MS. Marsh 568 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

An Arabic-Turkish vocabulary, with short introduction

Title: Arabic-Turkish vocabulary, with short introduction

Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمد علی كل نعم الخ

ff. 166v-169v contain miscellaneous scribblings in Arabic, Persian and Turkish

An Arabic dictionary containing chiefly words and phrases from the Qur'ān and the Sunnah with an interlinear Turkish paraphrase and a short Arabic preface setting forth the value of the Arabic tongue. The arrangement is alphabetical, the first letter constituting the bab, the second the faṣl. The first word that appears on fol. 1b, last line, is آذان, explained as جمع اُذْن. The colophon contains side by side two dates, viz. Cemāẕī el-āḫir, A. H. 996 = A. D. 1588, May, and A. H. 1001 A. D. 1592/1593; the former may be perhaps the date of composition. The copyist's name is Yaʿḳūb bin Ümmet bin Maḥmūd. (Ethe 1930, § (2224)

Language(s): Arabic, Persian, Turkish

References

Appendix Lexicography

[Uri Turc. 66]

Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930. § (186) 2224.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 169 ff.

History

Origin: 1588 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 568 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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