Item Summary

A license issued by the author to Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.

Descriptive Information

Title
الاجازة.
Transliterated Title
al-Ijāzah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 801H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv979vf35x
Publisher
Jumādá al-Ūlá 1265 [April 1849]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1849
Format
Manuscript
Extent
8 leaves : paper ; 225 x 160 (165 x 94) mm bound to 224 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2203.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 8b).
A few marginal notes. The seal of the author appears six times.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "VG") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied middle of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1265 by the author (fol. 8b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ... الحمد لله الذي خص من شا من عباده بحفظ كتابه ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير المعترف ... لما کان افضل الاشياء کتاب الله
Colophon: تمت الاجازة بحمد الله وعونه و حسن توفيقه و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله و صحبه وسلم. آمين آمين م
Binding Note
Later limp covering in dark blue paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān—Knowledge and learning
Muslim scholars—Intellectual life
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Certificates
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4ec4a36e-a353-4ddb-b667-23905e264525/manifest