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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Lexicology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261. Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ. [Browse]
• رازي، محمد بن ابي بكر. مختار الصحاح. [Browse]

Summary note

A translation into Ottoman Turkish of the Arabic lexicon by Jawharī. According to the text, the translation is based both on the original text, Ṣiḥāḥ al-Jawharī, and the abridgment of the original, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2b.
• Copy completed in 1030 (1620-21) -- colophon (fol. 153b).
• 27 lines per page. Written in a small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Fol. 2b-3a have a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, and fol. 3b-4a and 153a have a single line frame in red ink. No catchwords. Thick glazed paper with visible chain lines. Short inscriptions on fol. 1a, 2a and 153b-154b (prayers, invocations, quotations etc.). Water damage to the paper and some repairs.
• Incipit:الحمد لله الذى انزل القران ليبين الشرايع والأيمان بلسان عربي مبين على محمد امام المتقين والصلوة عليه واله اجمعين اما بعد بلكل كه علوم دينيه واحكام شرعيه عرب لغتى اوزرنه وارد اولمشدر
• Explicit:وسقطت الف بالاجتماع الساكنين الالف والسين ونظيره قول ذى الرمة الايا اسلمى بادرمى على البلى لا زال منهلا بحرعالك القطر تم الكتاب المسمى بترجمان الصحاح بعون الله تعالي

Binding note

Ms. is disbound, many sections and leaves are loose and of the binding only the lower cover remains: red leather with a gold guilloche and fillets around borders; blue and yellow marbled paper as pastedown.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Other title(s)

• Tercüman üs-sihah
• ترجمان الصحاح
• Tercüman ül-sihah

OCLC

170708652

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