King's Pote 226 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Wiqāyat al-Riwāyah fī Masāʾil al-Hidāyah (a commentary on the Hidāyah, in Persian translation).

Author: Marghīnānī, ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr, d. 1196 or 7 المرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر

Commentator: Burhān al-Sharīʿah, Maḥmūd ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, d. 1274 or 5 برهان الشريعة، محمود بن عبيد الله

Translator: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Sirhindī عبد الحق سرهندى

Title: Wiqāyat al-Riwāyah fī Masāʾil al-Hidāyah (a commentary on the Hidāyah, in Persian translation)

Title: وقاية الرواية فى مسائل الهداية

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1144 / 30 May 1732 Scribe: ʿAbd Allāh عبد الله .

Note concerning work: Translation completed in 1076/1665-6.

References

Browne no. 1364

Palmer no. 226

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.1395, no. 2590 [BL IO Islamic 582]

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.376; GAL Supp. I.644

Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, C. Rieu (1846-1871) p.119 [BL Add. 7270 Rich.]

Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum, C. Rieu (1894) p.187, nos. 285, 286 [BL Or. 1194, BL Or. 1195]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 300 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 30.8 × 22.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 23.5 × 15.5 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Water damage.

Layout

21 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: ʿAbd Allāh عبد الله.

Additions:

F.1r: notes.

Binding

Brown leather, Indian style. Marbled paper doublures. Decorations: Inlaid metal turanj, two pendants and corner pieces with rulings in silver paint. Condition: The spine is almost separated from the textblock. Many quires are loose. Dimensions: 30.3 × 21 × 4.4 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 610.

History

Origin: 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1144 AH; 30 May 1732 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

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World