Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

F. 26 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: Another composite volume containing two printed works by Hippolyte Dreyfus
the Essai sur le Béhaïsme (Paris, 1909, pp. 138); and l'Epître au Fils du Loup
par Baháou'lláh (Paris, 1913, pp. xvii + 185). These are followed by a tract in
Persian lithographed in April, 1902, in Egypt, and comprising 223 pp., entitled:
این رساله ایست که جناب خادم ابهى عليه منكل بهاء ابهاه در جواب نامه جناب سمی جهرمی
عليه بهاء الله وعنايته مرقوم داشته آلخ
The only manuscript portion of the contents is the biography of Bahá'u'lláh
written in Arabic by Muhammad Jawad of Qazwin in 1322/1904, the translation of
which constitutes the first part (pp. 1-112) of my Materials for the Study of the
Babi Religion (Cambridge, 1918). Some account of it will be found at pp. viii-x
of the same work. The original is written in a neat ta'liq, comprises 87 pp. of
18'2 x 11'8 c. and 17 ll., and was completed in Şafar, 1322/April, 1904.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 87 pp.
Dimensions: 18.2 × 11.8 cm.

Layout

17 lines

Hand(s)

Neat ta'liq

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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