Each volume is described in the Colby Libraries web catalog, with a RUBAIYAT prestamp before the call number. They are on view in our main reading room. Our Rubáiyát Collection features more than two hundred editions. The collection was assembled by Curator Carl Weber to commemorate the centennial in 1959, as described in a March 1959 article in the Colby Library Quarterly. The many editions of the Rubáiyát feature exquisite bindings and illustrations. ()Įdward FitzGerald made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated (some would say “fanciful”) translation and adaptations of Khayyám’s rather small number of quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which also led to his revival among Iranian readers. Edmund Dulac illustration from 1909 edition of the Rubaiyat. His significance as a philosopher and teacher and his few remaining philosophical works have not received the same attention as his scientific and poetic writings. He wrote the most important treatise on algebra in pre-modern times and proposed a heliocentric theory centuries before Copernicus. The author of treatises on mechanics, geography, and music, Khayyám was one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period. Khayyám was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet from Neyshapur, in modern day Iran. The Rubáiyát is the work of Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), translated into English and adapted by Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883). “A Recent Accession”: The Colby Library Quarterly.Robert Edward Lee Strider II (President 1960-1979).Julius Seelye Bixler (President 1942-1960).Franklin Winslow Johnson (President 1929-1942).Eileen M Curran (Acting Librarian, 1973-1976) The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam: free audio download (podcast) from Listen to Genius Omar Khayyam Persian Poet 967-1049 THE RUBAIYAT Narrated by Lloyd James Download mp3 file: The Rubaiyat This file is 11 MB running time is 23 minutes alternate download link This audio program is copyrighted by Redwood Audiobooks.Kenneth P Blake, Jr (Librarian 1964-1973).James Humphry III (Librarian 1947-1957).Carl Jefferson Weber (Curator 1940-1958).

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