Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ran L jramjnnri cm i mur ise ^. A Omar Khayyam England: No. 140 of the Ouseley MSS. at theBodleian, written at Shiraz, A. d. 1460. Thiscontains but 158 Rubaiyat. One in the AsiaticSocietys Library at Calcutta (of which we havea Copy), contains (and yet incomplete) 516, thoughswelled to that by all kinds of Repetition andCorruption. So Von Hammer speaks of his Copyas containing about 200, while Dr. Sprenger cata-logues the Lucknow MS. at double that Scribes, too, of the Oxford and Calcutta

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ran L jramjnnri cm i mur ise ^. A Omar Khayyam England: No. 140 of the Ouseley MSS. at theBodleian, written at Shiraz, A. d. 1460. Thiscontains but 158 Rubaiyat. One in the AsiaticSocietys Library at Calcutta (of which we havea Copy), contains (and yet incomplete) 516, thoughswelled to that by all kinds of Repetition andCorruption. So Von Hammer speaks of his Copyas containing about 200, while Dr. Sprenger cata-logues the Lucknow MS. at double that Scribes, too, of the Oxford and Calcutta to do their Work under a sort of Protest;each beginning with a Tetrastich (whether genuineor not), taken out of its alphabetical order; theOxford with one of Apology ; the Calcutta withone of Expostulation, supposed (says a Notice 1 Since this Paper was written (adds the Reviewer in anote), we have met with a Copy of a very rare Edition,printed at Calcutta in 1S36. This contains 43S Tetrastichs,with an Appendix containing 54 others not found in someMSS.

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