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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Synonyms and antonyms—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 37; 18.2 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 13.3 x 9.8 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.
• A dictionary of synonyms, a kind of a thesaurus of Arabic words.
• Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... کفاىة المتحفض [المتحفظ] في اللغة العربىة. صفات الرجال المحمودة الجواد. الرجل السخي
• Colophon: ... تمت الکفاىة بحمد الله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفىقه ... وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکىل ولاحول ولا قوة الا بالله
• MS in poor condition; worm-eaten and defective; Arabic leather binding. Probably from XIIIth century.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
• Yāqūt, Buldān, I, p. 132; Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 224; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7043/4.
• Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1287, 1313.

OCLC

1340423667

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