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[Niṣāb al-ṣibyān].
[نصاب الصبيان].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 213
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Farāhī, Masʻūd ibn Abī Bakr, -1242.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language.
- Arabic language--Dictionaries--Persian--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic language--Versification--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic language--Versification.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Manuscripts, Persian.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 54 leaves : paper ; 200 x 122 (180 x 77) mm bound to 195 x 120 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799?]
- Language Note:
- Persian with some Arabic.
- Summary:
- A versified Arabic-Persian glossary facilitating the study of Arabic language and prosody. Words are explained in the form of qiṭʻahs composed in various meters. This copy is missing a page between leaves 2 and 3
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in eight staggered half lines.
- Script: Written in neat nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped central lobed mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; turn-ins are starting to come up.
- Origin: The item is not dated or signed; possibly produced in the 18th century.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 213.
- OCLC:
- 1131862095
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