[Niṣāb al-ṣibyān]; [نصاب الصبيان]

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Farāhī, Masʻūd ibn Abī Bakr, -1242

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

A versified Arabic-Persian glossary facilitating the study of Arabic language and prosody. Words are explained in the form of qiṭʻahs composed in various meters. This copy is missing a page between leaves 2 and 3

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).; Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms213.html

Subject:

Arabic language; Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- Persian -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Versification -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Versification

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, 18th century; codices (bound manuscripts); dictionaries; controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

54 leaves : paper; 200 x 122 (180 x 77) mm bound to 195 x 120 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: Written in eight staggered half lines.; Script: Written in neat nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red.; Binding: Reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped central lobed mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; turn-ins are starting to come up.; Origin: The item is not dated or signed; possibly produced in the 18th century.; Persian with some Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 213