Dictionaries [IO Islamic 2233] القاموس

Dictionaries. القاموس

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2233 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1005 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1005.

2233. Size 111/4 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 676. Twenty-eight lines in page.

The Ḳâmûs, or Arabic Dictionary of Majd al-dîn Abu Ṭâhîr Muḥammad b. Ya’ḳûb FÎRÛZÂBÂDÎ (d. A.H. 817). Cf. Cat. St. Petersb. 197 sqq., etc. Printed at Calcutta, 1877, in two vols.

Well written by several hands, with frequent vowel-points. Divided into four parts, according to the partition of the archetype. The first part, which goes as far as وجد (fol. 140 ), concludes with the date of the author, viz. Dhu’l- ḥijjah, 768, after which comes the date of transcription, Tuesday, 20th Ramaḍân, 955. Part II. Ends with ساع (fol. 331), and is dated Friday, 13th Rabî’ I., 955. Part III. ends with ضال (fol. 492), and is dated Sunday, 28th Ṣafar, 976. Part IV. Is not quite complete.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]