Epistola Prima,
ad amplissimum et excellentissimum virum F.O. Menkenium Perscripta in qua nupera resensio Gramm. Erpen. cum Praefat. et Accessionibus ex Hamasa, sub examen devocatur. Leyden Johannes Luzac 1749
8vo, pp. viii, 140, [2, errata]. Arabic and Hebrew letters in text. A good unsophisticated copy bound in later cloth. Title page spotted. Some tears and old repairs to margins of first few pages.
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Albert Schultens, 1686 – 1750, Dutch philologist, was professor of Oriental languages at Leiden from 1732 until his death. He was arguably the most important teacher of Arabic in Europe of his day. This text is a critique of an edition of the Hamasa, an Arabic literary anthology.