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Subject(s)

• Persian language—Terms and phrases—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian language—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Summary note

Dictionary of terms used by poets. The introduction on fol. 1b-7b is not the one written by the author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. ia and spine.
• On front cover: Label reading "43" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal corrections. Some pages written on the diagonal. Edges sprinkled with red ink. Paginated in Arabic script in outer margin. Lacuna after fol. 7. Fol. 234a-235b, 236b blank; notes on fol. 236a. Plant leaves pressed between fol. 9-10, 12-13, 224-225. Except for first few and last few folios, ms. detached from binding. Extensive insect damage, especially along inner margin, resulting in some loss of text; numerous paper repairs. Legible, but in poor condition.
• Incipit: اى ناطقه در وصف جمالت الکن * ىک شاخ ز گلشن تو نخل اىمن

Binding note

Half leather with cloth covers over pasted boards; gold-stamped pattern along edges of leather and gold-tooled title and lines on spine. Modern decorated paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamp of Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAbduh dated 1269 H [1852 or 3] on fol. 1a, 233b.

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, III, 43-45

Title in Storey

• Muṣṭalaḥāt al-shuʻarāʼ

OCLC

759922722

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