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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Three So-Called Poetical Books on the Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, and Job: With an Appendix Containing the Treatise, Assigned to R. Jehuda Ben-Bil'am, on the Same Subject, in the Original Arabic
I may draw attention to one respect in which the present Work differs from any of those which have preceded it. It is founded, in a great measure, on an extensive examination of mss. I soon saw that even our best texts need correction, as far as the accents are concerned; and that, without a correct text, I could not hope to establish any rules on a satisfactory basis. I therefore visited the leading Libraries of Europe, and collated, as far as seemed necessary, most of the known mss. The main results are given in the course of the following pages. I venture to hope that this part of my Work will be particularly acceptable to scholars.
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