Details

Subject(s)

• Persian language—Dictionaries—Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1179H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Persian-Arabic-Turkish dictionary.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 2a).
• Inscriptions (fol. 1a, 78b and lower pastedown). Remnant of a wax seal on upper pastedown.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 78 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 9 lines per page with interlinear translations.
• Description: Rubricated ; entries separated by red commas.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي الهمنا اللغات والعبارات وسير جريانها ... وبعد فلما رايت اكثر الكتب المعتبرة من مصنفات المشايخ ...
• Colophon: تمت الصحاح العجمية بحسن التوفيق والتيسير التى لا بد منها لكل طالب الفارسى من الصغير والكبير

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Flap is missing.

Language note

Persian, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Shaʻbān ibn Jaʻfar (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 162

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858683114

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