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A vocabulary, English and Persian : with introductory grammatical remarks : compiled for the use of the Hon. East India Company / by Francis Gladwin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PK6239.5.E5 G53 1791
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gladwin, Francis, -1813, author.
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Persian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Persian language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
- Osborne Library, American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts.
- Local Subjects:
- Osborne Library, American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts.
- Physical Description:
- [4], lxxii, [4], 355, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- a-ek o-u- **** FoFi (3) 1791 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Calcutta : Printed by A. Upjohn, MDCCXCI [1791]
- Notes:
- "A revised version of Gladwin's 'A compendious vocabulary English and Persian' printed at Malda (Bengal) in 1780."--ESTC. "Remarks on the Persian language" translated from Persian original by Roshen Aly Ansáry. Cf. leaf [a]2r.
- Signatures: [a]⁶ b-i⁴ [A]² B-2Y⁴ [2Z]4(-[2Z]4?).
- "Includes Persian printing in two scripts (nastaʿlı̄q and naskh) and some printing in Hebrew types (p. iv)."--ESTC.
- Woodcut title vignette (device of East India Company).
- "Remarks on the Persian language" and "A vocabulary, English and Persian" each has a divisional half-title.
- Folded letterpress plate ("Form of a verb") printed in red and black.
- Errata on leaves A2v and [2Z2]v-[2Z3]r.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy imperfect: leaf [2Z]1 wanting.
- RBC copy has ms. inscription in Persian characters with the partial proverb: Kunad ham jins bih ham jins parvāz, akin to the English proverb birds of a feather flock together ; dated 20th-century ms. note ("TRACE 17 APR 1967 EL.RP @") in pencil on back pastedown; ms. pencil sketches on front free endpapers and leaf [2Z]3v.
- کند هم جنس به هم جنس پروآز.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Peter L. Masi Books. RBC. Copy from the now closed Osborne Library, American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts.
- RBC copy bound in full calf (?); spine tooled in gold; gold-stamped leather spine label ("GLADWIN'S VOCABULARY").
- RBC copy: portion of head margin of title leaf excised.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T147551
- Shaw, G. Printing in Calcutta to 1800, 185
- OCLC:
- 1061890846
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