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Art. XIX.—Al-Muzaffariyé: containing a Recent Contribution to the Study of 'Omar Khayyām

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

E. D. Ross
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Under the above Arabic title there has just appeared in St. Petersburg a Festschrift to Baron Victor Rosen, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his professional activity. It contains articles extending over a wide range of subjects by eleven of his former pupils, who are most of them at present professors or lecturers at the University of St. Petersburg.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1898 , pp. 349 - 366
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1898

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page 351 note 1 The writer haa in view the well-known criticisms of Hammer, Renan, Ethé, Nicolas, Garcin de Tassy, Whinfield, Aug. Müller, and others.

page 352 note 1 Here (in the original article) follows the Arabic text [Berlin Library Or. MSS., 217 (B.)], while in a parallel column is printed a Persian translation, taken from a (presumably) unique MS. in the Imp. Asiatic Mua. of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences [No. 574, Aghii (II)]. Professor Schukovski in his translation has followed the Persian version, which is fuller than the original and seems to us to take liberties with the Arabic in the process of translation. We have followed the Arabic only.—E. D. R.

page 352 note 2 The translation of this title is hard to determine without any acquaintance with the contents of the pamphlet.—E. D. R.

page 355 note 1 The following sentence is somewhat obscure; it reads—

page 356 note 1 This quatrain does not occur in any of the known editions of 'Omar; but in the Haft Iḳlīm it is (with slight variation) attributed to Ḥakim Sanāī (d. A.H. 525 or 535).

page 357 note 1 Here follows the Arabic verse in question, and a very obscure passage containing a commentary on the same.

page 357 note 2 The name of the Khalif has disappeared from the MS.

page 359 note 1 No one has yet arrived at a satisfactory translation of the end of this line. It probably refers to some game: cf. Vullers' Lexicon, ii, 1,463.

page 359 note 2 A still more complete list is to be found in Mr. Heron Allen's edition. The oldest MS., the Bodleian [which in this edition has been reproduced in facsimile], bears the date of 865 A.H. and contains 154 quatrains. Mr. Allen calls attention to the MS. of Bankipur, recently discovered, which, though it bears the early date of 961 A.H., contains as many as 603 quatrains.—E. D. R.

page 359 note 3 Mrs. Jessie E. Cadell (Fraser's Magazine, May, 1879).

page 360 note 1 This refers to the Bodleian MS. See note above.

page 362 note 1 See Lucknow edition, p. 8, and Teheran ed., p. 14.

page 362 note 3 See Whinfield, No. 126.

page 364 note 1 We have seen above that 15 is the number.