit report records validation commands and limits.