Item Summary

Arabic-Turkish glossary arranged by the alphabet.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Arabic-Turkish vocabulary].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 281H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvt150v52r
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1774
Extent
(2), 160, (1) leaves : paper ; 210 x 157 (152 x 105) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
On fol. 1b occur two seal impressions, one obliterated and the other with the name "... Laṭīf ʻUmar ibn Muṣṭafá". On fol. 2a occur two Arabic seal impressions, the first with the writing, "He who hopes for the mercy of his Eternal Lord, the poor Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad" and the other with the name "... Sayyid Muḥammad."
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 291.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 160 + (1) ; catchwords ; paginated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 9-25 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal and interlinear notes in Turkish and Arabic. On the two folios before fol. 1a occur a legend about the destruction of seven atheists, a verse from the Qurʼān (Sūrah II: 263), several autographs of owners, a statement dated 1188, a prayer and some stray writing. Folios 20 and 160 are defective and mended. On the folio after the colophon occur an autograph of an owner and some stray writing. This text is not the same as Hitti no. 288, though it is described as such; however, it is identical to no. 289-290, with the addition of an introduction.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: باب الالف المفتوحة
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
338

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/790de7ce-7aa1-4131-8c7c-c438961889d3/manifest