Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Arabic-Persian lexicon arranged in alphabetical order, written at the request of sulṭān Ḥusām al-Dīn Asad Allāh Qīlij Arslān (Kılıç Arslan) ibn sulṭān Jamāl al-Dīn (fol. 3b). Apparently not listed in Storey. Incomplete at end. The text is preceded on fol. 1a-2a, and followed on fol. 51a-52a, by verses of poetry in Persian by another hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble (fol. 4b, l. 2).
• Physical description: 11 lines per page. The Persian equivalent is written in nastaʻlīq in red ink under the Arabic word, written in naskh in black ink. Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines in groups of three visible. Fol. 1 and 51-55 are later additions (European paper). Fol. 53-55 blank. Loose leaves ; stained with humidity.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي علم الانسان حقايق الاشياء وفضله على الملايكة بسبب العلم كما قال وعلّم آدم الاسمآء ... [3أ] ... جنين كويد محرر اين كلمات موسى بن موسى بن رمضان وفقه الله لما يصلح احوال دينه وجنياه وينجح امال احرته واولاه كه جون حضرت پرورده خاندان
• End as extant: جاد جمع نجد نجار اصل مردم

Binding note

Quarter bound in marbled paper and brown leather.

Provenance

Ownership statements and impression of one seal on fol. 1a and 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

233026637

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