Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Poems by an Anonymous Poet (Najib-e Jorfadeqani)

While the number of published critical texts increases every day, a large part of the literary works in manuscripts is preserved out of sight in different libraries. Divan of Najib-e Jorfadeqani is one of the texts critically edited by Ahmad Karami, and published for the first time in spring 1371. Suffering from many inaccuracies, corruptions, unsolved ambiguous misreadings, and lacking some verses present in the recently discovered manuscripts, this version cannot be considered as a reliable critical text of Jorfadeqani’s poems. Based on several recently discovered manuscripts, including the manuscript preserved in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the one preserved in British Museum Library, the paper attempts to compare and contrast them with the published text to show some of the existing problems of this text.