This 16th-century manuscript is a Persian dictionary, written at the time of the Mongol expansion into Persia (present-day Iran). The format of the dictionary follows that of older Arabic dictionaries, in which words were arranged according to the last consonant. 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 549 in Jozef Blaškovič, <em>Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave</em> (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).
<br>Islamic manuscripts; Memory of the World
Muhammad bin Hindušah al-Munši
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