Eton Pote 332 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Dīvān-i Fāris.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Dīvān-i Fāris
Title: Kulliyāt-i Fāris
Title: ديوان فارس
Title: كليات فارس
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: Possibly missing a folio or more at the end.

References

Margoliouth no. 145 (shelf/item: 5/18)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 293 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 21.3 × 12 cm.
Dimensions (written): 16 × 7.5 cm.
Foliation: Foliated.

Condition

Worm damage.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Ruled in gold with a red outer. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: 2 seals (one: ʿIbād Allāh 1188).

Binding

Reddish brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 22 × 12.5 × 4.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 905.

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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