Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Eton Pote 309 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā (an imitation of Thaʿālibī’s work).

Note concerning author: Others authors of works with this title are listed here: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_659.

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Place: Sikandra, Akbarābād Date: Thursday 8 Rabīʿ II 1190 / 27 May 1776 Scribe: Muḥammad Bakhsh (NOT Āshūb) (fl. 1776-85) محمد بخش .

Colophon further notes: ].

References

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.143 [BL Add. 25783 (a work of this title by Ishaq al-Nisaburi)]
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.238, no. 590 [BL IO Islamic 2224]
Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part III A.F.L. Beeston 1954 p.10 no. 2488 [Bodl. Ms. Whinfield 36]
Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.170 (1190H)
Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (pt. 2), H. Ethé (1903) col.1285, no. 2309 [Bodl. Or. 648]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: c. 300 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 24.5 × 16 cm.
Dimensions (written): 19 × 11 cm.
Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

13 lines per page.

Ruled in double red with a black outer. Rubrications in red.

Binding

Marbled paper with a suede spine, European style. Watermarked paper doublures. Dimensions: 25 × 16 × 4.7 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 849.

History

Origin: Sikandra, Akbarābād; Thursday 8 Rabīʿ II 1190 AH; 27 May 1776 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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