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1 copy of al-Ṣurāḥ min al-Ṣiḥāḥ by Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, d. 1003?
Title: al-Ṣurāḥ min al-Ṣiḥāḥ
Title: الصراح من الصحاح
An abridgement of the Sihah of Jawhari with the addition of the Persian equivalents by Jamal Qurashi
Incipit: قال الفقير الى مولاه ... ابو الفضل محمد بن عمر بن خالد المدعو بجمال القرشي ... احمد الله وهو المحمود بكل اللغات وجلها ... وبعد فان صحاح اللغة ... دواء العلة لسقام الجهل شفاء العلة لذوي النهل
Language(s): Arabic, Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 514 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 24.5 × 16 cm.
Dimensions (written): 19.5 × 10 cm.
Condition
Badly water stained. Brown leather binding.
Layout
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq
History
Origin: 700 AH; 1301 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Bequest of R.C. Reid
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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