Copied A.H. 724 [A.D. 1324] by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣfahānī. Fols. 407; 28.8 x 20 cm.; written surface 22.9 x 15.5 cm.; 30 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red; with illuminations. A famous lexicon arranged in sections according to the last letter of each root; each of these in turn is divided into divisions according to the first letter of the root. The work is in two volumes. Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله شکرا على نواله والصلوة على محمد وآله. اما بعد فاني قد اودعت هذا الکتاب ما صح عندي Colophon: هذا آخر کتاب الصحاح فى اللغة. الحمد لله رب العالمىن وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وآله وصحبه الطىبىن الطاهرىن اجمعىن A few marginal notes; ruled marginal lines in gold red and color on the first two pages and in red throughout the rest. On the title page are illuminations consisting of one rectangular panel at the top of the folio which contains the title written in blue on a gold background. Beneath this and occupying the center of the page is a hexagonal medallion with geometrical and florate motifs in... Acquired from Massayah, A.D. 1928. Yāqūt, Muʻjam al-udabāʼ (1907-27), II, pp. 267/8; Suyūṭī, Bughyat al-wuʻāh (1908), p. 195; ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 91-3; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 164/5; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 467; Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 845-9; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen... Printed in Prussia, 1774; Tabrīz, A.H. 1270; Būlāq, A.H. 1282, 1292.
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