King's Pote 41 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Ashraf al-Wasāʾil ilā Fahm al-Shamāʾil.Title: اشرف الوسائل الى فهم الشمائلLanguage(s): ArabicColophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
Colophon further notes: Saturday 15th Ramaḍān. The year is not provided. A note below the colophon states that the manuscript was written in 995/1587. However, it was probably written before that.
Note concerning work: This work is also ascribed to Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Shāfiʿī.
References
Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL II.389 (32; alt. title: Ashraf al-Madākhil ilā Maʿrifat al-Shamāʾil)Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: c. 200 folios.Dimensions (leaf): 19.6 × 11 cm.Dimensions (written): 12.5 × 6.5 cm.Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.Layout
23 lines per page.
Not ruled. A few rubrications in red.
Hand(s)
Script: naskh. Scribe: Anonymous.
Additions:F.1r: a seal (Maḥmūd, 1041).
Binding
Plain Browne leather with an envelope flap. Red marbled paper doublures. Decorations: Impression of turanj and two pendants. Condition: The spine is in poor condition, detached from the textblock. Serious worm damage generally. Dimensions: 19.5 × 10.3 × 3.8 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 20.
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
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Funding of Cataloguing
King's College Cambridge
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