Eton Pote 387 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Mūjiz al-Qānūn.

Author: Ibn al-Nafīs, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم، ت. 687 هـ

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Thursday 9 Jumādā II year 48 (probably Aurangzeb, i.e. 1116) / 9 Oct 1704 (?) {alternatively Akbar, a century earlier} Scribe: Anonymous.

References

Margoliouth no. 67 (shelf/item: 13/19)

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.457;GAL I.493; GAL Supp. I.825

Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum, C. Rieu (1894) p.546 no.805 [BL Or. 2794]

A descriptive list of the Arabic manuscripts acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894, A. G. Ellis and E. Edwards (1912) p.44 [BL Or. 5659]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 101 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 21.7 × 16 cm.

Dimensions (written): 18.5 × 10 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

23 lines per page.

Not ruled.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Signs of collation.

Binding

Brown leather, European style. Watermarked paper doublures. Dimensions: 22.5 × 16 × 1.8 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 1025.

History

Origin: Thursday 9 Jumādā II year 48 (probably Aurangzeb, i.e. 1116) AH; 9 Oct 1704 (?) {alternatively Akbar, a century earlier} 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

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

Subjects

Medicine, Arab

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