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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

First volume of a dictionary of the Arabic language, ending with words ending with the letter rāʼ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 27 lines per page. Written in square medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown) with use of red. Thick glazed light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (frame-ruled).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 282, i ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-27¹⁰ + 13 leaves ; the quires are numbered by a later hand using Arabic ordinals (see "al-thānī" on fol. 10a) ; there are traces of an earlier numbering on some quires (see fol. 20a) ; the middle of the quire is marked by signs in the lower right corner of the verso and the upper left corner of the next recto (see fol. 4b-5a).
• Copy completed on Yawm al-Aḥad 11 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 851 [May, 1447] (colophon, fol. 282a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله منطق البلغاء باللغى البوادي ومودع اللسان ... وبعد فان للعلم رياضا وحياضا
• Explicit: اليهر ويجرى الموضع الواسع واللجاج ... واستيهر ... استبدل بها ابدا غيرها اخر الجزء الاول

Binding note

Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled, with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of fillets with small corner pieces. Brown leather doublure. Rebacked.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, several ownership statements, one signed Muḥammad Quṭb al-Dīn [--], dated 9-- H., one signed Muḥammad al-Maydānī, dated Makkah, end of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 990 ; a list of four names (al-Sayyid Ḥusayn ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-SQṭī al-Ṣāliḥī ; al-Shaykh Saʻdī Ibn al-shaykh Muṣṭafá al----bānī, muftī al-Ḥanābilah ; al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn Muḥammad Efendi, amīn al-fatawá bi-Dimashq ; Muḥammad Amīn Ibn ʻUmar ʻĀbidīn) , with the date Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1220. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 275

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ wa-al-qāmūs al-wasīṭ fī jamʻ lughāt al-ʻArab allatī dhahabat ---(?) taʼlīf al-imām al-ʻallāmah ... Majd al-Dīn Abī al-Ṭāhir Muḥammad Ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fīrūzābādī al-Shīrāzī
• الجزء الاول من كتاب القاموس المحيط والقاموس الوسيط في جمع لغات العرب التي ذهبت (؟) تأليف الامام العلامة ... مجد الدين ابي الطاهر محمد ابن يعقوب بن محمد بن ابراهيم الفيروزابادي الشيرازي
• Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ wa-al-qāmūs al-wasīṭ fī jamʻ lughāt al-ʻArab
• قاموس المحيط والقاموس الوسيط في جمع لغات العرب

OCLC

85838541

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