King's Pote 199 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Taẕkira-i Ṣaydīya.

Author: Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Zāhidī al-Jilānī, known as ʿAlī ابن ابى طالب الزاهدى الجلانى، على

Note concerning author: The author is said to be the well-known Shaykh ʿAlī Ḥazīn (d.1180/1766-7).

Title: Taẕkira-i Ṣaydīya

Title: Risāla dar Khawaṣṣ-i Ḥaywānāt

Title: تذكرهء صيديه

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: A treatise on the different properties of different animals.

References

Browne no. 299

Palmer no. 199

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.184

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 50 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 19.5 × 11.3 cm.

Dimensions (written): 15 × 7.5 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Layout

13 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: (Qur'anic verses are in naskh). Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, Indian style. Plain paper doublures. Decorations: Inlaid turanj, two pendants and corner pieces. Dimensions: 19 × 11.1 × 1 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 463.

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

Animals

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