Eton Pote 348 (Eton College Library, Eton College)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Place: Burhanpur Date: Thursday 12 Rabīʿ I 1083 / 8 Jul 1672 Scribe: Ḥāfiẓ Amān Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʿUthmān ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd Allāh حافظ امان الله بن عبد الرحمان بن حافظ عثمان بن حافظ عبد الله .
References
Physical Description
Layout
27 lines per page.
Ruled in double red with a black outer. Rubrications in red.
Hand(s)
Scribe: Ḥāfiẓ Amān Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʿUthmān ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd Allāh حافظ امان الله بن عبد الرحمان بن حافظ عثمان بن حافظ عبد الله.
Binding
Brown leather, Indian style with flap. Pressure molded turanj , pendants and frame with pendant on flap. Dimensions: 28.5 × 17 × 3.2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 909.
History
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
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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