The real Omar Khayyam

The real Omar Khayyam. B. Csillik.
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 10 (1960), p. 58-77.

Review of Arberry's edition of 1949.
This edition, as the Author-Editor himself tells us in his Introduction, had to fulfill the purpose of quickly presenting to the public, with a minimum of critical apparatus, the newly discovered facts in order to give share to others in the exciting work of further research. Beside the Introduction the book contains nothing but the printed text of the MS with the critical apparatus, the English versions and an alphabetical list of the quatrains. The Editor restored the dotted däl’s wherever the copyist omitted them by obvious inadvertency and — what the copyist did not even try to do — he distinguished the pä and gäf letters from the bä and käf letters. This peculiar employment of the däl, bä and käf letters speaks for the antiquity of the MS. The dots supplied by the Editor are not indicated, and this may be regretted in view of the potential hints which the presence or absence of the dots of the däl’s might have given to the student of phonology and linguistic history.

Notes on Omar Khayyám (1050-1123) and recent discoveries

Notes on Omar Khayyám (1050-1123) and recent discoveries. R.C. Archibald.
Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 1 (1953) nr. 9, p. 351-358.

Up to a decade ago, Omar was regarded by scholars as a comparatively minor Persian poet. But within the past three years this view has been shown to be entirely wrong. Two new manuscripts of Omar’s poetry have been found, and one of them dated only 85 years after Omar’s death. From these Professor Arberry, of the University of Cambridge, has discovered that Omar was regarded by Persians as one of their greatest poets, and that the existing quotations point to an original corpus of at least 750 quatrains.

Recherches sur les Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám

Recherches sur les Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám. Par Arthur Christensen. Heidelberg, Carl Winters Universität, 1905.

Contents:
Préface
Première partie. Histoire et critique
Deuxième partie. Caractère national et vie littéraire
Troisième partie. L’oeuvre intitulée “Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám”
Appendice I. Concordance des principales éditions et de quelques manuscrits des Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám
Appendice II. Additions
Corrections

A bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám …

A bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám together with kindred matter in prose and verse pertaining thereto. Collected and arranged by Ambrose George Potter. London, Ingpen and Grant, 1929. xiii. 313 p.
Reprinted 1994 by Olms, Hildesheim.

The nectar of grace. ‘Omar Khayyám’s life and works

The nectar of grace. ‘Omar Khayyám’s life and works by Swámí Govinda Tírtha (V.M. Datar). With foreword by Sir Akbar. Allahabad, Kitabistan, 1941.
Includes the Persian text of the Ruba’iyat with an English translation. Reissued in 2010 by Oxford City Press.

Contents:

Bibliography
History and notices regarding ‘Omar Khayyam
‘Omar Khayyam’s scientific and philosophic works
Manuscripts and editons of ‘Omar Khayyam’s Quatrains
Works of other Persian authors.

Omar Khayyam – a myth?

Omar Khayyam – a myth? A.H. Millar
In: The Morning Post, december 2 1926.

Millar’s aim is to expose Omar Khayyám’s Rubaiyat as a myth.