[IO Islamic 274] واجب الحفظ مرزا صائب

Wâjib-alḥifiż-i-Mirzâ-Ṣâ’ib This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1619 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 274 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1619 Another copy of the same. Another copy of the same selections in the same order and under the same heads, introduced by a preface, which Mîr Muḥammad Murâd composed, in order to say a few words about Ṣâ’ib’s excellency and to give an index of the whole work. It is wrongly styled here (fol. 1b, l. 4) مرآت الجمال, comp. the remark in the preceding copy. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1b: اين مجموعه را كه معنى پردازان ايران و سخن پناهان صفاهان بمددگارى طبع سليم الخ. Beginning of the selections the same as in the preceding copy: خورد دانست آنكه الخ. Slightly injured here and there. No. 274, ff. 461, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 83/8 in. by 4½ in.