Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 445L [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]
• diagrams [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

A rhymed Arabic-Persian vocabulary for teaching Arabic to Persian speakers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from later caption at beginning of text (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes. Contains diagrams. Inserts sewn into binding.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 8 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; insert on fol. 27-29 on yellow paper ; watermarks (three crescents and roman-alphabet lettering "F. Palazzuoli") ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... چنين كويد ابو نصر فراهى كتاب من ...

Binding note

Later? limp binding in white paper.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 445

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858872375

Original language

• نصاب الصبيان.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... چنين كويد ابو نصر فراهى كتاب من ...
• نصاب الصبىان (Text)

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