King's Pote 175 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Dīvān Anvarī.

Author: Anvarī, Awḥad al-dīn, d. 1189 or 90 انورى، اوحد الدين على

Title: Dīvān Anvarī

Title: ديوان انورى

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: 27 Jumādā II, year 10 (meaning perhaps 1010 or year 10 of some reign).

References

Browne no. 510

Palmer no. 175

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 pp.554 et seqq. [BL Add. 25019]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.471, no.543 [Bodl. Laud 133]

A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.298, no. 205 [Camb. Oo. 6.27]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 350 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 27.1 × 15.8 cm.

Dimensions (written): 20 × 9.3 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Ff.1v-2r: ruled in green and gold with a black outer. Thereafter ruled in double red with a blue outer. 2 columns (verse) ruled in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v: an illuminated sarlauh in gold, red, white, green.

Additions:

F.1r: an erased seal.

Binding

Brown leather binding, Indian style, with an envelope flap. Marbled paper doublures, similarly the inside of the flap. Decorations: Inlaid turanj, two pendants and corner pieces. The flap has a lozenge and two corner pieces with a plain spine. Condition: The spine is torn and separated from the text block. Dimensions: 27 × 15.2 × 5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 391.

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