Note 511 — Chapter XXIII · PUBLIC RECITATIONS OF ROMANCES—Continued.

The latter, being a masculine appellation, is evidently a corruption of the former. The name is written “Delhem′eh” in the older portions of some volumes in my possession, made up of fragments of this work. One of these portions appears to be at least three centuries old. In some of the more modern fragments, the name is written “Zu-l-Himmeh.”