Details

Subject(s)

• Qīrshahrī, Ibrāhīm Raḥmī ibn Abī Bakr—Knowledge and learning [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Intellectual life [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 804H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A license issued by the author to Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm Raḥmī ibn Ḥāfiẓ Abī Bakr Qīr Shahrī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• The text of the ijāzah has been transcribed by a professional calligraphist while only the colophon is from the hand of the author.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 15 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
• Description: Lightly tinted and streaked tan paper ; MS in excellent condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, green, orange, violet, red and yellow (folio opposite folio 1a). Text decorated with gold dots. Final page decorated with gold vine and dot design framing the author's seal impression.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 17 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1287 (fol. 14a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي قد انبت دوحة العلم في صدور العلماء وجعل ثمارها احكام انوار الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغنى مصطفى بن خليل الاياشى ...
• Colophon: هذه صورة اجازتي و سندي في الکتاب والسنة و في شرعيات العلوم وعقلياتها وادبها على ما اجازني سيدي. ما حررللفاضل الزکي والکامل النقي التقي السيد حافظ ابراهيم رحمي بن حافظ ابي بکر قير شهري بلغه الى ما يتمنّاه الملك القوي وانا الفقير مصطفى بن خليل الاياشي في اليوم السابع عشر من شهر جمادى الاولى سنة سبع وثمانين ومائتين و الف من هجرة من له العزوالشرف

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and pink embossed paper. Gold-painted central and cornerpiece designs and outer gold frame. Blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2205.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423976

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