King's Pote 138(3) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Ḥabīb al-Siyar.

Author: Khwāndamīr, Ghiyāth al-dīn ibn Humām al-dīn خواندمير، غياث الدين بن همام الدين

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Place: Ahmadnagar Date: Start of Ramaḍān, 966 / 1558-9 Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: The colophon on f.446 containing this date is in a different hand. The colophon states the manuscript was copied in the court for Khwājah Sulṭān Ḥasan Sabzavārī.

Note concerning manuscript: Contains all 4 parts of volume 3.

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

References

Browne no. 385

Palmer no. 138

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 (966H)

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: 446 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 27.7 × 19 cm.

Dimensions (written): 21 × 14 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Liquid and worm damage. The first 8 folios have marginal repairs (similarly the final few folios). Repairs to worm damage elsewhere.

Layout

27 lines per page.

Not ruled. Red rubrications. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

European style reddish brown leather. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 28.5 × 19.2 × 6.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 7.

History

Origin: Ahmadnagar; Start of Ramaḍān, 966 AH; 1558-9 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: 138(1), 138(2), 138(3), 138(4).

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World