Rubā‘īyāt

Manuscript in Edward Fitzgerald’s handwriting of 158 rubā‘īyāt (quatrains) of ‘Umar Khayyām, copied from a transcript of Bodleian MS. Ouseley 140 made by E.B. Cowell, and collated with a manuscript belonging to the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. Ff. 1-2 contain notes by Fitzgerald on the poet and the Oxford and Calcutta manuscripts. Binding: 19th-century morocco (or imitation morocco?). Da…