Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 284H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Contains

• Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?. Ṣiḥāḥ. [Browse]
• جوهري، اسماعيل بن حماد، -1003؟. صحاح. [Browse]
• Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid, 1144-1213. Mughrib fī tartīb al-muʻrib. [Browse]
• مطرزي، ناصر بن عبد السيد، 1144-1213. مغرب في ترتيب المعرب. [Browse]
• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144. Fāʼiq fī gharīb al-Ḥadīth. [Browse]
• زمخشري، محمود بن عمر، 1075-1144. فائق في غريب الحديث. [Browse]

Summary note

An Arabic dictionary, an abridgment of al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah of al-Jawharī with additions from al-Mughrib fī tartīb al-muʻrib of al-Muṭarrizī 538-610 [1144-1213] and al-Fāʼiq by al-Zamakhsharī 467-538 [1075-1144].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses in Arabic and Turkish. Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 572 states that the author completed the composition of his work in Adrianople, 854 [1450/1] and dedicated it to the Sultan the Conqueror, Muḥammad II, who reigned 855-886 [1451-1481]. Inscription after colophon dated 1188 [1774/5]. Title also on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 321 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Folios 1-28 and 139-288 written in Fārisī, other sections in general script by a different hand ; rubricated ; some overlining in red ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 949 (fol. 321a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده والصلوة على سيدنا محمد رسوله وعبده وخلفائه من بعده واله واصحابه الموفين بعهده. اما بعد فان کتاب الصحاح کتاب فاخر وبحر مواج زاخر ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في تأريخ سنة تسع واربعين وتسعماء [تسعمائة] في بلدة ... من الديار بعون الملك الغفار

Binding note

Later? type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped circular motif and blind-tooled edging.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Owned by Sīwāsī Afandī of Constantinople, two seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 286.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 572
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 851.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 92.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 1071.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

مختار صحاح

Additional title on title page

• Mukhtār Ṣiḥāḥ

OCLC

1340424321

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