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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Farhang-i Rashīdī. 1 copy of Risāla-i Muʿarrabāt.

Author: ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Tattavī, fl. 1653 عبد الرشيد ابن عبد الغفور الحسينی المدنی تتوي

Title: Farhang-i Rashīdī

Title: فرهنگ رشيدی

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: 16 Shawwāl year 45, ʿĀlamgīr (i.e. 1112) / 26 Mar 1701 Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: Colophon after the second work.

References

Margoliouth no. 103.1 (shelf/item: 6/13)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.500 [BL Add. 5555]

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.1349, no. 2504 [BL IO Islamic 10]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.1136, no. 2010 [Bodl. Ms. Pers. d.18]

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.24

A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.232, no. 146 [Camb. Oo. 6.5]

Author: Anonymous

Title: Risāla-i Muʿarrabāt

Title: رساله معربات

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: 16 Shawwāl year 45, ʿĀlamgīr (i.e. 1112) / 26 Mar 1701 Scribe: Anonymous.

References

Margoliouth no. 103.2 (shelf/item: 6/13)

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.1350, no. 2507 (ff.471-485) [BL IO Islamic 1283] {a glossary of foreign words adopted in Arabic in the Qur'an, hadith, etc}

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.24

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 384 + 15 = 399 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 26.2 × 17 cm.

Dimensions (written): 20 × 10 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

21 lines per page.

Ruled in double red with a blue outer (but the first opening is ruled in gold, red and blue). Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Decoration

F.1v illuminated sarlauh .

Additions:

F.1r: seal of Polier (1181). 2 other seals (Muḥammad, 1187). Inspection note dated 1172.

Binding

Reddish leather, European style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 27.3 × 16.5 × 5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 797.

History

Origin: 16 Shawwāl year 45, ʿĀlamgīr (i.e. 1112) AH; 26 Mar 1701 CE; 16 Shawwāl year 45, ʿĀlamgīr (i.e. 1112) AH; 26 Mar 1701 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

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

Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

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