Item Summary

A license given to Aḥmad Rashīd ibn Ṣidqī Muṣṭafá.

Descriptive Information

Title
[اجازة].
Transliterated Title
[Ijāzah].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 803H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc028717134
Publisher
17 Ramaḍān 1226 [October 5, 1811]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1811
Format
Manuscript
Extent
7 leaves : paper ; 187 x 114 (134 x 70) mm bound to 187 x 116 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2202.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses. Colophon followed by the author's seal impression.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 7 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, black and red with narrower outer frame in gold and black.
Description: Watermarks ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, red, blue and black (folio opposite 1a). The end of the text has a floral fill decoration (fol. 6a). The text is decorated with gold dots with blue and orange.
Origin: According to colophon copied 17 Ramaḍān 1226 by the author (fol. 6b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي رفع مقام العلماء بخشيته الى اعلى المقام ... اما بعد فان بديهتم العقل قاضيته ونصوص النقل شاهده ...
Colophon: قد حرر ذلك العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى لطف ربه اللطيف مصطفى بن ابراهيم الريزوي الشهير بدباغ زاده في اليوم السابع عشر من شهر رمضان المبارك لسنة ست و عشرين بعد الماتين والالف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل الصلوات واعلى التسليمات ما دام الجوار الکنس والليل اذا عسعس والصبح اذا تنفس سبحان ربنا رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped central design and gold-tooled decorative edging. Gold-sprinkled pink paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Aḥmad Rashīd ibn Ṣidqī Muṣṭafá active 19th century—Knowledge and learning
Muslim scholars—Intellectual life
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Certificates
Stamps
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks
Sprinkled papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
26

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/22873ee3-a6e9-4092-8a63-90574819b7c9/manifest