King's Pote 69 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: a student named Sayyid Tāj al-dīn سيد تاج الدين corrected by ʿAbd al-Rasūl Mudarris.
Colophon further notes: Written (i.e. composed) in 758. Notes on the final pages indicate the collation of Talwīḥ was completed: the collation was written by Sayyid Tāj al-dīn, with ʿAbd al-Rasūl Mudarris as collator.
Note concerning work: There is an early copy (757/1356) in Bodleian MS. Laud Or. 138.
References
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
25 lines per page.
Not ruled.
Hand(s)
Script: plain. Scribe: a student named Sayyid Tāj al-dīn سيد تاج الدين corrected by ʿAbd al-Rasūl Mudarris.
The manuscript contains numerous marginal notes.
Marks of collation.
Binding
Plain brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures (watermarked: "L.V.G."). Dimensions: 28.8 × 18.3 × 4.5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 186.
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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