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

Title

Hādhā kitāb sih zabān.
هذا کتاب سه زبان

Other related names

• Qusṭanṭīn ibn Lūdūlf, former owner
  قسطنطين بن لودولف.
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 150
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13616798
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076552144
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_150.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13616798

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Chiefly Ottoman Turkish with Persian and Arabic vocabulary and headings in Arabic

Origin

Date

1723

Summary

Versified treatise on common Arabic grammar and Arabic and Persian vocabulary in 30 poems. Titles are in Arabic; verses are in Ottoman Turkish with the vocabulary words in Persian and Arabic.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from headpiece (f. 2v).
   

Extent

58 leaves : 197 x 155 (134 x 92) mm, bound to 197 x 160 x 8 mm

Support

European laid paper

Binding

Quarter covers with flap in green paper over pasteboard, brown leather spine and fore-edge hinge.

Layout

13 lines in two hemistichs either in two columns or offset.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Headpiece in gold and red (f. 2v); first page opening text border-ruled in gold and black (f. 2v-3r).

Script

Naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by Qusṭanṭīn ibn Lūdūlf (f. 1v, f. 57v).
   
• Another owner's seal (f. 1r). Unidentified sale (Latin/French catalog clipping).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Persian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Turkish language--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Turkish

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Quarter covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Hādhā kitāb sih zabān.

Decorations

• fol. 2v — Illuminated headpiece