King's Pote 227 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-l-Naẓāʾir.

Author: Ibn Nujaym, Zayn al-dīn ibn Ibrāhīm, d. 1563 ابن نجيم، زين الدين بن ابراهيم

Commentator: Anonymous

Title: Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-l-Naẓāʾir

Title: Sharḥ Ashbāh wa-Naẓāʾir

Title: كتاب الاشباه والنظائر

Title: شرح اشباه ونظائر

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: A manual of Ḥanafī jurisprudence.

References

Browne no. 60

Palmer no. 227

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL II.310; GAL Supp. II.425

Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, C. Rieu (1846-1871) p.124 no.223 [BL Add. 7285 Rich.]

A hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1900) no. 886, p.162 [Camb. Dd.5.42]

A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (vol. 1), O. Loth (1877) p.66 no.272 [BL IO Islamic 1871]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 500 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.3 × 15.8 cm.

Dimensions (written): 17 × 11 cm.

Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Worming.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Brown leather, Indian style, with an envelope flap. Plain paper doublures. Decorations: Moulded turanj, two pendants and corner pieces. A lozenge and two corner pieces on the flap, with cartouche and two diamond-shaped decorations on the spine of the flap. Dimensions: 22.2 × 14.7 × 7 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 594.

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