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Title

al-Thānī min al-ṣiḥāḥ.
الثاني من الصحاح

Authors

• Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?
  جوهري، اسماعيل بن حماد،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 394
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954408103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779178682
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5440810

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

13--?

Place

Egypt or Syria

Summary

Second volume of a 10th-century dictionary of the Arabic language. Words are indexed by their last root letter, with this volume covering the letters zāʼ to lām. Marginal notes by a reader and proofreader. Later pastedown on inner cover has remedies written in Arabic and Persian.

Notes

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

Extent

203 leaves : 269 x 172 (198 x 125) mm. bound to 269 x 180 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Repaired black leather, blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.

Layout

Written in 27 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated title page (f. 1r); rubrications in red, including headings, guide words and finding aids in the margins.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Several effaced ownership stamps on title page (f. 1r) and last page verso (f. 203v).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2000.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Dictionaries
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Arabic language
• Traditional medicine

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Dictionaries
• Illuminations (painting)
• Dictionaries
• Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated title page, f. 1r