Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Portion of a copy of lexicon arranged according to the last letter of each root, comprising the text from Qāf-Alif to the end of Lām-Sīn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) with use of red for entries and text stops. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, glossy, with thick laid lines visible. Fol. 12b-13a: Blank. catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Origin: Copy completed on 9 Muḥarram 605 [July 24, 1208] by Muḥammad ibn Sulayman ibn QṬRMSH (colophon, fol. 199a).
• Incipit: باب القاف من كتاب الصحاح في اللغة فصل الالف ابق العبد يابق
• Explicit: سيل السيل واحد السيول ... [199أ] ... من العضاه قال ذو الرمّه يصف الاحمال مثل هوادي التحل والسيال تم الجزء السابع من كتاب الصحاح فى اللغه ويتلوه في الجزء الثامن فصل الشين

Binding note

Disbound.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (some dated: 1052 H., 1150 H., 1200 H.). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 3755

OCLC

156853708

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