Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Majmaʻ al-furs-i Surūrī dar bayān-i lughat-i Fārsī.
مجمع الفرس سرورى در بيان لغة فارسى

Authors

• Surūrī, Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad, 17th century
  سروري، محمد قاسم بن حاجي محمد،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Sabzavārī, Muḥammad, active 1620, former owner
  سبزوارى، محمد،
• Muḥammad Bāqir, active 1698, former owner
  محمد باقر،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 38
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515778
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679116
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_038.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515778

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1030 (1620)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of a Persian dictionary; folios 165-166 are adhered.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• Catalog entry, number 185, pasted into inside front cover with note in pencil "Sotheby's Feb. 1925".
   
• Stamps and notes cover the front and back leaves (f. 1r, 292v-[293]v). Three stamps are legible: 1) ʻInayāt Allāh, 1130 A.H. ; 2) Ibrāhīm ; 3) Muḥammad Bāqir, 1110 A.H. (f. 292v).
   

Extent

292, i leaves : 250 x 160 (170 x 90) mm bound to 250 x 160 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard (Type III) with gilt-stamped central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; gilt-stamped frame; doublure of red leather with inset mandorla painted green, blue and orange with gold filigree and gold painted finials and frame.

Layout

19 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in clear nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Bāqir (note in ink with stamp, f. 292v).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian language--Dictionaries

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Filigree
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Majmaʻ al-furs-i Surūrī dar bayān-i lughat-i Fārsī

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1r — Stamps
• fol. 292v — Notations
• fol. 292v — Stamps
• fol. 293r — Notations
• fol. 293v — Notations