Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian—15th century [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Incipit: ابتداى هر سخن آن خوبتر در هر مقام کو بود با حمد معبود خداى با... جواهر کنوز لغات حمد و ستاىش نثار بارگاه حضرت متکلمى که زبان اصناف ادمىانرا کلىد گنج خانۀ سخن کردانىد
• Title from fol. 3a.
• On upper edge: "Kanz al-lughah" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Chapters and sections noted in red in margins. Slight damp staining in lower margin. Some insect damage on first eight leaves and last 17 leaves. First leaf is pasted to a piece of laid European paper which covers a few letters of text in the inner margin of the verso.
• Origin: Copy completed on 2 Jumādá II 1121 H. [9 August 1709] (fol. 489b).

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and tooled fillets; pink leather doublures. Spine has been repaired.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Provenance

• Two owner's statements and stamps on fol. 1a, dated 1265 H. [1848 or 9] and 1267 H. [1850 or 51].
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

References

Storey, C. Persian literature, III, 98

OCLC

729369842

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