Eton Pote 447 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of ʿAjāʾib al-Buldān.

Author: Valī Muḥammad ibn Bardī Muḥammad ولى محمد بن بردى محمد

Title: ʿAjāʾib al-Buldān

Title: عجائب البلدان

Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: 7 Jumādā I 1197 / 10 Apr 1783 Scribe: Anonymous.

Colophon further notes: The colophon gives the date of composition: 11 Muḥarram 1073.

Note concerning work: This is vol. 2. Vol. 1 is in Eton Pote 285.

References

Margoliouth no. 59 (shelf/item: 2/13)

Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.420 [BL Add. 7704]

Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.404, no. 404 [Bodl. Ouseley Add. 90]

Persian Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey C. A. Storey 1927–39 II.1 p.141 1198H (only copy?)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: c. 150 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.5 × 20 cm.

Dimensions (written): 16 × 12 cm.

Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, European style. Watermarked paper doublures. Dimensions: 23 × 20 × 2 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 742+.

History

Origin: 7 Jumādā I 1197 AH; 10 Apr 1783 CE

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