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Excerpt from Specimen Historiæ Arabum: Accessit Historia Veterum Arabum Ex Abu'l Feda <p>Sed unicum Operis nolìrì ornamentum, et acceìo pulcherrima, efi Appendix Viro Clariimo syl'vestre DE sacy, Parifienfi, confe&a, et humanifiìme mecum communicata. Sifiit ea tibi Excerpta ex' parte Annalium Abulfedae inedita de rebus Ambum ante Mohammedem. Cum enim partem illam utilifiìmam cog nitu, et Pocockio in Notis fuis multo cum fru&u traétatam, nulla hucufque editio Abulfeda pmpona.t partìculas tantum decerpfit A. Schultenfius rin Hg'oria Imperiz' vetu/iiìmi Jochtani darum illufiris ille Parifienfis, pro amore quo efi in has literas, &egre ferens eam in tenebris delitefcere, excerpta inde, quae juum alìquod opufculum de Hiltoria Arabum Paganorum con ficerent, e mss. Deferipta et Latine converfa, ad me tranfmìfit. Quo nomine quicquid gratia vel pretii chartis nofiris accedat, ci omne lubens acceptum refero. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.