different records of manuchehri’s six odes (i.e. qasidahs) in three old sources

manuscripts of manuchehri’s divan are relatively new. only one manuscript dates back to 1051 a.h. scribes have systematically “modernized” the older records. to have access to the poet’s language, one must either refer to the old manuscripts which are still unknown or else resort to literary miscellanies containing the poet’s poems. the author has presented here a number of different and rather older records of the poet’s six odes from three old sources.