F. 28 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A collection of seven Bábí manuscript documents in Persian, received from the copyist Mirza Mustafà in October, 1912. They are uniform in writing and size (21'6x14 c. and 18 ll.), but Nos. 3-7 have their own separate pagination. They are as follows: (1) A history of the Bábí Insurrection at Shaykh Tabarsi in Mazandarán, entitled Waqayi-Mimiyya, by Sayyid Muhammad Husayn ibn Muḥammad Hádí of Zuwára, poetically named Mahjúr (pp. 1-92). For description of this and the two following tracts dealing with the same topic, see my Materials, pp. 237-243. (2) An account of the death or "martyrdom" of Mullá Husayn of Bushrawayh, by the same writer as the last (pp. 92-110), partly in prose and partly in verse. See Materials, loc. cit. The colophon is dated Ramadán 21, 1330/Sept. 3, 1912. (3) Another account of the Mazandarán Insurrection (pp. 1-128), said to be by Lutf-'Alí Mírzá, a Qájár prince. No colophon. (4) The Risála-i-Máshá' a'lláh (pp. 1-24), described as a refutation of Mírzá Nusrat's Risála-i-Insha a'lláh, and ascribed in the title to Sayyid Burhánu'd-Din of Balkh, but in reality, according to Mírzá Mustafà the scribe, written by Mírzá Áqá Khán of Kirmán in Rajab, 1310/Jan. 1893. The colophon is dated 1 Shawwál, 1330/Sept. 13, 1912. (5) The biography of the above-mentioned Mirza Aqá Khán (pp. 1-13), taken from the Názimu'l-Islám's lithographed Tarikh-i-Bidári-yi-Irániyán ("History of the Awakening of the Persians"). He was born in 1270/1853-4 and was put to death at Tabriz on July 17, 1896, together with Shaykh Ahmad " Rabi " of Kirnae and Khabiru'l-Mulk, on suspicion of complicity in the assassination of Náşiru'd-Din Sháh. See my Persian Revolution, pp. 93-96. (6) The Sakfa-i-Ridawiyya (pp. 1-5), in Arabic, ascribed to the Báb and beginning : الصحيفة السادسة فى الخطب وهى مرتبة بأربعة عشر خطبة الخطبة الأولى، هذه الخطبة قد انشأت فى كلّ ما سطر في ذلك الكتاب ليكون الكل بذلك من الشاهدين الله الرحمن الرحيم بسم الحمد لله الذى خلق الماء بسر الانشاء وأقام العرش على الماء الخ In the latter part of this tract the author enumerates his writings (fourteen in number) produced during the two years succeeding the Manifestation (1260-2 1844-6), pi. (1) the Kitábul-Ahmadiyya, explaining the first part of the Qur'an (2) the Kitábu'l- Alawiyya, containing 700 súras, each of seven verses; (3) the Kitábul-Hasaniya; (4) the Kitabu'l-Husayniyya, explaining the Saratu Yin in III súras (one for each verse of the original), each containing 42 verses. The remaining ten bear the title of Sahifa instead of Kitáb, and are called after the remaining nine Imáms and Fátima; i.e. a book is dedicated to each of the "Four- teen Sinless ones" (Chahárdah Masúm). The Báb speaks at the end of other books which "passed out of my hands and were stolen on the Pilgrimage journey," and exhorts anyone who finds them to preserve them most carefully: و اما ما خرج من يدى وسرق في سبيل الحج قد ذكر تفصيله فى صحيفة الرضوية فمن وجد طيبة على احسن خط بالواح لدى منه شيئًا وجب عليه حفظه فيا طوبى لمن استحفظ كل ما نزل من نوالذي أكرمنى آياته [ان] حرفا منها أعزّ لدى من ملك الآخرة والاولى واستغفر الله ربّى عن التحديد بالقليل وسبحان الله ربّ العرش عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين (7) Arabic letters (18 pp.) written by the Báb during the earlier period of his mission to (1) the Sharif Sulaymán and the people of Mecca (pp. 1-2); (2) to Hajji Sulaymán Khán; (3) from Bushire to the King of Persia (pp. 3-5); (4) in answer to Mirza Hasan the historiographer (Wagdyi-nigdr) "in the Land of Sad" (Isfahan)
4.
Title: Risālah-i mā shāʼa Allāh
Title: رساله ما شاء الله
Language(s): Arabic
References
Refutation of the Risālah-i in shāʼa Allāh رساله ان شاء الله of .
5. pp. 1-13
Title: تاريخ بيدارى ايرانيان
Only the biography of Mīrzā Āqā Khān taken from this lithographed work.
Language(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 1-92
Dimensions: 21.6 × 14 cm.
Layout
18 lines
Hand(s)
Uniform in writing
History
Origin: 1330 AH; 1912 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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