First Sentence

"SOLOMON ben Yehudah Ibh Gebirol, of Cordova, called by the Jews, Solomon the Sephardi, i. e., Spaniard, the Hymnologist, and by acrostic from the initials of his name, Ra S H Ba G.; by the Arabs, Abu Ayyub Suleiman ben-Ya'hya Ibn Djebirol, and by the scholastics, Avicebrol, Avicebron, Avicembron, etc., was born at Malaga about 1021, educated at Saragosa, and died at Valencia, 1070."