Eton Pote 283 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of ʿIyār-i Dānish.

Author: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602 ابو الفضل بن مبارك

Title: ʿIyār-i Dānish

Title: عيار دانش

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: First folio has been remargined.

References

Margoliouth no. 91 (shelf/item: 7/6)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.756 [BL Add. 4945]

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.512 no. 767 [BL IO Islamic 3506]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.420, no. 438 [Bodl. Fraser 98]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part III A.F.L. Beeston 1954 p.16 no. 2514 [Bodl. Ms. Ind. Inst. Pers. 36]

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.35

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 236 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 26.4 × 16 cm.

Dimensions (written): 18 × 9.5 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Ruled in gold with a blue outer. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: seal of Polier (1181); f.236v: 3 seals erased.

Binding

Red leather with a brown leather spine, Indian style. An inlayed metal turanj , pendants and corner pieces. Marbled paper doublures. Dimensions: 26.5 × 16 × 4 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 748.

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

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