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See also:CASIRI, See also:MIGUEL (1710-1791) , a learned Maronite, was bcrn at See also:Tripoli (See also:Syria) in 1710. He studied at See also:Rome, where he lectured on Arabic, See also:Syriac, See also:Chaldee, See also:philosophy and See also:theology. In 1748 he went to See also:Spain, and was employed in the royal library at See also:Madrid. He was successively appointed a member of the Royal See also:Academy of See also:History, interpreter of See also:oriental See also:languages to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and See also:joint-librarian at the See also:Escorial, In 1763 he became See also:principal librarian, a See also:post which he appears to have held till his See also:death in 1791. Casiri published a See also:work entitled Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis (2 vols., Madrid, 1760-1770). It is a See also:catalogue of above 1800 Arabic See also:MSS., which he found in the library of the Escorial; it also contains a number of quotations from Arabic See also:works on history. The MSS. are classified according to subjects; the second See also:volume gives an See also:account of a large collection of See also:geographical and See also:historical MSS., which contain valuable See also:information regarding the See also:wars between the See also:Moors and the Christians in Spain. Casiri's work is not yet obsolete, but a more scientific See also:system is adopted in Hartwig See also:Derenbourg's incomplete See also:treatise, See also:Les Manuscrits arabes de l'Escorial (See also:Paris, 1884).
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