![]() Reland spoke of all sorts of learned things’, including the valuation of certain Hebrew manuscripts from the collection of his recently deceased colleague, the Danish scholar and polyhistor Marcus Meiboom (1626–1711), whose widow the brothers went to see the same afternoon, and some lighter issues like the worrisome marriage of the latter’s daughter. 2 Reland apparently made no attempt to dazzle the brothers with his scholarly expertise since they remarked that ‘he belongs to those who are not terribly concerned about being pedantic’. ‘The professor, not much more than thirty years old’, Uffenbach noted in his diaries, was ‘polite and well-disposed, but he did not restrain himself once he opened his mouth’. ![]() ![]() 1 On the morning of April 2nd, they went to visit Professor Adriaan Reland at his home in Domsteeg in Utrecht. ![]() In the spring of 1711, the young German bibliophile Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683–1734), accompanied by his brother Johann Friedrich, travelled through the Dutch Republic visiting famous collectors and libraries.
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