Eton Pote 297(3) (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Farasnāmah.
Author: ʿAbd Allāh Khān عبد الله خان
Title: Farasnāmah
Title: فرسنامه
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

References

Margoliouth no. 208 (shelf/item: 14/15)
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.482 [BL Add. 16854]
Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.1075, no. 1864 [Bodl. Or. 590]
Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 II.3 p.395
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.508; p.535

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: c. 100 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 22.5 × 15.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 15 × 8.5 cm.
Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

13 lines per page.

Ruled in double red with a blue outer. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Brown leather, European style. A pressure molded frame. Watermarked paper doublures ("G.R."). Dimensions: 23 × 15.8 × 1.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 793.

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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