Item Summary

A translation into Ottoman Turkish of the Arabic lexicon by Jawharī. According to the text, the translation is based both on the original text, Ṣiḥāḥ al-Jawharī, and the abridgment of the original, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī.

Descriptive Information

Title
ترجمان الصحاح.
Transliterated Title
Tercüman üs-sihah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 402L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrj430h96n
Publisher
[16--?-1708]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1600-1708
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 188 leaves : paper ; 206 x 148 (168 x 95) mm bound to 208 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ahmet ibn el-Hac Mustafa el-Kastamonî, known as Vehbi-zade, dated Istanbul, 7 of Shaʻbān 1097; Abdullah Emin [el-Fenerî?], dated Baghdad, the last night of Rajab 1125; Hüseyn ibn Yusuf ... [?], accompanied by a stamp, dated Baghdad, Ṣafar 1192; additional signatures dated from 1200 to 1257 and stamps (fol. 1a).
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. composite codex (one work but different dates).
Title from fol. 1a (also mentioned at the beginning of the text).
Label on upper cover: "MSS 206". Several short inscriptions on fol. ia (one is inverted).
Layout: 21-27 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red.
Description: Written in a medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. The older section of the ms. is written inside a single line frame outlined in red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Two different types of glazed paper.
Origin: The ms. is a composite codex: several pages at the beginning and fol. 137-188 are a later replacement. This replacement is dated the last 10 days of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1119 (1708) and was copied by Ahmet Vehbi el-Kastamonî, a former kadi of the town of ... [?]. The rest of the ms., the original copy, is older, the earliest date present on that part of ms. being that of Shaʻbān 1097 (1686) (see one of the ownership statements on fol. 1a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى انزل القرأن ليبين الشرايع الأمان بلسان عربى مبين على محمد امام المتقين والصلوة عليه وعلى آله اجمعين اما بعد بلكل كه علوم دينيه واحكام شرعيه عرب لغتى اوزرينه وارد اولمشدر
Explicit: همزهء وصل اولديغيچون ويانك الفى ده حذف اولندى اجتماع ساكنين الحون يانك الفى واسمى وانك سينى ساكنلردر والله تعالى اعلم الصواب واليه المرجع والماب
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in red leather over pasteboard. Simple gold-tooled frame design on covers made with a narrow gold roll. Pastedowns in a decorative paper of red background with floral pattern in gold ink.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Lexicology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
dictionaries
Dictionaries
Autographs
Stamps
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
392

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/062808cc-b6f8-403a-9f67-920de365078d/manifest