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Book/Printed Material On Correctness in the Arabic Language.

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Title

  • On Correctness in the Arabic Language.

Summary

  • This 16th-century manuscript is a copy of a famous lexicographical work by Abū Naṣr Ismā'īl Ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī (died 1002) called Kitāb Al-Ṣaḥāḥ fī Al-Lugha (On correctness in the Arabic language). The manuscript is written in a tight Naskh hand profuse with vowel signs and 37 lines per page. These features combine to give each page a crowded appearance. Each lemma (headword) is noted in red in the text and also indicated in the margins for easy reference. Like "Commentary on Ibn Malik's 'Tashīl al-fawā'id'", also in the library of the Near East School of Theology, this codex was among the Arabic-language reference works used by Eli Smith (1801--57), an American Protestant missionary working in Beirut, in translating the Bible into Arabic in the early to mid-19th century.

Names

  • Jawahiri, Abū Naṣr Isma'il ibn Hammad, died 1002 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1513.

Headings

  • -  Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk
  • -  950 to 1513
  • -  Arabic language
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Codex

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 328 pages ; 25.8 x 17.7 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Near East School of Theology.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • NEST Library

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667211

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Jawahiri, Abū Naṣr Isma'Il Ibn Hammad, Died 1002 Author. On Correctness in the Arabic Language. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1513] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667211/.

APA citation style:

Jawahiri, A. N. I. I. H. (1513) On Correctness in the Arabic Language. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667211/.

MLA citation style:

Jawahiri, Abū Naṣr Isma'Il Ibn Hammad, Died 1002 Author. On Correctness in the Arabic Language. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1513] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667211/>.