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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 481; 30.7 x 19.9 cm.; written surface 21.3 x 12.2 cm.; 35 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red; with illumination.
• A dictionary of the Arabic language based on earlier dictionaries such as al-Muḥkam fī al-lughah of Ibn Sīdah, A.D. 1066, al-Tahdhīb of Abū Manṣūr al-Azharī, A.D. 981 and al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah of al-Jawharī, A.D. 1009/10. This section corresponds to vols. I, p. 16 - V, p. 112 of the copy printed in Būlāq, A.H. 1300-8.
• Beg.: النعام قال وتسمى الشجرة سرحة وثمرها الالاء ... فصل البآء الموحدة. بأبأ اللىث ...
• Ending: وعىن حدرة بدرة وحدرة مکتنزة صلبة وبدرة تبدر بالنظر وقىل حدرة واسعة
• Marginal notes and glosses; ruled marginal lines in gold and color. First page illuminated in gold and color. MS incomplete at beginning and end; in good condition but worm-eaten; modern Arabic cloth binding; gilt stamped and tooling on back of cover. Probably from XIVth century.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqlānī, Durar (1326 AH), IV, p. 263; Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 310-12; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 181.
• Printed in Būlāq, A.H. 1300-8.

OCLC

1340422473

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