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Summary of Contents: مقدمة الأدب للزمخشرى. A fine old copy, dated Mubarram 721/Feb. 1324, of the Muqaddamatul-Adab
min Tarjumani'l-Ajam wa'l-'Arab of the celebrated philologist and commentator
of the Qur'an Maḥmúd ibn 'Umar az-Zamakhsharí (d. 538/1143). See Brockelmann,
vol. 1, pp. 289-293, and J. G. Wetzstein's edition, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1844. Begins,
after the Bismillah : الحمد اللهالذي
فَضَّلَعلى جميع الأنسنة لسان الْعَرَبِ الخ
سباس و ستایش مرخدای را آنك تفضیل کرد بر همهزبانها زبان تازی عرب را

The Persian interlinear translation is written in a smaller naskh hand than the
Arabic text, but very clearly. The work is dedicated to the Sipahsálár Bahá'u'd-
Dín Alá'u'd-Dawla Abu'l-Muzaffar Atsiz ibn Khwárazmsháh (reigned A.D. 1127-
1156), and is divided into five parts (Qism), the first treating of nouns, the second
of verbs, the third of particles, the fourth of the declension of nouns, the fifth of the
conjugation of verbs. The MS., acquired at the fourth partition of the Belshah collection on Nov. 12,
1920, comprises 66 ff. of 23'5 x 15 c., with 8 lines of Arabic text and an equal
number of Persian interlinear translation, the former in a larger and bolder naskh
hand and vocalized. It is dated Muharram 721/Feb. 1321.

Author: Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144 الزمخشرري، محمود بن عمر

Title: Muqaddimat al-adab li-al-Zamakhsharī

Title: Muqaddimat al-adab min tarjumān al-ʻArab wa-al-ʻAjam

Title: مقدمة الادب للزمخشري

Title: مقدمة الادب من ترجمان العرب والعجم

Language(s): Arabic with Persian interlinear translation

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 66

Dimensions: 23.5 × 15 cm.

Layout

8 lines

Hand(s)

The Persian interlinear translation is written in a smaller naskh hand than the Arabic text, the former in a larger and bolder naskh hand and vocalized.

History

Origin: 721 AH; 1321 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The MS., acquired at the fourth partition of the Belshah collection on Nov. 12, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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