The Necessity of Critical Correction of Seyed Hasan Qaznavi’s Divan

Abstract

Seyed Hasan Qaznavi is one of the great poets whose poetry and character have not been known very much due to living in one of the most fruitful periods of Persian poetry. His divan was first published with many problem in 1328 (A.H) by the correction of Muhammad Taqi Modares Razavi. These problems can be studied in the following fields: the method of correction (not specifying the basic copy and order of using other copies, not specifying the source of verses and poems, the defect of copies) variant copies (mentioning the variant copies without the sign (/) of copy, incomplete variant copies, preference of annotation over the text, sameness of annotation and text) incorrect forms omissions (poems and verses) general problems (repetition of poems and verses, print errors, not having appendices and defection in end indices and using sources with unscientific publishing). Besides some points such as determining and explaining the specific method of correction and providing complete variant copies by considering trustworthiness which is one of the primary and obvious principles of scientific correction and should be regarded in the critical correction of this Divan, nowadays some authentic copies of this Divan have been obtained which eliminate many mistakes, Tashifs and omissions of Modares’ printed version. Proposing various instances of such mistakes and defections, this research emphasizes the necessity of recorrection of Seyed Hasan Qaznavi’s Divan.

Keywords

• Seyed Hasan Qaznavi
• Divan of poems
• manuscript
• necessity of correction
• correction of texts