King's Pote 16 (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

Title: Ḥabīb al-Siyar

Title: Aḥkām al-Dīn

Title: حبيب السير

Title: احكام الدين

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Persian history and biography, completed in 930/1524 (in ten volumes). This manuscript contains that portion of the work dealing with the biography of the Prophet.

References

Browne no. 386

Palmer no. 16

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: 294 folios (according to a note on flyleaf).

Dimensions (leaf): 21.2 × 15.7 cm.

Dimensions (written): 17 × 11 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Lacks some leaves of the table of contents after f.1. First few folios have been repaired (first is remounted).

Layout

17 lines per page.

Not ruled. Red rubrications.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Begins as nastaʿlīq but later is wild. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Signs of collation.

Binding

Reddish brown plain leather, European style. Plain European paper doublures. Watermark on lower doublure ("G.R." with horned crown). Dimensions: 22 × 16 × 4.5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 44.

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

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World