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1 copy of al-Tuḥfah fī al-adab by an anonymous author
Title: al-Tuḥfah fī al-adab
Title: التحفة في الأدب
An Arabic-Persian vocabulary of synonyms, intended as a guide to the study of the Qur'an.
Incipit: يهوّن ولا يوهن إذ الشرح والمشرح في الخفاء كه آسان گردد وسستی نیفگند زیراکه بیان وبیان کرده در پوشیدگی علی المبتدئ سيآن ومونته عند الشرح مونتان...
Language(s): Arabic and Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 63 ff.
Hand(s)
Naskh and taʿlīq in a neat Persian hand.
Additions:
- At the end of the work are some explanations of additional words.
- Extracts from the Tafsīr al-Qurʼān of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983?.
History
Origin: Undated
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on 'E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922', and 'E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870'.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Trinity College Cambridge
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