King's Pote 34 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Ufuq al-Mubīn.

Author: Dāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631? داماد، محمد باقر بن محمد

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: There is no colophon - the work is possibly incomplete at the end.

Note concerning work: A manual of Shīʿite theology and metaphysics. The author, Mīr Dāmād, is very likely one and the same as the author of King's 8, Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād, in which case his date of death is earlier, 1040/1631. See S.H. Rizvi, "Mīr Dāmād in India: Islamic Philosophical Traditions and the Problem of Creation", Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 131 (2011), pp. 9-23.

References

Browne no. 74

Palmer no. 34

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL II.341

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Initial 29 folios supplied in an ugly later hand.

Extent: 336 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.8 × 14.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 15 × 9 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

15-24 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications with larger letters.

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh. Quality: Fair. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

The manuscript contains many marginal and interlinear notes.

Collated.

Binding

Plain reddish brown leather, European style. Plain watermarked European paper doublure. Dimensions: 24 × 15.7 × 4.5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 24.

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

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