Dictionaries [IO Islamic 2031] القاموس

Dictionaries. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2031 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1006 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 1006. 2031. Size 11 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 505. Thirty-seven lines in a page. Another copy of the Ḳâmûs. Neatly written, with frequent vowel-points. Completed on Saturday, 10th Ṣafar, 1033, by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad الاغراسى . Revised throughout and emended. Two ornaments at the beginning. Coloured lines round the pages. Some verses in praise of this work, and various notes, are on the fly-leaves. This MS., which apparently was written in Arabia, belonged successively to several Imâms of al-Yaman, such as al-Mutawakkil, al-Mu’aiyad, etc. ׳׳Ex libris A[braham] Lockett. Purchased in Isfehan, 17 August, 1811.׳׳ [College of Fort William, 1825.]