text:  The result was the well-known _Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis_ which appeared in 1760-70; and which in the words of the present learned translator "though hasty and superficial and containing frequent unaccountable blunders must with all its imperfections ever be valuable as affording palpable proof of the literary cultivation of the Spanish Arabs and as containing the first glimpses of historical truth