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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$F. 6 (5). c uu A small Arabic treatise on supererogatory prayers and other religious obligations, etc., entitled al-Muntakhab (“the Select”) by Hajji Muhammad Karim (or perhaps his son), the head of the later Shaykhi school after the breaking away of the Babis, beginning: UaJt t«i ■<) lyj W^lrw ^ The author speaks of Sayyid Kazim of Rasht as “ our most learned Lord and Master” (f. 22^), and quotes a prayer of his (if. 44*^ seqq). The tract comprises seven chapters. This MS. was given to me in Kirman in the summer of 1888, and comprises 80 ff. of io‘8 X 6'5 c. and 12 11. It is written in a small, neat naskh with rubrications and numerous marginal notes and glosses in Arabic and Persian, and was copied in 1296/1879. bAbI, BAHAt and AZALI mss. (F. 7-F. 66). F- 7 (9). V This Sahifat bayndl-Haramayn, or “ Tract [revealed] between the two [Holy] Shrines” is one of the earliest writings of Mirzd ‘All Muhammad the Bab. It is in Arabic, is addressed to Hdjji Sayyid ‘All of Kirmdn, and begins after the Bismi lldh: I * JSi\ ^qL .0 wjLt The only other copy of this rare book which I have seen belongs to the Leyden Library, bears the class-mark No. 2414^® and was copied in Jumdda ii, 1263/May, 1847, while the B4b was still living. The present copy was made in Cyprus by Ridwdn ‘All (“Constantine the Persian”), the son of Mirzd Yahya Subh-i-Azal, was completed on December 26, 1905, and was given to me by the late Mr Claude Delaval Cobham, formerly Commissioner of Larnaca in Cyprus. It comprises$