King's Pote 250 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
References
Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
Note concerning work: The underyling work appears to be al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-Hayʾah by al-Jaghmīnī.
References
Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
References
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
15 lines per page.
Not ruled.
Hand(s)
Script: shikasta. Quality: 2nd work is in a different hand. Scribe: Anonymous.
Flyleaf: a long note (Muḥammad Amīn al-dīn) and an erased seal. F.1r: a note and erased seal. The manuscript contains many marginal and interlinear notes (including sketched diagrams). The 3rd work contains a diagram in red ink.
Binding
Brown leather, Indian style, with an envelope flap. Plain leather doublures. Decorations: Pressure moulded turanj and pendants; two pendants and a central moulded inscription on the spine of the flap and a turanj on the point of the flap. Dimensions: 25 × 19.5 × 3 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 599.
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
Please fill out your details.