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Subject(s)

• Thaʻlab, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá 815-904—Faṣīḥ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic philology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Faṣīḥ, a work on lexicography by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Thaʻlab (d. 291/904).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 18 lines per page. Written in Maghribī script in black ink (faded to brown). Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Leaves mended. Several inscriptions on fol. 93b. Severe worm damage, with loss of text; stained; extremely fragile.
• R. Mach dates the copy from the 7th cent. H.
• Incipit: بسم ... تفسير ما جاء من كتاب الفصيح من غريب وغير ذلك مما يحتاج الى شرحه ... عن ابى عبدالله بن خالويه فاول ذلك قوله نمى الملل

Binding note

Spine, edges and fore-edge flap repaired. Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a roundel with two pendants on the vertical axis and a rich outerframe of several fillets and running patterns with decorated inner corners. Blind tooled frame on the envelope flap. Embossed leather doublure extant on upper and lower covers.

Provenance

Ownership statement on the doublure of the upper cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3750
• Sezgin, F. GAS, VIII, p. 179/3

Other title(s)

تفسير ما جاء من كتاب الفصيح من غريب وغير ذلك مما يحتاج الى شرحه

Title at beginning of text (fol. 1b)

• Tafsīr mā jāʼa min Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ min gharīb wa-ghayr dhālika mimmā yaḥtāj ilá sharḥih

OCLC

70183190

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