Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine label (horizontal).
• Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.
• Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).
• Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسع
• End as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتمو
• Other text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه

Binding note

Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.

References

Storey, C. Persian literature, III, 98

OCLC

255627065

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