Eton Pote 460 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Jāmiʿ al-Alfāẓ. 1 copy of Interlinear gloss. 1 copy of Muʾayyid al-Fuẓalāʾ.
1.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Jāmiʿ al-Alfāẓ
Title: جامع الالفاظ
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: Is this the Hebrew-Arabic dictionary of the Bible by David Ben Abraham al-Fasi? The cover and flyleaf of the ms that we believe to be Pote 460 refers to Kitāb Niqāṭ - a title noted by E. B. Cowell.

References

Margoliouth no. 98.1 (NOT 99 which is wrongly marked 14/1; yet note on lower doublure indicates this ms contains M.98 and M.99 both then again M.98 only) (shelf/item: 14/1)
2.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Interlinear gloss
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

References

Margoliouth no. 98.3 (shelf/item: 14/1)
3.
Author: Muḥammad ibn Lād محمد بن لاد
Title: Muʾayyid al-Fuẓalāʾ
Title: مؤيد الفضلاء
Language(s): Persian

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

References

Margoliouth no. 98.2 (shelf/item: 14/1)
Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum (3 vols.) C. Rieu 1879-1883 p.494 [BL Or. 261]
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India Office (2 vols.) H. Ethé 1903-37 col.1337, no. 2459 [BL IO Islamic 219]
Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library E. Sachau and H. Ethé 1889 col.1006, no. 1720 [Bodl. Fraser 45]
Mughals in India: a bibliographical survey. Vol. 1. Manuscripts D.N. Marshall 1962 p.443
A catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1896) p.227, no. 138 [Camb. Oo. 6.61]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: c. 200 folios.
Dimensions (leaf): 24.3 × 16 cm.
Dimensions (written): 22 × 11 cm.
Foliation: Not foliated or paginated.

Layout

16 lines per page.

Not ruled. Rubrications in red.

Hand(s)

Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: 2 seals (one dated 1184, Edward Smith Bahadur, year 11; i.e. 1770). This is very likely Edward Smith (d. 1830), secretary to Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India, 1774-85; Bonhams sold a Qur'an owned by Edward Smith https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23436/lot/30/. See also other seals at https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/02/some-british-islamic-style-seals-in-persian-manuscripts-from-india.html and https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2014/03/performing-authority-the-islamic-seals-of-british-colonial-officers.html.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, Indian style. A pressure molded turanj , pendants and corner pieces. Plain paper doublures. Condition: The binding is significantly larger than the folios within. Dimensions: 24 × 15.5 × 3 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: (no number found).

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

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