Note 468 — Chapter III · THE OLD AUTHORS.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Gubernatis, p. 188. The first book contains Christian prayers in Arabic; the first Italian translations of the Koran appeared in 1547. In 1499 we meet with a few not very successful Arabic types in the work of Polifilo, b. 7 a. For the beginnings of Egyptian studies, see Gregorovius, viii. p. 304.