Author
Thaʻlab, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 815-904
Publication Date
[14th century?]
Subject
Arabic language—Lexicology—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
62
Physical Dimensions
62 leaves : paper ; 166 x 125 (120 x 85) mm bound to 167 x 127 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
1340425609
Record ID
9963569143506421
Date
[14th century?]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal notes and glosses.Collation: Paper ; fol. 62 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 9 lines per page.Description: Full vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents; hills with a cross on top) ; MS in fair condition but stained with dampness and worm-eaten.Origin: According to colophon copy completed by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Muʼadhdhin al-Idkāwī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 62b). Probably from XIVth century.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اخبرنا الشيخ الامام زين الدين ابوالحسن علي بن ابراهيم بن نجاالواعظ ... قال احمد ابن يحيي ثعلب هذا کتاب اختيار فصيح الکلام مما يجري في کلام الناس ...Colophon: تم کتاب الفصيح بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وکان الفراغ من تکملة هذه التکملة على يد الحقير عبدالله ابن عبدالله المؤذن الادکاوي الشافعي نزيل القاهرة المعزية غفر الله له ولوالديه وللمسلمين امين - Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper with silver block-pressed design. Yellow-green paper pastedown. Spine is missing. - A well-known philological work.
Bağışçı
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961[Browse]
Diğer Biçimler
Also available in an electronic version.
Kaynak
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Nadir Kitap Türü
Watermarks[Browse]
Referanslar
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 248.Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 52.Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 443/4.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6931/2.
Katip
Idkāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh[Browse]
Edinme Kaynağı
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
