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Eqbal 1994 - XIII

RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald. Tehran, Eqbal, 1994

Another polyglot but rather plain edition, with only a few illustrations in colour, containing 50 quatrains in English, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Urdu.

English French German

The English quatrains are taken from FitzGerald’s fourth version.

Number of quatrains:
FitzGerald (1879) - 50

IndexFitzGerald 1879
1 71
2 89
3 55
4 84
5 28
6 16
7 59
8 73
9 91
10 60
11 3
12 17
13 23
14 19
15 10
16 87
17 32
18 70
19 37
20 99
21 69
22 96
23 100
24 85
25 92
26 86
27 29
28 72
29 42
30 43
31 68
32 58
33 48
34 21
35 36
36 35
37 34
38 27
39 25
40 63
41 26
42 24
43 22
44 20
45 18
46 13
47 11
48 6
49 2
50 1

45 French quatrains are from E’tessam-Zadeh’s translation of 1931. The remaining five French quatrains appeared in the edition edited by H.A.N. Esfandiary (Shumposha, 1972): numbers 6 (F 15), 27 (F 20), 37 (F 22), 40 (F 19) and 42 (F 18).

Number of quatrains:
E’tessam-Zadeh (1931) - 45
E’tessam-Zadeh (Shumposha, 1972) - 5

IndexE'tessam 1931E'tessam 1972
1 212
2 114
3 121
4 231
5 284
6 14 (F 15)
7 178
8 360
9 6
10 34
11 226
12 31
13 18
14 64
15 354
16 233
17 286
18 306
19 203
20 297
21 223
22 120
23 88
24 19
25 12
26 56
27 29 (F 20)
28 92
29 232
30 200
31 254
32 234
33 124
34 294
35 30
36 222
37 33 (F 22)
38 214
39 296
40 26 (F 19)
41 335
42 23 (F 18)
43 186
44 96
45 17
46 83
47 308
48 158
49 1
50 143

The German quatrains are from Nordmeyer (1926) and Rosen (1909 and later). Two quatrains remain unidentified: number 37 (G 6) and number 40 (G4).

Number of quatrains:
Nordmeyer (1926) - 30
Rosen (1909 and 1912) - 18
Unidentified - 2

IndexNordmeyer 1926Rosen 1909Rosen 1912NN
1 71
2 89
3 55
4 84
5 34
6 16
7 59
8 73
9 91
10 60
11 3
12 17
13 23
14 22
15 10
16 87
17 40
18 70
19 18
20 99
21 69
22 26
23 3
24 85
25 92
26 38
27 29
28 72
29 42
30 43
31 5
32 58
33 1
34 56
35 17
36 35
37 34 (G 6)
38 27
39 42
40 22 (G 4)
41 75
42 24
43 22
44 21
45 18
46 13
47 25
48 85
49 62
50 1