Catalogue of the Oriental manuscripts in the library of King's College, Cambridge
- Type
- Descriptive catalogue
- Languages
- Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Urdu
- Manuscripts
- 15
- Collections
- King's College, Cambridge
- Online
- No online copy known
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0203
Published in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series, III, 1868. 105-131.
Description (Biswas 1998)
Description of Persian (p. 107-123), Arabic (p. 123-229), Persian versions of Hindi books (p. 129); and Hindi in Persian characters 15 mss. (p. 130) and Urdu 5 mss. (p. 131) in alphabetical order. The collection was donated to the college by Edwards Ephraim Pote a Civil Servant of the East India Company in 1788. "... I have acquired a collection of Persian manuscripts amounting to more than 550 vols. I propose doing myself the honour of presenting one half of these books to our college and the other half of them to the college at Eton..." (p. 105). Extracts from his letter to the College. Patna. dated 6th Feb. 1788.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0203, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.