King's Pote 231 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Sharḥ Ishārāt.

Author: Ibn Sīnā, 980-1037 ابن سينا

Commentator: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 نصير الدين طوسي، محمد بن محمد،597-672 هـ

Title: Sharḥ Ishārāt

Title: شرح اشارات

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: The date 644 in the final colophon is the date of composition.

Note concerning manuscript: F.106v: an internal colophon at the end of the section on logic. F.107v: the start of another part of the work (natural sciences) in a different hand and format (more lines per page).

References

Browne no. 57

Palmer no. 231

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: The second part is on darker paper.

Extent: c. 350 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 22 × 11.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 17 × 8 cm.

Foliation: Partially foliated.

Layout

21 and 25 lines per page.

Ruled in double red with a blue outer. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1v: numerous notes and erased seals. F.107r: notes and seals (one dated 1181).

Signs of collation.

Binding

Light brown leather, European style. Plain brown paper doublures. Decorations: Tooled patterns in two bands, further tooling on the spine. Embossed: "Sharhi Isharati Nasar udini Toosi". Dimensions: 23.1 × 12.2 × 3.8 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 595.

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

Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800

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