Using the Collaborative Rubáiyát: a video tutorial A web exhibition accompanying The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West at the Harry Ransom Center
This tutorial video demonstrates how to use The Collaborative Rubáiyát, an online edition of Edward FitzGerald's five published versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám that can be annotated by Web visitors. The video was produced by Lee Tran, Daniel Zmud, and Katharine Beutner, with the assistance of Molly Schwartzburg and Alicia Dietrich.
This video is hosted by YouTube; please feel free to share it with others and to leave comments on the YouTube page. For text-based instructions for using The Collaborative Rubáiyát, please see the Getting started page.
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FitzGerald's Rubáiyát
- First edition 1859
- Second edition 1868
- Third edition 1872
- Fourth edition 1879
- Fifth edition
1889
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