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Subject(s)

• Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn—Niṣāb al-ṣibyān [Browse]
• Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAlī Akbar, -1680 or 1681. Fuṣūl-i Akbarī. [Browse]
• على اکبر، -1680 or 1681. فصول اکبرى. [Browse]
• Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn. Niṣāb al-ṣibyān. [Browse]
• فراهى، ابو نصر محمد بدر الدىن. نصاب الصبىان. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on the Arabic language.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• On front cover: 67 Dastūral Mobtadi.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black by different hands on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 16b-17a, 39b-40b blank. Marginal water damage, causing disintegration of paper around edges and slight loss of text in text 5. Some paper repairs, mild insect damage, and a few tears.
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي يصرف الاحوال ويخفف الاثقال
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله ... بدان علمک الله تعالى که کلمات عرب بر سه قسم بود فعل و اسم و حرف فعل کلمه اىست مبنى براى افهام معنى
• Incipit (text 3, first verse): کو روزن غرفه در واز است و سده پىشگاه ... کو بفتح کاف و تشدىد واو روزن خانه جمع کواء و کوى بضم کاف
• Incipit (text 4, first two entries): باءة مثل باغة لغة في المباءة ڤ منه سمي النكاح
• Incipit (text 5, first verse): ببحر تقارب تقرب نماى * بدين وزن ميزان طبع آزماى

Binding note

Full brown leather covered with brown paper.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-16a: Dastūr al-mubtadī / Ṣafī ibn Naṣr. Treatise on the laws of permutation for Arabic irregular verbs; incomplete at end.
• 2. fol. 17b-39a: [Fuṣūl-i Akbarī / ʻAlī Akbar]. Treatise on Arabic accidence; incomplete at end.
• 3. fol. 41a-64b: [Sharḥ-i Niṣāb al-ṣibyān]. Incomplete at beginning and end.
• 4. fol. 65a-124b: [Arabic dictionary]. Incomplete at beginning and end.
• 5. fol. 125a-159b: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān / [Abū Naṣr al-Farāhī]. A metrical Arabic-Persian glossary.

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References

Storey, C.A. Persian literature, III, 88, 160, 163

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ-i Niṣāb al-ṣibyān.
• شرح نصاب الصبىان.
• Arabic dictionary.

OCLC

820723821

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