[Lugat-i İbn-i Ferişte] - [لغت ابن فرشته]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12059
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1169
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 24 ff Materials : Paper; binding includes marbled paper. Foliation : European, 24 ff. Dimensions : 198 mm x 142 mm. Script : Provincial nesih, fully vocalized.

Scope and Content

This volume contains an Arabic-Ottoman Turkish rhyming vocabulary compiled by Abdüllatif İbn-i Abdülmecit called Ferişteoğlu (died around 879 AH/1474-75 CE), beginning with a short prose preface. This manuscript was copied in 1169 AH (1755-56 CE) by Abdullah İbnü'l-Hac Ali called İncirzade at Balıkesir.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1954.

Related Material

Other copies of this text can be found at Harley MS 500 text 3, and Harley MS 5466. For more information on the author and the text, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 136, 141.

Subjects

Vocabularies