MS. Marsh 568 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection
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An Arabic-Turkish vocabulary, with short introduction
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)
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The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.
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