Dictionaries [IO Islamic 44A]

Dictionaries. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 44A in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1011 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 1011. 44A. Size 111/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 369.Twenty -five lines in a page. The first half of the Ḳâmûs, as far as ساع . In two parts, the first of which ends with ذيار (fol. 186). Well written, with occasional vowel-points. Coloured lines round the pages. Of the twelfth century. The MS. being somewhat worm-eaten, the recto of every leaf has been covered with oil-paper. Foll. 6 and 7 should be transposed. In an elegant English binding. “Purchased from the executors of the Marquess of Hastings.”