Eton Pote 340 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Kashf al-Lughāt.

Author: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Sūr عبد الرحمن بن احمد سور

Title: Kashf al-Lughāt

Title: كشف اللغات

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Thursday 15 Jumādā I Scribe: Pīr Muḥammad پير محمد .

References

Margoliouth no. 100 (shelf/item: 9/11)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.495 [BL Add. 5611]

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.1338, no. 2465 [BL IO Islamic 2671]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.1006, no. 1721 [Bodl. Ms. Pers. d.2]

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 III.1 p.19

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.21

A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.228, no. 139 [Camb. Oo. 6.8]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 400 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 31.5 × 21 cm.

Dimensions (written): 24 × 14 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

22 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Script: Indian nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Pīr Muḥammad پير محمد.

Additions:

F.1r: seal of Polier (1181); another seal cut in two during trimming. Final folio: seal (1109).

Signs of collation.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, European style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 33 × 21.5 × 6 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 880.

History

Origin: Thursday 15 Jumādā I AH

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