Details

Subject(s)

• Babism [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Autographs (manuscripts)—Islamic countries—20th century [Browse]

Summary note

Polemic against the claims of the Bābīs. Entire work consists of a muqaddimah, 51 maqālah, and a khātimah; this copy contains the first volume which ends with maqālah 31. The incipit after "va baʻd" does not correspond to the one listed in the Marʻashī catalog. Likely a holograph.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from cover label; similar label on spine, though worn.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the nineteenth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on machine-made paper. Arabic quotations in naskh and overlined in red. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal corrections and cross-outs. Paginated in Arabic script. Table of contents begun on fol. 2bis(a); fol. 2bis(b)-18bis(a) are framed for a table of contents, but left blank. Light staining; lower half of first leaf torn away. In excellent condition.
• Origin: This is likely a holograph, as there are numerous cross-outs. Poems on fol. 18bis(b) and 1a indicate that the original text was completed in 1323 H [1905 or 6]; this corresponds to the Marʻashī catalog, which states that the first volume was completed in 1323 H.
• Incipit: الحمدلله الواحد الاحد و الدائم بلا اجل و لا امد ... و بعد نگارندۀ اين گوهر آگىن اوراق و طرازندۀ اين غبرىن اطباق کمىن بندۀ خالق ذو المنن محمد على ناظم الشرىعه همدان بن محمد حسن

Binding note

Contemporary full black leather with blind-tooled fillets; brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

References

• Fihrist-i nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-ʾi ʻUmūmī-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī (1975-), XXVI, 268-272
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VI, 379

Other title(s)

حدىدۀ محماة في اجوبة بعض المقالات.

Title from fol. 2b

• Ḥadīdah-ʾi muḥammmāt fī ajvibah baʻz̤ al-maqālāt.

OCLC

817921931

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