Dictionaries [IO Islamic 1436] لوامع النجوم المستضيئة من شمس العلوم

<ul> <li><strong>Dictionaries.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1436&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 998&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/278/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>998</strong></a>.</p> <p>1436. Size 10^3/4 in. by 6^1/4 in.; foll. 641. Twenty-five lines in a page.</p> <p>A Dictionary of the Arabic Language, which is an abridgment of a larger work, called شمس العلوم , and is accordingly entitled لوامع النجوم المستضيئة من شمس العلوم. The author is not known.</p> <p>The larger work in question was composed by <em>Nashw&acirc;n b. Sa&rsquo;&icirc;d </em><em>Ḥ</em><em>imyar&icirc;</em> ¹(d. A.H. 573), whose son, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf_al-Zunun">Ḥ. Kh.</a> iv. 74, also made an abridgment of it, with the title, ضياء الحلوم .</p> <p>Begins:</p> <p>الحمد لله الذى فضّل الانسان على سائر الحيوان الخ</p> <p>The author restricts himself to lexicology, اللغات, leaving aside all the literary and descriptive matter of the original work. He says regarding the latter:</p> <p>.. لكن كان محتويا على ذكر ملوك العرب و مشتملا على بعض قواعد علم الادب و على كل شئ من منافع الاشجار و طبائع الاحجار و على بعض ما يتعلق بالاحاديث و الاخبار و على تفسير بعض الآيات و تبيين بعض القرآءات و غير ذلك الخ</p> <p>The alphabetical arrangement is the usual one, only all reduplicated stems stand first in each letter. The nouns are separated from, and precede, the verbs.</p> <p>The letter <em>Alif</em> Begins:</p> <p>كتاب الهمزة باب الهمزة و ما بعدها من الحروف المضاعف ( sic ) الاسماء فعل بفتح الفاء و سكون العين ب الابُّ المرعى د الادُّ القوة و هو الآد و الايد ايضا الخ.</p> <p>It is in two parts, the first of which ends with the letter ش (fol. 221).</p> <p>Plainly written. Of the eleventh century. Coloured lines round the pages.</p> <p>A key to the شمس العلوم and its two abridgments, the ضياء and the present one, is to be found on the first page.</p> <p>Bought at Lakhnau.</p> <p>[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Johnson</a>.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ A copy of this work is in the Wetzstein Collection of the Royal Library at Berlin, i., no. 149.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>