Pierre Pascal [dir.] - Les Roba'iyyat d'Omar Khayyam - 1958

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According to the oldest manuscripts, recently discovered, of the library of the University of Cambridge and the Chester Beatty library of Dublin, the khayyamien codex of Mohammad Ali Furughi and various manuscripts of the National library of Paris. For the first time, translated into French verse commented and highlighted by Pierre Pascal.

Facsimile of the manuscript from Cambridge University Library
p.p. 326, ill. b/n e a colori, Rome

Omar Khayyam
His poems are called “rubaiyat” which means “quatrains”.

In the year 1072 AD, Omar Khayyam documented the most accurate length of the year ever calculated – a figure still accurate enough for most purposes in the modern world. Khayyam was an astronomer, astrologer, physician, philosopher and mathematician: he made outstanding contributions in algebra. His poetry is better known in the West than any other non-Western poet.

He is considered “one of the great mathematicians of the Middle Ages. But his algebraic works were not published in Europe until the nineteenth century. 67377243 Read more