King's Pote 1 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Irshād al-Sālikīn.Title: Irshād al-SālikīnTitle: ارشاد السّالكينLanguage(s): PersianColophon details: Date: 27 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1081 / 7 May 1671 Scribe: Nūr Muḥammad ibn Ghulām Ḥusayn, known as Qurayshī Multānī نور محمد بن غلام حسين .
Colophon further notes: A note after the colophon is dated 23 Ramaḍān year (11)43.
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Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: c. 400 folios.Dimensions (leaf): 28.7 × 17.5 cm.Dimensions (written): 21.6 × 11.6 cm.Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.Layout
21 lines per page.
Ruled in double red with a blue outer (also green on first opening, ff.1v-2r). Red rubrications. Catchwords.
Hand(s)
Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Nūr Muḥammad ibn Ghulām Ḥusayn, known as Qurayshī Multānī نور محمد بن غلام حسين.
Decoration
F.1v: a decorated sarlauh in yellow, purple, red, green and blue.
Additions:F.1r: two seals and various notes. One of those seals is repeated on f.2r and four times on the final folio. Flyleaf: an English note with details of the quire collation (as in many other volumes of the Pote collection). This is signed H.B. 19 February 1861. This must be Henry Bradshaw (d.1886) who was a Fellow of King's from 1853. He was Superintendent of Manuscripts at the University Library from 1859 to 1867 and would become University Librarian in 1867. He maintained a particular interest in the oriental collections.
Binding
Reddish brown leather, Indian style. Plain leather doublures. Decorations: Gold inlaid turanj, 2 pendants and corner pieces. Condition: The gold inlay (paper) is coming away or entirely lost in places. Dimensions: 29 × 17.4 × 5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 18.
History
Origin: 27 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1081 AH; 7 May 1671 CEProvenance and Acquisition
The "Pote Collection" arrived in England from India in 1790 and was divided between the Colleges of Eton and King's, Cambridge, with the first half alphabetically going to King's. Both halves of the collection are now housed in Cambridge University Library on permanent loan. Most if not all of the manuscripts had previously been owned by Colonel Antoine-Louis Henri Polier (1741–1795).
Gift of Edward Ephraim Pote (d.1832) in 1788.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne, "A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge", Cambridge, 1922 and E. H. Palmer, "Catalogue of the oriental manuscripts in the library of King's College, Cambridge", J.R.A.S. v.3 (1867), pp.105-131 enhanced with additional descriptions and corrections by Shiva Mihan.Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
King's College Cambridge
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