Excerpt from Catalogue of the Arabic Mss. In the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai, 1894 Most of the books had lost not only their title-pages, but their last leaves as well, so that it was not possible to find their dates. One is ashamed to think that some scholar in former years must have abused the hospitality of the monks and that a choice collection of title-pages may be found in some European library. There were a few, happily not many, whose fate it had been during the centuries of their existence not to be marked nor learned' but 'inwardly digested' by little rodents more innocent than scholars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.