The totality of the Sessions of Hariri were translated by Carl Rudolf
Samuel Peiper in three tomes (which will be named here Starting Part,
Smaller Part, and Larger Part, for obvious reasons), for each of
which the selection and the order of the sessions not only isn’t the
same as the traditional ordering, but also without any explicit
reason. For the sake of clarity, it has been chosen to restore the
original order of all the sessions, no matter in which book they were
initially published, thus making one eBook from three physical books.
The consequence is that the page numbers in the original books
weren’t kept.
Note: in this eBook, the sessions are identified with their
traditional number.
Layout
The original layout of the text is very poor, as the text was printed
in huge blocks (blockquotes being the only separations in the text)
on wide pages with a small font, even worse for the notes, and
highlighted texts use wider spacing, all of these making the text
difficult to read and enjoy. In order to serve the text, the layout
has been improved to something more convenient.
Composition and years of publication
Here is the original order of known publication of the sessions, with
their traditional number:
* Starting Part: Unknown date (book and data unavailable online
to this date)
* Smaller Part: 1831: 17, 18, 25, 27, 37, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41
* Smaller Part: 1832: 17, 18, 25, 27, 37, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41
* Larger Part: 1832: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21,
22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46,
20, 47, 48, 49, 50
* Smaller Part: 1835: 17, 18, 25, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41 (new
edition with fixes, presented as being augmented by notes,
although previous editions already had notes)
* Starting part: 1836: translator’s preface, praefatio, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6 (presented as an augmented edition with notes)
Note: the present eBook is based on the last known (and hopefully
best) edition of each the sessions.
Navigation
On the original books, the number of the sessions is only written in
the index, and in the body, only the title of the session is written.
The number was added in each title to make navigation easier.
The indexes in the original books contained: the title of the
session, the number, the page number, and a small synopsis. As the
books are fused in this eBook, the indexes were also fused and
reformated into something more convenient.
Example of the original index:
Singarensis, XVIII, pag. 5, comparationem vasis vitrei et delatoris
nectit cum narratione de vicino malo.
Internal links have been added.