Eton Pote 262 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Shāfiyah fī al-Taṣrīf.
Author: Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar, 1175-1249 ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر
Title: al-Shāfiyah fī al-Taṣrīf
Title: الشافية في التصريف
Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: Some pages containing commentary have been attached. Text widely spaced allowing interlinear comments.

References

Margoliouth no. 108 (shelf/item: 6/6)
Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.305; GAL Supp. I.535
Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum, C. Rieu (1894) p.611, no.953 [BL Or. 4338 (al-Shāfiyah fī al-Ṣarf)]
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (vol. 1), O. Loth (1877) p.263, no.945 [BL IO Islamic 501]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 100 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 24 × 14.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 15 × 8 cm.
Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Worm damage.

Layout

7 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1v: small seal.

Binding

Dark brown leather, Indian style. Brown leather doublures. Condition: Folios are loose at the beginning. Dimensions: 24 × 14 × 1.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 584.

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 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

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Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

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