The Omar Khayyam Collection documents the
British and American craze for Omar, the Rubaiyat, and all things Persian following
the 1859
publication of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the quatrains. Included are articles;
correspondence; illuminated manuscripts; printed ephemera such as calendars, a card
game,
clippings, menus, and programs; and translations by other authors. The archive is
complemented by a collection of over 1,000 printed books in the Ransom Center's Library;
a
plaque from the Omar Khayyam Club of America in the Personal Effects Collection; 52
lantern
slides created by Elihu Vedder to illustrate the Rubaiyat in the Photography Collection;
and
related materials in the Eastern Manuscripts
Collection.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection
MS-03103
Language:
English, Esperanto, French, Manx, Persian
Access:
Open for research.
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Omar Khayyam Collection (Manuscript Collection MS-03103). Harry Ransom Center, The
University of Texas at
Austin.
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Richard Workman, 2019
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card
catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information
regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly
used in
descriptions.
