King's Pote 128 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Jūg Bāshisht (a Persian translation of the Yoga Vāsishṭha).

Author and Translator: Anonymous

Abridger: Pandit Anandan پندت انندن

Author and Translator: Anonymous

Title: Jūg Bāshisht (a Persian translation of the Yoga Vāsishṭha)

Title: جوگ باششت

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Place: Shāhjahānābād Date: c.1179 / 1766 Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: This date is based upon a date 1766 (corrected from 1786) in a note in red at the head of f.1v and again in the colophon. However, the colophon also specifies 21 Rabīʿ I, year 11 of Bahādur Shāh.

Note concerning work: The translated work is a well-known Sanskrit work on Hindū gnosticism - Yogavāsiṣtha - made from the abridgement of the Kashmīrī Pandit Anandan.

References

Browne no. 363

Palmer no. 28 (correction: 128)

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.75

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 150 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 31 × 20.8 cm.

Dimensions (written): 24 × 12 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Repairs to the upper margins on the final few folios.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Script: shikasta. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1v: begins with a note in red with the Gregorian date 1766.

Binding

Marbled paper boards with leather spine, Indian style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 30.7 × 20.5 × 2.2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 289.

History

Origin: Shāhjahānābād; c.1179 AH; 1766 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

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

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