Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

An Arabic-Turkish lexicon.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by the cataloger.
• Copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī [of Çevreli?, "al-Jawrlawī"] and completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 990 (1582) -- colophon (fol. 476b-477a).
• 19 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick, dark cream glazed paper with chain lines and prominent pulp.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرفنا بالنطق والبيان وفضلنا بالفصاحة والبيان ورزقنا الاهتدآء ... قال الفقير... مصطفى بن شمس الدين القره حصاري
• Explicit: اليهمور الرجل الكثير الكد

Binding note

Brown leather with blind fillets around edges and blind stamped mandorlas in the centre of covers. Spine repaired in red leather. Different brown leather on the lower edge of upper cover.

Language note

Intro. and entries in Arabic, definitions in Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Özege, M.S. Eski harflerle, 283.

Other title(s)

• Lughat Akhtarī
• لغة اختري
• Ahterî-yi kebir

OCLC

173137634

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