King's Pote 96 (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Vāqiʿāt-i Bāburī.

Author: Babur, Emperor of Hindustan, 1483-1530 بابر، امپراطور هندوستان

Translator: Mīrzā Pāyandah Ḥasan Ghaznavī ميرزا پاينده حسن غزنوى

Translator: Muḥammad Qulī Maghūl Ḥiṣārī محمد قلى مغول حصارى

Title: Vāqiʿāt-i Bāburī

Title: Bābur-nāmah (Persian version thereof)

Title: Tūzuk-i Bāburī

Title: واقعات بابرى

Title: توزك بابرى

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: A scribe's note on the final folio states that the year 935 was not included in the manuscript he was copying from. Then he speaks of the death of Babur. Browne: text in manuscript ends with the year 935/1528-9.

Note concerning work: Persian version of the memoirs of Emperor Bābur Turkī, generally known as the Bābur-nāmah. Text in manuscript ends with the year 935/1528-9 (which is also true of BL Add. 6588).

References

Browne no. 1351

Palmer no. 96

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.799 [BL Add. 6588]

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.533

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.97; p.189; p.296; p.333

A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.160, no. 136 [Camb. Add. 2778]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 166 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 24 × 13.8 cm.

Dimensions (written): 17.5 × 8 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Worming.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Not ruled.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: the seal of Polier (1181).

Binding

Dark brown plain leather. Plain paper doublures. Condition: Spine and upper board (which is bent) are loose. Dimensions: 24.5 × 13.4 × 3.5 cm. Boxed. Polier's number: 187.

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

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

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World