King's Pote 191(2) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
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).
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Physical Description
Condition
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.
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
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
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
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Funding of Cataloguing
King's College Cambridge
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