Eton Pote 324 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Gwāliyār-Nāmah.

Author: Hirāman ibn Karz̲ar Dās Munshī هرامن بن كرذر داس منشى

Note concerning author: The variants of the author's name are that supplied by Marshall and that givein in a note in English on the ms.

Title: Gwāliyār-Nāmah

Title: گوالیار نامه

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: An English translation of a work of this title is at Google Books.

References

Margoliouth no. 201 (shelf/item: 18/8)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.303 [BL Add. 16709 (but see also p.838 and p.1028 for two other works with this same title)]

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.735

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.188

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 70 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 23 × 17.1 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16.5 × 11 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

15 lines per page.

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

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: seal of Polier (1181).

Binding

Reddish brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 23.3 × 17.2 × 1 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 912.

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

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

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World