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THE QUATRAINS OF ABOLFAT'H GHIA'TH-E-DIN EBRAHIM KHAYAM OF NISHABUR. Tehran, Elmi, 1963.
There are 60 quatrains in English, French, German, Russian, Persian, Urdu, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, selected by M. Ramazani. The edition is illustrated by Tajvidi , with a “Publishers’ foreward” [sic] by Ali Akbar Elmi, Edward FitzGerald’s introduction, a French “Préface” by Ali Nô-Rouze, and introductions in German and in Russian, both anonymous.

English French German

The English quatrains are taken from Edward FitzGerald’s first edition, but their sequence is arbitrary.

Number of quatrains:
FitzGerald (1859) - 60

Index	FitzGerald 1859
1	51
2	65
3	40
4	70
5	61
6	64
7	28
8	14
9	43
10	53
11	67
12	44
13	3
14	16
15	22
16	45
17	18
18	9
19	60
20	32
21	58
22	50
23	36
24	73
25	49
26	75
27	72
28	74
29	62
30	68
31	63
32	69
33	29
34	52
35	47
36	48
37	46
38	42
39	39
40	38
41	37
42	35
43	34
44	33
45	31
46	27
47	24
48	26
49	25
50	23
51	21
52	20
53	19
54	17
55	15
56	12
57	10
58	6
59	2
60	1

Two quatrains are selected from J.B. Nicolas’ edition of 1867; four quatrains are selected from Franz Toussaint’s translation of 1924, and 54 quatrains are by A. E’tessam-Zadeh. Of these we find 53 quatrains in his edition of 1931 and one, number 50 (F 4), appeared earlier in the polyglot edition by Tahrir-Iran of 1955. One quatrain appears twice, number 16-29.

Number of quatrains:
E’tessam-Zadeh (1931) - 53
Toussaint (1924) - 4
Nicolas (1867) - 2
E’tessam-Zadeh (Tahir-Iran, 1955) - 1

Index	Toussaint 1924	E'tessam 1931	E'tessam 1955	Nicolas 1867
1	111
2		114
3		121
4		134
5		231
6		172
7		210
8		202
9		178
10		212
11		6
12	64
13		209
14		31
15		18
16*		19
17		64
18		101
19		233
20		286
21		86
22		306
23		203
24		297
25		223
26		185
27		120
28		5
29*		19
30		56
31		12
32				162
33				117
34		92
35		232
36		200
37		254
38		234
39	58
40		124
41		36
42		30
43		222
44		109
45		240
46		284
47		296
48	44
49		335
50			42 (F 4)
51		186
52		251
53		96
54		17
55		159
56		83
57		213
58		158
59		1
60		143

The German quatrains are selected from a variety of translations.

Number of quatrains:
Bodenstedt (1881) - 27
Von Schack (1878) - 13
Rosen (1909 and later - 9
Von der Porten (1927) - 3
Preconi (1946) - 3
Rempis (1935) - 3
Von Hammer (1818) - 2

Index	Bod	Sch	R'09	R'12	R'19	Port	Prec	Remp	Ham
1	120
2		309
3		153
4			84
5	361
6						6
7	74
8								28
9	400
10	104
11	387
12		43
13		224
14	231
15		50
16		59
17		101
18	141
19	95
20			40
21	20
22									25
23	444
24	128
25	122
26	325
27	152
28		96
29							75
30			38
31								44
32		279
33			37
34	111
35						102
36				62
37	466
38			58
39	417
40	386
41		187
42	64
43						100
44							103
45							39
46				34
47	279
48		315
49		267
50			77
51								16
52	261
53	172
54	232
55	153
56									22
57		125
58	249
59	354
60					60

Elmi 1963 - IV

Tahrir-Iran 1955 - I

Kashani [ca. 1960] - II

Sina'i [ca. 1960] - III

Elmi 1963 - IV

Tahrir-Iran 1964 - V

Amir-Kabir 1967 - VI

Kachani 1968 - VII

Shumposha 1972 - VIII

Padideh 1976 - IX

Padideh 1987 - X

Padideh 1988 - XI

Mirzaei 1992 - XII

Eqbal 1994 - XIII

Gooya House of culture and arts 1999 - XIV

Namak 2005 - XV

Amookhteh [ca. 2010] - XVI

Parmise 2012 - XVII

Gooya House of Culture and Art 2016 - XVIII

Arena of Art and Thought 2016 - XIX

Index	FitzGerald 1859
1	51
2	65
3	40
4	70
5	61
6	64
7	28
8	14
9	43
10	53
11	67
12	44
13	3
14	16
15	22
16	45
17	18
18	9
19	60
20	32
21	58
22	50
23	36
24	73
25	49
26	75
27	72
28	74
29	62
30	68
31	63
32	69
33	29
34	52
35	47
36	48
37	46
38	42
39	39
40	38
41	37
42	35
43	34
44	33
45	31
46	27
47	24
48	26
49	25
50	23
51	21
52	20
53	19
54	17
55	15
56	12
57	10
58	6
59	2
60	1

Index	Bod	Sch	R'09	R'12	R'19	Port	Prec	Remp	Ham
1	120
2		309
3		153
4			84
5	361
6						6
7	74
8								28
9	400
10	104
11	387
12		43
13		224
14	231
15		50
16		59
17		101
18	141
19	95
20			40
21	20
22									25
23	444
24	128
25	122
26	325
27	152
28		96
29							75
30			38
31								44
32		279
33			37
34	111
35						102
36				62
37	466
38			58
39	417
40	386
41		187
42	64
43						100
44							103
45							39
46				34
47	279
48		315
49		267
50			77
51								16
52	261
53	172
54	232
55	153
56									22
57		125
58	249
59	354
60					60

Index	FitzGerald 1859
1	51
2	65
3	40
4	70
5	61
6	64
7	28
8	14
9	43
10	53
11	67
12	44
13	3
14	16
15	22
16	45
17	18
18	9
19	60
20	32
21	58
22	50
23	36
24	73
25	49
26	75
27	72
28	74
29	62
30	68
31	63
32	69
33	29
34	52
35	47
36	48
37	46
38	42
39	39
40	38
41	37
42	35
43	34
44	33
45	31
46	27
47	24
48	26
49	25
50	23
51	21
52	20
53	19
54	17
55	15
56	12
57	10
58	6
59	2
60	1

Index	Bod	Sch	R'09	R'12	R'19	Port	Prec	Remp	Ham
1	120
2		309
3		153
4			84
5	361
6						6
7	74
8								28
9	400
10	104
11	387
12		43
13		224
14	231
15		50
16		59
17		101
18	141
19	95
20			40
21	20
22									25
23	444
24	128
25	122
26	325
27	152
28		96
29							75
30			38
31								44
32		279
33			37
34	111
35						102
36				62
37	466
38			58
39	417
40	386
41		187
42	64
43						100
44							103
45							39
46				34
47	279
48		315
49		267
50			77
51								16
52	261
53	172
54	232
55	153
56									22
57		125
58	249
59	354
60					60

Index	FitzGerald 1859
1	51
2	65
3	40
4	70
5	61
6	64
7	28
8	14
9	43
10	53
11	67
12	44
13	3
14	16
15	22
16	45
17	18
18	9
19	60
20	32
21	58
22	50
23	36
24	73
25	49
26	75
27	72
28	74
29	62
30	68
31	63
32	69
33	29
34	52
35	47
36	48
37	46
38	42
39	39
40	38
41	37
42	35
43	34
44	33
45	31
46	27
47	24
48	26
49	25
50	23
51	21
52	20
53	19
54	17
55	15
56	12
57	10
58	6
59	2
60	1

Index	Bod	Sch	R'09	R'12	R'19	Port	Prec	Remp	Ham
1	120
2		309
3		153
4			84
5	361
6						6
7	74
8								28
9	400
10	104
11	387
12		43
13		224
14	231
15		50
16		59
17		101
18	141
19	95
20			40
21	20
22									25
23	444
24	128
25	122
26	325
27	152
28		96
29							75
30			38
31								44
32		279
33			37
34	111
35						102
36				62
37	466
38			58
39	417
40	386
41		187
42	64
43						100
44							103
45							39
46				34
47	279
48		315
49		267
50			77
51								16
52	261
53	172
54	232
55	153
56									22
57		125
58	249
59	354
60					60