Item Summary

A Persian-Turkish literary dictionary.

Descriptive Information

Title
لغت حليمي چلبي : بحر الغرايب.
Transliterated Title
Lügat-i Halimî Çelebi : bahr ül-garayib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 572
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/nc580m720
Publisher
[between 15--? and 17--?]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1500-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
84 leaves : paper ; 210 x 156 (150 x 135) mm. bound to 210 x 156 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase : Adab Books, 11 Causewayside, Cambridge, CB3 9HD, England.
References
Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 5 (198)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and underlined words. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some water damage around the edges of text block, and some insect damage around the spine. Ms. additions: a table of numbers with their names in Persian with Turkish equivalents on fol. 1a; a list of additional words beginning with 'ya' after the end of text on fol. 84a; an inscription on inside of lower cover stating that the copy is lacking two fol. Inscription on the lower edge of text block: "Lügat-i Halimî Çelebi, 132".
Incipit: حمد بليغ وثناى بى دريغ ... وبعد چنين ميكويد ضعيف وشكته بال ونحيف بر كشته حال
Explicit: اكرچه خانهء عمرم بهيده كرد بجور اساس عمر دى اندرامان حق بادا
Binding Note
Olive paper over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Persian language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Dictionaries

Physical Characteristics

File Count
174

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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