An inquiry into some of the collections of Rudaki's poetry and the two newly found verses attributed to him

Following Said Nafisi and Mirzayef, who founded the practice of scholarly studies about Rudaki, and the endeavours to purge unauthentic elements from Rudaki’s poetry – particularly, those by Qatran of Tabriz – a good many books and articles have been written in order to add to the number of Rudaki’s verses and disprove the imputing of certain poems to him
Nonetheless, one cannot still trust a great number of the verses ascribed to Rudaki in the collections of his poetry. In the present study, after reviewing and evaluating some of the articles and collections of Rudaki’s poetry, attempts are made to point out as many of the shortcomings and defects as possible. In the meantime, two verses attributed to Rudaki are addressed. They appear under Rudaki’s name in the manuscript No 8820, at Majles Library, the author of which is Mahmud b. Mohammad Qondozi.