Anwar al-lughat wa azhar al-kalimat
Abstract
Description
1r-304v; Title from fol.1r, 2r; Author unknown; Undated, but copied before 1628; The dictionary is arranged alphabetically in 28 babs, each subdivided into 28 fasls; It is stated on fol.1v that the author put the stress on words that frequently occur in the Qur`an and the hadiths.
Marginal and interlinear notes contains added entries and corrections (sah, matlab); Ownership note of Mehmed b. Mustafa, on fol.1r; A hadith narration about the time of the apocalypse, attributed to Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi (d. 1628), on fol.1r.
Layout: Written in 17 lines per page, one column.
Script: Naskh script, black ink with headers and overlinings in black and red, partially vocalized.
Binding: Paper boards with brown leather linings and spine, worn.
Stains, tears and repairs, not effecting the text.
With watermark; Catchwords present.
Incipit (1v-2r): .. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم - الحمد لله الذی خلق الانسان علّمه البیان ...سميتها انوار اللغات وازهار الكلمات ...باب الالف فصل الالف مع الباء - اب
Explicit (304v): ... يوم السبت جمعه ارتسی كونی در كی آخر ایام اسبوعدر
Colophon (304v): اللهمه اجعل اخر ايامنا بالسعادة والايمان واخر انفسنا بالشهادت والاسلام يا ذالجلال والاكرام وصلي الله على سيدنا محمد و اله اجمعين - تمت
Marginal and interlinear notes contains added entries and corrections (sah, matlab); Ownership note of Mehmed b. Mustafa, on fol.1r; A hadith narration about the time of the apocalypse, attributed to Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi (d. 1628), on fol.1r.
Layout: Written in 17 lines per page, one column.
Script: Naskh script, black ink with headers and overlinings in black and red, partially vocalized.
Binding: Paper boards with brown leather linings and spine, worn.
Stains, tears and repairs, not effecting the text.
With watermark; Catchwords present.
Incipit (1v-2r): .. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم - الحمد لله الذی خلق الانسان علّمه البیان ...سميتها انوار اللغات وازهار الكلمات ...باب الالف فصل الالف مع الباء - اب
Explicit (304v): ... يوم السبت جمعه ارتسی كونی در كی آخر ایام اسبوعدر
Colophon (304v): اللهمه اجعل اخر ايامنا بالسعادة والايمان واخر انفسنا بالشهادت والاسلام يا ذالجلال والاكرام وصلي الله على سيدنا محمد و اله اجمعين - تمت
Keywords
Arabic-Turkish dictionaries, Arabic manuscripts-İstanbul-Turkey, Turkish manuscripts-İstanbul-Turkey
Citation
Boogert, Nico, Catalogue 635: Islamic manuscripts, Leiden: Smitskamp, 2002, p.178-179