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Summary of Contents: نصاب الصبيان A popular versified vocabulary entitled Niyabu's-Sibyán, giving the Persian
synonyms of common Arabic words, by Abú Nasr Faráhí, who wrote it in 617/
1220/1. See Rieu, B.M.P.C., p. 504, Ethé, I.O.P.C., No. 2375, etc. Ff. 18 of 21'5 x 16 c. and 15 ll. Fair nasta'liq with rubrications, gold borders,
and coloured vignettes. Dated 1198/1783-4. The colophon is in Turkish.
Author: Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn ابو نصر محمد بدر الدين فراهی
Title: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān
Title: نصاب الصبيان

Language(s): Arabic and Persian with a Turkish colophon

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 18
Dimensions: 21.5 × 16 cm.

Layout

15 lines

Hand(s)

Fair nasta'liq with rubrications, gold borders, and coloured vignettes.

History

Origin: 1198 AH; 1783-4 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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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