Eton Pote 366(2) (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Maṭlaʿ al-Saʿdayn va Majmaʿ al-Baḥrayn.

Author: ʿAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-dīn ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī, 1413-1482 عبد الرزاق كمال الدين ابن اسحاق السمرقندى

Title: Maṭlaʿ al-Saʿdayn va Majmaʿ al-Baḥrayn

Title: مطلع السعدين ومجمع البحرين

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: A colophon occurs on a folio which is a later replacement.

Note concerning manuscript: Initial and final folios are replacements.

Note concerning work: 2nd volume of M.al-S.

References

Margoliouth no. 170 (shelf/item: 8/2)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.181 [BL Add. 17928]

Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.83, no. 192 [BL IO Islamic 2704]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.91, no. 163 [Bodl. Elliot 238]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part III A.F.L. Beeston 1954 p.4. no. 2449 [Bodl. Ms. Pers. c. 30]

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 I.1 p.294 (daftar ii)

Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.25

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 250 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 25 × 18.7 cm.

Dimensions (written): 19 × 12.5 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

21 - 23 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red (or missing). Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Quality: (multiple hands; different from volume 1). Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Signs of collation.

Binding

Marbled paper with a suede spine, European style. Watermarked paper doublures. Dimensions: 25.5 × 19 × 4 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 1006.

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

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