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كتاب بغية الوعاه في طبقات اللغويين والنحاه / تأليف عبد الرحمن السيوطي.
Kitāb Bughyat al-wuʻāh fī ṭabaqāt al-lughawīyīn wa-al-nuḥāh / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
1693
A well-known biographical dictionary of eminent lexicographers and grammarians.
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- Publisher
- 8 Muḥarram 1105 [September 9, 1693?]
- People
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- Related Name
- احسائي، احمد بن سليمان، active 17th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 211H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A well-known biographical dictionary of eminent lexicographers and grammarians.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب بغية الوعاه في طبقات اللغويين والنحاه / تأليف عبد الرحمن السيوطي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Bughyat al-wuʻāh fī ṭabaqāt al-lughawīyīn wa-al-nuḥāh / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 211H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfx719x30j
- Publisher
- 8 Muḥarram 1105 [September 9, 1693?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1693
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (3), 250, (2) leaves : paper ; 240 x 170 (172 x 120) mm. bound to 241 x 180 mm.
- Provenance
- Title page has ownership signatures: ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar Afandī [...]zādah, then Aḥmad Jamal al-Layl, then Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 10062.
- Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 137.
- Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1175.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 19.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 153/4.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 698.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 649.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (3) + 250 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
- Layout: 26-28 lines per page.
- Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. In the introduction the author states that this work is a redaction from a larger work of his which he composed in seven volumes but never published. Before the colophon the author states that this book was composed 871 [1467]. Four folios before title page are 4 lines of poetry.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 8 Muḥarram 1105 by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Aḥsāʼī (fol. 250b).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابتها بعد صلاة العصر من يوم الخميس ثامن شهر محرم الحرام ابتداء سنة 1105 خمس بعد المائة الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازکى السلام وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله خالق الجود
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on cover and flap.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 523
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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