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Lüġat-i Niʿmetullāh

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish and Persian

1.
Title: Lüġat-i Niʿmetullāh
Title: Mecmaʿ al-lüġāt
Title: Mecmaʿ el-lüġāt
Title: Mecmaʿu l-lüġāt
Title: Mecmaʿ'ul-lüġāt
Title: Majma‘ al-Lughāt
Author: Niʿmetullāh bin Aḥmed bin Mübārek ar-Rūmī نعمة الله بن احمد بن مبارك الرومی
Incipit: آب آوردن
Explicit: فرسودن آشنمق و آشندرمق واياغله

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A fragment of Niʿmetullāh bin Aḥmed bin Mübārek ar-Rūmī's (died A. H. 969=A. D. 1561/1562) Persian-Turkish dictionary, see above, Nos. 1697-1699, and comp. besides the authorities mentioned there, W. Pertsch, Berlin Persian Cat., p. 201 sq.; Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 142 sq.; Lagarde, Persische Studien, No. 48; and Salemann, Literaturblatt für Orient. Philologie, ii. p. 77. Another title of the work, or rather of a smaller recension of the same, is مجمع اللغات. This fragment, which lacks, like the other three copies in the Bodleian Library, the preface, begins at once, on fol. 42b, with آب آوردن; it breaks off with فرسودن, explained by آشنمق و آشندرمق واياغله..., corresponding to Laud Or. 125 (No. 1697 above), fol. 15, 1. 5 ab infra.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish and Persian

References

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. § (194) 2232.
2.
Title: Kitāb-ı dānisten
Title: Kitāb-i dānistan
Title: کتاب دانستن
Title: Tuḥfetü l-hādiye
Title: Tuḥfat al-hādiyah
Title: تحفة الهادية
Title: Tuḥfetü l-hādī
Title: Tuḥfat al-hādī
Title: تحفة الهادی
Incipit: دانستن بلمك

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Another copy of the same short Persian-Turkish glossary which is found in Nos. 1702-1712 above, and also bears the title of تحفة الهادية or تحفة الهادى; comp. in addition to the authorities quoted there, W. Pertsch, Berlin Persian Cat., p. 211 sq.; Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 141; and Lagarde, Persische Studien, Nos. 16 and 29. It begins, without a preface, at once with دانستن بلمك; the four faṣls are found here respectively, on ff. 33, 35, 37b, and 39a. Occasionally large additions on the margin; some transcriptions, in Roman characters, both interlinear and marginal, and a few English paraphrases, made in pencil. Copied A. H. 1030=A. D. 1621.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and English

References

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. § (195) 2233.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 7 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 20.32 × approximately 15.24 cm.

Layout

1 column of 21 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: Nesḫ

History

Origin: 1621 CE; 1030 AH

Record Sources

Description based on 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.

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