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Summary of Contents: اللواحظ والتقائهم Another similar Arabic work entitled al-Lawáhi wa'n-Nafá iḥ, comprising 506
chapters or súras. The last of these ends on f. 213b with the same series of
numerals as the two preceding MSS., except that at the end the letters JJ are
substituted for arr. This is followed by a short piece apparently commemorating
the death on Muharram 24, 1329/Jan. 25, 1911, of a Bábí woman related to Subh-i-
Azal, and beginning: بسم الله الأقرب الأوسع، ذكر كتاب للورقة التى رفعت الى الله ورجعت الى ربها في ليلة ٢٤
محرم ذلك اليوم شما وقضت أيامها وكان الأمر فى شأنها من لدى الله مقضيا

Author: Ṣubḥ-i Azal, d. 1912 صبح ازل

Title: al-Lawāḥiẓ wa-al-nafāʼiḥ

Title: اللواحظ والنفائح

Language(s): Arabic

Author: Ṣubḥ-i Azal, d. 1912 صبح ازل

Title: Short piece commemorating the death of a woman related to the author

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 214

Dimensions: 20 × 12.7 cm.

Layout

15 lines

Hand(s)

Large, clear naskh

History

Origin: 1329 AH; 1910 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

1859

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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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