Dictionaries [IO Bijapur 40]

Dictionaries. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 40 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 993 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 993. B 40. Size 7 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 139. Seventeen lines in a page. A Dictionary of Arabic Infinitives, with explanations in Persian; by Ḳâḍi Abu ‘Alî al-Ḥusain b Aḥmad ZAUZANÎ 2 (d. A.H. 486). Entitled كتاب المصادر . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 574; Fleischer, Cat. Lips. 331; Tornberg, Codd. Upsal. 9; Cat. Mus. Brit. 755; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 105. Carefully written, but imperfect at the end. The beginning supplied by a later hand. A defect after fol. 66. The concluding portion is misplaced in binding; it should be arranged as follows: foll. 124, 130-132, 134-139, 125-129, 133. 2 So the name appears in the preface.