King's Pote 38 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Commentary on al-Ādāb al-Bāqiyah. 1 copy of al-Ādāb al-Bāqiyah.
1. ff.1-90
Author: Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn زين العابدين
Title: Commentary on al-Ādāb al-Bāqiyah
Title: شرح الآداب الباقية
Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: A work on the science of controversy ( ʿIlm al-Jidāl ).

References

Browne no. 3
Palmer no. 38
2. ff.91-124
Author: ʿAbd al-Bāqī عبد الباقى

Note concerning author: It seems the author is ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Ghawth al-Islām al-Ṣiddīqī al-Jawnpūrī.

Title: al-Ādāb al-Bāqiyah
Title: الآداب الباقية
Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Friday 23 Shawwāl 1094 / 15 Oct 1683 Scribe: Luṭf Allāh ibn Sayyid Niẓām al-dīn Mahānī لطف الله بن سيد نظام الدين مهانى .

Colophon further notes: The scribe was also the initial owner.

Note concerning work: A work on the science of controversy ( ʿIlm al-Jidāl ). It is possible this is the work of this title by ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Ghawth al-Islām al-Ṣiddīqī al-Jawnpūrī which is itself a gloss on al-Ādāb al-Sharīfīyah by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (d.816/1413). There are copies in Khuda Bakhsh 3790 and in BL IO Islamic 1351. See also Bodleian, MS. A. Walker 10.

References

Browne no. 3
Palmer no. 38
Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL II.216; GAL Supp. II.305
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (vol. 1), O. Loth (1877) p.150 no. 554 [BL IO Islamic 1351]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: c. 90 + 34 = c. 124 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 21.5 × 12.8 cm.
Dimensions (written): 16 × 8 cm.
Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Not ruled.

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Quality: Good. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Signs of collation.

Binding

Plain brown leather, European style. Doublures European paper with watermark. Plain leather doublures. Dimensions: 22 × 13 × 2.3 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 15.

History

Origin: Undated. Friday 23 Shawwāl 1094 AH; 15 Oct 1683 CE

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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

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