Transcriber’s Note.

Punctuation has been standardized.

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcriber’s Note.

The Erratum correction has been incorporated into the text.

Index references have not been checked for accuracy.

The following corrections have been made in the text:
[⭘] – ‘Pombaditha’ replaced with ‘Pumbaditha’
(Sora and Pumbaditha grew to be)
[⭘] – Agobart’ replaced with ‘Agobard’
(Agobard, [129])
[⭘] – ‘Alcharizi’ replaced with ‘Alcharisi’
(Alcharisi, Judah, [132])
[⭘] – ‘Azaria’ replaced with ‘Azariah’
(Azariah de Rossi, [273])
[⭘] – ‘Barleus’ replaced with ‘Barlæus’
(Barlæus, Caspar, [243])
[⭘] – ‘Bernhard’ replaced with ‘Bernhardt’
(Bernhardt, Isaac, [290])
[⭘] – ‘Christine’ replaced with ‘Christina’
(Christina of Sweden, [243])
[⭘] – ‘Cossacs’ replaced with ‘Cossacks’
(Cossacks, massacre of Jews by, [278])
[⭘] – ‘399’ replaced with ‘329’
(England, [323], [329])
[⭘] – ‘Fraenkel’ replaced with ‘Frankel’
(Frankel, Rabbi David, [285])
[⭘] – ‘Halachah’ replaced with ‘Halacha’
(Halacha, [92])
[⭘] – ‘Henriette’ replaced with ‘Henrietta’
(Herz, Henrietta, [298], [305])
[⭘] – ‘Joachim’ replaced with ‘Joachin’
(Rabbi, [170])
[⭘] – ‘Kabbalah’ replaced with ‘Kabbala’
(Kabbala, [256])
[⭘] – ‘Massada’ replaced with ‘Masada’
(Masada, [71])
[⭘] – ‘Montpellier’ replaced with ‘Montpelier’
(Montpelier, [130])
[⭘] – ‘Rumania’ replaced with ‘Roumania’
(Roumania, [312])
[⭘] – ‘Saadiah’ replaced with ‘Saadia’
(Saadia, [126], [188], [189])
[⭘] – ‘Salamons’ replaced with ‘Salomons’
(Salomons, Sir D., [329])
[⭘] – ‘Strassburg’ replaced with ‘Strasburg’
(Strasburg, [158])
[⭘] – ‘Sunna’ replaced with ‘Sunnah’
(Sunnah, [121])
[⭘] – ‘Tannaim’ replaced with ‘Tanaim’
(Tanaim, [8], [89])
[⭘] – ‘Hatton’ replaced with ‘Hutton’
(edited by Hutton)
[⭘] – ‘xxix’ replaced with ‘xxviii’
chap. xxviii.