King's Pote 4 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Aḥvāl-i Rāja-hā-yi Jaypūr.

Author: Anonymous

Title: Aḥvāl-i Rāja-hā-yi Jaypūr

Title: احوال راجه هاى جى جیپور

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: The colophon is on f.89v.

Note concerning work: An account of the Rājās of Jaypūr and their genealogies ( nasab-nāmah ).

References

Browne no. 17

Palmer no. 4

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.691 (sole copy?)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Cream Indian paper. Well burnished.

Extent: 89 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.3 × 19 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16.0 × 11 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Good condition.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Ruled in double red and blue outer. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Quality: Fair. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Flyleaf: an English note in the hand of Henry Bradshaw gives details of the collation (of quires).

Collated with ṣaḥḥa .

Binding

Marbled paper on suede, European style (corded spine). Doublures plain European paper with watermark (crown with horns). Dimensions: 23 × 19.5 × 1.6 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 39.

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

Subjects

India--History

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