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Taʻrīfāt.
تعريفات.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413.
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Terminology.
- Islamic philosophy.
- Sufism.
- Sufism--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic philosophy--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Islam--Terminology--Early works to 1800.
- Islam.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 17th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- dictionaries
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥusayn Afandī in 1864 or 5 (note in ink, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī (undated note in ink, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 130 leaves : paper ; 145 x 100 (95 x 50) bound to 145 x 105 mm
- Other Title:
- Edge title: Taʻrīfāt al-sayyidī
- Edge title: تعريفات السيدي
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 1052 (1642 or 1643)
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Dictionary of sufi and philosophical terms.
- Notes:
- Title from introduction (f. 1v).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
- Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Mostly disbound; covers of brown leather over thin pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-tooled frame of double parallel lines and blind-stamped central mandorla; title on bottom edge in black ink.
- Origin: Copy completed in 1052 A.H. (1643 of 1643 CE) by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qarahʹfaryahʹvī (Qarafaryavī) (f. 130v).
- Two owner's notes, one dated 1281 A.H. (1864 or 1865 CE) (f. 1r).
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 366
- OCLC:
- 1164716412
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