King's Pote 191(2) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Rawz̤at al-Ṣafā.

Author: Mīr Khwānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498 مير خواند، محمد بن خواندشاه

Title: Rawz̤at al-Ṣafā

Title: روضة الصفا

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: A marginal note mentions a date: 2 Muḥarram 1047.

Note concerning work: Persian history and biography, completed in 930/1524 (in ten volumes).

References

Browne no. 724

Palmer no. 192 (correction: 191_2)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 pp.87-96 [BL Add. 16672]

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.292

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 350 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 17.4 cm.

Dimensions (written): 20.3 × 10.6 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Repairs to the margins (mainly in the gutter).

Layout

21 lines per page.

Ff.1v-2r: ruled in red and yellow with a blue outer; thereafter ruled in double red with a blue outer. Red rubrications. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v: a simple decorated sarlauh in yellow.

Additions:

There is an erased seal alongside the colophon.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, Indian style. Marbled paper doublures. Decorations: The spine is embossed: "Rauzat al-Safa vol. 2". Condition: The boards are detached, and the spine pealing away. In need of repair. Dimensions: 26.8 × 16.9 × 5.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 478.

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

Bibliography

Work in multiple volumes bearing the class-marks: 191(1), 191(2), 191(3), 191(4), 191(5), 191(6), 191(7).

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World