Details

Subject(s)

• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī Maulana 1207-1273—Mas̲navī [Browse]
• جلال الدىن رومى، مولانا، 1207-1273—مثنوى [Browse]
• Persian language—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkish language—Dictionaries—Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Syriac language—Dictionaries—Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Dictionary of difficult Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Syriac words from Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's Mas̲navī, compiled from a number of sources, including the Farhang-i Jahāngīrī by Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 1b.
• Partially torn labels on spine.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Text block almost completely detached from binding. Foliated correctly in Arabic script, and foliated incorrectly in Western script; record follows the Arabic numbering. Light staining. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed 29 Shawwāl 1229 H [14 October 1814] (fol. 205b).
• Incipit: اين فرهنگى است مشتمل بر حل لغات غريبة عربية و عجمية مثنوى مولوى

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.

Language note

Persian

Provenance

Owner's seal of Abū al-Qāsim [...] dated 1252 H on fol. 1a, 1b, 205b.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XVIII, 321

Other title(s)

• Lughāt-i mutaʻlliqah bi-Mas̲navī
• لغات متعلقه بمثنوى
• لطائف اللغات
• فرهنگ لغات مثنوى

Title in Āghā Buzurg

• Laṭāʼif al-lughāt

Alternate title in Āghā Buzurg

• Farhang-i lughāt-i Mas̲navī

OCLC

796436568

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