Item Summary

First volume (out of two) of Müstakimzade's three-way dictionary of Arabic, Persian and Turkish, based on the Arabic-Persian dictionary Qānūn al-adab fī ḍabṭ kalimāt al-ʻArab by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Tiflīsī (d. ca. 1203).

Descriptive Information

Title
قانون الادب ضبط كلمات العرب ... / للشيخ الاديب ابي الفضل حبيش بن ابراهيم بن محمد التفليسي ... .
Transliterated Title
Qānūn al-adab ḍabṭ kalimāt al-ʻArab ... / lil-Shaykh al-adīb Abī al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh bin Ibrāhīm bin Muḥammad al-Tiflīsī ... .
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 68Yq
Identifier
ark:/88435/hm50v112z
Publisher
[18--?]
Date Created
1800
Extent
709 leaves : paper ; 306 x 203 (240 x 107) mm. bound to 310 x 214 mm.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
27 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text written within a double line frame in red ink, except on ff. 15b-16a where the frame is in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 15b has illuminated head piece of floral design in gold ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Ff. 1b-14a have an empty contents grid ruled in red ink. Thin glazed paper with several different watermarks, including figures of a horseman and a bull, most of it colored in yellow.
Incipit: الحمد اللغوى وسائر انواعه مطلقه وفعلية وقولية وعرفية ... اما بعد فحل الفحول ارباب لغات وواصل اصل الاصول فضائل الذات
Explicit: الغلظه ستبرى سابقا مذكور غلاظت معنا سنده مصدردر مثلث الاول اولمغله نوعين سابقين ده مندرجدر
Binding Note
Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers made with a gold guilloche, fillets and small rosetta stamps. Central mandorlas with pendants on upper and lower covers, blind stamped and covered in gold leaf, with small rosetta stamps and radiating sprigs around the edges. Similar design on envelope flap, with a smaller mandorla and just the fillets around the borders. Flap linings and endleaves in light purple paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1438

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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