Eton Pote 367 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Madkhal ilā ʿIlm Aḥkām al-Nujūm.
Author: Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad Abū Ma‘shar al-Balkhī جعفر بن محمد ابو معشر البلخی
Title: al-Madkhal ilā ʿIlm Aḥkām al-Nujūm
Title: المدخل الى علم احكام النجوم
Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: 26 Dhū-l-Qaʿdah 1079 / 27 Apr 1669 Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: Folios 3 and 8 (2 and 7) are bound out of place.

References

Margoliouth no. 65 (shelf/item: 4/6)
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, C. Rieu (1846-1871) p.198 no.415 [BL Add. 7490/4]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 393 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 21.3 × 13.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 13.5 × 7.5 cm.
Foliation: Foliated (twice).

Layout

11 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, Indian style with a stamped inlayed turanj and pendants. Marbled paper doublures. Dimensions: 21 × 13 × 4.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 994.

History

Origin: 26 Dhū-l-Qaʿdah 1079 AH; 27 Apr 1669 CE

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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