King's Pote 8 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)
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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Majmūʿah min Taṣānīf. 1 copy of al-Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm.1.Title: Majmūʿah min TaṣānīfTitle: Nuskha-i TaqvīmātLanguage(s): PersianColophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
Colophon further notes: The colophon is on the final folio.
Note concerning work: The author, Mīr Dāmād, is very likely the author of King's 34.
References
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.835a, xxviii [BL Add. 16839]2.Title: al-Ṣirāṭ al-MustaqīmTitle: الصراط المستقيمLanguage(s): PersianColophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.
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Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: Paper is thin, hand-made, dark chickpea in colour.Extent: c. 70 folios.Dimensions (leaf): 26.3 × 16.5 cm.Dimensions (written): 20 × 10 cm.Foliation: Neither foliated nor paginated.Condition
Worm damage. Mould on flyleaves.Layout
21 lines per page.
Not ruled.
Hand(s)
Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: Small, ugly. Scribe: Anonymous.
Additions:Flyleaf: an English note in the hand of Henry Bradshaw gives details of the collation (of quires). F.1r: notes in red and black; one states that the author is Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād, then provides a list of 3 titles (of which only 2 are found in the codex - the second, اماضات, Īmāḍāt, is missing). An ownership note is dated 15 Rabīʿ I 1131. The manuscript contains numerous marginal notes, often signed "12".
Collated (marks of ṣaḥḥa and badl ).
Binding
Marbled paper on suede, suede corners and spine, European style. Plain paper doublures. Condition: The lower part of the upper board has been eaten away by rodents. Dimensions: 26.7 × 16.8 × 1.6 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 41.
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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