Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—Turkish—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. 278H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ al-lughah. [Browse]
• جوهري، اسماعيل بن حماد، -1003? صحاح اللغة. [Browse]
• Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, 1329-1414 or 1415. Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ. [Browse]
• فيروزابادي، محمد بن يعقوب، 1329-1414 or 1415. قاموس المحيط. [Browse]

Summary note

A book of Arabic vocabulary arranged alphabetically, with Turkish equivalents.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 266 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (palm?, fleur-de-lis) ; MS in fair condition.
• Interlinear Arabic and Turkish notes throughout. Incomplete at beginning and commences with six lines of Turkish in which appears the name Mirqāt al-lughah. According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 497 the anonymous author has drawn on al-Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī and al-Qāmūs of al-Fīrūzābādī. On inside of front cover is some stray text. After the colophon occurs the Arabic alphabet with their numerical equivalents.
• Layout: 7-11 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from preliminary text (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت بعون الله وحسن التوفيق
• Incipit: معناسي ترکيلة ترجمة ايدوب مرقات اللغة

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound in brown leather and marbled paper. Endband. Lower cover damaged with possible flap missing. Layers of written pages used to create covers partially visible through gaps on both covers.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Indexed in

Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 497; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7007; Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 121; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4319-4323; Hitti, P.K. et al. Descriptive catalog of the Garrett collection, no. 288 (not the same as no. 289-291).

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7007.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4319-4323.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 121.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 497.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 288.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1296624556

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