A Review of the Verses added to Maktubat-e- Sadi in Stone Prints

As researchers of the handwritten versions assume, reader of such texts tend to attach and add their understanding of the stories, statements or poems in the margin of the texts. Later, these attachments are added to the main text by some writers. These additions are either intentional and unintentional; the former is generally introduced either by those who intend to rewrite the manuscript for themselves or by those who were both writers and correctors of the handwritten texts. This has been manifested in stone prints of the Maktubat-e-Sadi as the most important Persian work by Sharaf al-dîn-e Maneri (1263 ? - 1380).  In stone prints of this work, the writers have added some verses to the text which have never been in original handwritten versions. The authors of present research have identified the verses added to the main text and indicated how these verses are linked to Maktubat-e-Sadi. Accordingly, the attached verses can be divided into three classes: first the verses by lecturers who lived prior to Maneri, second, verses of speakers who lived after Sharaf al-dîn and third, verses from some anonymous poets. We assume that irrespective of verses having no links to the main text, other added verses in stone prints are related to the Maktubat-e-Sadi for six reasons: 1) emphasizing and confirming meaning, 2) illuminating the Text, 3) completing and complementing the poems' meanings, 4) rendering the meaning in verse, 5) Meaning interpretation and 6) simile and idiomatic expressions.