Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Second part of a lexicon arranged according to the last letter of each root, comprising the text from Bāʼ-Rāʼ to Hāʼ-Kāf.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 379b).
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible and European paper with watermark. Water damage on the margins. Lower inner corner damaged.
• Inscriptions in Roman script on the pastedown of upper cover: "A 145a" (repeated on a spine label) ; "378 Bl.". Title in Arabic script (horizontal) on a spine label. Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the lower cover: "124.".
• Origin: Copy completed in Shaʻbān 1099 [June 1688] by Mīr(?) Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Mīr Saʻd(?) al-Dīn (colophon, fol. 379b).
• Incipit: فصل الباء بار البئر جمعها فى القلّة ابؤر وابار بهمزة بعد الباء
• Explicit: فقلت للحسن ما متهوّكون قال متحيّرون والتهوّك ايضا مثل التهوّر وهو الوقوع فى الشيء بقلّه مبالاة

Binding note

Half bound in dark brown leather and marbled paper. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. Edges of text block sprinkled with red ink.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3755

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

163570969

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