[Ijāzah]; [إجازة]

Name:

ʻAlī al-Niyāzī ibn Walī al-Dīn al-Kānqarī

Date:

1866

Description:

Graduate certificate for Hadith studies, including the isnad (the chain of the student's teachers and their teachers).

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.; Gift of Cyrus Adler.; Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.; Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Subject:

Hadith -- Study and teaching; Hadith -- Study and teaching -- Turkey; Hanafites

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); diplomas; illuminations (paintings); Manuscripts, Arabic

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages : paper; mm bound to mm

Geographic Subject:

Turkey

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger but suggested by colophon.; "Wa-qad waqaʻtu hādhihi al-ijāzah fī yawm fī awākhir Jumādá al-Ākhirah li-sanat thalāth wa-thamānīn baʻda al-miʼatayn wa-alf ... wa-anā al-ḥaqīr al-dhalīl al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat Rabbihi al-jalīl ʻAlī al-Niyāzī ibn Walī al-Dīn al-Kānqarī ..."--Colophon.; Collation: Paper; Layout: Written; Script: Written in naskh script, with a the colophon inscribed in a different hand (f. ).; Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. ); student's name in red ink (f. ); gold colophon decoration (f. ); text block on each page framed with gold and outlined with black and red ink; gold and red rosettes in text in the first opening (f. ); gold dots in the remainder of the text (f. ).; Binding:; Origin: Signed in 1283 [November 1866], but statement is in a hand different from that of the rest of the document.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 165