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Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Persian-Arabic dictionary by Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Zawzanī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. thick dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible. Occasional marginal annotation. Verses of poetry in praise of this work on fol. 1a. Worm eaten.
• Chiefly quaternions.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Sh 132" (repeated on the pastedown of the upper cover).
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān, Saturday 1 Rajab ("awwal shahr Rajab") 725 [June 13, 1325] (fol. 150a).
• Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله على سوابغ الاية المتسابقة افواجا ... قال القاضى الامام السعيد ابو عبد الله الحسين بن احمد الزوزنى رحمة الله عليه اما بعد فان هذه مصادر ترجمتها ونقحتها وجردتها عن شواهد الحديث والاشعار والامثال ليصغر حجمها ويسهل حفظها
• Explicit: اليبس خشك شدن والغابر كذلك انقضى جمل الثلاثى بتوفيق الله وعونه وصلى الله على نبيه محمد وآله وعترته الطاهرين

Binding note

Quarter bound in paper and brown leather.

Provenance

Ownership statement on the pastedown of the upper cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 288 (6(7)/1) ; SI

Other title(s)

Maṣādir

OCLC

232976147

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