Eton Pote 356 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Līlāvatī (translation from the Sanskrit into Persian).
Author: Bhāskarācārya بهاسكراكاريا
Translator: Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 8-1595 فيضى، ابو الفيض بن مبارك
Title: Līlāvatī (translation from the Sanskrit into Persian)
Title: ليلاوتي
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Work translated in 1074 in the reign of Aurengzeb, in nine chapters.

References

Margoliouth no. 158 (shelf/item: 6/7)
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.449 [BL Add. 5649]
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.1112, no. 1998 [BL IO Islamic 1411]
Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part III A.F.L. Beeston 1954 p.53 no. 2697 [Bodl. Ms. Ind. Inst. Pers. 105]
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.144

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: c. 80 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 26.2 × 14.7 cm.
Dimensions (written): 21 × 10 cm.
Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Begins with a decription of the contents.

Binding

Plain cardboard with a leather spine, Indian style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 26 × 14.5 × 1.2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 948.

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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