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Book/Printed Material On the Art of al-Aroodh.

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Title

  • On the Art of al-Aroodh.

Summary

  • This manuscript book from 1554 is in two sections. The first section is a grammatical work by an unknown author that compares the conjugation of verbs in Arabic and in Farsi, indicating changes in the forms each time a different tense is used, and that also contains a list of the singular and plural forms of many Arabic nouns. The second section of the book is a brief article, in Ottoman Turkish, by an unknown author, on the metrics of Arabic poetry. The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 464 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1553 to 1554]

Headings

  • -  Turkey
  • -  1553 to 1554
  • -  Arabic language
  • -  Arabic poetry
  • -  Grammar, Comparative and general
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Persian language

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 70 folios ; 25 x 18 centimeters ; black and red ink ; semileather hardcover.
  • -  Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
  • -  Content in Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928).
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667152

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

On the Art of al-Aroodh. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1554, 1553] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667152/.

APA citation style:

(1553) On the Art of al-Aroodh. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1554] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667152/.

MLA citation style:

On the Art of al-Aroodh. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1554, 1553] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667152/>.