Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Niṣāb al-ṣibyān.
[نصاب الصبيان]

Authors

• Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn
  فراهي، ابو نصر محمد بدر الدين

Other related names

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 213
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977642241503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131862095
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_213.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian with some Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Summary

A versified Arabic-Persian glossary facilitating the study of Arabic language and prosody. Words are explained in the form of qiṭʻahs composed in various meters. This copy is missing a page between leaves 2 and 3

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

54 leaves : 200 x 122 (180 x 77) mm bound to 195 x 120 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped central lobed mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; turn-ins are starting to come up.

Layout

Written in eight staggered half lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in neat nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Dictionaries--Persian--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Versification--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — [Niṣāb al-ṣibyān].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 2r — Notations
• fol. 54v — Notations