Item Summary

A rhymed Arabic-Persian vocabulary for teaching Arabic to Persian speakers.

Descriptive Information

Title
نصاب الصبيان.
Transliterated Title
Niṣāb al-ṣibyān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 445L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrr1729707
Language
Persian
Date Created
1850-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
46 leaves : paper ; 177-215 x 133-156 (160 x 104) mm bound to 215 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 445
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from later caption at beginning of text (fol. 1b).
Marginal and interlinear notes. Contains diagrams. Inserts sewn into binding.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 8 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; insert on fol. 27-29 on yellow paper ; watermarks (three crescents and roman-alphabet lettering "F. Palazzuoli") ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... چنين كويد ابو نصر فراهى كتاب من ...
Binding Note
Later? limp binding in white paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
dictionaries
Dictionaries
diagrams
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0b2961c7-745c-4950-bff5-6acdda9a2c6e/manifest