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. 281H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Arabic-Turkish glossary arranged by the alphabet.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 160 + (1) ; catchwords ; paginated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Layout: 9-25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal and interlinear notes in Turkish and Arabic. On the two folios before fol. 1a occur a legend about the destruction of seven atheists, a verse from the Qurʼān (Sūrah II: 263), several autographs of owners, a statement dated 1188, a prayer and some stray writing. Folios 20 and 160 are defective and mended. On the folio after the colophon occur an autograph of an owner and 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. 289-290, with the addition of an introduction.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Incipit: باب الالف المفتوحة

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
• On fol. 1b occur two seal impressions, one obliterated and the other with the name "... Laṭīf ʻUmar ibn Muṣṭafá". On fol. 2a occur two Arabic seal impressions, the first with the writing, "He who hopes for the mercy of his Eternal Lord, the poor Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad" and the other with the name "... Sayyid Muḥammad."

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 291.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1296636751

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