King's Pote 55 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Padmāvat Bhākhā (in Braj Bhāshā dialect).
Author: Anonymous
Title: Padmāvat Bhākhā (in Braj Bhāshā dialect)
Title: پدماوت
Language(s): Hindi

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Presumably the original would be the Hindi romantic epic Padmāvat by Malik Muḥammad Jāyasī.

References

Browne no. 212
Palmer no. 55
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.155 (translator into Urdu: Ghulam 'Ali Mashhadi); p.282

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: c. 150 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 22.8 × 14.3 cm.
Dimensions (written): 19 × 9.5 cm.
Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.

Condition

Worm damage.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Not ruled. Two columns (verse).

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Indian style, plain brown leather. Plain paper doublures. Condition: The spine is separated from the textblock. In need of repair. Dimensions: 22.8 × 13.8 × 3 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 90.

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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