Excerpt from Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish Mss; In the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge In the case of a bequest, which inevitably contains books of different values, no discrimination in a catalogue is possible. When dealing with the Mary Frere Hebrew Library, which embodies the labours of piety and patient collection, there was almost invariably some personal or other touch that invested every volume with interest. Miss Frere loved her books and gathered them for a specific purpose, to form the nucleus of a library to be a help and inspiration for students who wanted to gain a true knowledge of Holy Writ. It is no exaggeration to say that the Samaritan volumes will be invaluable to those who wish to study the customs of the foolish people that live in Shechem. In particular the Historical Manu scripts will be found to be important, and I lay great stress on the notes and jottings in Miss Frere's own hand, all of which I have most carefully preserved, giving exact details Of the history of each book and its acquisition. Among these are some touching on the Book of Joshua controversy, for Miss Frere was in Nablus at the time when that discussion took place and but a short while after the texts were copied for Dr. Gaster. I refer inter alia to mss. 15, 16 and 41. 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.