A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson.

Edward Granville Browne

Date:: 1932

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$XU independent states would be a misfortune not only to herself but to the whole human race.” The fact that his Persian Revolution is deeply coloured by the fervour with which he held these convictions, as well as by the origin of some of the papers and letters whence he drew the materials for his narrative, does not impair its authority as a faithful and masterly presentation of the events described. During the years 1909—1912, when the crisis was at its height, he published several pamphlets, of which the titles are given below. In his Press and Poetry of Modern Persia the literary side of the movement is attractively exhibited in text and translation. BIBLIOGRAPHY The following Bibliography is based on the list of Browne’s writings at the end of his Materials for the Study of the Bdbi Religion (1918), but differs from it in some respects. It comprises all his own books, editions, and translations ; the articles which he contributed to the J.R.A.S. tyfournal of the Royal Asiatic Society^] his political pamphlets and his papers read to and published by the Persia Society. These, together with a few more, have been classified and arranged chronologically under three heads, viz.: I. Persian Religion; II. Persian Literature, History, Science, and Travel; III. Persian Politics and Journalism. The titles of books, of which the Introductions alone were written by Browne b are not included; and I have also omitted E. J. W. Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, of which Vols. II—VI were edited by Browne after the author’s death. Although the present Bibliography is not complete, it contains, I hope, nearly everything of importance except reviews of books, letters published in newspapers, and a few scattered articles. Of these last, two, though not included in the Bibliography, deserve mention here. The first is a paper entitled, “On the Turkish Language and Turkish Philology” {Transactions of the Philological Society, 1882-1884, pp. 544—572); the second, “A Chapter from the History of Cannabis Indica,” published in the St Bartholomew s Hospital Journal for March, 1897. I. Persian Religion 1. The Babis of Persia. I. Sketch of their History, and Personal Experiences among them. H. Their Literature and Doctrines. J.R.A.S., Vol. XXI, 1889, pp. 485-526 and 881-1009. 2. A Traveller’s Narrative written to illustrate the Episode of the Bab. Edited in the original Persian and translated into English, with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes. ^ The most important of these Introductions were written for the Persian texts edited by Mirza Muhammad of Qazwin in the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series; Vol. viii, the Marzubdn-ndma (1909); Vol. X, al-Mujam ft Ma'dyiri Ash'‘drPl-^Ajam (1909); Vol. xi, the Chahdr Maqdla (1910); and Vol. XVI, I and 2, the Ta’nkh-i-Jahdn-gushd (1912 and 1916). Browne also contributed Introductions to the reprint of Morier’s Hajji Baba (1895) in the Series of English Classics edited by W. E. Henley; to The Life and Teaching of Abbas Effendi by Myron H. Phelps (New York, 1903); and to Dar-ul-Islam (1904), a record of a journey through ten of the Asiatic provinces of Turkey, by his friend Sir Mark Sykes.$