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

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a lexicon arranged according to the last letter of each root.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a (partly covered by a repair).
• Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black, black and blue. Dark cream friable paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines visible. Illuminated headpiece on fol. 1b, in gold and colors with a floral motif. Basmallah written in white in a cartouche. Most quires have 12 leaves, a few numbered using Arabic ordinals (see fol. 215a, 420a). Fol. 1 worn and damaged. Modern foliation in pencil (omits first fol.). Fragile.
• Inscription on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "19". Thee spine labels with inscriptions in Arabic script, respectively: "120" ; "Ṣiḥāḥ-i Jawharī [next line] khaṭṭ [next line] Jild 1 [next line] numrah 172" ; "147".
• Origin: Copy completed on Friday 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1007 [Oct. 1598] by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al- al-Makkī al-Mālikī (colophon, fol. 675a-b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله شكرًا على [---] والصلاة على محمد واله اما بعد فانى قد اودعت هذا الكتاب ما صح عندى من هذه اللغة
• Explicit: يا حرف من حروف المعجم وهي من حروف الزيادات ... وذهبت الالف التى فى يا لاجتماع الساكنين لانها والسين ساكنتان قال ذو الرمّة الا يا اسلمى يا دار ليلي على البلى ولا زال منهلا يجرعايك القطر تم الكتاب

Binding note

Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Central panel of covers has a deep sunk gold stamped and brown painted central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces. Outer border of gold painted guilloche. Portion of the same stamping on the envelope flap, with roundel on its point. Brown leather doublure, with a gold painted mandorla with radiating flecks.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 3755

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

163577091

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