Kanz al-lughāt

Title:

Kanz al-lughāt

Creator:

Ibn Maʻrūf, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq, active 15th century

Date:

1800-1899

Description:

Abstract: Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.Binding note: Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from spine label (horizontal).Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسعEnd as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتموOther text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه

Language:

Persian

Type:

Dictionaries
Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800

Extent:

182 leaves : paper ; 290 x 195 (155 x 110) mm. bound to 295 x 200 mm.

Publisher:

18--?

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 202q
Electronic Resource
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Is part of:

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

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