Senior Reseacher, National Archives and Library of Iran
Abstract
Purpose: Patial inter-checking contents of two old manuscripts, then checking both against an authoritative print version to anser the question whether new edtion is needed or not. Design/Methodology/Approach: Tables of frequency were used ti analyse the text. One very lengthy chapter, one lengthy chapter, one semi-lenghy chapter, two moderate size chapters, and one very lengthy letter (nearly 15% of the entire text) were analysed. Findings: The 6th century manuscript (held at NLAI) had 144 cases of variations with the printed version. The 5th century manuscript shared 94 instances (around 70%). Conclusion: Preparing an authoritative version of the book is needed
Azimi, H. (2014). Nahj-ol_Balagheh: text research based on two authoritative manuscripts of 5th and 6th Hijri centuries. Librarianship and Information Organization Studies, 24(4), 100-118.
MLA
H. Azimi. "Nahj-ol_Balagheh: text research based on two authoritative manuscripts of 5th and 6th Hijri centuries". Librarianship and Information Organization Studies, 24, 4, 2014, 100-118.
HARVARD
Azimi, H. (2014). 'Nahj-ol_Balagheh: text research based on two authoritative manuscripts of 5th and 6th Hijri centuries', Librarianship and Information Organization Studies, 24(4), pp. 100-118.
VANCOUVER
Azimi, H. Nahj-ol_Balagheh: text research based on two authoritative manuscripts of 5th and 6th Hijri centuries. Librarianship and Information Organization Studies, 2014; 24(4): 100-118.
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