Examination and comparison of two manuscripts of Rostamdari's Ganjineh Raz by one scribe

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Persian Language and Literature, FiroozAbad Unit, Islamic Azad University, FiroozAbad, Iran.

2 Corresponding author, Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, FiroozAbad Unit, Islamic Azad University, FiroozAbad, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payam Noor University, Fars Province, Iran.

Abstract

Purpose: Ganjineh Raz is a book by a lesser-known author named Owais ibn Ghiyath al-Din Rostamdari, which aims to present expositions a number of verses from Nizami's Khamsa. Five manuscripts of this book are available. The oldest manuscript of this book was inscribed by a scribe named Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Girouyi in the year 1056 Hijri. The same scribe inscribed another copy a year later, which possesses significant differences with the previous manuscript.
Method and Research: The research method employed in this study is descriptive-analytical, based on extensive library research, document analysis, and detailed comparison of manuscript copies.
Findings and Conclusions: The present study aims to prove this hypothesis that the second manuscript is in fact a second edition of this book which was re-written under the supervision of the author himself, because the significant differences between the two manuscripts are far beyond misspelling, misreading, distortion, carelessness, and other similar flaws on the part of the scribe. Instead, the corrections made in grammar and writing and even the corrections in the verses are quotations by other poets, which in some instances have led to new explanations on Nizami's verses, and it will be shown that, except for a few cases, the second manuscript is of supremacy over the first on and the other three manuscripts mainly correspond with the second manuscript in recording the parts existing in them.

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Journal of Prose Studies in Persian Literature
Volume 28, Issue 57
September 2025
Pages 61-82

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