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King's Pote 37 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Āʾīn-i Shāhī (“Royal Mirror”). 1 copy of Ḍiyāʾ al-Qalb (“Light of the Heart”).
1. ff.1-14
Author: Fayz̤ Kāshānī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍā, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81 فيض الكاشاني، محمد ابن مرتضى
Title: Āʾīn-i Shāhī (“Royal Mirror”)
Title: Ḍiyāʾ al-Qalb (in Persian translation by the author)
Title: آئين شاهى
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Composed c.1066/1655-6 for the Safavid Shāh ʿAbbās II. The final folio has the composition date: 1066 (with chronogram).

References

Browne no. 148
Palmer no. 42.2 (correction: 37.1)
2. ff.15-30
Author: Fayz̤ Kāshānī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍā, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81 فيض الكاشاني، محمد ابن مرتضى
Title: Ḍiyāʾ al-Qalb (“Light of the Heart”)
Title: ضياء القلب
Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: The date added under the colophon, 1057 (1647-48) is the date of composition.

Note concerning manuscript: Followed by a folio in fine naskh used as a flyleaf.

References

Browne no. 840
Palmer no. 37
Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL II.200

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 14 + 16 = 30 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 16.9 × 10 cm.
Dimensions (written): 12.5 × 6.5 cm.
Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Layout

14 lines per page.

First two folios ruled in gold and lapis, but no ruling after that.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Neat. Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v: an illuminated sarlauh (Indian).

Binding

Plain brown leather, Indian style. Plain leather doublures. Dimensions: 16.8 × 10.3 × 0.7 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 43.

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

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