Item Summary

A large dictionary to the Qurʼan and traditions based partially on al-Nihāyah fī-gharīb al-ḥadīth. Organized alphabetically. Incomplete at beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجمع بحار الانوار في غرايب التنزيل ولطايف الاخبار.
Transliterated Title
Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāyib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāyif al-akhbār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 221L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9s161k49z
Publisher
Shahrban, 16 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1014 [August 1, 1605]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1605
Format
Manuscript
Extent
448 leaves : paper ; 252 x 146 (190 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1407.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from ending (fol. 448a).
A few marginal notes. Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 448 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed: al-juzʼ 3-47 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 16 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1014 in Shahrban by Dawlat ʻAbd al-Ghanī Muḥammad Asāwilī (fol. 449a).
Beginning: ... الامة من الجوع الاغبر والموت الاحمر هو استعارة لان الجوع ابدا يكون في السنين ...
Colophon: تمت تمام بتاريخ شانزدهم ماه ربيع الاول سنه 1014 روزشنبه وقت دوباسى در شهربن نوشته شد كاتبحروف فقير حقير دولت عبد الغني محمد اساولي
Binding Note
Unbound. Remnants of sewing present.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
dictionaries
Dictionaries

Physical Characteristics

File Count
914

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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