Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

A Persian-Turkish literary dictionary.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• 19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and underlined words. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some water damage around the edges of text block, and some insect damage around the spine. Ms. additions: a table of numbers with their names in Persian with Turkish equivalents on fol. 1a; a list of additional words beginning with 'ya' after the end of text on fol. 84a; an inscription on inside of lower cover stating that the copy is lacking two fol. Inscription on the lower edge of text block: "Lügat-i Halimî Çelebi, 132".
• Incipit: حمد بليغ وثناى بى دريغ ... وبعد چنين ميكويد ضعيف وشكته بال ونحيف بر كشته حال
• Explicit: اكرچه خانهء عمرم بهيده كرد بجور اساس عمر دى اندرامان حق بادا

Binding note

Olive paper over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish and Persian.

Source acquisition

Purchase : Adab Books, 11 Causewayside, Cambridge, CB3 9HD, England.

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 5 (198)

Other title(s)

• Bahr ül-garayib
• بحر الغرايب
• Bahr ül-garaib
• Bahr el-garaib

OCLC

123914077

Original language

• لغت حليمي چلبي : بحر الغرايب.
• Incipit: حمد بليغ وثناى بى دريغ ... وبعد چنين ميكويد ضعيف وشكته بال ونحيف بر كشته حال
• Explicit: اكرچه خانهء عمرم بهيده كرد بجور اساس عمر دى اندرامان حق بادا

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