Wandering quatrains
“Omar Khayyam i stranstvuyushchie chetverostishiya” (Omar Khayyam and Wandering Quatrains), V.A. Zhukovski.
In: Al-Muzaffariya. (Festschrift für Baron V. Rosen), St. Petersburg, 1897.
The table is borrowed from the article "Al-Musaffariyé: containing a recent contribution to the Study of Omar Khayyám" by E. Denison Ross, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1898, pp. 349–366. This paper is a discussion and a partial translation of the contribution by Prof. V.A. Zhukovski.
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| Index | Nicolas | Whinfield | Bodleian |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | |
| 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| 4 | 9 | 8 | |
| 5 | 10 | 9 | |
| 6 | 18 | 21 | |
| 7 | 24 | 28 | 11* |
| 8 | 38 | 42 | 19 |
| 9 | 47 | 50 | |
| 10 | 49 | 52 | |
| 11 | 54 | 57 | |
| 12 | 55 | 58 | |
| 13 | 59 | 62 | |
| 14 | 63 | 68 | |
| 15 | 69 | 72 | |
| 16 | 70 | 73 | |
| 17 | 74 | 76 | |
| 18 | 76 | 78 | |
| 19 | 79 | 81 | |
| 20 | 89 | 91 | |
| 21 | 91 | 93 | |
| 22 | 94 | ||
| 23 | 96 | 97 | |
| 24 | 110 | 140 | |
| 25 | 113 | 142 | |
| 26 | 116 | 144 | 75 |
| 27 | 182 | 197 | |
| 28 | 120 | 147 | |
| 29 | 130 | 156 | |
| 30 | 141 | 164 | |
| 31 | 143 | 166 | |
| 32 | 144 | ||
| 33 | 146 | 168 | |
| 34 | 152 | 173 | |
| 35 | 155 | ||
| 36 | 158 | 177 | |
| 37 | 165 | 183 | |
| 38 | 168 | 185 | |
| 39 | 179 | 194 | 77 |
| 40 | 183 | 198 | |
| 41 | 184 | 199 | |
| 42 | 187 | 202 | |
| 43 | 193 | 206 | |
| 44 | 199 | 243 | |
| 45 | 202 | 246 | |
| 46 | 203 | 87* | |
| 47 | 224 | 96* | |
| 48 | 225 | 264 | |
| 49 | 226 | 264 | |
| 50 | 229 | 1 | |
| 51 | 230 | 269 | 99 |
| 52 | 236 | 276 | |
| 53 | 238 | 278 | |
| 54 | 255 | 295 | |
| 55 | 260 | 300 | |
| 56 | 263 | 306 | |
| 57 | 265 | 308 | |
| 58 | 266 | 309 | |
| 59 | 274 | 317 | |
| 60 | 290 | 330 | 116 |
| 61 | 294 | 332 | 118 |
| 62 | 296 | 333 | |
| 63 | 301 | 357 | |
| 64 | 309 | ||
| 65 | 324 | ||
| 66 | 328 | 369 | |
| 67 | 337 | 376 | |
| 68 | 348 | 390 | 129 |
| 69 | 350 | 392 | |
| 70 | 351 | 393 | 130 |
| 71 | 353 | 395 | |
| 72 | 361 | 406 | |
| 73 | 379 | 420 | |
| 74 | 370 | 414 | 135 |
| 75 | 374 | 417 | |
| 76 | 387 | 430 | |
| 77 | 394 | 436 | 145 |
| 78 | 396 | 438 | |
| 79 | 426 | 463 | |
| 80 | 438 | ||
| 81 | 444 | 476 | |
| 82 | 450 | 490 | 157* |
The table shows the corresponding numbers of the "wandering" quatrains in Nicolas (1867) and Whinfield (1883). The numbers in the Bodleian MS are according Heron-Allen's edition. The corresponding numbers with the Bodleian quatrains were taken from the footnotes in Whinfield's edition.
Some references to the Bodleian quatrains were added by Ross, which he marked with an asterisk.