Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

King's Pote 88(1) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Tuzūk-i Jahāngīrī.
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: Work completed on 23rd Rabīʿ I 1027.

Note concerning manuscript: On box: 88(1).

References

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 pp.253-6 [BL Add. 26215]
Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.558
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.219

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 270 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 29.8 × 18 cm.
Dimensions (written): 22.8 × 10 cm.
Foliation: Foliated (partially).

Condition

Mould and water damage.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Ruled in red, gold, black and blue.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Quality: Good. Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v: an illuminated sarlauh (gold , blue, black, red).

Additions:

F.1r: three seals including those of Polier and Ashraf Khān Murīd Shāh ʿĀlamgīr, 1072. The third: Muḥammad Aḥsan Allāh Khān, 1163 (who bought the ms on 19 Shawwāl, yr 4 of Aḥmad Shāhī, i.e. 1164).

Binding

Brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 30.7 × 17.7 × 6.5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 189.

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

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

Bibliography

    Work in multiple volumes bearing the class-marks: 88(1), 88(2), 88(3).

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge


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