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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah هذا مختار الصحاح في اللغة العربية

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Title

  • Hādhā Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah

Other Title

  • هذا مختار الصحاح في اللغة العربية

Summary

  • Early dictionary of Arabic.

Names

  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261
  • Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 6 Muḥarram 1174 [18 August 1760]

Headings

  • -  Arabic language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Riwāq al-Akrād bi-Jāmiʻat al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished, slightly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and armorial watermark topped with a crown and recumbent crescent moon; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 196
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 15.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-292a.
  • -  "H-1087 = 5.365."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-365.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله بجميع المحامد على جميع النعم والصلاة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد المبعوث ...قال العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه ومغفورة به محمد بن ابي بكر بن عبد القادر الرازي ... هذا مختصر ... وسميته مختار الصخاخ ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المباركة يوم الاثنين المبارك سادس من شهر محمم الحرام من شهور سنة اربعة وسبعين وماية والف، 1174، كتب في رواق الاكراد بجامعة الازهر الم--.

Medium

  • 292 leaves (25 lines), paper bound ; 22.8 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6620 .R38 1760

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498209

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr, Active 1261, IsmāʻĪl Ibn Ḥammād Jawharī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah. [6 Muḥarram 18 August 1760, 1760] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498209/.

APA citation style:

Rāzī, M. I. A. B., Jawharī, I. I. Ḥ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1760) Hādhā Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah. [6 Muḥarram 18 August 1760] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498209/.

MLA citation style:

Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr, Active 1261, et al. Hādhā Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah. [6 Muḥarram 18 August 1760, 1760] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498209/>.