The oldest manuscript of Khw?ju-ye Kerm?n??s Div?n Reconstructing his collection of poetry dated 750 AH/ 1349, based on two newly found MSS

The earliest Divān of Khwājū Kirmānī (1290-1352) was collected and transcribed during the poet's lifetime. The bulk of that Divān which is now housed in Tehran’s National Malek Library, has already been the subject of a great deal of research, and was published as facsimile in 2013. However, this manuscript is but a section of an original copy that was disassembled into several portions about a hundred years ago and transferred to different libraries.
Challenging the common belief that it is a complete manuscript, the present article brings to light two other manuscripts, arguing that these together with the Malek Library copy, were all once parts of the very same original codex. One fragment of the original codex is preserved in the British Library, and another in the Central Library of Tehran University.
The article aims to reconstruct the original codex and establish the order in which Khwājū’s poems originally appeared. This has involved subjecting the three fragments to detailed textual analysis, comparing their contents with more than 30 other manuscripts of Khwājū’s works from libraries around the world. Further, the artistic merits of the original manuscript, in the context of book making during the Inju dynasty, have been addressed and the approximate date of the dispersal of Khwājū’s Divān estimated