Lugat-ı Nimetullah - لغت نعمت الله

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7331
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1161
  • Language of Material
    • Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 246 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 246 ff. Dimensions : 210 mm x 151 mm. Ruling : Red-ruled margins. Script : Nesih. Binding : 19th-century British binding.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a Persian dictionary with Ottoman Turkish explanations and quotations to illustrate the use of the words, by Nimetullah İbn-i Ahmet İbn-i Kadı Mübarek el-Rumi (died 969 AH/1561-62 CE). It is divided into three parts:. ff 1v-17v : Verbs in alphabetical order;. ff 17v-25r : Rules of Persian grammar;. ff 25r-246v : Nouns in alphabetical order. The text contains a single unvan. The manuscript was copied by Mustafa Efendi, İmam in the Mosque of İbrahim Paşa, in 1161 AH (1748 CE).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Bequeathed by E. J. W. Gibb in 1901.

Related Material

Other copies can be found at Or 9121 and Add MS 7680. Abridged versions can be found at Add MS 7679 and Add MS 7686. For more information, please see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 142-43; and Karatay I, p. 27. Both of these contain references to other copies at other institutions.

Subjects

Vocabularies