Kitāb Ṣurāḥ al-lughah

Name: Kitāb Ṣurāḥ al-lughah
Author: Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century.

Title	Kitāb Ṣurāḥ al-lughah
Author	Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century.
Author Original	جمال قرشي محمد بن عمر جوهري، اسماعيل بن حماد محمد حسين بن محمد شاه الحسيني المرعشي شوشتري
Publication Date:	1651
Subject	Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ, Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- Persian -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type	Book
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	340 leaves : paper ; 318 x 200 (215 x 107) mm
Library:	University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID	1194731629
Record ID	990068138930106381
Library Location	UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date	1651
Notes	Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.11)., Incipit: "The poor man said to his rich master... Abu al-Fadl Muhammad bin Omar bin Khalid, called Jamal al-Qurashi... I praise God, and He is praised in all languages and their glory, and I thank Him, and He is thanked for gifts that are many and few... And after that, correct language is the medicine of yield [?] for the sickness of ignorance and the wretchedness of illness for those with wealth....", Explicit: "Dhu al-Rumah said, 'Except, O Muslim. O one who was thrown upon the calamities and is still exhausted by [?] the drag of [?] your burden of rain", Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads "The book was completed with the help of King Al-Wahhab at the hands of Abdul-Faqir, the despicable, the weakest of God’s servants, hoping for God’s mercy, Muhammad Hussein bin Sayyid Muhammad Shah Al-Husseini Al-Mar’ashi Shushtari. May God forgive him, his parents, and whoever read and looked on Monday, the eighteenth of the sacred month of Muharram, one thousand and sixty-two years after the Prophet’s Hijra. May God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, done, done, done.” "Authorial", reads "And the completion of its classification and authorship was completed... by the grace of God and His good support, and it appeared on the sixteenth Tuesday of Safar in the year six hundred and eighty-one in Kashgar", Collation: iv, 42 IV (336), II (340), iv ; almost exclusively quaternions; middle of the quire marks in the form of 2 in opposite outer corners; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts)., Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident)., Script: Naskh ; small, neat and compact Persianate hand; Partially but irregularly seriffed with quite small left-sloping head-serif on most ascenders (even free standing alif) and occasionally on shaqq of kāf, fairly vertical with only slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots., Decoration: Keywords, section headings, notabilia (side-heads), and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs., Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper, possibly of more than one type; Mainly with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curving) and chain lines faintly visible, possibly in occasional groups (horizontal) ; opposite orientation of laid and chain lines in many central bifolia (i.e. the central bifolium of many gatherings); beige in color, quite translucent, sturdy, well-burnished (burnisher's marks visible), cloudy formation, inclusions; some staining and tide lines ; flyleaves and some repairs in European laid (with three crescents watermark) and wove paper; some repairs and fills in non-European (likely Persian or Indian laid paper)., Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather; Type III binding (without flap); doubles in brown leather; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetable decoration, compare Déroche class. OSd) and pendants, along with tooled rule border; sewn in cream thread, two stations, many threads broken; manuscript 'waste' guards on many bifolia; Worked chevron endbands in light green and cream, fairly good condition; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, staining, lower board severely compromised (failure of the adhesive, full delamination and losses of pasteboard material) and now quite soft, cover detached at spine with most gatherings loose, etc. ; housed in box for protection., Former shelfmark: From upper doublure and spine label, "IL 236" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory catalog slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Slip of blue laid paper ("KFNT 1863" watermark visible) with excerpts in Persian (paginated pp.108-110) -- d. Slip of light blue wove paper with listing of book titles (paginated pp.145-146) -- e. Slip of untinted wove paper with notes (paginated pp.329-330)., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.693, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Shāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Marʻashī Shūshtarī with transcription completed 18 Muḥarram 1062 [ca. 31 December 1651]. As appears in following authorial colophon (also on p.693), composition completed 16 Ṣafar 681 [ca. 26 May 1282] in Kāshghar., Numerous former owners' marks on 'title page' and preceding page (pp.10-11) including several mostly effaced statements (one of which appears to be dated 1096 [1684 or 5] and a rectangular seal impression (seemingly dated 1129 [1717]) repeated several times ; numerous notabilia (side-heads) marking terms ; occasional glosses; illegible oval seal impression at close on p.693; numerous notabilia (side-heads) listing terms being defined
Sample Text	Fine copy of the abridgement and rendering into Persian by Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Khālid Jamāl al-Qarshī of the renowned Arabic lexicon, Tāj al-lughah wa-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʻArabīyah, commonly known as al-Ṣiḥāḥ, by Abū Naṣr Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī (d.1009?).
Katkıda Bulunanlar	Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ. Abridgement. Persian., Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ. Abridgement. Arabic., Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Marʻashī Shūshtarī, active 1651, scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi	20251210
Biçim	Book, Manuscript, Dictionaries, Available Online
Koleksiyonda	Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar	Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 128 ; I 296, Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, iv 91 ; iv 101-2
Elde Ediliş	Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.

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Kitāb Ṣurāḥ al-lughah

Author Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century.

Author Original جمال قرشي محمد بن عمر جوهري، اسماعيل بن حماد محمد حسين بن محمد شاه الحسيني المرعشي شوشتري

Publication Date 1651

Subject Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ, Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- Persian -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor

Type Book

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 340 leaves : paper ; 318 x 200 (215 x 107) mm

Library University of Michigan Library

Library Asset ID 1194731629

Record ID 990068138930106381

Library Location UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library

Date 1651

Notes Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.11)., Incipit: "The poor man said to his rich master... Abu al-Fadl Muhammad bin Omar bin Khalid, called Jamal al-Qurashi... I praise God, and He is praised in all languages and their glory, and I thank Him, and He is thanked for gifts that are many and few... And after that, correct language is the medicine of yield [?] for the sickness of ignorance and the wretchedness of illness for those with wealth....", Explicit: "Dhu al-Rumah said, 'Except, O Muslim. O one who was thrown upon the calamities and is still exhausted by [?] the drag of [?] your burden of rain", Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads "The book was completed with the help of King Al-Wahhab at the hands of Abdul-Faqir, the despicable, the weakest of God’s servants, hoping for God’s mercy, Muhammad Hussein bin Sayyid Muhammad Shah Al-Husseini Al-Mar’ashi Shushtari. May God forgive him, his parents, and whoever read and looked on Monday, the eighteenth of the sacred month of Muharram, one thousand and sixty-two years after the Prophet’s Hijra. May God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, done, done, done.” "Authorial", reads "And the completion of its classification and authorship was completed... by the grace of God and His good support, and it appeared on the sixteenth Tuesday of Safar in the year six hundred and eighty-one in Kashgar", Collation: iv, 42 IV (336), II (340), iv ; almost exclusively quaternions; middle of the quire marks in the form of 2 in opposite outer corners; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts)., Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident)., Script: Naskh ; small, neat and compact Persianate hand; Partially but irregularly seriffed with quite small left-sloping head-serif on most ascenders (even free standing alif) and occasionally on shaqq of kāf, fairly vertical with only slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots., Decoration: Keywords, section headings, notabilia (side-heads), and some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs., Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper, possibly of more than one type; Mainly with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curving) and chain lines faintly visible, possibly in occasional groups (horizontal) ; opposite orientation of laid and chain lines in many central bifolia (i.e. the central bifolium of many gatherings); beige in color, quite translucent, sturdy, well-burnished (burnisher's marks visible), cloudy formation, inclusions; some staining and tide lines ; flyleaves and some repairs in European laid (with three crescents watermark) and wove paper; some repairs and fills in non-European (likely Persian or Indian laid paper)., Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather; Type III binding (without flap); doubles in brown leather; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetable decoration, compare Déroche class. OSd) and pendants, along with tooled rule border; sewn in cream thread, two stations, many threads broken; manuscript 'waste' guards on many bifolia; Worked chevron endbands in light green and cream, fairly good condition; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, staining, lower board severely compromised (failure of the adhesive, full delamination and losses of pasteboard material) and now quite soft, cover detached at spine with most gatherings loose, etc. ; housed in box for protection., Former shelfmark: From upper doublure and spine label, "IL 236" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory catalog slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- c. Slip of blue laid paper ("KFNT 1863" watermark visible) with excerpts in Persian (paginated pp.108-110) -- d. Slip of light blue wove paper with listing of book titles (paginated pp.145-146) -- e. Slip of untinted wove paper with notes (paginated pp.329-330)., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.693, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Shāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Marʻashī Shūshtarī with transcription completed 18 Muḥarram 1062 [ca. 31 December 1651]. As appears in following authorial colophon (also on p.693), composition completed 16 Ṣafar 681 [ca. 26 May 1282] in Kāshghar., Numerous former owners' marks on 'title page' and preceding page (pp.10-11) including several mostly effaced statements (one of which appears to be dated 1096 [1684 or 5] and a rectangular seal impression (seemingly dated 1129 [1717]) repeated several times ; numerous notabilia (side-heads) marking terms ; occasional glosses; illegible oval seal impression at close on p.693; numerous notabilia (side-heads) listing terms being defined

Sample Text Fine copy of the abridgement and rendering into Persian by Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Khālid Jamāl al-Qarshī of the renowned Arabic lexicon, Tāj al-lughah wa-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʻArabīyah, commonly known as al-Ṣiḥāḥ, by Abū Naṣr Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī (d.1009?).

Katkıda Bulunanlar Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ. Abridgement. Persian., Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? Ṣiḥāḥ. Abridgement. Arabic., Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Shāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Marʻashī Shūshtarī, active 1651, scribe.

Son Dizinleme Tarihi 20251210

Biçim Book, Manuscript, Dictionaries, Available Online

Koleksiyonda Yahuda Collection.

Referanslar Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 128 ; I 296, Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, iv 91 ; iv 101-2

Elde Ediliş Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.