King's Pote 201 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

One copy of the Kulliyāt of Saʿdī (5 prose treatises).

Author: Saʿdī Shīrāzī (d. 1291) سعدى شيرازی

Title: Kulliyāt

Title: Risāla-i Khams

Title: كليات سعدى شيرازى

Title: رسالهء خمس

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Contains only the five prose treatises prefixed to Saʿdī’s Kulliyāt.

References

Browne no. 1068

Palmer no. 201

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.595-605, esp. p.596b [BL Add. 24944]

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.424

A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.327, no. 232 [Camb. Add. 270]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 120 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 24.8 × 15.6 cm.

Dimensions (written): 22 × 11 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Layout

9 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Neat, large. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: numerous notes.

Binding

Plain brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures (watermarked). Dimensions: 25 × 15.7 × 1.9 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 462.

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

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World