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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif.
Author: Suhrawardī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234 سهروردي، شهاب الدبن ابو حفص عمر بن محمد بن عبد الله البكري
Title: ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif
Title: عوارف المعارف
Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Tuesday 27 Ramaḍān 1020 / 3 Dec 1611 Scribe: Muḥammad Amīn ibn Shaykh Dāʿūd Maḥmūd al-Qurayshī al-Qādirī محمد امين بن شيخ داؤود محمود القريشى القادرى .

Note concerning manuscript: Begins with table of contents.

References

Margoliouth no. 31 (shelf/item: 7/13)
Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.440; GAL Supp. I.789
A descriptive list of the Arabic manuscripts acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894, A. G. Ellis and E. Edwards (1912) p.5 [BL Or. 6722]
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (vol. 1), O. Loth (1877) p.172, no. 625 [BL IO Bijapur 90]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 277 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 25.5 × 16.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 18 × 11 cm.
Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Scribe: Muḥammad Amīn ibn Shaykh Dāʿūd Maḥmūd al-Qurayshī al-Qādirī محمد امين بن شيخ داؤود محمود القريشى القادرى.

Additions:

F.1r: seal (1083) and inspection note dated 1084.

Binding

Tan suede, European style. Watermarked paper doublures (C. Taylor). Condition: Severe worm damage. Dimensions: 26 × 17 × 4 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 746.

History

Origin: Tuesday 27 Ramaḍān 1020 AH; 3 Dec 1611 CE

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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