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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Dictionary of the Arabic language, from hamzah to al-alif al-layyinah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
• 33 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two lines in red ink. Glazed dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Last folio apparently later replacement, on glazed European paper with watermark, with magenta ink instead of red ink. Illuminated title page in gold, blue, red, and green with a panel divided in three portions, with upper and lower panel with the title at each side of a central panel with a eight petals rosace with the name of the author. Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "K. E. 241". Inscription in Roman and Arabic script on fol. (i)a: "Dictionnair[e] N°241", followed by a line in Arabic script.
• Copy completed on Yawm al-khamīs middle [14?] of Muḥarram 857 [Jan., 1453] (colophon, fol. 569b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله منطق البلغاء باللغى البوادي ومودع اللسان ... وبعد فان للعلم رياضا وحياضا
• Explicit: ويا الجزم المنبسط رايت عبدى الله لم تسقط لانه لا خلف عنها قال مؤلفه الملتجى الى حرم الله ... الفيروزابادى هذا اخر القاموس المحيط والقاموس الوسيط نحيدت بجمعه ... والصلاة والسلام الاتمان الاكملان على حبيبه وصفيه وخليله ونبيه محمد [569ب] الذى لا يرضى ... الغرب والشرق والشكر لله على ختامه

Binding note

Red brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers are similarly blind tooled with a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer border consisting of fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Similar border on the envelope flap with a smaller stamp on its point. Red leather doublure.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 277

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

85836690

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