Details

Subject(s)

• Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb 1329-1414 or 1415—Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Yashkhūnī, Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Sawwāq, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• يشخوني، يوسف بن احمد السواق، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 286H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on al-Qāmūs of al-Fīrūzābādī. The gloss is otherwise known as al-Qawl al-maʼnūs bi-taḥrīr mā fī al-Qāmūs.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 196 + (1) ; catchwords ; quire count on title page ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in very good condition aside from some staining on first few leaves.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On folio after colophon is an autograph of an owner and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms). Owner's signature obliterated on title page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 17 Shawwāl 1133 by Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Sawwāq al-Yashkhūnī (fol. 196b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وتم تعليقه على يد الفقير الى رحمة مولاه الغني به عمن سواه يوسف بن احمد السواق اليشخوني يوم الجمعة قبل صلاة العصر سابع شهر شوال سنة الف وماية [وثلاثة وثلاثين على التمام والکمال والحمد لله على کل حال والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله الذي زين من اراد التحلي باشرف اللغات

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Stamped and filled mandorla with pendants on covers. Small stamped and filled mandorla on flap. Blind-tooled decorative edging on covers and flap. Not currently sewn. In a case (212 x 160) of red leather and marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 1114.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 6977.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 594/5.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV p. 179.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 493.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 282.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Qawl al-maʼnūs bi-taḥrīr mā fī al-Qāmūs
• قول المأنوس بتحرير ما في القاموس

OCLC

1298243426

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