Item Summary

A book of Arabic vocabulary arranged alphabetically, with Turkish equivalents.

Descriptive Information

Title
مرقاة اللغة.
Transliterated Title
Mirqāt al-lughah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 278H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8p58pq20f
Language
Arabic
Extent
266 leaves : paper ; 210 x 156 (140 x 90) mm. bound to 206 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7007.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4319-4323.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 121.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 497.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 288.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 266 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (palm?, fleur-de-lis) ; MS in fair condition.
Interlinear Arabic and Turkish notes throughout. Incomplete at beginning and commences with six lines of Turkish in which appears the name Mirqāt al-lughah. According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 497 the anonymous author has drawn on al-Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī and al-Qāmūs of al-Fīrūzābādī. On inside of front cover is some stray text. After the colophon occurs the Arabic alphabet with their numerical equivalents.
Layout: 7-11 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title from preliminary text (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تمت بعون الله وحسن التوفيق
Incipit: معناسي ترکيلة ترجمة ايدوب مرقات اللغة
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? half-bound in brown leather and marbled paper. Endband. Lower cover damaged with possible flap missing. Layers of written pages used to create covers partially visible through gaps on both covers.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
540

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4c66e94f-1515-4aa1-b9be-e708f7630383/manifest