Item Summary

A thesaurus of the Arabic language.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاقناع في اللغة
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Iqnāʻ fī al-lughah
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 312H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1544c039m
Publisher
[not after 1703]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1703
Format
Manuscript
Extent
228 leaves : paper ; 178 x 148 (112 x 98) mm. bound to 173 x 141 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Ownership signatures Muḥammad ʻAqīl dated 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1230 (fol. 1b), Fayṣal, muftī in the Ottoman Empire dated 1115 (fol. 2b).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6968.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4255.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 608.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 384/5.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 336.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 223 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition with a small amount of insect damage.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes. On title page are several verses of poetry and some notes in Persian. Fol. 228b has some family records.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Ending: سروا سروت سروتا سرون سروت سروتما سروتم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر. الحمد لله الذي جعل العربية مفتاح التنزيل
Binding Note
Quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Synonyms and antonyms—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
460

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e3de33a7-6b9a-4228-8920-328bd8f03198/manifest