Add MS 7680

This volume contains a Persian dictionary explained in Ottoman Turkish, with copious poetical quotations by Nimetullah İbn-i Ahmet İbn-i Kadı Mübarek el-Rumi.

The text is divided into three parts, entitled kısımlar:

ff 3r-16v : Verbs in alphabetical order;

ff 17r-22r : Rules of Persian grammar explained in Persian;

ff 22v-236v : Nouns in alphabetical order. Here, the words are arranged in bablar according to their initial letter and within each bab in three sections according to the inital vowel of the word.

The poetical quotations are primarily taken from the Persian glossary of Şems-i Fahri, compiled in 745 AH (1344-45 CE) and entitled Miᶜyār-i Jamālī.

According to a notice extracted from a Atayi's Zeylü'ş-Şakaik by Dr. O. Blau, Nimetullah was a native of Sofia (contemporary Bulgaria) who settled in İstanbul, entered the Nakşibendi order, and was a zealous collector of curiosities and books. He died in the capital in 969 AH (1561-62 CE). Dr. Blau adds that he appears to have been a disciple of Kemal Paşazade, whose explanations he occasionally adduces as received from that scholar.

A table of contents by a later hand is prefixed to the work.

The manuscript was likely copied in the 17th century CE.