Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ (2 volumes)

Fluent naskhī Manuscript in Arabic, no vowel signs.
Copist Muḥammad ibn al-ʿālim Ḥasan ibn al-ʿālim ʿAbdullāh ibn al-ʿālim Ibrāhīm 1276 H (1859 AD)
Vol. 1: 414 leaves,
Vol. 2: 415 leaves at 20 lines each
22 x 17.5 cm Leather covers with flaps

Order No.: MSS_151
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One of the most widely spread Arabic dictionaries in the 15th-19th centuries. Manuscript has a lot of users notes in Ottoman-Turkish from the 19th and 20th centuries, e.g. death or birth of persons related to the owner, date of the enthroning of Sultan Meḥmed Reşād (r. 1909-1918).

al-Fīrūzābādī, a Persian-born lexicographer who was long resident in Baghdad, Damascus and Jerusalem before he settled in Mecca.

The first volume includes a colophon giving the name of the copyist, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿālim Ḥasan ibn al-ʿālim ʿAbdullāh ibn al-ʿālim Ibrāhīm, and the date 1276 h. Interesting manuscript, because at that time there existed already prints from that work (the first prints were in Calcutta 1230-1232 h., Bombay 1272 h., Teheran 1277 h., Cairo 1289 h., Lucknow 1885 CE, Istanbul 1304 h.; cf. Hulusi Kılıç, el-Ḳāmûsü’l-muḥîṭ, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi, XXIV, 287-288).