Between 1797 and 1800, editor and contributor William Ouseley (1767-1842) published this three-volume miscellany of scholarly essays by a number of writers. Volume 1 includes translations of poetry and stories from Arabic and Persian, and essays on manuscript collation, Moroccan Arabic and the poet Hafez.
Evidencing a vibrant scholarly community, this three-volume collection (published 1797-1800) will appeal to readers interested in eighteenth-century oriental scholarship.