JAWHARI, ISMA'IL IBN HAMMAD | Turkish-Arabic dictionary, 1803, Sir Gore Ouseley's copy

[JAWHARI, ISMA‘IL IBN HAMMAD AND MUHAMMED B.MUSTAFA AL-WANI, TRANSLATOR]

[SIHAH] [LUGHAT-I WANQULU] [ARABIC-TURKISH TURKISH-ARABIC DICTIONARY]. CONSTANTINOPLE: NEW GOVERNMENT PRINTING HOUSE, A.H.1217-1218 OR 1802-1803 C.E.

Second edition, 2 volumes, folio (308 x 208mm.), text printed within rules, typographic headpieces, contemporary brown morocco, Islamic wallet binding, covers blindstamped in silver ornamental borders and central arabesque, fore-edge flap with ornamental rule, occasional dampstaining, minor staining to fore-edge, rubbed with minor wear to extremities

FROM THE LIBRARY OF SIR GORE OUSELEY. Standard Arabic Turkish Dictionary, the Sihah of Jawhari. It was translated into Turkish by Muhammad al-Wani, deriving its title from the Turkish genitive form of the author’s name, Wangulu or Vankulu.

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Sir Gore Ouseley (1770-1844), 1st Bt., signature. Ouseley was active studying Persian, Bengalese Hindi, Arabic, and Sanskrit, and became a speaker and writer of Persian. He was an acquaintance of the British philologist Sir William Jones, and was appointed ambassador-extraordinary to the court of Fath Ali Shah in Persia in 1810.

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