Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 229B

Metadata

DS ID:

DS15075

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 229B

Title:

Kifāyat al-mutaḥaffiẓ fī al-lughah

Author:

Ibn al-Ajdābī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʻīl, -1077

Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʻīl Ibn al-Ajdābī WIKIDATA

Date:

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Fols. 37; 18.2 x 13.8 cm.; written surface 13.3 x 9.8 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.
A dictionary of synonyms, a kind of a thesaurus of Arabic words.
Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... کفاىة المتحفض [المتحفظ] في اللغة العربىة. صفات الرجال المحمودة الجواد. الرجل السخي
Colophon: ... تمت الکفاىة بحمد الله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفىقه ... وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکىل ولاحول ولا قوة الا بالله
MS in poor condition; worm-eaten and defective; Arabic leather binding. Probably from XIIIth century.
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Yāqūt, Buldān, I, p. 132; Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 224; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7043/4.
Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1287, 1313.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic language--Synonyms and antonyms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963569333506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University