Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn.
مجمع البحرين ومطلع النيرين.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ṭurayḥī, Fakhr al-Dīn, 1571 or 1572-1674 or 1675.

Contributor:

Levy, Howard S., donor.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan.

Arabic language.

Hadith (Shiites).

Qurʼan--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.

Hadith (Shiites)--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.

Arabic language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

codices (bound manuscripts)

Stamps (Provenance)

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Howard S. Levy (bookplate inside front cover).

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by (bookplate inside front cover).

Physical Description:

217, v leaves : paper ; 305 x 208 mm bound to 304 x 215 mm

Production:

A.H. 1260 (1844)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Treatise on the obscure terms in the Qur'ān and in Shi'ite Hadiths. This copy says this is the first volume containing parts one and two (f. 60r, 217v).

Treatise on the obscure terms in the Qur'an and in Shi'ite Hadiths.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left corner.

Layout: Written in 27 lines per page in black and red ink with headings on the margin; text area blind ruled; head and outer margins blind ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Binding: Full modern brown leather; boards blind tooled with design of intersecting diagonal lines inside a ruled frame; colored patterned cloth spine lining.

Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 1260 (f. 217v) by Luṭf Allāh Ibn [?] Qāsim (f. 60r).

Copy has inscriptions in Arabic script on front pastedown; occasional marginal annotations, and leaf with diagram in Arabic script laid in.

Owner's stamps on last page of text adjacent the colophon (f. 217v).

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 124.

OCLC:

276878102