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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, facsimile illuminated manuscript by William Morris, 12mo, red morocco gilt, slipcase, copy no. 245 of 850, Oxford, 1981. William Morris made this manuscript of the English translation of the Rubaiyat in 1872. According to a facsimile note on the manuscript of 1908 some of the figures in the borders were designed by Edward Burne-Jones.