Note 3 — INTRODUCTION.
Edward Rehatsek translation
The following particulars regarding the author and his work are derived from Dr. Charles Rieu’s Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. ii, pp. 767-8, Add. 7619, and Or. 1370; and from Mr. F. F. Arbuthnot’s useful and interesting little work, Persian Portraits: a Sketch of Persian History, Literature, and Politics (London: Quaritch), p. 119. The title of Shamsah ú Kahkahah, under which Mr. Arbuthnot describes this collection, is taken from the names of a Witch and a Vazír who figure in the second báb.