Dictionaries [IO Islamic 565] القاموس

Dictionaries. القاموس

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 565 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1008 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1008.

565. Size 131/2 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 650. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

Another copy of the Ḳâmûs.

Well written. Coloured lines round the pages.

Of the eleventh century. At the end is the following “bill”, written on the margin:

اُجرة الجلد و الجدول ثلثة و اجرة الكاتب مع القرطاس مكعّبه الاّ خمسة و آلافُ كتابتِه مكعّبُ اربعةٍ الاّعشرةٌ

On the last page is added a poem on the nouns substantive which are feminine by usage المؤنثات) (السماعية , the same as no. 982, II.

Foll. 305-312 are misplaced in binding. They should be arranged as follows: 305, 307, 308, 306, 311, 309, 310, 312.

Seal of one Muḥammad .., 1 dated A.H. 1086, at the end.

[Hastings.]

1 The rest is illegible.