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. 280H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Arabic-Turkish vocabulary arranged alphabetically.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 163 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition but stained with dampness; last two folios are defective.
• Interlinear Arabic and Turkish notes throughout. On the title page is a memorandum of accounts. Between folios two and three are several missing. On the inside of both covers occur some stray writing. This text is not the same as Hitti no. 288, though it is described as such; however, it is identical to no. 289 and 291.
• Layout: 7-8 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1151 by Aḥmad (fol. 163a).
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الملك والوهاب كتب ضعيف والمحتاج الى رحمة الله ... احمد في سنة 1151
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين اذان ال محمد ال ابرهنم

Binding note

Later? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 290.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• لغت
• كتاب المرقات

Title on lower edge

• Lughat

Title on fol. 1a

• Kitāb al-Mirqāt

OCLC

1296636597

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