Eton Pote 261 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Shamāʾil al-Nabī.

Author: Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, d. 892 ترمذی، محمد بن عيسى

Title: Shamāʾil al-Nabī

Title: al-Shamāʾil al-Sharīfah al-Nabawīyah

Title: شمائل النبى

Title: الشمائل الشريفة النبوية

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Year 46 [also: Muḥammad ʿArab, year 1027] Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: Contains interlinear Persian translations for difficult words.

References

Margoliouth no. 8 (shelf/item: 2/8)

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.161-2; GAL Supp. I.268

Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, C. Rieu (1846-1871) p.98 no.148 [BL Add. 9586]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 150 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 19 × 13 cm.

Dimensions (written): 14 × 7 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

9 lines per page.

Ruled in black-outlined gold with a lapis outer. Rubrications in red and in gold (prior to each hadith).

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v has illuminated sarlauh in lapis, gold and green.

Additions:

Ownership note dated 20 Jumādā I 1161: bought for 3 rupees.

Binding

Marbled paper with a leather spine, Indian style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 19 × 12.5 × 2.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 613.

History

Origin: Year 46 [also: Muḥammad ʿArab, year 1027] AH

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 second half alphabetically going to Eton. 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 D.S. Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts in the Library of Eton College, Oxford, 1904 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