مر یا من؟ پیشنهادی دربارۀ تصحیح یک بیت از شاهنامه

Abstract

One of the important and fundamental problems relating to the emendation of the old texts which has many claims to our attention is the recognition of the pseudo-archaic forms of the words in the manuscripts. Such readings, because of their tempting forms, sometimes, mislead the editors in identifying the original one. The reading of mar-īn ( مر این ) in the second line of the first couplet excerpted from the Shāh-nāme is one of such pseudo-archaic forms: اگر کشته گشتی تو در چنگ اوی مر ایـــن گرز و این مغفر کینه جوی چـگونـه کشیـدی بـه مـازنـدران کــــمند و کـمــان تیر و گرز گران Amongst twelve manuscripts of the Shāh-nāme used by Dr. Khaleghi-Motlagh in editing the second volume, the reading of mar-īn has been recorded only in Florence manuscript and the editor has opted for this form as a lectio difficilior, whereas other original manuscripts (including the recently discovered manuscript in the Oriental Library of Saint Joseph University NC. 43, Beirut ) instead of mar-īn have man-īn” ( من این ( whose correctness and genuineness is confirmed by various evidences reported and commented on in the present article.