King's Pote 205 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Place: Lucknow Date: 7 Muḥarram 1194 / 14 Jan 1780 Scribe: Javād Allāh ibn Muḥammad Murād Allāh T-hānīsarī جواد الله تهانيسري .
Colophon further notes: From the colophon it would appear that the same man copied Bodleian Ouseley 168 (the same work, Raqāʾim-i Karāʾim) on this very same date (see Ethe, vol 1. col. 132). However, there are differences in the hand and it would appear one or the other of these manuscripts is a copy of the other, with the unnamed second scribe copying the colophons in his exemplar.
Note concerning work: Letters of ʿĀlamgīr Awrangzīb to Amīr Khān Sindhī (d.c. 1131/1719).
References
Note concerning author: The editor ʿInāyat Allāh Khān was secretary to Awrangzīb.
Colophon details: Place: Lucknow Date: 29 Ṣafar 1194 / 6 Mar 1780 Scribe: Javād Allāh ibn Muḥammad Murād Allāh T-hānīsarī جواد الله تهانيسري .
Colophon further notes: From the colophon it would appear that the same man copied Bodleian Ouseley 168 (a short version of the same work, Kalimāt-i Ṭayyibāt) on this very same date (see Ethe, vol 1. col. 130-131). However, there are differences in the hand and it would appear one or the other of these manuscripts is a copy of the other, with the unnamed second scribe copying the colophons in his exemplar.
Note concerning work: A collection of Awrangzīb’s letters edited by his secretary ʿInāyat Allāh Khān.
References
Physical Description
Layout
14 lines per page.
Ruled in double red with a blue outer. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.
Hand(s)
Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Good. Scribe: Javād Allāh ibn Muḥammad Murād Allāh T-hānīsarī جواد الله تهانيسري.
F.1r: a note indicating the manuscript is being collated word by word.
Signs of collation.
Binding
Dimensions: 22.7 × 12.8 × 1.3 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 473.
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
Funding of Cataloguing
King's College Cambridge
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