Add MS 7686

This volume contains an abridged recension of the Persian dictionary explained in Ottoman Turkish by Nimetullah İbn-i Ahmet İbn-i Kadı Mübarek el-Rumi, arranged in tabular form.

The preface found in Add MS 7680 is omitted here, and the Persian words are written consecutively at the rate of four in each line. The Ottoman Turkish explanations, much condensed, are written in a smaller character and in slanting lines over the main line of text.

After f 20, there is a lacuna of about ten leaves, extending from the beginning of the letter he in the section of verbs to the concluding lines of the grammatical section (kısım II).

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.

On the first page is written Haza Lugat-ı Ayasi Nam-ha Mahmud. Ayasi is apparently eant here for the name of the author or abbreviator. A similar abridgement is ascribed, in a copy noticed by Flügel, to Emir Hüseyin el-Ayasi or Issus or Ayas, in Cilicia. It begins and ends in nearly the same way as this manuscript and contains, according to Flügel, about 1200 verbs and 10 000 nouns. In the present work, there are 1100 verbs in the first section, which is imperfect at the end, and 9800 nouns in the third section.

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