Persian MS 598 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Inscriptions in the volume misidentify this as the Niṣāb Tajnīs al-Alfāẓ (Principle of Paronomasia in Languages), alternatively entitle Tajnīs al-Lughāt (Puns in Languages) a brief Persian metrical dictionary that discusses alternate meanings of words rendered by altering diacritical marks, a feature frequently employed in puns (paronomasia). Composed by a certain ‘Abd al-Raḥman and often misattributed to Timurid-era poet ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492), the inscriptions in this volume misattribute this work to the latter, and published as such by Schmidt. However, this actually appears to be an entirely different, unidentified work, as the text does not comport with the 1826 Muḥammad ʻAskarī Fikrat edition. Whether it represents another identifiable Niṣāb-genre work awaits further study. For a description of the other text and its spurious attribution to Jāmī, see Storey and Perry, and the latter regarding the modern-era proliferation of this style of dictionary. Chetham Librarian Rev. John Haddon Hindley of Manchester published a revised and expanded second edition of the English translation of the other text attributed to Jāmī, previously published by Francis Gladwin, in 1811.