Eton Pote 359 (Eton College Library, Eton College)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Place: Lahore Date: Undated Scribe: Muḥammad Zāhid ibn Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān محمد زاهد بن شيخ عبد الرحمان .
References
Physical Description
Layout
7 lines per page.
Ruled in gold black, red and dark blue with a blue outer marginal frame. Rubrications in red.
Hand(s)
Scribe: Muḥammad Zāhid ibn Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān محمد زاهد بن شيخ عبد الرحمان.
Decoration
Double page frontispiece has gold sarlauh and gold drawings in the margin. Gold speckles on the text block throughout.
Seal of Polier (1181).
Binding
Lacquer binding in gold, vermillion and green, with a red leather spine, Indian style. Gold design on red leather (?) doublures. Dimensions: 12.7 × 7.5 × 0.8 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 1018.
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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