King's Pote 225 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Sharḥ ʿUyūn al-Ḥikmat.

Author: (perhaps) Ibn Sīnā, 980-1037 ابن سينا

Commentator: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī ابو عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن حسين الشيرازى

Title: Sharḥ ʿUyūn al-Ḥikmat

Title: شرح عيون الحكمة

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: An almost erased note on the folio following the end of the text contains the year 1081.

References

Browne no. 880

Palmer no. 225

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.455 (no.23); GAL Supp. I.817

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 350 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.8 × 13.2 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16.5 × 7 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Smoke (?) damage. Worming. Repairs to worm holes. Remargined towards the end.

Layout

23 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: shikasta. Quality: (the 2nd part is written without diacritical points). Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

C. 20 folios from the end (between works): an erased seal and notes.

Signs of collation.

Notes concerning codex: The first 8 folios are replacements in a very untidy hand. There is another change of hand and paper after about 70 folios. The manuscript seems to contain multiple short works in the final 20 folios.

Binding

Dark brown leather, Indian style. Plain leather doublures. Decorations: Metal inlaid turanj, two pendants and corner pieces. Condition: The upper board is detached. The spine is disintegrating. Dimensions: 22.1 × 12.6 × 5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 618.

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

Medicine, Persian

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