Eton Pote 412 (Eton College Library, Eton College)
Pote Collection
Contents
Note concerning author: Author was a vizier of Alp Arslan.
Colophon details: Date: 15 Rabīʿ I 1020 / 28 May 1611 Scribe: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (slave of Mirzā Niẓāmī) (fl. 1611) عبد الواحد .
Colophon further notes: The same scribe copied King's Pote 219 one month earlier.
References
Physical Description
Layout
11 lines per page.
Ruled in gold with a blue outer. Rubrications in red.
Hand(s)
Script: nastaʿlīq. Scribe: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (slave of Mirzā Niẓāmī) (fl. 1611) عبد الواحد.
Decoration
F.1v: illuminated sarlauh .
F.1r: note (this work was collected for Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn b. Ḥasan b. Ṣadr Amīr ʿAlī, descendant of Niẓām al-Mulk).
Binding
Reddish brown leather, European style. Watermarked paper doublures. Dimensions: 21.5 × 11.5 × 1.7 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 1086.
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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