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Summary of Contents: فرهنگ رشیدی A good seventeenth-century MS. of the well-known Persian-Persian Lexicon compiled in 1064/1653-4 by 'Abdu'r-Rashid ibn 'Abdi'l-Ghafür al-Husayní al- Madaní at-Tatawí, and entitled Farhang-i-Rashidí. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, PP. 500-501; Ethé's India Office Persian Cat., cols. 1350-1351, etc. This MS., like so many others in the library of the late Sir A. Houtum- Schindler, formerly belonged to Prince Farhád Mírzá Mu'tamadu'd-Dawla, whose note of ownership is dated the 28th of Jumádà 1, 1293/June 21, 1876. It comprises 297 ff. of 27 x 16 c. and 24 ll., is written in an excellent ta'liq with rubrications, and was completed on the 6th of Dhu'l-Qa'da, 1084/Feb. 12, 1674.
Author: ʻAbd al-Rashīd ibn ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Tattavī, fl. 1653 عبد الرشيد بن عبد الغفور الحسينی تتوي
Title: Farhang-i rashīdī
Title: فرهنگ رشيدی

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 297
Dimensions: 27 × 16 cm.

Layout

24 lines

Hand(s)

Excellent ta'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: 1084 AH; 1674 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., like so many others in the library of the late Sir A. Houtum-Schindler , formerly belonged to Prince Farhád Mírzá Mu'tamadu'd-Dawla , note of ownership dated June 21, 1876.

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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