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1. Add MS 7436

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7436
Title:
Tarjumān al-ṣiḥāḥ - ترجمان الصحاح
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Arabic dictionary explained in Ottoman Turkish. The author, whose name does not appear, says in a short preamble that the sacred sciences and divine laws having come down to us in Arabic, learning and teaching that language is an act of piety and a duty of paramount imp...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
0973
Extent:

1 text, 300 ff

2. IOR/R/15/5/397

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/397
Title:
A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations
Scope & Content:
The volume is A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations, by John Richardson, of the Middle Temple and Wadham College, Oxford. Revised and improved by Charles Wilkins. This new edition has been enlarged by Francis ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1829
Extent:

1 volume (909 folios)

3. Or 2892

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2892
Title:
Sanglakh - سنگلاخ
Scope & Content:
The Sanglakh, a Chagatai-Persian dictionary with a grammatical introduction by Muhammad Mehdi. The author of the text is Mirza Mehdi Khan, a well-known historian of Nadir Shah. In the preface, he says that, from his early youth, he had been attracted by the poems of Mir Alisher Navoiy and that...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chagatai, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 369 ff

4. Or 5950

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5950
Title:
Lugat-ı Halimi - لغات حليمي
Scope & Content:
A Persian dictionary explained in Ottoman Turkish by Lutfullah İbn-i Abi Yusuf el-Halimi. This copy contains only the first defter. It was produced in 927 AH (1520-21 CE) from the author's corrected autography.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
927
Extent:
1 text, 152 ff

5. Or 9121

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9121
Title:
Lughat-i Niᶜmat Allāh - لغت نعمت الله
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Persian dictionary with Ottoman Turkish explanations and quotations to illustrate the use of words, composed by Nimetullah İbn-i Ahmet İbn-i Kadı Mübarek el-Rumi (died 969 AH/1561-62 CE). The work is divided into three parts: verbs in alphabetical order; rules of Persian...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
973
Extent:
1 text, 186 ff

6. Or 9225

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9225
Title:
Müntahab-i kebir - منتخب كبير
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a select Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary, without preface or notice of the author's name The Arabic words (of which the first three are آذَانٌ آنٍ and آل مُحمَدٍ) are fully vocalized, and the Ottoman Turkish text is written in a small Nestalik that slopes from left to righ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
952
Extent:
1 text, 237 ff

7. Or 9346

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9346
Title:
Mecmua - مجموعه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following texts : (I) ff 1r-45r : Nisaru'l-müluk, a collection of rare words glossed in Ottoman Turkish and compiled by Lutfullah İbn-i Abi Yusuf el-Halimi in the time of Bayezit II. Most of the words have their French equivalents written over them. The work is imperfe...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
7 texts, 87 ff

8. Or 11044

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11044
Title:
Risale-i Furu' el-tuhfe li-Hafız Mustafa el-Tırnovi - رسالۀ فروع التحفه لحافظ مصطفی الطرنوی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an amplification of the Tuhfe-i Vehbi, the well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary of Sünbülzade Vehbi Efendi (died 1224 AH/1809-10 CE) to include words beginning with the letters associated exclusively with Arabic (ص، ع، ظ، ط، ح) and giving examples of their...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 155 ff

9. Or 11233

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11233
Title:
El-Tercüman - الترجمان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a dictionary of the Arabic language with explanations partly in Arabic and partly in an Ottoman Turkish that is so courtly it often requires explanation in Arabic as well. The work is divided into eighty-four chapters, each devoted to a letter vocalized with one of the thr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 439 ff

10. Or 12488

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12488
Title:
Tercümanü's-sihah - ترجمان الصحاح
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Arabic dictionary explained in Ottoman Turkish. It is excerpted from the Ṣiḥāḥ (صحاح) of Ismāᶜīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī and the Mukhtār-i Ṣiḥāḥ (مختار صحاح) of Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Rāzī, although other words have been added from Qur'anic commentaries and Aḥādīth, as well ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
967
Extent:
1 text, 230 ff