Book/Printed Material Correct Words and Variations in the Persian Language. Lugat-i sihah al-'agam bi-lisan al-farisi
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Title
- Correct Words and Variations in the Persian Language.
Other Title
- Lugat-i sihah al-'agam bi-lisan al-farisi
Summary
- This 16th-century manuscript is a Persian dictionary, written at the time of the Mongol expansion into Persia (present-day Iran). The format of the dictionary follows that of older Arabic dictionaries, in which words were arranged according to the last consonant. The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 549 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).
Names
- Muhammad bin Hindušah al-Munši Creator.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1554.
Headings
- - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- - 1554
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Memory of the World
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 70 folios; 25 x 18 centimeters; black and red ink; semi-leather hardcover.
- - Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
- - Content in Persian.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667594
Online Format
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