King's Pote 251 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
Note concerning work: A work on Logic.
References
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
21 lines per page.
Not ruled.
Hand(s)
Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.
Flyleaf: a note. F.1r: two erased seals with notes (inspected by Qulī Khān Bahādur on 17 Jumādā II, year 20 of Muḥammad Shāh; inspected again 11 Ṣafar 1140). Final folio: 2 erased seals.
Signs of collation.
Binding
Marbled paper binding with a leather spine, Indian style. Tan plain paper doublures. Condition: The upper board is detached. The spine is damaged. Dimensions: 17.7 × 10 × 2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 598.
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
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