Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—10th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Acephalous copy of the first section of a lexicon arranged according to the last letter of each root, comprising the text from the end of alif-dāl to the beginning of rāʼ-rāʼ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 249b).
• Beginning as extant (fol. 1b): دناء الدنىء الخسيس من رجال الدون
• Explicit: فصل الراء رير الفرّا مخّ رَير ورِير ... [250ب] ... وارار الله مخّه اى جعله رقيقًا تم المجلدة الاولى من كتاب الصحاح فى اللغة
• Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries. Headings in larger script in black ink. Thick dark biscuit paper, opaque, with laid lines and pulp visible. The recto of fol. 1 is severely damaged.
• Two spine labels (vertical), reading respectively "al-Mujalladah al-ūlá min Kitāb al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah [next line] sanah 501" (in Arabic script), and "193" (four times, in Arabic and in Western numerals).
• Origin: Copied for himself (ṣāḥibuhā) by al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Bakr al-Shaʻrī on 19 shahr Allāh al-aṣamm [Rajab] 501 [March 4, 1108] (colophon, fol. 149b). A note on the margin of the colophon states that Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Milyānī made a copy of this volume.

Provenance

Several ownership statements (hardly legible) on fol. 249b. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 259

OCLC

144556659

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