al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ; القاموس المحيط

Name:

Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, 1329-1414 or 1415

Date:

1350

Description:

Dictionary of the Arabic language originally compiled between 1368 and 1392. Words are indexed by their last root letter and have brief definitions. Frequent marginal notes.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm al-Shakūrī in 1110 A.H. (1698 or 1699) (stamp and note, f. 21r); Purchased by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā at the end of the month of Shawwāl 1155 A.H. (December, 1742) (note, last flyleaf recto).; Given by Muḥammad Ṣābir to Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Ṣibʻah? al-Shāfiʻī and his descendents in [1]257 A.H. (1841) (waqf note and stamps f. 480v); Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), cat. 22 (July 2000), no. 63, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Shakūrī, Ibrāhīm, active 1698, former owner.; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā, active 1742, former owner.; Ṣābir, Muḥammad, active 1841, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs387.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000288

Subject:

Arabic language -- Dictionaries; Arabic language

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 14th century; Manuscripts, 15th century; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance; codices (bound manuscripts); dictionaries; illuminations (paintings)

Physical Description:

480 leaves : paper; 232 x 160 (172 x 112) mm bound to 235 x 178 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from introduction (f. 1v).; Layout: Written in 33-34 long lines; border-ruled.; Script: Written in naskh, some headings in thuluth.; Decoration: Fully illuminated title page in polychrome and gold with floral motifs and title in central medallion (shamsa) (f. 1r); chapter headings in gold ink with illuminated panels and floral ornaments (f. 2r, for example); illuminated floral finispiece (f. 480r); significant words in red, blue, or gold ink; textblock borer-ruled in gold.; Binding: Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II), gilt-stamped center medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; leather doublure with central quatrefoil medallion and two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces all in blue and green with black filigree overlay and gold tooling. The filigree is damaged or missing on most of the ornaments.; Origin: The item is undated and the scribe is not named; possibly produced in Iran in the last 14th or early 15th centuries.; Notes and stamps of ownership on last flyleaf recto.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 387

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)