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Kalimāt ʻarabīyah ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-tahajjī.
كلمات عربية على ترتيب حروف التهجي.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Akhtarī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, -1560 or 1561.
- Standardized Title:
- Akhtarī kabīr.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language--Dictionaries--Turkish.
- Arabic language.
- Genre:
- dictionaries
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by auction at Roseberys (London) as part of the Islamic and Indian Art sale on 23 April 2018, lot 56.
- Physical Description:
- 206 leaves : paper ; 205 x 148 mm (145 x 90) mm bound to 212 x 155 mm.
- Other Title:
- Lughat al-Akhtarī.
- Place of Publication:
- [Turkey], A.H. 956 (1549)
- Language Note:
- Arabic headwords, Ottoman definitions.
- Summary:
- Dictionary of Arabic terms defined in Ottoman Turkish; introduction also in Arabic.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from text: "aradtu an ajmaʻa minhā fī tilka al-risālah bi-iltimās baʻḍ al-ikhwān kalimāt ʻarabīyah ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-tahajjī" (f. 1v).
- "أردت أن اجمع منها في تلك الرسالة بالتماس بعض الاخوان كلمات عربية على ترتيب حروف التهجي".
- Foliation: Modern foliation in western numerals in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on each verso, lower left.
- Layout: 17 long lines with additions in the margins added at angles.
- Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink. Marginal comments also in nastaʻliq.
- Decoration: Red overlines and red section headings.
- Binding: Modern rebinding in green leather with flap.
- Origin: Copied in A.H. 956 (1549) by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn Barī Khān (f. 203v); likely in Turkey.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1895.
- OCLC:
- 1059578439
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