A Study of Newly Discovered Couplets of Roudaki in an Unknown Dictionary

One of the key resources of scholars in exploring the lost heritage of classical poets of Iran, such as Abu Abdollah Rudaki, the founding Father of Iranian poetry, is to refer to ancient or unknown dictionaries that have been left unexplored. Considering the abundance of literary sources and the dispersion of Rudaki's poems in literature after him, discovering any given poem in the said sources could add to his body of works. There are many old dictionaries unexplored in the official libraries around the world. Dictionaries, among these literary and rhetorical resources, are very important due to containing many poetry evidences for different poets. By examining two versions of an anonymous Persian to Persian dictionary, indexed at Tehran University Library and National Library of Iran, we found some new poems of Rudaki that will be introduced in this paper. Furthermore, we will be discussing some new couplets attributed to Rudaki in this article.