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Better "spend weeks polishing a masterpiece of a score of pages" in order to convince two or three among the scholars of Europe that a particular charter is spurious, or take ten years to construct the best possible text of a corrupt document, than give to the press in the same interval volumes of moderately accurate anecdota which future scholars will some day have to put through the mill again from beginning to end.
A. Büchler, "The Reading of the Law and Prophets in a Triennial Cycle," J. Q.R., V, 420, VI, I, and E.N. Adler, ib. For details as to synagogues, see J. Q.R., XVIII, 11; Letter I of R. Obadja da Bertinoro; Miscellany of Hebrew Literature, p. 133; Joseph Sambari's Chronicle in Dr. Neubauer's Anecdota Oxoniensia, p. 118.
Of such anecdota there are many collections; the earliest was probably L.A. Muratori's, in 1709. In the more general and popular acceptation of the word, however, anecdotes are short accounts of detached interesting particulars.
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