[[Fasciculus:1001-nights.jpg|thumb|[[Scheherazada]] Regina eius fabulas [[Shahryār Rex|Shahryār Regi]] narrat]]
'''''Mille et una noctes'''''<ref>Cf. titulum ''[http://books.google.com/books?q=%2B%22mille+et+una+noctes%22 ''Nonnullae in opus arabicum quod inscribitur Mille et una noctes animadversiones collectae]''. Aliter [http://books.google.com/books?q=%2B%22noctes+mille+et+una%22 Noctes Mille et Una], [http://books.google.com/books?q=%2B%22noctium+mille+et+unius%22 Noctium Mille et Unius], [http://books.google.com/books?q=%2B%22noctium+mille+unius%22]</ref> ([[lingua Arabica|Arabice]]: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة ''Kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla''), vel '''''Noctes Arabicae,'''''<ref>"Tabulae quae vulgo Noctes arabicae appellantur": vide [http://www.bml.firenze.sbn.it/it/PDF/manoscritti_orientali.pdf p. 33]</ref> est congeries [[fabula popularis|fabularum popularum]] et aliarum narratiuncularum. Prima congerium notio de prae-Islamico exemplo [[Persia|Persico]] probabiliter deducitur, quod elementa [[India|Indica]] putatur adhibuisse.<ref>Marzolph, "Arabian Nights," in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' (Leiden: Brill, 2007), vol. 1.</ref>
