BL Or. 3299
1490
1490
This illustrated lexicon from 1490, held at the British Library under shelfmark Or. 3299, is a copy of Shadiyabadi's Miftāḥ al-Fużalā ('The Key of the Learned'), originally compiled in 1468–1469 in Mandu, India.
It provides the definition for the term Ziyād زیاد
زیاد
نوعی از منصوبه نرد بازی است که بهر نقش
که در کعبتین برآید یک عدد بر آن زیادت بازند
و نام مردی بود.
Ziyad:
It is a variation of the game of Nard, where for every number
that appears on the two dice, an extra point is played.
It is [also] a man's name.