The Study of Some Tarqimehs of Manuscripts of Sham's Sonnets

Tarqimeh is one of the most important elements of manuscripts and it is indeed their ID card. Thus، its different parts should be studied exactly. One of the works copied many times in different periods and various manuscripts of it are available now is Shams’ sonnets by Molana Jalal al-Din Muhammad. The most comprehensive correction of this work dates back to almost half a century ago done by Badi’ al-Zaman Forouzanfar. Among various manuscripts of this work –the manuscripts used and introduced by Forouzanfar as well as those he did not access to- until the late ninth century، twelve manuscripts have Tarqimeh. In this research، different parts of these Tarqimehs including their language، date of writing، name of scribe etc، are explored. One of the valuable tasks in the field of manuscripts is to give readers the pictures of Tarqimehs; however، this matter has not been done in the cataloguing of manuscripts yet. After exact investigation of various parts of Tarqimehs some points were found which had been unnoticed before like: the Tarqimeh of Qareh Hisar manuscript in which there were some disputes over reading the date of this Tarqimeh and the correct date of this Tarqimeh was discovered by using textual as well as non-textual evidence and consequently the oldest manuscript with Tarqimeh was recognized and introduced.