King's Pote 172 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Dīvān Ṭālib Āmulī. 1 copy of Dīvān Ṭālib Āmulī.
1.
Author: Ṭālib-i Āmulī طالب آملی
Title: Dīvān Ṭālib Āmulī
Title: ديوان طالب آملى
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Muḥammad Shafīʿ Qurayshī Multānī محد شفيع قريشى ملتانى .

Colophon further notes: Signed at the end of the second work.

References

Browne no. 573
Palmer no. 172
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.679b [BL Add. 5630]
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.462
2.
Author: Ṭālib-i Āmulī طالب آملی
Title: Dīvān Ṭālib Āmulī
Title: ديوان طالب آملى
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Muḥammad Shafīʿ Qurayshī Multānī محد شفيع قريشى ملتانى .

References

Browne no. 573
Palmer no. 172
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.679b [BL Add. 5630]
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.462

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Multiple colours from cream to pink to green.
Extent: c. 150 + c. 200 = c. 350 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 2 × 12.8 cm.
Dimensions (written): 14.3 × 7.2 cm.
Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Remargined at the start and the end.

Layout

17 lines per page.

First 8 folios ruled in black-outlined gold with a blue outer. Thereafter ruled in double red with blue. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Good. Scribe: Muḥammad Shafīʿ Qurayshī Multānī محد شفيع قريشى ملتانى.

Decoration

F.1v: an illuminated sarlauh in gold, blue, red, burgundy.

Additions:

F.1r: the name of ʿIbād Allāh (perhaps the person whose seal dated 1188 is often found in Polier's mss).

Binding

Reddish brown leather with lighter brown spine, Indian style. Plain paper doublures. Condition: The spine is separating from the textblock. There is a break in the text block around halfway through resulting in at least one loose folio (at the start of the second work). In need of repair. Dimensions: 21.9 × 12.6 × 5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 399.

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

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