THE UZBEK RUBAIYAT
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, in Persian, Uzbek (in Cyrillic characters) & Russian, printed in Tashkent in 1971, with woodblock illustrations by a local artist. Omar Khayyam lived in Bukhara in the 1060s, and then in Samarkand for 3 years, from 1070 to 1073. 1/
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, in Persian, Uzbek (in Cyrillic characters) & Russian, printed in Tashkent in 1971, with woodblock illustrations by a local artist. Omar Khayyam lived in Bukhara in the 1060s, and then in Samarkand for 3 years, from 1070 to 1073. 1/
In Bukhara, Khayyam frequented the renowned library of the Ark fortress, as had Avicenna earlier. In 1070 he moved to Samarkand where he was supported by Abu Tahir, a Samarkand jurist, and wrote his famous algebraic work, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra. 2/
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. 3/
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. 3/
The woodcuts, likely the work of a local artist, are charming, and have been well printed on good quality thick paper (unlike the rest of the book). They have the appearance of actually having been printed directly from woodblocks, but this is unlikely to have been the case. 4/
This trilingual edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was printed in Tashkent by the Gafur Gulam Publishing House of Literature and Art in 1971, on the authority of the Press Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR. 5/
Loading suggestions...