King's Pote 19 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī.

Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 نصير الدين طوسي، محمد بن محمد،597-672 هـ

Title: Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī

Title: اخلاق ناصرى

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: 26 Dhū al-Qaʿdah year 19 of some ruler.

References

Browne no. 40

Palmer no. 19

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 139 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 23.5 × 11.6 cm.

Dimensions (written): 18.8 × 8 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Worm damage.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Ruled in double red with a blue outer. First opening ruled in double red, blue, gold and lapis. Red rubrications. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: shikasta. Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v: an illuminated sarlauh (Indian style) in gold and blue.

Additions:

Signs of collation.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, Indian style. Marbled paper doublures. Decorations: Pressure moulded central turanj with 2 small pendants. Condition: The spine and the edges have been repaired. Dimensions: 23.5 × 11.8 × 1.8 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 13.

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

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

Subjects

Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800

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