Item Summary

Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.

Descriptive Information

Title
كنز اللغة فارسي
Transliterated Title
Kanz al-lughah Fārisī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 202q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xd07gs754
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
182 leaves : paper ; 290 x 195 (155 x 110) mm. bound to 295 x 200 mm.
References
Storey, C. Persian literature, III, 98
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from spine label (horizontal).
Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).
Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسع
End as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتمو
Other text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه
Binding Note
Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian—15th century
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
370

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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