Kalimāt ʻarabīyah ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-tahajjī
كلمات عربية على ترتيب حروف التهجي

Description
Dictionary of Arabic terms defined in Ottoman Turkish; introduction also in Arabic.
Creator
Akhtarī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, -1560 or 1561
Ibn Barī Khān, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (scribe)
Form
manuscripts (documents)
dictionaries
codices (bound manuscripts)
Date
1549
Language
Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
Subject
Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- Turkish
Extent
206 leaves : paper ; 205 x 148 mm (145 x 90) mm bound to 212 x 155 mm.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Arabic headwords, Ottoman definitions.
Title from text: "aradtu an ajmaʻa minhā fī tilka al-risālah bi-iltimās baʻḍ al-ikhwān kalimāt ʻarabīyah ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-tahajjī" (f. 1v).
Foliation: Modern foliation in western numerals in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on each verso, lower left.
Layout: 17 long lines with additions in the margins added at angles.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink. Marginal comments also in nastaʻliq.
Decoration: Red overlines and red section headings.
Binding: Modern rebinding in green leather with flap.
Origin: Copied in A.H. 956 (1549) by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn Barī Khān (f. 203v); likely in Turkey.
Related works
Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1895
Provenance
Sold by auction at Roseberys (London) as part of the Islamic and Indian Art sale on 23 April 2018, lot 56.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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