Additional Notes. 473 



The Origines Hebraicce of Professor Schultens, of 

 Leyden, do great honour to this period. The Jar.ua Ile- 

 hraiae Lifigtrie, by Reinecius; the Supplementa ad Lexica 

 raica, by John David Michaelis; and the InMiiu- 

 tiones Lingua llebraicce, by Schroeder, all of Germany, 

 have been mentioned with much respect by the oriental 

 critics of that country. 



The Apparatus Criiicus of Bengel is mentioned under 

 this head by mistake. It does not belong to the department 

 of Hebrew literature. It is a critical, learned, and highly va- 

 luable work on the New Testament* 



It is also erroneous to ascribe a " great Hebrew Lexicon" 

 to Calmet. That great man never published such a work. 

 His Historical^ Critical and Chronological Dictionary of the 

 Bible, in two vols, folio, is a work of high reputation, and 

 contains much important criticism on the Old Testament 

 Scriptures. 



Arabic Literature. 



Professor Reiske, of Leipsic, who died in 1774, after a 

 hfe of more than eighty yeais, was one of the most able and 

 zealous promoters of Arabic literature that the age produced. 

 By his unremitted oral instructions, and by his valuable pub- 

 lications, he contributed to the rearing of a great number of 

 excellent Arabic scholars. His successor in the professorial 

 chair at Leipsic, E. C. Rosenmuller, is highly distinguished 

 in the same walk of literature. His Arabisches Elementar, 

 &c. is represented as a work of much value, and worthy of 

 a place in the library of every student of the Arabic lan^ 

 guage. 



In 1800 Professor White, of the University of Oxford, 

 presented to the lovers of Arabic literature a curious and va- 

 luable work, entitled, Abdollatiphi Histories JEgypti Com- 

 pendium Arabice et Latine. This work was first carried to 

 England by Dr. Pocoxe, the celebrated traveller. His son, 

 a great Orientalist, undertook to translate and publish it, but 

 never completed his undertaking. Professor White, at 

 length, published the original Arabic, with a Latin transla- 

 tion, and learned notes. This has been represented as one 

 of the most curious and valuable specimens of Arabic litera- 

 ture ever imported from the East. 



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