Cerulli Persiani 1054 | [I] The Water-Bringing of 'Ali Akbar (Fathnama-i Fatima) [ta'zieh, Turkish]; [II] Part of [Sakina?]

Titre

En Cerulli Persiani 1054 | [I] The Water-Bringing of 'Ali Akbar (Fathnama-i Fatima) [ta'zieh, Turkish]; [II] Part of [Sakina?] — Unidentified Drama

Fr Cerulli Persiani 1055 — Fihrist [Recueil d'index de taʿziyah sans correspondance]

Fa 1) آب آوردن علی‌اکبر (فتح‌نامه فاطمه)
2) نقش [سکینه؟] — نمایشنامه ناشناخته

Type

Codex / Collection of loose booklets

Créateur/ Créatrice

Anonymous

Sujet

En Literary approaches, Pahlavi dynasty

Fr Approches littéraires ; Dynastie Pahlavi

Identifiant

Cerulli pers. 1055

Format

Collection of approximately 90+ loose fihrist booklets (not paginated as a single codex)

Résumé

En Ottoman Turkish Shiʿi religious play (taʿzieh), one of the few Turkish-language items in the Cerulli collection, in two parts. Unit I: Āb āvurdan-i ʿAlī Akbar ("ʿAlī Akbar Brings Water") — alternatively titled Fatḥnāma-i Fāṭima ("Letter of Victory of Fāṭima") — dramatizing the episode of the Ninth Day of Muḥarram (Tāsuʿā), during the siege of Karbala, in which ʿAlī Akbar attempts to fetch water for the thirsty camp of Ḥusayn while facing the Umayyad forces. The alternative title Fatḥnāma-i Fāṭima suggests the play also incorporates a letter or message from Fāṭima conveying a sense of spiritual victory or consolation. Classified by Rossi & Bombaci under subject VII.B.11 ("Il Nono Giorno" — The Ninth Day) and with a secondary reference to the Fāṭima cycle (V). One of three variant witnesses to this episode: MSS 471, 498, 612, 1013 (variant a); 792 (variant b); 1054 (variant c); also cited: Litten VIII. Composed of 9 role-booklets totalling 46 folios, with a fihrist (Zaynab's role). Dated 1328 bvārštdī/1949. Scribe/owner: Ḥusayn Karīmī son of Mašhadī Ibrāhīm, resident of Qamīk. Provenance: Zanjān — indicating Azerbaijani Turkish-speaking milieu. Unit II: a single folio containing an unidentified role (possibly Sakīna lamenting captivity), classified under X.D.17 (?).

Fr A unique meta-document in the Cerulli collection: not a taʿziya manuscript in the usual sense, but a collection of approximately 90+ unmatched fihrist booklets (tables of contents / dramatis personae indices) that Cerulli sent to the Vatican separately from the main manuscripts, as supplementary indices for MSS 1–532 in the collection. As explained by Rossi and Bombaci in their Introduction, some were placed with the manuscripts they referred to; the rest remained to constitute no. 1055 because they could not be matched exactly. Each sub-unit (numbered in Roman numerals, with additional «B» and «D» sub-series) is a fihrist for a separate taʿziya drama — typically listing character names and opening lines, without containing the full play text. The sub-units cover the full thematic range of the taʿziya repertoire, spanning all subject classes in Rossi and Bombaci's classification system — from pre-Islamic biblical narratives through the Muḥammad cycle, the ʿAlī and Fāṭima cycles, the Karbala and post-Karbala cycle, down to Imams after Ḥusayn and edifying historical tales. Various provenances are noted on individual booklets: Māzandarān, Kāšān, Kirmān, and others. Some bear dates from 1953–1954.

Date

1949

Source

Vatican City

Edition

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Vatican City

Référence

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Cerulli.pers.1055

Langue

Fa & Tr

Citation bibliographique

Rossi, Ettore, and Alessio Bombaci. Elenco di drammi religiosi persiani (Fondo Mss. Vaticani Cerulli). Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1961. MS Cerulli pers. 1055, pp. [Introduction].

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