Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 804H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3116

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 804H.

Title:

Ijāzah.

Date:

17 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1287 August 15, 1870

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 15 leaves : paper ; 180 x 118 (110 x 63) mm bound to 180 x 122 mm.

Note:

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

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

headpieces (layout features)

Stamps

Embossed papers

Manuscripts, Arabic

Learning and scholarship

Muslim scholars

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963586023506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cb1e772a-3e4b-4cfe-8464-de71fccaad4e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University