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Title

Taʻrīfāt.
تعريفات

Authors

• Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413
  جرجاني، علي بن محمد،

Other related names

• Qarahʹfaryahʹvī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, active 1642, scribe
  قره‌فريه‌وى، محمد بن مصطفى،
• ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, active 1864, former owner
  عبد الرزاق بن حسين افندي،
• Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī, former owner
  احمد بن عمر افندي،
• Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 366
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977782453803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1164716412
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms366.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1052 (1642 or 1643)

Summary

Dictionary of sufi and philosophical terms.

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Two owner's notes, one dated 1281 A.H. (1864 or 1865 CE) (f. 1r).
   

Extent

130 leaves : 145 x 100 (95 x 50) bound to 145 x 105 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Mostly disbound; covers of brown leather over thin pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-tooled frame of double parallel lines and blind-stamped central mandorla; title on bottom edge in black ink.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Solomon L. Skoss to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate front inside cover).
   
• Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥusayn Afandī in 1864 or 5 (note in ink, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī (undated note in ink, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Sufism--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800
• Islamic philosophy--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Terminology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Dictionaries
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Taʻrīfāt

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library Bookplate
• fol. 1r — Owner's notations