Special Collections materials are regularly part of various exhibits that are on display in either Honnold/Mudd Library or elsewhere on the campuses.
Exhibits
“The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”
25 January–19 May 2008
Honnold/Mudd - Second Floor Honnold
Who hasn't heard the lines, "A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou" quoted, often wrongly? Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) was renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements, but he is chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his roba'iyat ("quatrains") in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859), by the English writer Edward FitzGerald. FitzGerald's editions of The Rubáiyát were wildly popular in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, and have remained in print ever since. Indeed, FitzGerald's translation of Oman Khayyám's quatrains, now considered a literary classic, is largely responsible for coloring European ideas about Persian poetry. On view with original editions of FitzGerald are other translations, finely printed editions, illustrated editions, and parodies of The Rubáiyát.
The books on view are from the Philip Corrin Collection, Honnold Special Collections, and the John I. Perkins Collection, Denison Library.
For more information, contact Special Collections at (909) 607-3977, or spcoll@libraries.claremont.edu.
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