Fols. 146; 25.3 x 17.3 cm.; written surface 17 x 10.5 cm.; 17 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs. The XVIIIth volume of an extensive lexicon. Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الشىن والدال والواو. الشدو کل قلىل من کثىر Colophon: تم السفر الثامن عشر من المحکم في اللغة ىتلوه في السفر التاسع عشر الصاد والىاء الصىة. والحمد لله حق حمده وصلواته على خىر خلقه محمد وعلى آله الطاهرىن وصحبه اجمعىن وسلامه A few marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap. Rare. Probably from XIVth century. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925. Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 25; Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 427/8; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 184/5; cf. Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 854.
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