King's Pote 192(2) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Rawz̤at al-Aḥbāb fī Siyar al-Nabī va al-Āl va al-Aṣḥāb.

Author: Dashtakī, ʿAṭāʾ Allāh ibn Faḍl Allāh, -1400 or 1401 دشتکی، عطا الله بن فضل الله

Title: Rawz̤at al-Aḥbāb fī Siyar al-Nabī va al-Āl va al-Aṣḥāb

Title: روضة الاحباب فى سير النبى والآل والاصحاب

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: 27 Jumada II (yr 6 ʿĀlamgīr, i.e. Aurangzeb) 1172 / 25 Feb 1759 Scribe: Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir Ḥusaynī سيد محمد باقر حسينى .

Note concerning work: Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad and his family and companions.

References

Browne no. 715

Palmer no. 192

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.146 [BL Add. 23498]

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.64, no. 145 [BL IO Islamic 1703]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.75, no. 131 [Bodl. Caps. B.6]

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.191 (1172H)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 350 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 25.4 × 15 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16.5 × 10 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Not ruled. Red rubrications. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir Ḥusaynī سيد محمد باقر حسينى.

Additions:

F.1r: three seals (Mīr Abū ʿAlī Khān Bahādur, 1174; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī, 1176) with notes.

Binding

Marbled paper on suede with a suede spine, European style. Plain paper doublures (watermarked). Dimensions: 26 × 15.3 × 5.2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 477.

History

Origin: 27 Jumada II (yr 6 ʿĀlamgīr, i.e. Aurangzeb) 1172 AH; 25 Feb 1759 CE

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: 192(1), 192(2).

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

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