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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ.

Author: Khaṭīb al-Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, fl. 1337 خطيب التبريزي، شمس الدين محمد بن عبد الله

Title: Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ

Title: مشكوة المصابيح

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: Composed: Friday, end of Ramaḍān (crescent of Shawwāl) 737.

References

Margoliouth no. 10 (shelf/item: 7/2)

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.364; GAL Supp. I.621

Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum, C. Rieu (1894) p.822 no.1268 [BL Or. 4544]

A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (vol. 1), O. Loth (1877) p.36 no.152 [BL IO Islamic 2016]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 500 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 25.5 × 15.2 cm.

Dimensions (written): 17.8 × 8.5 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Ruled in double red. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Signs of collation.

Binding

Marbled paper with a suede spine, European style. Paper doublures. Dimensions: 26 × 15.5 × 8 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 1003.

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

Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

Subjects

Hadith--Collections

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