Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn; مجمع البحرين ومطلع النيرين

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Ṭurayḥī, Fakhr al-Dīn, 1571 or 1572-1674 or 1675

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1844

Description:

Treatise on the obscure terms in the Qur'ān and in Shi'ite Hadiths. This copy says this is the first volume containing parts one and two (f. 60r, 217v).; Treatise on the obscure terms in the Qur'an and in Shi'ite Hadiths.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Howard S. Levy (bookplate inside front cover).; Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by (bookplate inside front cover).; Levy, Howard S., donor.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms124.html

Subject:

Arabic language; Hadith (Shiites); Hadith (Shiites) -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Manuscripts, Arabic; Codices (bound manuscripts); Stamps (Provenance); Controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

217, v leaves : paper; 305 x 208 mm bound to 304 x 215 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left corner.; Layout: Written in 27 lines per page in black and red ink with headings on the margin; text area blind ruled; head and outer margins blind ruled.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red.; Binding: Full modern brown leather; boards blind tooled with design of intersecting diagonal lines inside a ruled frame; colored patterned cloth spine lining.; Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 1260 (f. 217v) by Luṭf Allāh Ibn [?] Qāsim (f. 60r).; Copy has inscriptions in Arabic script on front pastedown; occasional marginal annotations, and leaf with diagram in Arabic script laid in.; Owner's stamps on last page of text adjacent the colophon (f. 217v).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 124