Eton Pote 291 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

F.1r: seal of Polier (1196). Flyleaf English note in hand of Polier (?): "Given me by Nawab Murid Khan". Paris BNF i Persian Supplement 391 is another manuscript from Polier's collection, an album of calligraphy in shikasta from the 1140s-1150s/1730s by Nawab Murīd Khān (also known as Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ṭabāṭabā Na'ini or Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ṭabāṭabāʾī). See http://expositions.bnf.fr/inde/grand/cgm_149.htm where Francis Richard says Polier seems to have been in contact with the calligrapher. He had been a noble at the court of Muḥammad Shāh. See Marshall, Mughals in India, p. 1329, for reference to another calligraphy album by Murid Khan in Patna (probably Khuda Bakhsh 2006, dated 1150/1738; there is another possible specimen in Khuda Bakhsh 1084/10). His signature occurs in the exquisite Mughal manuscript RAS Persian 258 - see 3rd and 5th pages (counting from the end: i.e. pp. 264 and 266, in the 5 pages which are appended after the earlier colophon page) of https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RAS-00258/1. See also https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_2806.