Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 275H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A classified Arabic and Persian vocabulary in four parts.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 155 + i ; some catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Few marginal notes. On the page before the title page occurs a verse of poetry. On inside of front cover is a list of the Rāshidite and Umayyad caliphs and the date of the beginning of the ʻAbbāsid dynasty, 132 [750]. Folios 1-16 are by a later hand. Illegible title on bottom edge of text block.
• Layout: 11-21 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 5 Ramaḍān [309?] by ʻImā[d] al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās ibn [?] Ghānī (fol. 155b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم الفراغ بعون الله وتوفيقه من جميع [جمع] هذا الکتاب وتلفيقه في خامس من شهر الله المبارك رمضان سنة تسع ... کتبه عمالدين [عماد الدين] عباس بن ... غفر الله له ولجميع المسلمين
• Incipit; بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي لا يتم امر دون حمده

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in dark and light brown leather. Flap missing.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• On title page occur three autographs of owners and two illegible seal impressions: Abū Bakr ibn Rustam Shirwānī, ʻAbd al-Majīd ibn [?] and Khalīl al-Arzanjānī dated 1176 [1763]. On the page before is the autograph of an owner, Sharaf ibn ʻAbd Allāh.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 270.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1296623651

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