A Catalogue of the Persian Printed Books in the British Museum (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Persian Printed Books in the British Museum This denotes that V. V. Bartol'd has edited a work by Muh. B. Ja'far (abu Bakr), under whose name will be found particulars of the edition. It is not too much to say that by this reform the size of the Catalogue has been at least halved. A striking example of this economy will be noticed under the name of fitzgerald (edward), where the brief state ment [metrical version of 'umar Khayyam's Ruba'iyyatj See 'umar khayyin. - Rubd'iyycit, has taken the place of about 100 cross-references of the old type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.