NOTES BY THE EDITOR,

GIVING REFERENCES FROM FITZGERALD’S RUBÁIYYÁT TO THE ORIGINALS AS PUBLISHED BY NICOLAS, PARIS, 1867, AND MR. WHINFIELD’S ENGLISH VERSION PRINTED IN 1882; WITH OCCASIONAL LITERAL RENDERINGS IN THE FORM AND METRE OF THE ORIGINALS.

[These references have been rearranged as footnotes to the individual quatrains.]

The Roman numerals on the left refer to quatrains of the Rubáiyyát as published in the Fourth edition. The Arabic figures in the first column on the right refer to the Rubáiyyát as numbered in the Paris edition. The Arabic figures of the last column refer to Whinfield’s translation.