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• Epic literature, Persian -- Translations into German

• Persian epic literature

• The Epic of Kings (retellings of portions of Firdawsi's Shah Nameh), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Episodes From the Shah Nameh: or, Annals of the Persian Kings (in English and Pahlavi; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by Firdawsī, ed. by Stephen Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shah Nameh: Stories Retold from Firdusi (New York: E.C. Hill, 1906), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī and Julius Mohl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Firdosi's Königsbuch (Schahname) (3 volumes, in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1890-1895), by Firdawsī, ed. by Edmund Alfred Bayer, trans. by Friedrich Rückert (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The K. R. Cama Memorial Volume: Essays on Iranian Subjects Written by Various Scholars in Honour of Mr. Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (in English and various Iranian languages; Mumbai: Fort Printing Press, 1900), ed. by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Rajeev Kinra (multiple formats at Luminos)

• Persian Literature (2-volume collection), by Firdawsī, Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, and Sa'di, ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil, trans. by James Atkinson, Herman Bicknell, Edward FitzGerald, and James Ross
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 1884-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rose Garden of Persia (London: Gibbings, 1899), ed. by Louisa Stuart Costello, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Rubaiyat, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by E. H. Whinfield (HTML at Fordham)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (text from the first edition of 1859; illustrations from various editions), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Frank Brangwyn, René Bull, Willy Pogány, and Maurice Greiffenhagen (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (first edition), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (fourth edition, 1879), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in English and Danish, with notes), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML in Denmark)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (from multiple editions), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Blanche McManus (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: English, French, German, Italian, and Danish Translation s Comparatively Arranged With the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, With Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliographies, and Other Material (multi-variorum edition, 2 volumes; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1912), by Omar Khayyam, ed. by Nathan Haskell Dole, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum (3 volumes and supplement; London: British Museum, 1879-1895), by Charles Rieu (all volumes and supplement: page images at HathiTrust)

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels: An Analysis of Selected 21st Century Novels (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, c2023), by Katarzyna Wąsala (PDF files with commentary at V&R eLibrary)

• The Secrets of the Self (London: Macmillan and Co. 1920), by Muhammad Iqbal, trans. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyām: Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, With a Transcript Into Modern Persian Characters (second edition, with Ruba'iyat text in Persian and translation and other commentary in English; London: H. S. Nichols Ltd., 1898), by Omar Khayyam, ed. by Edward Heron-Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam (Spanish translation by Castellot of FitzGerald's English version; c1918), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald and José Castellot, contrib. by José Juan Tablada (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Adventures of Hatim Taï: A Romance (London: Printed for the Oriental translation fund, 1830), trans. by Duncan Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Margaret H. Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Lindgren Wofford (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)
• Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1918), by Standish O'Grady, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Man in the Panther's Skin (based on the 1912 edition, with some notes omitted), by Shota Rustaveli, trans. by Marjory Scott Wardrop, contrib. by N. I︠A︡. Marr (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Man in the Panther's Skin: A Romantic Epic (London: Royal Asiatic society, 1912), by Shota Rustaveli, ed. by John Oliver Wardrop, trans. by Marjory Scott Wardrop, contrib. by N. I︠A︡. Marr
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Fled Bricrend, the Feast of Bricriu: An Early Gaelic Saga Transcribed From Older Mss. into the Book of the Dun Cow (Irish texts Society v2; London: D. Nutt, 1899), ed. by George Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge (Gutenberg text)

• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (Gutenberg text)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (second edition; London: D. Nutt, 1894), trans. by P. W. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (Dublin: Education Co. of Ireland; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920), trans. by P. W. Joyce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (main text, plus some editorial material), ed. by Kuno Meyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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