Eton Pote 400 (Eton College Library, Eton College)
Pote Collection
Contents
Colophon details: Date: Sunday 14 Dhū-l-Qaʿdah 1085 (year 18, Aurangzeb) / 9 Feb 1675 Scribe: Muḥammad ʿĀbid محمد عابد .
References
Physical Description
Layout
15 lines per page.
The first opening is ruled in double red with a green outer; folios are ruled in double red with a blue outer thereafter. Rubrications in red.
Hand(s)
Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿĀbid محمد عابد.
Decoration
F.1v: multi-coloured sarlauh . Ff.1v-2r: ink in red, green and black.
Flyleaf: seal (follower of Pādshāh ʿĀlamgīr Muḥammad Ghāzī, Niẓām al-dīn Mūsāvī, year 49, i.e. 1118-19). F.1r: 3 erased seals (one: Muḥammad follower of Shāh ʿAzam, i.e. Aurangzeb, 1095).
Binding
Marbled paper with a leather spine, Indian style. Light orange paper doublures. Condition: The lower board is detached. Dimensions: 17.8 × 11.5 × 2.5 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 982.
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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