Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Translation from the French into Persian of Jean Manesca's Six Courses of French Lessons :

Authors

• Manesca, John, approximately 1780-1838
• Manesca, John, approximately 1780-1838

Other related names

• Meggerdeesh Malik Mehrab, translator
  مگردش ملک مهراب،

Call number

X892.8 M313
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309762
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237690005
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_M313.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309762

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1846

Place

New York

Summary

Adaptation into Persian of an Oral system of teaching living languages. The original is for teaching French. This adaptation is for teaching or learning Persian using the same system and the same vocabulary as the French. The first 30 lessons show both Persian and English translations. The second 30 lessons are lists of Persian words with no translations. The translator's name is Romanized several different ways on the title pages.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

386 leaves : 252 x 195 (250 x 90) mm, bound to 262 x 210 mm

Foliation

The added foliation in pencil, upper left verso, is backwards, 388-1, references in the record are to the added foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth binding.

Layout

Number of lines varies, but chiefly laid out in one column.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

• Persian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Persian language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 388r — Title page
• fol. 387r — Translation from the French into Persian of Jean Manesca's Six Courses of French Lessons : from Vol. I of 1834 and Vol. 2 of 1835.