Kitāb al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ wa-al-qābūs al-wasīṭ al-jāmiʻ li-mā dhahaba min lughat al-ʻArab shamāṭīṭ
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Kitāb al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ wa-al-qābūs al-wasīṭ al-jāmiʻ li-mā dhahaba min lughat al-ʻArab shamāṭīṭ
كتاب القاموس المحيط والقابوس الوسيط الجامع لما ذهب من لغة العرب شماطيط - Alternative title:
- Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ
قاموس
قاموس المحيط - Creator:
- Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb
.فيروزابادي، محمد بن يعقوب - Contributor:
- Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
- Date:
- [1600-1630?].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 221Origin: As appears in authorial colophon on p.838, composed in Mecca. Details on the origin of this copy lacking. Paper, hand, decoration, etc. suggest early 17th century (see Velkov, Les filigranes dans les documents ottomans). Date of waqf-seal impression provides a terminus ante quem of 1782.Former shelfmark: "71 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "51" in pencil on front flyleaf (affixed to opening leaf) ; "124" in Hindu-Arabic numerals on tail of text block.Binding: Pasteboards covered with black leather ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping hinges visible at spine) ; doublures in red leather ; upper and lower covers carry large, stamped (red recessed onlays) and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NA 4), pendants and cornerpieces as well as tooled and gold-painted chain and rule borders ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in white thread, two stations (repair to opening gathering in rose thread) ; worked chevron endbands in white and blue, good condition, primaries sewn through inner leather spine lining ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, staining, etc.Support: Gatherings mixed with leaves of non-European (likely Persianate) and European laid paper of at least two types ; all fairly thin, crisp and extremely well-burnished ; leaves of likely Persianate laid paper exhibiting especially cloudy formation with laid lines vertical but difficult to measure ; leaves of European laid paper, least two types, both with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 30-33 mm. apart (vertical, difficult to examine) and watermarks of cross in tear-drop shape with letters below (see p.68, 80, etc.) and of anchor in circle with trefoil above (see p.266, etc.).Decoration: Splendid double-page illumination on pp.2-3 executed in gold, blue, orange-red, and white, consisting of rectangular panels corresponding to the written area, the panel of the right-hand with five large cartouches (set off by arabesques and floral motifs) carrying text "ونسخة قاموس قد تحررت بها مد مجد الدين فى الطرس ابحرا ففاخرت الافلاك فيها موادها وقد ملئت تبرا ودرا وجوهرا صلى الله على من لا نبي بعده وسلم" executed in white thuluth on gold grounds and surmounted by a rectangular headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ), the panel of the facing page with similar headpiece surmounting rectangular pieces carrying title, central medallion (shamsah) carrying an authorship statement, and rectangular piece with the ṣalwalah, all text in white on gold grounds set off by blue and red vegetal accents ; frames of gold, red, and blue rules defined by black fillets surround panels of opening illuminated titlepiece / frontispiece and incipit and facing pages ; illuminated roundels appear in the margins of all of the opening illuminated pages as well ; similar illuminated headpieces with cartouches carrying the basmalah, etc. appear on incipit page and facing page of the opening half of the text (pp.4-5) as well as at the opening of the second half (p.432) ; further rectangular headpieces set off chapter headings ; gold rule borders throughout ; section headings chrysographed, many keywords (terms) and letters (abbrevation symbols) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Naskh ; small, elegant Syro-Egyptian or Turkish hand in a thin line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots ; mainly vocalized ; chapter headings, section headings, and keywords (terms) in larger script reminiscent of tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in 37 lines per page ; impression of ruling board evident.Collation: i (affixed to opening leaf), 3 V(30), V-2 (38), V (38), V-2 (56), 4 V(96), IV+1 (105), V (115), IV+1 (124), 5 V(174), IV+1 (183), V (193), 2 IV(209), III (215), 3 V(245), 2 II (249), 1 (250), 3 V(280), V-1 (289), V-2 (297), 4 V(337), V-1 (346), V (356), IV (364), V-3 (371), 2 V(391), V-1 (400), V (410), V-1 (419) ; chiefly quinions with several anomalous quires ; pages between the two halves of the work left blank (see p.430 and 431) ; catchwords present ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer corner of the recto of the first leaf of each quire (3rd through 23rd, first half of the work) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular, reads, "قال مؤلفه الملتجي الى حرم الله تعالى محمد عفا الله عنه ابن يعقوب بن محمد الفيروزاباذي رحمهم الله تعالى هذا اخر القاموس المحيط والقابوس الوسيط عنيت بجمعه وتأليفه وتهدينه وترصيفه ولم ال جهدا في تلخيصه وتخليصه واتقانه راجيا انه يكون خالصا لوجه الله ورضوانه وقد يسر الله تعالى اتمامه بمنزلي على الصفا بمكة المشرفة تجاه الكعبة المعظمة زادها الله تعالى لعظما وشرفا وهيأ لقطان باحثها من بحابح الفراديس غرفا ونقع بهذا الكتاب المكنسي من تركها اخوانه وحسنه بالقبول لتستعير من حسنه الغواني لطائف المعاني أجزل من فضله العميم ثوابي وجعله نورا بين يدي يوم حسابي والحمد لله...والصلوة...وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم"Explicit: "لان قبلها كسرة تخلفها ويا الجزم المنبسط رأيت عبدي الله لم تسقط لانه لا خلف عنها"Incipit: "الحمد لله منطق البلغا باللغى في البوادي ومودع اللسان السن اللسن الهوادي...وبعد فان للعلم رياضا وحياطا"Title from illuminated titlepiece on p.3.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of al-Fīrūzābādī's renowned dictionary of the Arabic language.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic
Arabic language Dictionaries Early works to 1800. - Geographic region:
- Middle East
Africa, North
Spain
Islamic empire - Extent:
- 419 leaves : paper ; 273 x 184 (189 x 110) mm. bound to 273 x 188 mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - Same as:
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006795821