King's Pote 105(2) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Futūḥ.

Author: Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Aḥmad, d. 926? ابن اعثم الكوفي

Translator: Mustawfī Haravī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad مستوفى هروى، محمد بن احمد

Title: Futūḥ

Title: Tārīkh-i Ibn Aʿtham

Title: فتوح ابن اعثم كوفى

Title: تاريخ ابن اعثم

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: On box: 105(2).

Note concerning work: The Arabic original is not known to exist, and the book is only known through the Persian version made in 596/1199 by Muḥammad al-Mustawfī al-Ḥirawī.

References

Browne no. 890

Palmer no. 105

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 pp.151-2 [BL Add 23495]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.71, no.126 [Bodl. Fraser 111]

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.516

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.209

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 191 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 30.6 × 21 cm.

Dimensions (written): 24 × 14 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Worming in margins.

Layout

25 lines per page.

Ruled in double red. Red rubrications. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Quality: Neat. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Flyleaf: a note in English dated 5/12/55 states "Mr D.M. Dunlop states that this is most likely a duplicate of 105(1). The introduction is the same but the text has not been checked." (i.e. Douglas Morton Dunlop). F.1r: the seal of Polier.

Binding

Brown leather binding, European style. Plain paper doublures. Condition: The upper board is slightly torn away from the spine. Dimensions: 31 × 21 × 3 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 155.

History

Origin: Undated.

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: 105(1), 105(2).

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

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