Hādhā kitāb sih zabān
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1723
Language: ota
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Arabic language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Early works to 1800; Persian language; Turkish language; Arabic Manuscripts; Turkish Manuscripts
Other titles: Kitāb-i sih zabān; Kitāb sih zabān
Description: Versified treatise on common Arabic grammar and Arabic and Persian vocabulary in 30 poems. Titles are in Arabic; verses are in Ottoman Turkish with the vocabulary words in Persian and Arabic.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from headpiece (f. 2v).

Layout: 13 lines in two hemistichs either in two columns or offset.

Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red. Headpiece in gold and red (f. 2v); first page opening text border-ruled in gold and black (f. 2v-3r).

Origin: Opening poem is dated 1135 AH. (1722/3) (f. 5r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 150.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Chiefly Ottoman Turkish with Persian and Arabic vocabulary and headings in Arabic.

Formerly owned by Qusṭanṭīn ibn Lūdūlf (f. 1v, f. 57v).

Another owner's seal (f. 1r). Unidentified sale (Latin/French catalog clipping).

Quarter covers with flap in green paper over pasteboard, brown leather spine and fore-edge hinge.

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