Dictionaries [IO Islamic 756] الدُرّ النظير

Dictionaries.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 756 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1000 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1000.

756. Size 103/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 254. Twenty-three lines in a page.

An abridgment of the preceding work, by Jalâl al-dîn ‘Abd al-raḥmân SUYÛṬÎ (d. A.H. 911), who completed it on the عيد الفطر , A.H. 907 , and entitled it الدُرّ النظير . See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 196, iv. 403; Cat. Bodl. ii. 177; Cat. Mus. Brit. 756.

Clearly written, in a current hand. Dated, as it seems, A.H. 969. The colophon runs as follows:

و كان الفراغ من كتاب هذه النسخة المباركة فى اليوم الاحدى المبارك ثامن عشر من شهر جمادى الاخرى عام تسع و خمسين ... 1 و ستين و تسعمائة من الهجرة النبوية الخ.

The words explained in the dictionary are repeated on the margin in red. Blue lines round the pages. Notes. Injured by insects.

1 This word is mutilated, it was و تسعمائة; this and the preceding word should evidently be cancelled, as a mere lapsuscalami.