Description of Columbia University. MS Or 344: Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 344: Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 344: Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript codex. Title from caption title (p. [1]). Smith note: "I think there are 767 quatrains there, a few less than the Calcutta Ms." (flyleaf 1 recto, at back of book). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 344 13848487 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097683023 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_344.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13848487 Collection of quatrains. Persian Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam. رباعيات عمر خيام Omar Khayyam عمر خيام scribe Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, active 1688 محمد عبد السبحان، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [1] Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam.

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 48 paginated leaves : 145 x 88 (108 x 58) mm, bound to 155 x 90 mm 20 lines in two columns; border-ruled. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, green with border-rules in blue and gold and gold leaf motifs between the columns (p. [1]); the rest of the pages are border-ruled in gold and blue with red horizontal lines dividing the quatrains. Some leaves are gold speckled in the textblock area. Notations: signed "David Eugene Smith" Gold sprinkled, ruled box; unwritten Gold sprinkled, ruled box; unwritten Illuminated headpiece Notations: signed "DES"

Brown leather over pasteboard with blind stamped central toronja and blind tooled frame; gold speckled (now green) paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Copy completed on 15 Muḥarram in the year 1100 A.H. (November 1688) by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, a resident of Iṣfahān (p. 78).

1688 Iṣfahān Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith, "I bought this MS at a Persian dealer in Lahore, India, in December, 1907" (signed note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso at front of book). Persian poetry--747-1500 Quatrains, Persian--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Illuminations (painting)