Dictionaries [IO Bijapur 36] السامى فى الاسامى

Dictionaries.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 36 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 997 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

997.

B36. Size 91/4 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 92. Eleven lines in a page.

A fragment of what appears to be Abu’l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Muḥammad MAIDÂNÎ’S (d. A.H. 518) Vocabulary, السامى فى الاسامى. See no. 1027, III., for a complete copy.

Well written in a large hand, but imperfect at the commencement. It begins (fol. 2) in the chapter on garments, from Part II., which concerns animate beings. There are defects after foll. 27 and 91.

The last fol. is in a different hand, and the upper part of it is torn off. It is dated 22nd Sha’abân, 762.

Fol. 1, also in a different hand, does not belong to the same work, but gives the introduction to a selection from it, by an unknown author. It begins:

الحمدلله حقّ حمده ... اما بعد فقد سالنى اخ فى الله ان استخرج له من كتاب السامى فى الاسامى ما لابدّ له ( sic ) من الالفاظ العربية المتداولة بين اهل الادب الخ

The book was already in its present condition, A.H. 1024, when it came into the Bîjâpûr Library.