Abraham
Abraham, calling his wife "sister" (Gen. xii. 11). The special correspondent of the Standard, writing from Afghanistan (March 12, 1888), says, "if a Mahometan's scruples are overcome to such an extent that he will permit a Christian physician to treat his wife, he will call her his "sister."
The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories and Poems
By The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
A New Edition Revised Throughout and Greatly Enlarged
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Co.
1899
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Abraham. Copyist. Saec. X.
A Greek monk.
Wrote, in 990 "Dorothei doctrina seu præceptiones asceticæ et alia."
--Catal. Codd. Msstor. Bibl. Reg. Paris, ii. 213, cod. 1089. [Serapeum, 1844.]
A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists with references to their works, and notices of their patrons.
From the Establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century
Compiled from various sources many hitherto inedited by John W. Bradley
1887-1889
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ND2890.B83 v. 1
Omnipædia Polyglotta
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