Ḥadīdah-i muḥammmāt - Nūrī Nāẓim al-Sharīʻah Hamadānī, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan (1905)
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.
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.
Fihrist-i nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-ʾi ʻUmūmī-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī (1975-)
Keywords: Babism; Manuscripts, Persian -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Persian -- 20th century; Autographs (manuscripts) -- Islamic countries -- 20th century