Eton Pote 434 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Sharḥ Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah.

Author: Athīr al-dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar, d. 1265 اثير الدين الابهري، المفضل بن عمر

Commentator: Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʿīn al-dīn al-Maybudī مير حسين بن معين الدين الميبدى

Title: Sharḥ Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah

Title: شرح هداية الحكمة

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: Composition date: Shawwāl 880.

References

Margoliouth no. 45 (shelf/item: 6/5)

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.464; GAL Supp. I.840

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.7 [BL Or. 5817]

A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (vol. 1), O. Loth (1877) p.136 no.487 [BL IO Bijapur 164]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 120 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 24.2 × 13.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16 × 7 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Script: naskh. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

Codex contains numerous marginal notes.

Binding

Marbled paper with a leather spine, Indian style. Plain paper doublures. Dimensions: 24.3 × 13.5 × 1.8 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 1029.

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

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World