Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

King's Pote 138(2) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Ḥabīb al-Siyar.
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Persian history and biography, completed in 930/1524 (in ten volumes).

References

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 pp.98-102 [BL Add. 23508, etc]
Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.105
A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.114, no. 57 [Camb. Oo. 6.12]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 285 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 29.8 × 17 cm.
Dimensions (written): 24.5 × 13.0 cm.
Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Water damage. The initial folios have been repaired on the edges.

Layout

27 lines per page.

Not ruled. Red rubrications.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Good (there is a change of hand at f.243). Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

European style reddish brown leather. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 30 × 17.5 × 4.3 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 7.

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

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: 138(1), 138(2), 138(3), 138(4).

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge


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