King's Pote 51 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
Note concerning author: Harāvī was a physician.
Colophon details: Date: 20 Muḥarram, year 45 of ʿĀlamgīr [Aurangzeb], i.e. c.1112 / c.1700 Scribe: Anonymous.
Note concerning work: On medicine and materia medica.
References
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
20 lines per page.
Not ruled. Rubrications in red.
Hand(s)
Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.
F.1r: a seal, partially erased. The manuscript contains marginal notes.
Signs of collation.
Binding
Marbled paper on board with leather spine, Indian style. Plain brown doublures. Dimensions: 22.9 × 12.6 × 3.5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 87.
History
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
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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