King's Pote 100(2) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Taysīr (“the Facilitation” - a Persian commentary on the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī.

Author: al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl البخارى، محمد بن اسمعيل

Commentator: Dihlavī, Nūr al-Ḥaqq ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, -1662 or 1663 دهلوى، نور الحق بن عبد الحق

Note concerning author: The commentator's father was a famous author and hadith scholar: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Sayf al-dīn al-Dihlavī, author of King's 18 and translator of King's 134.

Title: Taysīr (“the Facilitation” - a Persian commentary on the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī

Title: تيسير البخارى فى شرح صحيح البخارى

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Friday 10 Shawwāl 1153 / 29 Dec 1740 Scribe: Sayf al-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ghulām Muḥyā al-dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Hāshim al-Dilvarī (fl. 1729-40) سيف الدين محمد بن غلام محيى الدين بن محمد بن هاشم الدلوارى .

Colophon further notes: The manuscript is incomplete so there is no final colophon. The date is provided in an internal colophon at the end of part 3, f.604v. Collated with the manuscript of Shaykh Dihlavī in Delhi (i.e. the autograph). Another date on f.604v gives a collation date: 3rd Rabīʿ I 1154. The same scribe penned King's 46 in 1141/1729.

Note concerning manuscript: Flyleaf: a note states this is (the beginning of) the 3rd part. The 4th part begins on f.605 but is incomplete. Together volume 3 and 4 apparently made up the second quarter of the entire work.

References

Browne no. 341

Palmer no. 100

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 pp.223-4 (for information on the author’s father) [BL Add. 26210]

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.383

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 619 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 31.8 × 21.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 23 × 12 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

21 lines per page.

Not ruled.

Hand(s)

Script: plain. Scribe: Sayf al-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ghulām Muḥyā al-dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Hāshim al-Dilvarī (fl. 1729-40) سيف الدين محمد بن غلام محيى الدين بن محمد بن هاشم الدلوارى.

Additions:

Signs of collation (perhaps against the autograph).

Notes concerning codex: Volumes 1 and 2 together cover around 1/2 of the original text.

Binding

Plain reddish brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures (watermarked paper: "G.R."). Condition: Some worm damage. Dimensions: 33.3 × 22.2 × 9 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 191.

History

Origin: Friday 10 Shawwāl 1153 AH; 29 Dec 1740 CE

Provenance 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

All manuscripts of the Pote Collection are on permanent loan at Cambridge University Library. Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures consult Cambridge University Library. Contact near_eastern@lib.cam.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript

Bibliography

Work in multiple volumes bearing the class-marks: 100(1), 100(2).

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

Subjects

Hadith--Texts--Early works to 1800

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