S. 6 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: An incomplete Persian-Turkish Vocabulary, followed by an acephalous and incomplete Arabic Vocabulary. The former begins on f. 1b abruptly after the Bismi'lláh: باب الالف المفتوحة من الاسماء آب آب ماه آبه صو آغستوس صوك یای آیی صافی صو Next follow words beginning with i (المكسورة), and u (المضمومة), then infinitives and imperfects of verbs beginning with a vowel, then (f. 6b) words beginning with b, and so on, up to verbs beginning with sá and sa (f. 41b). Here the Arabic glossary begins abruptly with words ending in s: ... في النفي النمس راز پنهان داشتن الهجس فرا دل آمدن اندیشه الخ Ends abruptly on f. 148b: المعتل الياى س، الْيَاسُ نَوْمِيد شُذَن، اليُبْسُ وَالْيَبْسُ خشك شدن ويَيْبَسُ لُغَةٌ ، تم الكتاب The colophon (on f. 149a) gives the name of the copyist as Aḥmad ibn 'Abdi'l-Mannán, and the date of completion as the middle of Jumáda 1, 877/October, 1472.1 This unattractive MS., obtained at the fourth and last partition of the Belshah collection in November, 1920, comprises 149 ff. of 20'9 x 14'8 c. and 13 ll. Written in a large, clear naskh with rubrications.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 149
Dimensions: 20.9 × 14.8 cm.
Layout
13 lines
Hand(s)
large, clear naskh with rubrications
History
Origin: 877 AH; 1472 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
obtained at the fourth and last partition of the Belshah collection in November, 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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