King's Pote 138(4) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Date: Saturday, Shaʿbān 1077 / Feb 1667 Scribe: Amīr ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mīr Jangīh امير عبد الجليل بن مير جنگيه .
Note concerning manuscript: Contains not volume 4 but volume 3, parts 1-2. An internal colophon around half way through states this is the end of the 1st section of the 3rd volume. The final colophon states this is the end of the second section of the 3rd volume.
Note concerning work: Persian history and biography, completed in 930/1524 (in ten volumes).
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Physical Description
Layout
20-22 lines per page.
Ruled in a single red line. Rubrications in red (but left blank in second part).
Hand(s)
Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Amīr ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mīr Jangīh امير عبد الجليل بن مير جنگيه.
F.1r: the seal of Polier (1181) and a note stating it contains sections of the 3rd volume.
Binding
Dark brown plain leather, European style. Plain paper doublures. Condition: The spine has disintegrated, leaving only the cords. Dimensions: 29.5 × 18.5 × 4 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 7+.
History
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
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Funding of Cataloguing
King's College Cambridge
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