This article transcribes, translates, analyzes, and identifies a set of seventeen poems and songs collected in the 1830s by the pioneering Orientalist and folklorist Aleksander Chodźko, who published the songs using Perso-Arabic characters. The verses are the oldest known documents in the Māzandarāni language, also known as New or Modern Tabari, which has some three million speakers in the Persian province of Māzandarān, located south of the Caspian Sea. The texts were collected from various locations in Māzandarān and hence represent more than one dialect of New Tabari. Linguistic analysis shows that Tabari has not undergone fundamental change in the last two centuries, though certain words and grammatical traits have already ceased to be used in the language. While comparing the texts with other surviving Tabari documents from the 19th Century does yield some answers, a number of questions remain.