The three-volume Galland Manuscript, sometimes also referred to as the Syrian Manuscript, is the earliest extensive manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights. Its text extends to 282 nights, breaking off in the middle of the Tale of Qamar al-Zamān and Budūr. The age of the manuscript is not known definitively. Muhsin Mahdi, the manuscript's modern editor, suggested that it was written sometime around AD 1291, while Heinz Grotzfeld dated it to after AD 1450 and before 1701 when Galland purchased the manuscript.