Transcriber's Notes:
1. A Table of Contents has been created for this e-text where none existed in the original work.
2. Because the nature of this work is to present and compare the several translations, no spelling or end of sentence punctuation corrections have been made in the Quatrains. The reader will encounter several Quatrains that end without punctuation and the word "Paradist" appearing in Quatrain LXXXI in the "Fifth Edition" may be a typographical error for "Paradise," but has been retained as printed.
3. Spelling corrections made in Biographical Preface:
- p. xv, "Sufi" to "Súfi" (the great Súfi poet)
- p. xvi, "Schegel" to "Schlegel" (August Wilhelm von Schlegel)
- p. xvi, "strongely" to "strongly" (strongly illustrated by)
- p. xviii, "perfomed" to "performed" (could have performed)
4. Word Variations: ((x) shows number of occurences)
- "Irám" (1) and "Iram" (2)
- "Mahmúd" (5) and "Máhmúd" (3)
- "Péhleví" (1) and "Pehleví" (2)
- "Rubá'iyyát" (6) and "Rubáiyát" (7)
- "Shiráz" (1) and "Shiraz" (1)
- "Sultán" (15) and "Sultan" (4)
- "Worshipers" (1) and "Worshipper" (2)