Eton Pote 435 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Dīvān-i Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥazīn.
Author: Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥazīn محمد علی حزين
Title: Dīvān-i Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥazīn
Title: ديوان محمد على الحزين
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: (colophon states that this is the end of the 4th Divan, including 483 quatrains).

Note concerning manuscript: Flyleaf: list of contents. Although it calls itself the 4th Divan the ms, foliated ff.560-647, is the third of four in the same hand and format, including: Eton Pote 317 (first part, ff.1-94); King's Pote 188 (second part, ff.95-559); King's Pote 124 (fourth part, ff.648-772). There are other works by the same author (copied in a different hand) in King's Pote 74 and King's Pote 199.

References

Margoliouth no. 141 (shelf/item: 9/9)
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.715 [BL Or. 322]
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.928, no. 1712 [BL IO Islamic 903]
Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.721, no. 1184 [Bodl. Elliot 213]
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.184

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff.560-647 (88 folios).
Dimensions (leaf): 30.5 × 17.8 cm.
Dimensions (written): 22.5 × 12 cm.
Foliation: Foliated (in continuation).

Layout

15 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, European style. Watermarked paper doublures ("G.R."; C. Taylor). Dimensions: 31 × 18 × 2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 901.

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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

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