Fols. 116; 25.5 x 17.5 cm.; written surface 18 x 11.5 cm.; 12 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs. A section of an Arabic dictionary. Evidently it is a section of Qayd al-awābid min al-fawāʼid, a work by Abū al-Faḍl al-Maydānī, A.H. 518 [A.D. 1124] combining al-Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī and Tahdhīb al-lughah of al-Azharī, A.H. 370 [A.D. 981]. Beg.: التهذىب اللىث. طرحت الشيء اطرحه طرحاً... Ending: الصحاح. النقاخ الماء العذب الذي ىنقخ Marginal notes and glosses. MS incomplete at beginning and end; in fair condition; Arabic leather binding; blind tooling. Very rare. Probably from XIVth century. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925. Cf. Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6942.
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