[Ijāzah].
[إجازة].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

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

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

علي النيازي بن ولي الدين الكانقري.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Hadith--Study and teaching.

Turkey.

Hadith--Study and teaching--Turkey.

Hadith.

Hanafites.

Genre:

diplomas

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Gift of Cyrus Adler.

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages : paper ; mm bound to mm

Production:

[Turkey], A.H. 1283 [1866]

Other Title:

Diploma or license for teaching.

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

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

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.

"وقد وقعت هذه الاجازة في يوم في اواخر جمادى الاخرة لسنة ثلاث وثمانين بعد المائتين والف ... وانا الحقير الذليل المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الجليل علي النيازي بن ولي الدين الكانقري ...".

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.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 165.

OCLC:

1298204887