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This is a versified work in 220 couplets on definitions of Arabic words into Persian, corresponding couplets to Persian poetical and metrical measures. The number of couplets is recorded differently in the references. This work has been used to teach Arabic in Iran, India and Turkey as lately as the recent centuries. It has been printed several times in Iran. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Wadh.Minasian 521

Wadham College, University of Oxford

Details

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

This is a versified work in 220 couplets on definitions of Arabic words into Persian, corresponding couplets to Persian poetical and metrical measures. The number of couplets is recorded differently in the references. This work has been used to teach Arabic in Iran, India and Turkey as lately as the recent centuries. It has been printed several times in Iran. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 521

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

1838

Language

Persian

Contents

Author: ‎Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn‏‏ فراهی، ابونصر محمد بدرالدین Abū Naṣr Farāhī, Masʿūd bin Abī Bakr (640 AH/1242) ابونصر فراهی، مسعود بن ابی بکر (۶۴۰ ق/۱۲۴۲م)‏ Title: Niṣāb al-Ṣibyān Title: نصاب الصبیان

Form

codex

Support

Western paper (watermark), natural buff, regular thickness, one size. Edge mending of the first folio.

Physical extent

48 ff.

Hands

Graceful Naskh, one hand, fairly large hand. Anonymous

Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Subject

Arabic language--Dictionaries--Persian

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  • Mohammad Emami
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  • Ali Mir-Ansari

  • Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn

  • Minasian, Caro Owen

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