OMAR KHAYYAM
EARLY MANUSCRIPT FOUND. OLDEST IN EXISTENCE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ! (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) CALCUTTA, April 5. Valuable manuscript copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which is claimed to be the oldest rubaiyat manuscript in existence, was found in possession of an Indian family at, Lucknow, where it lav unnoticed for generations. It was copied in 1423, and the manuscript is thirty-seven years older than the world-famous Ouslev Rubaiyat manuscript in the Bodleian library at Oxford, which for a century* has been acknowledged to be the oldest in existence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1932, Page 5
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95OMAR KHAYYAM Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1932, Page 5
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